Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS)
Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS)
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Professor Assata Zerai (Professor of Sociology and Associate Chancellor for Diversity) will be presenting "Adoption of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the mention of gender in constitutional nondiscrimination clauses in select African countries: law versus practice"
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A large and rapidly increasing number of devices that are geo-locatable and wirelessly connected to the internet are generating a flood of data that is overwhelming contemporary methods of analysis.
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With an increasing global population and continuing climate change, food security has become a grand scientific and societal challenge. To tackle this challenge, it is critically important to obtain timely crop information such as yield potential and growing status as crop information is often time sensitive.
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Housing affordability, defined as a financially feasible portion of income spent on housing, is a problem in U.S. cities, including New York City. While housing costs have increased, most Americans' salaries are not increasing at the same rate.
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The rapid evolution of information technologies to the point where most active citizens are able to access global information using personal devices is changing the city out of all recognition.
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Professor Ekmekçioğlu and Bilal’s presentations will delineate the intersections among gender, memory, time, and space, bridge academic traditions inside and outside of the United States, and foster comparative analyses across disciplines. Those interested more broadly in the Digital Humanities and conducting archival research will also benefit from their methodological ex
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US border regimes are using innovative information technologies to patrol borders and enforce immigration policy. Focusing on how the US Border Patrol (USBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) utilize IT—especially database infrastructures—the proposed research will examine how these practices are transforming border spaces and reworking migrant governance.
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Examples from ethnographic field work in both bus and informal taxi services, highlights the micro-politics of mobility with particular reference to race, class and identity.
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Geographers have long been interested in the spatial distribution of data both in terms of visualization (maps) and statistical analysis (point pattern analysis, spatial autocorrelation, kriging etc) but have essentially ignored the spatial distribution of processes.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 8th.
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September 13– Reproductive Freedom is a Christian Value featuring Rev. Katey Zeh, Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice
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WELCOMING WEEK: Immigration Justice Panel featuring Dr. Gio Guerra Perez, Dr. Korinta Maldonado, and Gloria Yen
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Since 2014, dozens of protests in the U.S. have deliberately blocked major highways in order to increase the visibility of these protests and to draw on long-standing political meanings of transportation infrastructure.
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September 27 –From Athlete to Activist: One Person’s Story on Finding Their Voice
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Murder Mystery! A "Whodunnit" of Global Amphibian Declines
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Graduate Student Informational Breakfast Conversation with Sarah Bidgood and Dave Schmerler from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 29th.
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October 4 – Sexual Violence: Why They Won’t Face the Facts
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Affordable Housing for Whom? featuring Esther Patt, C-U Tenant Union
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Speaking Up against Prison Censorship: How and Why We Formed the Freedom to Learn Campaign featuring Rebecca Ginsburg, Education Justice Project
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by October 20th.
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With an increasing global population and continuing climate change, food security has become a grand scientific and societal challenge. To tackle this challenge, it is critically important to obtain timely crop information such as yield potential and growing status as crop information is often time-sensitive.
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Matt Blaser and Austin Handler, two of our recent GGIS graduates will share their work experience at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Division. Superfund is tasked with cleaning contaminated land, responding to environmental emergencies, and planning response strategies in the event of an emergency.
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[Re]Creating Media for Black Girls featuring Dr. Sheri Williams, Melt Magazine
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Wildland fire smoke contains hazardous levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a pollutant shown to adversely affect health. Estimating fire attributable PM2.5 concentrations is key to quantifying the impact on air quality and subsequent health burden.
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Join us on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at the University of Illinois in a celebration of GIS Day, the annual salute to geographic information science and technologies for achieving broad and transformative impacts.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by November 10th.
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Approximately 15% U.S. adults have hearing loss. Among older adults >75, over half live with hearing loss. In a context where Medicare and many state Medicaid programs do not cover audiologist services beyond physician-referred assessments in support of a diagnosis, this study focuses on audiologist service accessibility in the U.S.
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WGGP and Center for African Studies are hosting a Grant Writing Workshop and Graduate Student Discussion on Tips for Applying for Grants and Fellowships on November 15, 2019 in 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street. Lunch will be provided from 12:00-12:30.
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The availability of large-scale and high-resolution light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing data provides tremendous opportunities to unveil complex landscape patterns and better understand landscape dynamics from a 3D perspective.
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Melissa Kagen,Digital Media and Gaming, Bangor University will be here to discuss her project on "border games". The project examines the critical play of a variety of games about immigrant and refugee experience. These “border games” take place within fictional or actual borderlands and follow characters either in transit or trapped in detainment centers between nation
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by December 1st.
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There is a prevalent notion in international environmental organizations and intergovernmental bodies that indigenous authorities are democratic. In the realm of policy, the institution of traditional leadership is assumed to be legitimate and to hold true to principles of equality, participation, and representation.
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The interactions between knowledge capital and social vulnerability through a comparative study on the U.S and Australian cities
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Professor Dara Goldman, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Program in Jewish Culture & Society, will speak on Machismo and Machinations: The Performance of Gender in Cubatón
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“Praxis” comes from the Greek word, “prattein” which means “to do.” It is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Paulo Freire asserts that praxis is a cycle of learning, reflecting, and acting in order to protect ourselves and our communities from oppressive systems.
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"We Poor Not Stupid! Lessons Learned in the Political Schools of the Urban Poor in Cape Town" with Dr. Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois and Danielle Chynoweth, Cunningham Township Supervisor
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“What would I consider a desirable society?" Susan Parenti, founder of the School for Designing a Society
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Food and nutrition insecurity remain critical problems in the Global South, with nearly two billion people suffering from micronutrient deficiency. Food insecurity, especially seasonal food insecurity, is likely to grow among people directly dependent on natural resources as climatic shocks become more frequent and severe.
