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STAFF AND STUDENTS PhD Thesis, entitled 'Colonial Copyright and the Photographic ongratulations to Eriko Image: Canada in the Frame', on

Yasue who successfully 25 February. His examiners were Prof James Ryan (Exeter) and Prof C discussed her PhD entitled Richard Dennis (UCL). Philip's “The Practice and the Reproduction of Tourist thesis was funded by the ESRC Landscapes in Contemporary under a CASE studentship in  CQR Lecture – Mark ”. The two external which the British Library was the Hardiman, RHUL „Extending the examiners were Tim Edensor collaborative partner. The Tephrochronological Framework (Manchester Metropolitan) and supervisors were Felix Driver and Across Southern Europe During Paul Waley (University of Leeds) Carole Holden (at the British the Last Glacial; The Potential for who approved the thesis subject Library), and the advisor was Synchronizing Palaeo-Records‟ – only to minor corrections. David Lambert. Philip is now 17th March at 5pm, Room 170 Claudio Minca was her supervisor employed as a Curator of and her advisor was Phil Crang. Canadian and Caribbean Learning From Egypt (Special Collections at the British Library. Workshop on the „Arab Spring‟) – Congratulations to Rong Zheng Jessica Jacobs, RHUL. Monday who was awarded her PhD subject Congratulations to Charles Howie 21st March at 12 noon, Room Q170 to minor corrections yesterday. who has been awarded his PhD. Tracy's thesis title was „Producing His revised thesis, entitled End of Term – Friday, 25th March the Water Conservation Subject in “Cooperation and contestation: 2011 China's Urban Areas: Public farmer-state relations in Service Messages, Household agricultural transformation, An Start of Summer Term – Tuesday, Dynamics and Geographies of Giang Province, Vietnam”, has 26th April 2011 Adoption‟. Her examiners were been recommended for the award Professor Tony Allan from King's of a PhD by the examiners College, London and Dr Jessica (Jonathan Rigg, Durham; and Budds from the Open University. Raymong Bryant, King‟s College Tracy was supervised by Klaus London). His supervisor was Tim Dodds, Mary Dengler and Alex Unwin and the advisor was Katie Loftus. She was funded by the Willis. University of London KC Wong Postgraduate Scholar Programme Congratulations to Uduak Okon and a Thomas Holloway who has been awarded her PhD, Studentship. subject to minor revisions. Her thesis was entitled “ICTs and Congratulations to Sorayya Khan sustainable community who on 28th January successfully development in the Niger Delta defended her PhD thesis, subject Region of Nigeria” and her to minor corrections. Her thesis examiners were Reginald Cline- was entitled „Community Cole, Birmingham; and Niall participation in malaria Winters, Institute of management in the decentralized Education/London Knowledge health system of rural Mali‟. Her Lab. Tim Unwin was her examiners were Professor Susan supervisor and her advisor was Rifkin (LSE) and Dr Rachel David Simon. Tolhurst (Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Welcome to Even Smith Sorayya was supervised by Prof Wergeland, who is a visiting PhD Katie Willis and advised by Dr student being supervised by Tim Vandana Desai. Article continues on page 2 Congratulations to Philip Hatfield who successfully examined on his OUTSIDE ENGAGEMENTS Fairbrother (Bristol) and Celia Lury (Goldsmiths). The event was Cresswell for 6 months. He is David Simon presented the a great success attracting around visiting from the Oslo School of opening session of the LSE 50 participants from Geography, Architecture and Design and Development Studies Institute‟s Sociology, Anthropology and Art. conducting research for his annual MSc retreat at Cumberland thesis: “From Futuristic Vision to Lodge on 5 January on the theme Duncan Depledge delivered a Urban Reality - the Motorway as a of „Tackling Climate Change: are presentation entitled 'The role of Work of Art”. the solutions part of the the UK in EU-Arctic relations. An problem?‟ David introduced the honest broker?' at the British A belated welcome to Blaise theme and focused on the Library on 15th Februrary as part Dupuis who is a visiting PhD particular challenges in African of the third seminar in the ESRC student being supervised by Tim contexts. Seminar Series titled 'Knowledges, Cresswell for 9 months. He is Resources and Legal Regimes: The visiting from the University of David Simon visited the New Geopolitics of the Polar Neuchatel in Switzerland and Postcolonial Research Group at Regions' conducting research on the global Newcastle University on 17th (http://polargeopolitics.wordpres mobility of ideas surrounding neo- February to present a seminar on s.com/). traditional town planning. „To and through the UK: Holocaust refugee ethnographies On 15th February 2011 Tim Congratulations to Thomas of escape, education, internment Unwin gave two seminars at Barton who has been awarded his and careers in development.‟ Oxford University: one for the PhD. The title of his thesis was MSc in Education (Learning and „Music, place, and the creation of Tim Unwin gave one of the three Technology) students; and the cultural memory: a study of presentations at the Public second, entitled “Learning Benjamin Britten¹s War Requiem, Chairs‟ Forum seminar on “How technologies in development John Adams¹ On the to be a great Chair in the Public practice: rhetoric and reality” at Transmigration of Souls, and Sector” held at the Institute for Oxford University Computer Steve Reich¹s Different Trains‟. Government on 10th January Services. It's a fine piece of work that pulls 2011. together ideas about music, Dorothea Kleine was an invited memory/memorialisation, place Leonhardt van Efferink gave a speaker at the Berkman Center and social trauma - highly four-hour lecture-workshop at for Internet and Society, Harvard ambitious and distinctive for a Maastricht University. He University, where she is currently geographer, particularly in the discussed with 40 students a visiting researcher. The talk, way that it deals with technical alternative ways to part of the Berkman Luncheon composition of music as well as conceptualise, analyse and model Series, was titled Whose Choice? its social and cultural context. country risk. ICT for “development” and the The thesis centres on case studies lives people value. It was webcast of three pieces of modern Amanda Rogers co-organised an live and audio or video recordings classical music: Benjamin event on Geography and the New are available here: Britten's War Requiem and its Empirics on 20-21 January on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ev relationship with Coventry behalf of the RGS Social and ents/luncheon/2011/02/kleine, Cathedral; John Adams's The Cultural Geography Research 15 Feb. Transmigration of Souls and the Group. Held at UCL and the RGS, public memory and the event address the changing Dorothea Kleine spoke as a memorialisation of 9/11; and nature of the empirical in terms member of a citizen-expert panel Steve Reich's Different Trains and of new forms of data (such as the on Open Source programming and the commemoration of the emotional and the affective), the participatory technology design at Holocaust. The examiners were new scales and quantity of data The Bocoup Loft collective hacker George Revill of the Geography that Geographers deal with, and space, , 24 Feb Department at the Open the practical/ethical issues of University and Daniel Grimley of communicating this data to Andrew Brooks was invited to the Music Department and Merton publics beyond the academy. speak in the evening seminar College, Oxford University. Following workshop discussions series at The Centre for African Thank you to Karen Till for her and activities on the first day Studies, University of Cambridge work on Tom's Masters thesis that (Amanda organised and led one on 7th February. The seminar he drew him toward this topic, and on Experimental Encounters), day gave was entitled "Threads Fall her contribution towards securing two comprised a series of paper Apart: The International Trade in his ESRC studentship and to Felix presentations. The event's themes Secondhand Clothing and Driver for his work as advisor on were drawn together and Inequality in Mozambique the project after Karen. His expanded on through a keynote supervisor was David Gilbert. address by Alan Latham (UCL) and Article continues on page 3… a final panel discussion with Ben Anderson (Durham), David Demeritt (King's), Malcolm OVERSEAS ONLY – PUBLICATIONS independently dated last glacial- FIELDWORK AND interglacial cycle. Quaternary Tim Cresswell and Peter Science Reviews 30, 662-681. CONFERENCES Merriman (eds) (2011), Smith, M.J., Stevens, T., David Simon was an invited Geographies of Mobilities: MacArthur, A., Malthus, T.J., Lu, discussant at the international Practices, Spaces, Subjects H., 2011. Characterising Chinese workshop, „Developing Africa: (Ashgate). loess stratigraphy and past Development Discourse(s) in Late monsoon variation using field Colonialism‟ organised by the Cresswell T (2011) „Mobility‟ in spectroscopy. Quaternary Dept of African Studies, Agnew J and Livingstone D (eds) International 234, 146-158. University of Vienna, 13-15 The Handbook of Geographical

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Buylaert, J.P., Conningham, Katherine Brickell is in Siem Armitage, S.J., Jasim, S.A., R.A.E., Batt, C., Fazeli, H., Reap, Cambodia, conducting Marks, A.E., Parker, A.G., Usik, Young, R. 2011. Geoarchaeology research funded by the Royal V.I. and Uerpmann, H-P (2011) and the value of multi- Geographical Society on 'Home The southern route Out of Africa: disciplinary palaeoenvironmental Dissolution and Family Change: Evidence for an early expansion approaches: A case study from Gendered Experiences of of modern humans into Arabia. the Plain, . Geological Separation and Divorce in Rural Science, 331, 453-456. Society of London, Special Cambodia'. Publication; Human Interactions Drake, N.A., Blench, R.M., with the Geosphere: The Dorothea Kleine is currently a Armitage, S.J., Bristow, C.S. and Geoarchaeological Perspective Visiting Research Fellow at the White, K.H. (2010) Ancient (Wilson, L., Ed), v. 352, 49-67. Berkman Center for Internet and watercourses and biogeography of

Society, Harvard University, Jan- the Sahara explain the peopling Stephen Jones (2011) Apr 2011. of the desert. Proceedings of the Participation as citizenship or National Academy of Sciences of payment? A case study of rural Simon Armitage participated in a the United States of America, drinking water governance in press conference at Eberhard- 108, 458-462. Mali, Water Alternatives, 4(1), Karls-University, Tübingen, 54-71. Germany, to discuss his new Unwin, T. 2011 The role of paper entitled “The southern Geography and Geographers in The Bundeswehr accepts a route Out of Africa: Evidence for Policy and Government contribution by Leonhardt van an early expansion of modern Departments, in Agnew, J. and Efferink for their Geopolitical humans into Arabia.” The paper, Livingstone, D.N. (eds) The Sage Yearbook 2010. The article published in the 28th of January Handbook of Geographical "Grundlegende Fragen zur edition of Science, received Knowledge, London: Sage, 271- Definition der Geopolitik" international press coverage 284. discusses the similarities and including: The Independent; BBC; differences between various Guardian; Financial Times; Wall Geldof, M., Grimshaw, D.J., definitions of geopolitics. Street Journal; Washington Post; Kleine, D. and Unwin, T. (2011)

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Scientific American; New ICT4D partnerships for poverty reduction? BOOK REVIEWS-ABSTRACTS- Scientist; Le Monde and Die Welt. CONFERENCE REPORTS He was also interviewed about Systematic "MidEast": geopolitics redux„, available as part of the 31st of Review Report for DFID. History on the Line, January edition of the Guardian‟s www.historyworkshop.org.uk, Feb “Science Weekly” podcast. Willis, Katie (2011) Theories and 2011. Practices of Development, 2nd Stephen Jones took a break from edition, Abingdon: Routledge. F. Driver, „Save the workhouse?‟, his current PhD fieldwork in Mali www.historyworkshop.org.uk, Feb to give a presentation on Katherine Brickell (with Ayona 2011. “Community financing of Datta) have just had their edited handpump maintenance: a case book 'Translocal Geographies: F. Driver, „London Group of study of three villages in the rural Spaces, Places, Connections' Historical Geographers: an commune of Yélékébougou in published by Ashgate. It also anniversary note‟, HGRG Mali” at the 4th WaterAid Local includes a chapter by Madeleine Newsletter (Winter 2011), 5-6. Millennium Development Goals Hatfield. Initiative Conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 31st Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Article continues on page 4… Jan – 4th Feb. Zech, M., Sümegi, P., 2011. Dust deposition and climate in the Carpathian Basin over an Stephen Jones (2011) Review of Simon Armitage has been “Development, Poverty and successful in a grant application Prof. Joan Johnson-Freese, Politics: Putting communities in as part of a major 5-year Department of National Security the driver's seat”, African Affairs, European Research Council Studies, US Naval War College 110(438), 142-144. project based at Bergen presented the PERG Seminar on University, with the evocative 17th February. The title of his Keighren, Innes M. “Review of acronym TRACSYMBOLS. The full presentation was „The San Martín: Argentine soldier, title is „Tracing the evolution of Geostrategic Implications of an American hero, by John Lynch.” symbolically mediated behaviours East Asian Space Race‟. Bulletin of Latin American within variable environments in Research 30, no. 2 (2011): 256– Europe and southern Africa‟. Dr. Alvin Yeo, Director of the 58. Research has already commenced Centre of Excellence for Rural but the formalities have only just Informatics and an Associate been finalised. Simon‟s Professor at the Faculty of GRANTS AND AWARDS component is worth €30k Computer Science and (£25.5k). Information Technology, Klaus Dodds was awarded a Universiti Malaysia Sarawak – £5000 grant by the British Sara Fregonese has been UNIMAS, presented the ICT4D Academy/ACU Grants for awarded from the British Seminar on 17th February entitled International Collaboration for a Academy Small Grant (£ 7301, 24 „Providing equal ICT access to project entitled „Canada and the months, starting May 2011) titled remote communities in Malaysian contemporary Arctic: action, “Views from the Holiday Inn: Borneo‟. anticipation and anxiety‟ which landscape, war and memory in will involve collaborative work Beirut”. The project aims at Shruti Vispute, Society for with the University of Alberta‟s creating a digital archive of the Promoting Participative Canadian Circumpolar Institute collective memory of the hotel Ecosystem Management and Professor Mark Nutall in Holiday Inn, a building crucial for (SOPPECOM), Pune, particular. the physical division of Beirut presented the CEDAR Seminar on during the Lebanese civil war. 21st February entitled „Water Thomas Stevens has been The project is inserted in a series Conflicts in India‟. awarded a NERC joint standard of other debates and initiatives grant as lead PI on „Dust storms that counteract Lebanon‟s state- CEDAR held a Reading Group and Chinese loess sources over led amnesia since a generally Session on 7th February for the the last 22 Myr‟. The project aims amnesty was granted at the end Discussion of issues around to constrain the sources of dust of the war in 1991. research ethics based on the that form the largest and longest- American Geographical Society‟s lived dust sequences in the „Bowman Expedition‟ project Cenozoic record, using a variety VISITORS - MEETINGS IN „Mexico Indigena.‟. of geochronological and THE DEPARTMENT geochemical analyses on single Dr. Mirca Madianou, Department heavy mineral grains. The project Pat Noxolo, University of of Sociology, University of co-PIs are Pieter Vermeesch Sheffield presented the CEDAR Cambridge presented the (Birkbeck, Earth Sciences) and Seminar on 19th January entitled Departmental Seminar on 24th Randy Parrish (British Geological „Postcolonial Economies of February entitled „Mediating Survey/NERC Isotope Geosciences Development Volunteering‟. Migration: New Media and Distant Laboratory) and involves support Mothering in Filipino from Project Partners in Nanjing, Andrew Falconer from the Transnational Families‟. China (Lu Huayu) and Aberdeen Careers Service presented at a (Peter Clift). The total RHUL RC seminar aimed at first year contribution is £328,675. students entitled „do something ANY OTHER NEWS else in addition to your degree‟ Mustafa Dikeç has been on 9th February 2011. It was well Congratulations to Neelopal Adri successful with an AHRC attended with over 20 first year and her husband who had a little application on „Pumping Time: students in the audience. girl, Mounia Neelopal Ahmed, on Geographies of temporal Sunday 23rd January. Mother and infrastructure in fin-de-siècle Prof. Simon Cottle, Cardiff School daughter are doing well. Paris‟ to the value of £165,101. of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff University Leonhardt van Efferink Dorothea Kleine has obtained presented the Departmental interviews two Professors of £12k from The Body Shop as its Seminar on 17th February. The Geography: Alexander Murphy and contribution to a planned ESRC title of his presentation was Takashi Yamazaki. The interviews CASE doctoral studentship „Taking Global Crises in the News have been published on starting this coming autumn. Seriously: Notes from the Dark www.exploringgeopolitics.org. Side of Globalization‟.