Upcoming Events
GSI and National Events
Conference of Irish Geographers 2010
Sinking or Swimming? The crash, the crisis and Ireland’s changing environment
The 2010 Conference of Irish Geographers will be held in National University of Ireland, Maynooth on April 30, May 1 and May 2, 2010
For further information, please contact the conference organisers: Adrian Kavanagh (adrian.p.kavanagh@nuim.ie ) or Mark Boyle (mark.g.boyle@nuim.ie) or Alistair Fraser (alistair.fraser@nuim.ie)
Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium
Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Co. Wicklow,
5th-7th February 2010
The Training Consortium for Geography is an event where all departments North and
South come together to mentor new postgraduate students and help build a
network among new postgraduates and staff.
Please contact Padraig Carmody (Geography, TCD) with the names and emails of the postgraduate students who will be attending from your department, and any staff who are interested in being involved for all or part of the weekend.
Email: carmodyp@tcd.ie
International
International Congress of the French Society for Irish Studies (Sofeir)
University Of Nantes, 12-13 March 2010
Conference Theme: Paysages/Landscapes
Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th 2009
Please Send A 500-Word Abstract In English To:Marie.Mianowski@Univ-Nantes.Fr
Www.Cil.Univ-nantes.Fr/1255502151797/0/Fiche___Actualite/&Rh=1232704043321
The UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2010
Theme: Diversity and Convergence: Planning in a World of Change
7-9 April 2010
Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex
If you are interested in convening such a session please contact the organisers by 31st October 2009. Paper submissions are welcomed from all those interested in research and practice in spatial planning. Abstracts should be submitted by 14th December 2009. Further details will be available on the Conference website from the end of September 2009, or from Ann Hockey (ann.hockey@anglia.ac.uk)
AAG Annual Meeting
April 14-18, 2010
Washington, DC
Abstract Deadline: October 28, 2009
Website: www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm
April 10-16, 2011
Seattle, Washington
The Rural Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers
‘Farming for a Sustainable Countryside’.
12-15 July 2010
University of Essex, Colchester, Essex
The Symposium theme will be interpreted as broadly as possible to ensure there is a diverse range of papers. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday March 31st 2009.
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010
Theme: Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment
1-3 September 2010
Location: At the Society in London
Submission deadline for sessions & abstracts: Monday 22 February 2010
www.rgs.org/AC2010 (live in October)
Departmental Events
NUI Maynooth: Department of Geography Seminar Series
All seminars take place in the Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House at 4pm.
- 11 December, Dr Clionadh Raleigh, Trinity College Dublin, Climate and Conflict: Myths, Facts and Futures
NUI Galway: Department of Geography Seminar Series
Thursdays at 4.00 pm, Geography Seminar Room
- 10th December Dr. Colin Sage, Department of Geography, University College Cork, Title pending
Trinity College Dublin: Geography Seminar Series
- 8th December: Dr Paul Dunlop (Ulster) TBC
UCD: UII URBIS Seminar Series
All seminars take place in the Boardroom, UCD Urban Institute,
Richview Campus
- December 8th at 3pm
Drs Natalia & Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute Sankt Augustin Germany
Visual Analytics of Movement
Postgraduate Events
Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium
Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Co. Wicklow,
5th-7th February 2010
The Training Consortium for Geography is an event where all departments North and
South come together to mentor new postgraduate students and help build a
network among new postgraduates and staff.
Please contact Padraig Carmody (Geography, TCD) with the names and emails of the postgraduate students who will be attending from your department, and any staff who are interested in being involved for all or part of the weekend.
Email: carmodyp@tcd.ie
PhD Winter school February 2010
The Flemish research institute ILVO (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research), the Dutch LEI (Agricultural Economics Research Institute), in close collaboration with Ghent University and Wageningen University and Research Centre, will organize a PhD Winter school. The general theme is ‘An institutional approach to the analysis of systems, systems change and transition in natural resources’. All necessary information can be found on the website http://www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/phdwinterschool.
PhD Summer school
9th European IFSA Symposium
4-7 July 2010 in Vienna, Austria
Theme: Building sustainable rural futures: The added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty
website: www.ifsa-europe.org
Submit your abstract to the workshop convenors by 15 October 2009
Previous Events
Association of Geography Teachers Ireland (AGTI) Conference 2009
Location: Green Isle Hotel, Dublin
2nd and 3rd October 2009
Details at website: www.agti.ie
David Meredith (Teagasc and GSI Secretary) will present an invited lecture 10.45-11.45am on October 3rd: ‘Functional Urban – Rural Areas? Ireland’s Contemporary Economic Geography’
National Rural Development Conference 2009
Rural Ireland in Uncertain Times: The contribution of agri-food and enterprise sectors to rural development
Thursday, 8 October
Silver Springs Hotel, Tivoli, Cork
Website: www.teagasc.ie/events/2009/ruraldevconf
3rd Annual Irish Earth Observation Symposium
“Earth Observation in Ireland, Acquisition, Analysis and Application”. Geological Survey of Ireland.
12-13 November 2009
Website: http://www.gsi.ie/Programmes/Quaternary+Geotechnical/Earth+Observation+Symposium+2009.htm
GSI LECTURE
“Maps, Minds and Mysteries” Professor Stan Brunn (University of Kentucky)
8 p.m 18th November 2009
John O’Connell Room,St. Annes, North (New) Campus, NUIM
A map of the location can be obtained at the following web address:
http://www.nuim.ie/location/webmaps/index.shtml
Photos of the event available here: www.flickr.com/photos/adriankavanagh/sets/72157622716128065/
Please note the list is not exhaustive, and is limited to information provided to the GSI. If you have news of interest to the world of geography or if you are hosting an event that you would like to promote through the Geographical Society of Ireland then please send an e-mail to Frances Fahy frances.fahy@nuigalway.ie