Professor Mike Emch gave a plenary talk at the 13th International Conference for Urban Health which was a joint conference with the AAG called Place & Health. The Plenary was titled “Geography and Urban Health: Collaborating to Advance Sustainable Urban Transitions”. … Read more
Scott Darius has been selected to attend the NEH ODH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice for Africana Studies,” June 5-26 (2016).
Coupled Human and Environmental Systems When Monday, March 14, 2016 7:00 AM – Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:00 PM Eastern Time Where National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20418, USA USA View Event Summary … Read more
The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC), one of six regional climate centers across the United States, was established in March 1989 and has been housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since June 2007. The SERCC program … Read more
Dr. Persha gave a talk last week at the 2015 World Bank Land and Poverty conference, presenting baseline results on an ongoing study of linkages between land tenure security and smallholder investment in climate-smart agriculture in Zambia. The study is … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill, in partnership with Duke University, will host the conference “ReOrienting the Veil” Feb. 22-23 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center. For further details see, http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/muslim-veil-conference/ The conference website is: http://veil.unc.edu/conference/
Professor Pickles was an invited speaker at the special session on the” IGU Initiative on a UN International Year of Global Understanding” at the 32nd International Geographical Union Conference in Cologne, August 26-30th, 2012. For more information on the initiative see: … Read more
Progressive places and progressive movements in the South. Throughout the South, despite its largely conservative reputation, pockets exist at various scales where progressive ideas, people, activities challenge that dominant image and political narrative. Rebecca Dobbs is organizing a session at SEDAAG … Read more
UNC Chapel Hill Department of Geography will be hosting the next Mini Critical Geographies conference this coming Fall, Nov 2-4. The entire call can be found at this link: http://www.criticalgeography.org/. Geographers and non-geographers, local and not so local, are welcome. … Read more
