ACTIVITIES

Here you find information about recent and upcoming events that we organise or recommend, reports about fieldtrips and research activities, and teaching related news and suggestions. We also use this blog to highlight activities within our research networks and to share our current inspirations.

Activities, Field, Networks, Teaching News

Forschungsaufenthalt in Sansibar – Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Laura Müller hat sich in ihrer Masterarbeit mit einem Wohnbauprojekt auf Sansibar auseinandergesetzt und berichtet hier von ihrem fünfwöchigen Forschungsaufenthalt vor Ort. Sansibar (Stadt) erlebt seit den letzten Jahrzehnten einen erheblichen Bevölkerungszuwachs, sei es durch das natürliche Bevölkerungswachstum oder durch Migration. Die Bevölkerung ist in den...

Activities, Field

Balancing resilience and sustainability: Visiting warehouses for humanitarian goods in Dubai

Working for the DFG-funded research project “Shelter technologies in Action”, Astrid Matejcek is currently undertaking field research and providing us with insights into the intricate logistical demands of humanitarian goods. “Wow, now you can see what we’ve been working with all this time!” marvels one...

Activities, Teaching News

Exkursion nach Tansania (Oktober 2023)

Vom 29.09.-13.10.2023 waren wir mit 24 Studierenden in Tansania. Der thematische Schwerpunkt der Exkursion lag auf der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Formen von Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. Zugleich war die Exkursion eingebettet in aktuelle Forschungsprojekte der AG Kulturgeographie, so dass einige ForschungspatnerInnen in die Exkursionsplanung einbezogen waren. Unser Ausgangspunkt war Sansibar-Stadt, wo wir uns...

Activities, Networks, Teaching News

Auslandssemester an der Uni Richmond – ein Erfahrungsbericht

Marc Belling hat im Rahmen der Kooperation zwischen dem Geographischen Institut der JGU (Prof. Dr. Julia Verne) und der University of Richmond (Prof. Dr. Sandra Joireman) vergangenen Herbst ein Auslandssemester in Richmond (USA) verbracht. Hier berichtet er von seiner Zeit im Ausland: Meine Zeit an der University of Richmond (Virginia,...

Activities, Inspiration, Teaching News

Serious game test run

On November 21st, 2023, the students of the M5 “Social Media and Disasters” course (MA, led by Everjoy Chiimba) pioneered the first phase of the trial run of a serious game which is part of Rupa’s PhD project on “Exploring the Socio-Historical Complexity of Disasters...

Activities, Events, Networks

Lively debates on “Digital Disruptions” at the annual meeting of the Digitial Geographies-working group in Mainz

From November 23rd to 24th, 2023, roughly 50 junior and senior researchers in the field of digitization and space gathered for the two-day conference “Digital Disruptions” to exchange their ideas and build networks. In four sessions, participants explored how they position their research expertise within...

Forschungsaufenthalt in Sansibar – Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Balancing resilience and sustainability: Visiting warehouses for humanitarian goods in Dubai

Exkursion nach Tansania (Oktober 2023)

Auslandssemester an der Uni Richmond – ein Erfahrungsbericht

Serious game test run

Lively debates on “Digital Disruptions” at the annual meeting of the Digitial Geographies-working group in Mainz

Sandra Petermann speaking at the JGU lecture series “Voices for Climate”

Everjoy Chiimba and Rupa Rupa presenting their work at the Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies Conference (NEEDS)

Working group participated at German Congress of Geography in Frankfurt/Main

Workshop-Tagung “Digitale Disruptionen” des AK Digitale Geographien, 23./24. November 2023 in Mainz

M8 Fieldtrip to Cologne: European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)

Film Screening: “Concerning Violence”

Research Group on Writing Retreat in the Odenwald

New publication on “Sensing weather: scientific and experiental modes of knowledge production for small-scale farming in western Kenya” by Julian Rochlitz

New publication: Mediating Infrastructural Discipline: Established Practices and Changing Structures of Dar es Salaam’s Transport Sector

Catching energy? Insights from a workshop on hacking the city by means of design interventions

International Guest Lecture by Sandra F. Joireman (29th November 12:00 c.t. -14:00)

Malve Jacobsen conducted empirical research for her project “Urban air in crisis”

Sandra Petermann receives The Grand Princely Order of the Pink Flamingo from the Principality of Aigues-Mortes

Lecture and Prix Molière at the 3e Sommet de la MicroFrancophonie in Blaye

Bayreuth und Fränkische Schweiz B (Oktober 2022)

Bayreuth und Fränkische Schweiz A (August 2022)

Research Group Members participating in the Annual Meeting of British Geographers in Newcastle

Urbane Natur: Geländetage in Berlin (Juli 2022)

Guest Lecture by Frank Edward (UDSM)

„Ab in den Süden“: Exkursion in Südfrankreich (April 2022)

Geländetage im Rhein-Main Gebiet zum Urbanen Fahrradfahren

Bonn – ehemalige Hauptstadt, UN-Stadt, Postkoloniale Stadt

Joint research and teaching with colleagues from the State University of Zanzibar

Anchoring Indian Ocean Studies at JGU Mainz

Disaster communication beyond the state?

Das tansanische Reisfeld als lebendes Labor?

New Book Publication: Cargoes in Motion

Film Screening at Geography Department on 09 June 2022: “Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin”

Counter-Geographies of Extinction

Tansania notes from the field #2

Unruly Sites? Exploring the Brachen of Berlin – A Workshop by the Research Group of Environmental Anthropology

Tansania notes from the field #1

Starting fieldwork in India: First impressions and more

VR-glasses available for student research projects in the GeoPool

LK Arava