List of themed sessions
There are over 40 proposed themed sessions for the 2018 Conference of Irish Geographers. A full list of proposed sessions, in alphabetical order, is below, or you can click on the tabs to the right to see sessions associated with particular themes. Please contact the session organisers directly if you would like to submit an abstract to a themed session.
50 Questions for Irish Geography research to help secure the Earth as our Home – workshop discussion
Helen Shaw, Ro Charlton, Maynooth University; Philip Lawton, Trinity College Dublin; Irene Morris Cadogan, Geographical Society of Ireland
Anne Buttimer and the Practice of Geography
Philip Lawton, Trinity College, Dublin; Mary Gilmartin, Maynooth University
Art and Geography: The Earth as our Home
Gerry Kearns, Karen Till, Maynooth University; Nessa Cronin, Tim Collins, NUI Galway
Between Nature and Culture, Land and Sea: Spatial Practices at the Coast
Cormac Walsh, University of Hamburg; Ruth Brennan, Trinity College Dublin
Book Prize
Gerry Kearns, Maynooth University
Climate Change Impacts on the Coast (Irish Geomorphology Group: Coasts)
Eugene Farrell, Siddhi Joshi, and Alex Smith, NUI Galway
Climate modeling & analysis: minimizing our impact on Earth as our home
Ciaran Broderick, ICARUS, Maynooth University; Priscilla Mooney, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Compensatory Homemaking in Times of Crisis and “Crisis-Ordinary”
Katherine Brickell and Ella Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London; Mel Nowicki, Oxford Brookes University
Confronting the commodification of housing
Sinéad Kelly and Lidia Manzo, Maynooth University
Contemporary Trends in Irish Social Enterprise Sector
Shane O'Sullivan, Limerick Institute of Technology
CPD workshop: what would a geography podcast series look like?
Eoin O'Mahony, UCD
Creating Spaces for Cooperation: Crossing Borders and Boundaries before and after Brexit
Cormac Walsh, University of Hamburg and ICLRD; Gavan Rafferty, Ulster University and ICLRD
Dance and Geography: Art and Geography 1
Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Project Arts Centre and Maynooth University
Earth Observation: Applications in environmental mapping and monitoring (Irish Geomorphology Group: EO)
Daithí Maguire, NUI Galway; Conor Cahalane, DIT; Gema Casal, Maynooth University
Ecosystem and biodiversity change and conservation
Helen Shaw, Maynooth University
Embodied Geographies of the Nation: Art, Geography and Irish Studies (part of the Art and Geography series)
Space&Place Research Collaborative, Maynooth University; Ómós Áite Space/Place Research Group, NUI Galway
Energy and everyday life: Exploring the lived experience of energy systems change
Mary Greene, NUI Galway; Anne Schiffer, Leeds Beckett University
Evolving Geographies, Evolving Methodologies
Dean Phelan and Aoife Kavanagh, Maynooth University
FOSS4G in research and teaching
Eoin O'Mahony, UCD; Sasha Brown, Maynooth University
Geographies of Elections: Culture, Place and Politics
Adrian Kavanagh, Maynooth University
Geographies of (non-) reproduction
Kath Browne, Maynooth University; Sydney Calkin, Durham University
Geography and the Irish Statistical System
Paul Alexander, Central Statistics Office
Geography, Gender and Science
Nuala Johnson, Queens University Belfast
Historical Climatology: Data Rescue, Documentary Evidence, Management, Quality Assurance and Reconstruction
Simon Noone and Conor Murphy, ICARUS, Maynooth University
Legalities and Liveabilities: Making Sense of the Implementation of laws/policy and Lived Experiences of LGBTIQ/sexual and gender non-conforming people
Louise Sarsfield Collins and Kath Browne, Maynooth University
Lightning Talk Challenge - Snapshots in geographical research
GSI Postgraduate & Early Career Network Committee (PECN)
Living with risk and hazard in our common home
Jim Jeffers, Bath Spa University; Eoin O'Neill, University College Dublin
Local approaches to enhance and appreciate biodiversity - a walk and talk session around our Green Campus
Jim Carolan, Gail Maher and Helen Shaw, Maynooth University
Making space for publics: a challenge for cities on the path to being smart
Aoife Delaney and Caspar Menkman, Maynooth University (The Programmable City)
Marine Spatial Planning
Liam Carr, NUI Galway
Meta-narrating the City: Circulating urban spatial stories from above and below
Mark Boyle, University of Liverpool; Andrew McClelland and Joseph Robinson, Maynooth University
New Directions in Irish Historical Geographies
Arlene Crampsie, UCD; Ruth McManus, DCU
Placing geography beyond the campus
Irene Cadogan
Planning for Regional Development in Ireland – 50 years after the Buchanan Report
Jim Walsh and Proinnsias Breathnach, Maynooth University
Poster Competition (GSI-PECN)
GSI Postgraduate & Early Career Network Committee (PECN)
Regional Climates
Rowan Fealy, Maynooth University; Gerald Mills, UCD
Regional development and the creative economy
Aisling Murtagh and Pat Collins, NUI Galway
Rising Powers and New Geographies of Development
Rory Horner, University of Manchester; Padraig Carmody, TCD
Rurality as choice: myth or reality?
Karen Keaveney, Tomás Russell, UCD
The Irish Quaternary: Exploring Landscape Change Over The Last 2.6 Million Years
Martha Coleman, Maynooth University; Alwynne McGeever, Trinity College Dublin
Understanding metropolitan governance and government: City-regional politics at the intersection of local, regional, national and international processes
Niamh Moore-Cherry, UCD; John Tomaney, UCL
Urban Policy and Politics
Brid Quinn, University of Limerick