The GSI invite members to organise events to celebrate GeoNight which is the international "Night of Geography". This year GeoNight will take place on April 1st 2022. GeoNight is an initiative proposed for the first time by the CNFG (French National Geographical Committee) in 2017. The objective of the event is to celebrate and promote all things geography! Since then, GeoNight has expanded internationally, first in Europe, thanks to EUGEO, and then even beyond, thanks to the IGU. Events may include talks, workshops, walks, exhibitions, and competitions to name but a few. We encourage members also to have their events recorded on the International GeoNight Event Map so as to demonstrate our commitment to our discipline. Please also share your activities on social media using @geogsocire and #GeoNight2022 or by emailing us at gsi.procomms@gmail.com
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A tribute to the career of Martin Charlton, Associate Professor Emeritus at Maynooth University, was held online at the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) earlier this month. Friends and colleagues of Martin from across the world, gathered to reflect on and celebrate his life and work. A recording of the event is now available online.
A team of geographers, historians, linguists and computer scientists from the University of Limerick (UL) and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have been awarded €740,000 from a fund supporting UK-Ireland collaboration in Digital Humanities. The joint award scheme draws together funding from the Irish Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to fund eleven digital humanities projects across the UK and Ireland. OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage, co-lead by Dr Catherine Porter (UL) and Professor Keith Lilley (QUB), is a collaboration which aims to reinvigorate interest in the Ordnance Survey (OS) by re-connecting and sharing the divided legacies of the OS in Ireland. OS200 will use 21st century technologies to analyse and visualise how Ordnance Survey staff operated on the ground in the 19th century and will create a free online resource revealing hidden and forgotten aspects of life and work from across Britain and Ireland. Partners include the Department for Communities and Public Record Office in Northern, the Royal Irish Academy, the Digital Repository of Ireland, Logainm at Dublin City University, and the Irish Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Four engaging keynote talks from CIG 2021, delivered by world-class researchers on physical, human, and interdisciplinary geographical approaches to topical questions of academic, public, and policy-making interest are now available online. The conference attracted 240 attendees to 50 sessions, with 170 presentations delivered on diverse topics. It was the first CIG be held online. For more on the conference and to listen to the keynote talks see here. The 53rd CIG will take place from 12th to 14th May 2022 and will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. For more see here
The value of Junior Cycle Geography and the importance of promoting Geography in our schools will be the focus of an upcoming online discussion, organised by The Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) Geography Team. Speakers at the event include Professor John Sweeney (Maynooth University) who is a specialist in Climate Change research, along with architect environmentalist and broadcaster, Duncan Stewart and senior meteorologist at Met Éireann, Evelyn Cusack. The session will be chaired by the JCT Geography Team and Dr Susan Pike (Dublin City University). The event will take place on Thursday Oct 21st at 7pm. To register click here
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