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AAG 2014 Honours Professor Anne Buttimer with Lifetime Achievement Award
 Professor Julie Winkler, AAG President, presents Professor Anne Buttimer with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 AAG Annual Meeting. Photo: Becky Pendergast, AAG.
12 April 2014, Tampa FL: The Association of American Geographers honoured Professor Anne Buttimer the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in recognition of her five decades of distinguished and prolific scholarship. She is the first Irish Geographer to receive this honour. Professor Buttimer is a highly respected scholar whose reputation is truly global who has explored important philosophical themes at the intersection of the bio-physical and human sciences, shaping research directions in social geography and serving as a model for bridging the theory-practice divide. For more details about Professor Buttimer's achievement and the award, please see here.
Regional Economic Development: CIG 9 May 2014The RSA Irish Branch, in association with the GSI are sponsoring three sessions at the Conference of Irish Geographers, UCD, Friday 9 May. For further details on keynote, speakers & conference see here; or email: chris.vanegeraat@nuim.ie
Keynote speaker for theme: Prof. David Bailey Aston Business School, Aston University CFP: Local Resistance, Global Crisis, Abstracts due 15 April
Local Resistance, Global Crisis: developing communities of solidarity and Left Politics for the 21st Century conference to be held: June 13-14, 2014, NUIM. More details here. Email title and short abstract (250 words) by 15 April 15th to rory.hearne@nuim.ie. Keynote Speakers will include:
David Featherstone, Department of Geography, Glasgow.Costis Hadjimichalis, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens GSI Photos |
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