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• 07 déc 2019

  Tervuren

  Study days - Geography

  Mapping Africa

  The Brussels Map Circle invites you to a whole day of conferences on the cartography of Africa from the 16th to the 19th century. Three renowned speakers, Prof. Em. Elri Liebenberg, Prof. Dr. Imre Demhardt and Wulf Bodenstein will share their knowledge in the prestigious frame of the completely renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (close to Brussels).

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• 03 déc 2011

  Geneva

  Study days - History

  Uses of the world and photography. Crossed perspectives on the work of Fred Boissonnas

  Le département de géographie de l'Université de Genève organise une journée d'étude interdisciplinaire consacrée à l'œuvre du photographe Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946), l'un des acteurs majeurs de l’histoire de la photographie en Suisse. En croisant les approches, les savoirs, les points de vue, il s’agit de mettre en lumière la complexité et la richesse de la carrière de ce photographe-voyageur et éditeur, ses influences en Suisse et à l'étranger, et son héritage. L’étude de son œuvre permet de s'interroger sur le développement de l’usage de la photographie dans les sociétés européennes entre 1880 et 1930, comme art mais aussi comme moyen de communication pour appréhender l’ailleurs, le passé, et construire des identités tant locales que nationales.

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• 27 sep 2010

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Study days - Geography

  Governing Rural–Urban Relationships and Periurban Areas in France and Australia

  Different Land Use Cultures, Same Issues?

  The governance of rural–urban relationships has become a very challenging issue in many countries around the world over the two last decades. Many competing interests are embedded in it: agriculture, metropolitan development, biodiversity conservation, water resources use, etc. Many conflicts take place in periurban areas, for instance. These conflicts are signs of a more general evolution of rural – urban relationships in a context of global change – eg. global warming, loss of biodiversity, the global food challenge, the petrol crisis. This seminar aims to compare how these challenges are tackled in France and in Australia. Considering the differences between the political and institutional contexts of various countries, it will be a great opportunity to think about the role of land use culture in different governance systems. This seminar is organised in partnership with AgroParisTech Clermont-Ferrand, INRA-SAD and UMR METAFORT.

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• 01 oct 2010

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Study days - Geography

  Regional Water Management and Adaptive Management

  How to deal with multi-scalar issues?

  This seminar aims to discuss the interactions between regionalisation of water management and adaptive management. Regionalisation embeds many scales of time and space, which have to be combined to improve and change stakeholder practices. The seminar will bring together international specialists to analyse how adaptive management can deal with institutional, technical and political multi-scalar issues in order to foster change of practises. This seminar is organised in partnership with AgroParisTech Clermont-Ferrand, INRA-SAD and UMR METAFORT.

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• 10 jui 2010

  11 jui 2010

  Paris

  Study days - Geography

  Mapping Desire: Where are the Critical Geographies of Sexualities?

  15 ans après la publication de l'ouvrage fondateur Mapping Desire qui a initié le champ des géographies des sexualités, ce workshop vise à rassembler et à faire dialoguer des auteurs de l'ouvrage, géographes internationalement reconnus, avec de jeunes chercheurs issus de différentes disciplines (science politique, sociologie, anthropologie) dont les travaux sur les sexualités comportent une dimension spatiale et géographique importante. Son objectif est de dresser un panorama des études produites depuis la parution de Mapping Desire et d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives.

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