Research Group Verne
The RG Verne is part of the scientific domain 'Development Geography':
Julia Verne, Prof. Dr.University professor - development geography
Postal adress: Meckenheimer Allee 166 - D-53115 Bonn
Office: Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176
Postal adress: Meckenheimer Allee 166 - D-53115 Bonn
Room: 0.020
Recent Events and Activities
Guest Lecture at BICC by Prof. Sandra Joireman
Within the international partnership „Appraising risk, past and present“, the working group hosts two guests from the University of Richmond, USA to work on a joint publication and define work packages for the team led by Prof. Dr. Verne investigating the potential of historical approaches to enhance risk governance in the Indian Ocean World. Prof. Dr. Sandra Joireman (Weinstein Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science) and John Scrivani (Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment) will be in Bonn from October 27th-30th. Sandra Joireman will also give a public talk at BICC on the 29th about Post-conflict property restitution: Challenges in law and practice. Find more information on the lecture here.
Research trip to Kochi and Chennai
As part of her research project, Dr. Malve Jacobsen travelled to South India in September to investigate urban transport infrastructures. In the coastal cities of Kochi and Chennai, she examined the various means of transport using ethnographic methods and conducting interviews with representatives of politics and planning. As part of the Smart Cities Mission, Indian cities have been implementing extensive measures to improve the quality of life for a number of years. For example, electric elevated railways and safe footpaths should encourage the urban population switching to public and non-motorised transport. Malve Jacobsen also visited colleagues at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Prof. Porchelvan and Dr. Ganapathy. She gave a lecture on the vulnerability of transport infrastructures at the Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management. The research group Verne collaborates with Dr. Ganapathy in the international partnership project 'Appraising risk, past and present'.
DFG Grant
The DFG has approved Lisa Krieg's project application "Gecko translocalities. The negotiation of social and ecological values in human-animal relations between Germany and the Indian Ocean". The project duration is two years.
05.02.2018 - Workshop: "Thinking through wildness in the Anthropocene"
with Dr. Sara Asu Schroer
In this workshop we'd like to think through notions of wildness in the Anthropocene: how is wildness imagined, realized, and managed today? We'd like to talk about different concepts of wildness, and how they are entangled with societal processes, political agendas, and technological visions and possibilities. While untouched wildness is often an ideal and a goal shaping conservation policies, "wild" nature is simultaneously under strict regimes of control (control of gene-pools and studbooks in wildlife population management) and entangled with scientific interventions (de-extinction projects through genetic engineering). Such paradoxes and surprising entanglements are at the core of what we'd like to discuss.
Termin: Montag, 5.2.2018, 9:30 - 12:00 Uhr
Wo: Geozentrum, Meckenheimer Allee 176, Bonn, Ü7
Diskussionsgrundlage: 2 Texte, werden noch verschickt
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30.06.2017 - Graduation ceremony of the International Joint Master's
Prof. Julia Verne, head of the Joint Academic Board addresses the 26 graduates during the first graduation ceremony of the International Joint Master's (UNU/GIUB). The students who came from 12 different countries to participate in this unique course received the degree of 'Master of Science in Geography of Environmental Risk and Human Security'. The local newspaper, General Anzeiger, reported on the day: link
23.5.2017 - Lecture
Julia Verne held a presentation as part of a lecture series in Marburg on "Transregional entanglements: spatial connections beyond established metageographies".
12-13.5.2017 - Workshop Erlangen
Julia Verne, Lisa Krieg and Julian Rochlitz participated in the Workshop 'Technologie, Gesellschaft und Raum im Reden über das "digitale Zeitalter"' in Erlangen.
10.5.2017 - Job opportunities? Panel Discussion
Julia Verne was part of a panel discussion on job opportunities for geography graduates at the Praktikumsbörse of GIUB. She talked about her understanding and experience in following a career in academia.
Die Interviewreihe "All Things Transregional?" der Platform für Transregionale Forschung (TRAFO) befragte Julia Verne zu ihren Erfahrungen in Transregionaler Forschung und wichtigen Zunkunftsthemen. Was ist Transregionale Forschung? Wem nützt sie? Wo liegen ihre Grenzen? Die Antworten und die Diskussion können hier gelesen werden.
Smart development? Neue Technologien/Geographien der Entwicklung