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Thursday, September 2, 2021

2021 Carleton Geography and Environmental Studies Annual Newsletter

Welcome to the new academic year; here's the 2021 Geography and Environmental Studies Department year in... More

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Practicum Placement to Working Internship

Congratulations Larissa Diamantopoulos and Jessica Legere, DGES alumnus, both working in internship positions after having completed practicum placements at Sustainable Eastern Ontario (SEO). Here is a video of the type of work Larissa and Jessica were introduced to through our practicum program and are continuing to build on through internship... More

Friday, August 6, 2021

Feminist Geographies: Space, Place and Gender

Spots still available in GEOG 3009 winter term course. Offered Tuesdays, on campus, 14:35 - 17:25 Students taking this course will explore places and spaces where the gendered impacts of global phenomena, including migration, climate change, pandemics and financial crises, are experienced. It is fundamentally a course about relations of power, how... More

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson reviews Immigrant Crossroads

Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson reviews Immigrant Crossroads Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New... More

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Professor Chris Burn, permafrost researcher, says Yukon’s permafrost thaw reaching ‘critical point’ in some areas

A permafrost expert says his 40 years of research in the Yukon is revealing profound and irreversible changes to the territory’s landscape. Elyn Jones spoke with Chris Burn, the Chancellor’s Professor of Geography at Carleton University. He’s also the president of the International Permafrost... More

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Dynamics in Globalization: Human Mobility and Security

GEOG 4024. Seminar in Globalization Dynamics in Globalization: Human Mobility and Security Recent migration 'crises' around the world, the global pandemics, and the range of discourses, policies, laws, and practices that have followed call attention to human mobility regulation as a standout globalization issue. Security, in its many dimensions,... More

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Welcome to our Department Meera Karunananthan

Join us in welcoming Meera Karunananthan who joins our department on July 1st, 2021 as a Lecturer in Human Geography. Meera’s research on urban hydro-social conflicts is the culmination of more than a decade of solidarity and collaborative inquiry with water justice networks around the world. In her previous role as Director of the... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas Uses Digital Mapping Tools to Build Understanding of Canada’s Indian Residential School System

Death cast a long shadow over Canada’s residential schools. These are the first nine words in the introduction to Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials. This 273-page volume of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was published in 2015, yet most Canadians have never read this powerful... More

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Congratulations to DGES students who have been awarded UG awards!

Congratulations to Mifda Lafir Madani who has been awarded the Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography! The Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography is awarded annually to the outstanding student entering the final year of Honours Geography at Carleton University. Dr. Wreford Watson, then Chief Geographer of Canada, founded geography at... More

Thursday, June 3, 2021

The Changing Landscape of Ottawa’s Rooming House Market

2021 GRADflix video submission by Jessica Sperry, Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Blog: Reflections on co-teaching a field course online in Brightspace

By Stephan Gruber and Derek Smith, co-instructors, Department of Geography and Environmental... More

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

Professor Fraser Taylor would like to bring to your attention the new publication in the Routledge Research in Art and Race entitled  Digital Mapping and Indigenous America. Editor, Janet Berry Hess. Routledge 2021 New York.  It includes three contributions by the Geomatics and Cartographic Research (GCRC) team as follow: Taylor D. R. F.... More

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