Africa Day
Environment, Society and Space
Royal Irish Academy
Thursday 24 May, 2012

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Africa Day is the international commemoration of the founding of the African Union. The African Union, comprised of 53 member states, addresses the challenges the continent has faced, such as armed conflict, climate change, and poverty.

In collaboration with the Africa Day celebrations by Irish Aid, this conference brings Geographers working on African issues to speak at the RIA on their contribution to understanding current events in Africa and the relationships between Africa and Ireland. Focus is placed on the work around environment, space and society. The conference provides a new platform for collaboration in this growing area of the Geographical Sciences.

Programme

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9:00am Registration

9:30am Session 1: Environment, Society and Place

• Professor David Taylor, TCD 'Climate change, development & health in Eastern Africa’
• Dr Clionadh Raleigh, TCD ‘Militias and the Geographies of Violence in Africa’
• Dr Alistair Fraser, NUIM ‘Land Reform in South Africa’

11:00am Tea and Coffee
 

11:30am Session 2: Connections: Ireland, Africa and the World

• Dr Denis Linehan, UCC ‘Becoming Tropical: Africa in the Irish Geographical Imagination’
• Dr Pádraig Carmody, TCD ‘A Global Enclosure? The Geo-Logics of Indian Agro-Investments in Africa’
• Dr Allen White, UCC ‘Careless migrants? Transnational Nigerian fathers in Ireland and their children’

1:00pm Lunch (not provided)
 

2:00pm Session 3: Postgraduate Research

• Mr Mavuto Tembo, NUIM ‘The role of Participatory GIS in assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in rural Africa’
• Mr Fearghal O’Nuallain, UCC ‘Walking Rwanda; a non representational encounter with Development’
• Mr Sam Barrett and Mr Stern Kita, TCD ‘Climate Justice in Malawi’

3:30pm Tea and Coffee
 

4:00pm Session 4: Roundtable: The Contribution of Irish Geographical Sciences to African Studies

• Chair: Dr Mary Gilmartin, NUIM

5:15pm Close