• Mapathon for Humanitarian Relief

    Alexander Library 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, United States

    Celebrate GIS Day and Geography Awareness week!  Together with fellow Rutgers students, staff and faculty, you will contribute geospatial data to OpenStreetMap, a free and editable map of the world that is used by communities, organizations and governments worldwide to address local development challenges and aid disaster response. Our project will be decided closer to […]

  • Geography Speaker Series: The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism

    Tillett Hall 50 Joyce Kilmer Ave, Piscataway, United States

    Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refinement of markets for digital goods and services. In this talk, based on his recent book, The Map in the Machine, […]

  • Geography Speaker Series: Centering Justice in Academic-Community Partnerships for Climate and Environmental Justice

    Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ

    Please consider attending the upcoming talk by Ana Baptista, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management & Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School. In person or join via zoom. Hosted by MACH (Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub) and co-sponsored by Geography and Human Ecology Ana Baptista biographical details: https://www.newschool.edu/milano/faculty/ana-baptista/