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Upcoming events
  • DiscussionPando in fall

    Pando: the World's largest tree

    Utah’s clonal aspen covers 106 acres and is 9,000 years old, but faces challenges. Who cares for it and how can we understand it better?

    Online
    Open to all
    Thursday 17 October 2024
    Free
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  • LectureGiraffes in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

    The iconic places and species of Africa and their future

    The speakers, from UEA’s Tyndall Centre, will examine the projected impacts of climate change on some of the iconic places and species of Africa - how they will fare with increasing levels of warming and what are the adaptation options.

    Norwich
    Open to all
    Thursday 17 October 2024
    £0.00 - £5.00
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  • LectureLouis with a horse in the Ligurian Alps.

    Geographical journeys: microlectures

    An informal evening of short illustrated talks packed with tales of adventure and discovery to entertain and inspire.

    Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
    Open to all
    Friday 18 October 2024
    £5.00 - £12.00
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Latest news

This year's Fi Wi Road interns at the Society

Creating opportunities and building communities with the Fi Wi Road Internship

The Fi Wi Road Internship began as a collaborative project to provide Black-heritage geography and geoscience undergraduate students with a space to develop a new idea of what geography could look like. We spoke to two of this year's interns, Bilan Abdullahi and Mia Yearwood, to hear what they have been up to.

Tuesday 15 Oct 2024
Research and higher education

Endurance documentary premieres this weekend

Friday 11 Oct 2024
Geography news
Dr Alice Oates gives a talk in the Foyle Reading Room during the map room conversations, she is showing the audience various maps on the table

Historical geographies of Halley Bay

Thursday 10 Oct 2024
Research and higher education

Orthography and the problem of place names

Friday 4 Oct 2024
Research and higher education
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