SocialHour

Digital Geographies Lightning Talks and Social Hour hosted by the proposed Digital Geographies Speciality Group of the AAG and Microsoft Research New England

The proposed Digital Geographies specialty group of the AAG would like to invite you to participate in a social hour hosted by Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) during the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston.

The proposed Digital Geographies Specialty Group supports scholarship and pedagogy that further understandings of myriad ways that digital objects and digital practices produce space, place, and spatial relations, seeking to coalesce a diverse community of scholars whose work centers the digital as object, subject and/or medium of geographical thought,analysis and/or praxis. As an expression of these goals, and to bring together our burgeoning community, we are inviting and encouraging your participation and attendance at our first event, generously hosted by Microsoft Social Research New England.

The event will be held on April 6th from 6-8pm at the MSRNE building (1 Memorial Drive #1, Cambridge, MA; see map below) and will feature both lightning talks and a chance to meet and talk with other researchers engaged in the broad and growing realm of Digital Geographies. The event will be followed by a happy hour at MeadHall starting at 8:30 p.m.

If you are interested in attending or presenting, please complete this form by February 28, 2016. Those who wish to simply attend, meet similarly interested researchers, and discuss exciting ideas, need only provide their name and email address. Those wishing to present a lightning talk must additionally provide their talk title and a brief abstract. Lightning talks will be limited to 5 minutes in length and must have exactly 5 slides. While it is our intention to have everyone who submits present, please note that due to time limitations this may not be possible.

If you have any questions, please contact Jim Thatcher (jethatch@uw.edu).

Where & When:

Thursday, April 6th, 6pm -8pm at Microsoft Research’s Clara Barton Room on the first floor of 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA (a short walk from the Kendall Square T Stop). Visitors will be asked to sign in at the building lobby, and then they’ll just take the elevator up to the first floor.

Who:

All Interested parties.

What:

Lightning talks, a social hour with coffee and donuts, and then a more social hour at a nearby bar.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Best,

• Megan Finn, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Seattle
• Jen Jack Gieseking, Assistant Professor, Trinity College
• Mark Graham, Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
• Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at MSR; Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.; Associate Professor of the Media School, with affiliations in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies at Indiana University.
• Dan Greene, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research
• David O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley
• Jim Thatcher, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Tacoma
• And the organizing committee of the Digital Geographies Specialty Group