Academic summer retreat #Cultural_Political_Digital_Geography_Group group @fau.de – again in the idyllic surroundings of the Hersbrucker Schweiz. Two days of project presentations, lively discussions, and new ideas – all rounded off with a geographical finale: moving knowledge across fluid terrains.
#Master #Kulturgeographie @fau.de in Erlangen: forschungsnah, projektorientiert und praxisrelevant studieren – jetzt für das Wintersemester 2025/2026 bewerben!
Online Informationstermin: Mo 7. Juli 18.00
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/master-kultu...
The background is dark brown with lines sweeping across it to create texture. The top left is a circle image of a headshot of Azadeh who is looking straight at the camera and smiling. Azadeh is wearing a white top and a coral pink scarf. The background is divided into three horizontal block colours at the top yellow, then red, then orange. To the right of the headshot is white text stating: Azadeh Akbari. University of Twente, the Netherlands. Azadeh Akbari is an Assistant Professor of Digital Transformation. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, working on her project on Authoritarian Smart Cities. Her research explores authoritarian surveillance, critical studies of ICTs in development contexts, and data justice. She serves on the board of directors of the International Surveillance Studies Network and has founded the Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. Below this and centred in the image is white text stating: Global Digital Geographies: DGRG Annual Symposium 2025, 19-20th June
Next in our speaker series for our Global Digital Geographies Symposium is @azadehakbari.bsky.social who explores authoritarian surveillance, critical studies of ICTs in development contexts, and data justice. Join us to learn more ⬇️
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#DGRGSymposium2025
Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Also featuring in our upcoming symposium is @gglasze.bsky.social who examines Political Geography & socio-technical configuration of spaces within digital transformation
Register to learn about the discursive & infrastructural configurations of “digital sovereignty” in Europe #DGRGSymposium2025
Looking forward to the #Digital_Geographies Symposium of @rgsibg.bsky.social: Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital, June19-20.
We’ll present our volume @elgarpublishing.bsky.social, "Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty".
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A new doctoral hat @fau.de @nat.fau.de #Geography: Congratulations to Susanne Schröder-Bergen, who successfully defended her excellent dissertation today #OpenStreetMap in the changing context of #digital_capitalism!
Save the date: @humanrights-fau.bsky.social & @nurembergacademy.bsky.social cordially invite you to the evening lecture by Harvard Professor Dr Kathryn Sikkink 🎓
🗓️ www.humanrights.fau.eu/calendar/eve...
Looking forward to welcoming the brilliant @nolauren.bsky.social to @fau.de @dhssfau.bsky.social
If you are in the area, come and join us on Wednesday!
#DH #DigitalHumanities
#DistantViewing
Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography #IFL @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de: Tour of the shell construction that will bring the institute to the heart of the “city of science” @stadtleipzig.bsky.social !
Kulturelle/Politische/Digitale Geographien @fau.de @ AK Politische Geographie in Freiburg!
Heute 12.30 Institut für Geographie @fau in ER-Tennenlohe
Exciting opportunity at our growing department Digital Humanities and Social Studies: Full professorships (W3) on Place & Space and on Human-Computer Interaction. Apply by 2 June 2025! Please share!
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“The future of data is more open” – How Overture standardizes the use of geospatial data
Interview with Jennings Anderson in the new E-Journal/Blog: GRID!
gridisnotajournal.de/articles/and...
Welcome everybody 🙌
In the last couple of days, we got some new followers. To make it a bit easier for everyone who's new here, we created a starter pack that lists FAU members who have an account.
If you or someone you know is missing, please let us know 👇
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FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @fau.de is hiring for a Full Professorship (W3) in Digital Humanities – Focus on Place & Space
Located in our new Department of Digital Humanities & Social Studies
📢 Geographers very welcome to apply!
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
#Geography #DigitalHumanities #ProfJob
If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI.
30 of my books and papers are in this database.
The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
We're currently hiring two roles!
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
A recent Internet trend in Germany makes fun of Donald Trump's neo-imperial renaming. It 'abuses' an option within Google Maps that allows users to add new places: hundreds of new 'gulfs' have been named and located...
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« Teaching, research and pastoral care is now resistance. »
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Interested in a PhD in business and human rights/corporate sustainability responsibility?
Consider joining us this fall for the second cohort of our doctoral program.
@fau.de @fauphil.bsky.social @fauwiso.bsky.social
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#Geodata for #Human_Rights Winter School @fau.de in #Erlangen & #Nürnberg is on!
You can follow us:
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Invitation to a collective project!
What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography?
Vickie Zhang and I are seeking responses to the prompt (1-1000 words) by the end of February. They will be compiled, and made freely available in a publication (with DOI & ISBN). Details 👇
CFP: Virtual Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Convenors: Caroline Nagel, James D. Sidaway, and Chih Yuan Woon. This new Virtual Forum explores the complex political-geographical landscape that AI is helping to create www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Digital Investigations for #Human_Rights
Public Panel Discussion with Experts from UC Berkely Human Rights Center, Pax, Lund Univ and Mnemonic/Syrian Archive
@fau.de in #Nürnberg #CHREN, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1
👉Thu., 13.02. 16.00-18.30
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Open Source Intelligence #OSINT: A Practice of Digital Investigation and Intelligence
Join us for public lecture & discussion with Dr. Marie Gabrielle Bertran (Paris) @fau.de
👉Tue 11.02. 18.30-20.00 (Kollegienhaus Universitätsstraße, #Erlangen)
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