Ceremonial Opening of Camilla and Georg Jellinek Center for Ethics: Inaugural event on 6 October 2025 also open to an interested public
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@tabeabork.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography at Heidelberg University (https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people-at-the-institute/prof-dr-tabea-bork-huffer) and head of the @spacessocieties.bsky.social research group.
Ceremonial Opening of Camilla and Georg Jellinek Center for Ethics: Inaugural event on 6 October 2025 also open to an interested public
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Feierliche Eröffnung des Camilla-und-Georg-Jellinek-Zentrums für Ethik: Eröffnungsveranstaltung am 6. Oktober 2025 wendet sich auch an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #ethikzentrum #ethik #eröffnung
✨ Featuring presentations by: Fergus Attlee, Charlotte Lock, Johannes Melchert, Jessica Pykett, Mike Richardson, Linda Ruppert, Lisa May Thomas, Mark Whitehead, and Ivin Yeo.
27.08.2025 06:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0✨At the RGS today: join us for 2 sessions on “Futures of Intimate Digital Technologies: Creative Frictions and Critical Responses”, co-organized with Jessica Pykett and Jacqueline Kowalski.
📍 Location: Arts Building, LR3 (in-person only)
🕑 Session 1: 14:40 – 16:20 BST
🕢 Session 2: 16:50 – 18:30 BST
I have legitimate concerns about the way the mainstream media has been enabling the rise of the far-right through normalising racist and anti-immigrant narratives & discourse...
21.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 140 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 1Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts'
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
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New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on #humanitarian #data #sovereignty💥
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My deep gratitude to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, @margchee.bsky.social, @emryss.bsky.social, Quito Tsui, Paul Currion, @sophiebt.bsky.social, and @massimomarelli.bsky.social for the inspiration ❤️
New commentary in Dialogues on Digital Society co-authored with fabulous @lindaruppert.bsky.social: Embodied digital warfare: Authoritarian appropriation through human enhancement
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Thanks to Kylie Jarrett & @robkitchin.bsky.social for editing the special issue
The co-produced mobile & visual methods study (incl. video-based mobile eye-tracking) proposes the needs to consider:
🔹 Technologies as double-edged.
🔹 Entanglements of diverse technologies.
🔹 Temporalities, costs, training needs, & everyday usability.
JanMisera, JohannesMelchert, JessicaPykett
New Publication “Entanglements of Dis:abilities and Technologies in Public Space and Life” in Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
We critically examine the relational and contextual ways technologies shape disabled youth's lived experiences.
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Cover of book with old map at the top and postage stamps of Nietzsche, Kant and Herder at the bottom
Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories - Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
15.08.2025 07:02 — 👍 44 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1Eating dinner together outside in a restaurant
Presentation of a PhD project
Selfie in front of Heidelberg Castle
Mutual exchange
😍 Last week, our team members from Innsbruck visited Heidelberg for a wonderful retreat filled with connection, learning, and fun!
We shared personal stories, presented our PhD projects💡, explored career paths🎓, visited the old town, went swimming🏖️, played games, and made great memories together!🌞
Julia sitzt am Schreibtisch und lacht in die Kamera. Im Hintergrund ist ein Bildschirm zu sehen.
I'm a Scientist - Get me out of here!
...ist ein Onlineangebot von @w-i-d.de, an dem unser Teammitglied Julia Poerting diese Woche zum Thema KI teilnimmt 👩💻
In halbstündigen Chats können Schüler*innen Wissenschaftler*innen alles fragen, was sie (über KI) wissen wollen
#WissKomm #DigitalGeographies
promotional poster: along the top banner of the poster is the RGS logo, Digital Geographies Research Group Symposium 2025, and the DGRG logo image. In the top half of the post on the left is an image of a pale blue map viewed from a horizontal angle with a series of multi-coloured pins in it and lines connecting the pins. To the right of the image text reads: DGRG Annual Symposium 2025. Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital. 19th June, 2025 09:45-17:00 GMT+8, 02:45-10:00 GMT+1. Online and there is a QR scan feature. Below and centred in the image is the a box for 7 Featured Guests and Chairs. Listed alongside headshot images are Iginio Gagliardone, University of Witwatersrand: Digital sovereignty and networked sovereignty: a perspective from Africa; Mirjam de Bruijn, University of Leiden: African Mobile Communities; Norma Mollers, Queens University: State of Extraction; Sam Kinsley, University of Exeter: Troubling Realities: Thinking space for digital geographies; Azadeh Akbari, University of Twente: Authoritarian Smart Cities; Nina Willment, University of Nottingham (Chair); Jack Lowe, University of West England (Chair). At the footer of the poster is an orange band with white text stating: For more information and registration visit the DGRG website
Counting down the hours! Next week is our free online symposium on Global Digital Geographies. We welcome attendees from geography and beyond so don't forget to sign up:
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#DGRGSymposium2025
Just out: Editorial „Children‘s and young people‘s digital geographies: space, agency, and crises in diverse societies“ co-written with fantastic @ChristinaErgler in @Digital Geography & Society.
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Thinking back at last month's seminar on Innovative Feminist Methodologies by the wonderful Gender and Geography group Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Great keynotes & discussions on mobile, visual, creative methods
Thanks to Mireia Baylina Ferre, Anna Ortiz, and the whole group!
The first edition of Dialogues on Digital Society is out at last. It features an editorial by the Editorial team, @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @pinkydigital.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, and @steelecat717.bsky.social .... 1/7 #DDS @journals.sagepub.com
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Calling anyone who writes about women and/or feminism and would like to work through challenges, refine & diversify techniques, meet & discuss with other writers, and try out new practices! I’m excited to be offering new creative writing workshops, retreats & mentoring programmes
10.06.2025 11:18 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Registration 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
Excited to share that I and @spacessocieties.bsky.social joined the Department of Geography at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social!🎉
I’ll continue exploring how digital technologies affect social inclusion and exclusion, sustainability, and well-being.
More updates coming soon!
#DigitalGeographies