“The first thing I feel when I see the lagoons is sadness.” That came from an indigenous Mixteca fisherwoman living in the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, grieving over the loss of her community’s lagoons due largely to neoliberal policies. Geographies of grieving are “spaces of complex collective loss due to multiple interconnected forms of violence” … More ICGS 2022: Grief and Mourning and Abstract Submission
Gaston Bachelard once said: “the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” For the second Geography Webbynar of the UP Department of Geography, for academic year 2022-2023, Assistant Professor Ryan Alvin Pawilen will deliver a talk entitled Housing Culture and Emotions: A Countermapping Exercise with the Laguna Historical … More Geography Webbynar #2 (2022-2023): Ryan Alvin Pawilen discusses houses, emotions and folklore
What do we do when we talk about love? We compose songs, we make films, we write poems. Or we dance across differences, imagine radical futures, empathise with political struggles. Or begin by writing an abstract about love in its various iterations: nationalistic, romantic, erotic, maternal, material, spatial, ontological, animal and liminal, for the International Conference … More ICGS 2022: Love and Invitation for Abstract Submission
The use of geospatial data in research, planning, policy, and other pursuits is nothing new. What is new is the unprecedented level (and sophistication) of use of massive amounts of geospatial and other data powered by artificial intelligence (AI). So powerful are AI technologies that governments are scrambling to put together ethics-first, principle-based governance frameworks, … More Geography Webbynar #1 (2022-2023): Peter Sy talks AI-powered geospatial data
ICGS 2022 Emotional Geographies: Passion in the Geographical 10-11 November 2022 The late Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-2022) argued that “much of human life is… driven by passion—by the desire to reach what is out of reach or even beyond reach” (2014, p. 4). First drawing breath from informal circles and intellectual niches among cultural and feminist geographers, the … More ICGS 2022 – Emotional Geographies: Passion in the geographical
As the first law of geography states, everything is connected to everything else. For instance in weather forecasting, the mapping of various spatial and temporal dimensions and relationships is important to model the atmospheric processes. This is a crucial input in weather forecasting, climate modeling, and other forms of numerical weather prediction models. For the … More PGS Lecture Series 2022-09: Robert Badrina on climate-influenced land cover change
It is said that Geographic Information System (GIS) organises, manages, visualises and models our datasets. GIS can also ‘transform a table of data into a lively artifact to be handled, studied, and challenged’ (Lund & Sinton, 2007). Outcomes from using GIS not only engages our communities, creates new insights but also integrates with other systems … More PGS Lecture Series 2022-08: Jasmin Callosa-Tarr on the visualisation of spatial data
The political and social exclusion of women, children, older adults and persons with disabilities (PWDs) – especially the economically disenfranchised – has always been identified as a perennial problem in society. In the context of disaster risk reduction (DRR), the PWDs are among those crucially impacted by natural hazards and climate induced disasters. And yet … More PGS Lecture Series 2022-07: Juan Miguel Torres on photovoice
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The Philippine Geographical Society (PGS) is proud to present the midyear version of the PGS Lecture Series. UP Department of Geography alumnus Russel James Andrade who currently sits as Biodiversity Focal and Project Assistant and ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia Secretariat will give a talk entitled CitiesWithNature: The important role of subnational governments in the protection and … More PGS Lecture Series 2022-06: Russel Andrade on urban biodiversity
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