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Upcoming events
To find all up and coming branch events take a look at the GA Networking Calendar.
Everyone is welcome, whether you are involved in school, university or just an interested member of the public.
Single lecture: £3
Annual membership: £5 student, £12 adult, £10 adult GA member
A new category of Corporate School/College Membership at £30 allows unlimited members.
Unless stated otherwise, all GA North Staffordshire Branch lectures are held in City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College, Leek Rd Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2RU, ground floor of the Social Studies Space. Lectures commence at 7:30pm.
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Event reports
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide? The Geography of Voting, Racism, Fascism, and Freedom
Nowhere to run, nowhere
to hide? The Geography of Voting, Racism, Fascism, and FreedomProfessor Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at University of Oxford, Fellow of St Peter’s College.
Aspects of Armageddon: Volcanism and the European Environment
Aspects of Armageddon: Volcanism and the European EnvironmentProfessor John Grattan.
The 1783 Laki Fissure (Iceland) eruption emitted volatiles and damaged and destroyed vegetation from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean. Air pollution was so intense that human health was affected, and the national death rate increased dramatically in both England and France.
In our already polluted and interdependent world, any future event on this scale would have serious consequences for human health and trade.
Globalisation and the environment: out of sight, out of mind
Globalisation and the environment: out of sight, out of mindGill Miller, President GA 2019-20, Senior Lecturer Emerita Chester University
Uban futures: Challenges and responses
This talk by Professor Tim Hall focussed particularly on relationships between cities and climate change as well as the debate about future models of urbanisation. It also explored smart city and eco city models.
Professor Hall’s summary:
“It is clear that the planet faces a number of interrelated and growing environmental and social challenges. Cities are the key arenas within which these challenges are most felt and within which possible solutions can be explored.
This talk considers the nature of these challenges and their relationships to urbanization. It focuses particularly on the relationships between cities and climate change before moving on to review debates about future models of urbanization. It explores the promises and limitations of smart-city and eco-city models of future urban settlements. The talk concludes with an attempt to outline some priorities facing urban policy makers, developers, researchers and citizens.”
Download the slides from the talk here.
