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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jul 5

Academic summer retreat #Cultural_Political_Digital_Geography_Group group @fau.de – again in the idyllic surroundings of the Hersbrucker Schweiz. Two days of project presentations, lively discussions, and new ideas – all rounded off with a geographical finale: moving knowledge across fluid terrains.

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jul 5

#Master #Kulturgeographie @fau.de in Erlangen: forschungsnah, projektorientiert und praxisrelevant studieren – jetzt für das Wintersemester 2025/2026 bewerben!

Online Informationstermin: Mo 7. Juli 18.00

www.geographie.nat.fau.de/master-kultu...

Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 9

Also featuring in our upcoming symposium is @gglasze.bsky.social who examines Political Geography & socio-technical configuration of spaces within digital transformation

Register to learn about the discursive & infrastructural configurations of “digital sovereignty” in Europe #DGRGSymposium2025

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Next in our speaker series for our Global Digital Geographies Symposium is @azadehakbari.bsky.social who explores authoritarian surveillance, critical studies of ICTs in development contexts, and data justice. Join us to learn more ⬇️
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#DGRGSymposium2025

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking forward to the #Digital_Geographies Symposium of @rgsibg.bsky.social: Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital, June19-20.
We’ll present our volume @elgarpublishing.bsky.social, "Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty".
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS

Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.

www.rgs.org

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jun 4

A new doctoral hat @fau.de @nat.fau.de #Geography: Congratulations to Susanne Schröder-Bergen, who successfully defended her excellent dissertation today #OpenStreetMap in the changing context of #digital_capitalism!

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Adam Michael Packer @adammpacker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

@dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS

Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.

www.rgs.org

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Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg | FAU CHREN @humanrights-fau.bsky.social · Jun 2

Save the date: @humanrights-fau.bsky.social & @nurembergacademy.bsky.social cordially invite you to the evening lecture by Harvard Professor Dr Kathryn Sikkink 🎓
🗓️ www.humanrights.fau.eu/calendar/eve...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · May 22

📢Next in #DHKolloquium!

Dr. Lauren Tilton from the University of Richmond on "Distant Viewing: AI in Theory and Practice"! @nolauren.bsky.social

📆28 May 2025

⏰️16:00-18:00

📍Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 (3rd floor)

www.dhss.phil.fau.de/2025/05/02/d...

Talk: Distant Viewing: AI In Theory and Practice

Speaker: Lauren Tilton Date: 28 May 2025 Time: 16:00 to 18:00 Location: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 (3rd floor) The talk will introduce the concept of distant viewing, a theory and method…

www.dhss.phil.fau.de

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · May 26

Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography #IFL @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de: Tour of the shell construction that will bring the institute to the heart of the “city of science” @stadtleipzig.bsky.social !

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FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · May 22

FAU-Projekt „Transforming Human Rights” wird Exzellenzcluster 🏅

Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)

www.fau.de/2025/05/news...

Exzellenzstrategie: Herausragend in der Menschenrechtsforschung

Große Freude an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): Das Forschungsprojekt „Transforming Human Rights“ wird Exzellenzcluster. Am späten Donnerstagnachmittag gaben die Deutsche…

www.fau.de

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · May 22

New paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Neoliberal Openness to Sovereign Openness: Analysing Imaginaries of European Digital Policies

Numerous studies have shown that the adoption of ‘digital sovereignty’ as a guiding principle in European digital policy has marked a discursive break. While EU digital policies until the 2000s wer...

www.tandfonline.com

Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · May 21

Heute 12.30 Institut für Geographie @fau in ER-Tennenlohe

Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · May 13

Exciting opportunity at our growing department Digital Humanities and Social Studies: Full professorships (W3) on Place & Space and on Human-Computer Interaction. Apply by 2 June 2025! Please share!
www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/04/18/j...
www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/04/18/j...

Job Offer: Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Place and Space (salary group W3)

The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Digital Humanities Focusing on Place…

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · May 12

“The future of data is more open” – How Overture standardizes the use of geospatial data

Interview with Jennings Anderson in the new E-Journal/Blog: GRID!

gridisnotajournal.de/articles/and...

“The future of data is more open” – How Overture standardizes the use of geospatial data // grid

gridisnotajournal.de

Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Apr 14

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @fau.de is hiring for a Full Professorship (W3) in Digital Humanities – Focus on Place & Space

Located in our new Department of Digital Humanities & Social Studies

📢 Geographers very welcome to apply!

www.fau.eu/people/worki...

#Geography #DigitalHumanities #ProfJob

Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Apr 3

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI.

30 of my books and papers are in this database.

The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Mar 29

We're currently hiring two roles!
Fancy yourself as an open source investigator and trainer? Apply here for a role in our human rights and conflict monitoring team by April 6th www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...

Bellingcat is Hiring: Open Source Investigator and Trainer (Conflict) - bellingcat

Bellingcat is hiring an open source investigator and trainer (conflict). Find out more about the role and apply within.

www.bellingcat.com

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Mar 26

A recent Internet trend in Germany makes fun of Donald Trump's neo-imperial renaming. It 'abuses' an option within Google Maps that allows users to add new places: hundreds of new 'gulfs' have been named and located...

www.geographie.nat.fau.de/en/kein-golf...

No ‘Gulf of Erlangen’ - doing geography like Donald Trump?

US President Donald Trump has issued a decree instructing US authorities to use the term ‘Gulf of America’ in future instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico’, which has been used since the 16th century.

www.geographie.nat.fau.de

Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Mar 4

Join our new colleague and our new group in #Erlangen & #Nürnberg!

Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · Feb 15

Yes, we must document the craven responses, protect one-another, archive and save research, and manage as best we can. Supporting institutions that are brave, but largely relying on each other and what we know about mobilising, safety, and care.Teaching, research and pastoral care is now resistance.

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Markus Krajewski @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social · Feb 14

Interested in a PhD in business and human rights/corporate sustainability responsibility?
Consider joining us this fall for the second cohort of our doctoral program.
@fau.de @fauphil.bsky.social @fauwiso.bsky.social
www.business-humanrights.fau.eu/call-for-app...

Call for Applications

Apply now for the International Doctorate Programme (IDP) in Business and Human Rights. 12 fully funded PhD positions . Deadline: 1 June 2025.

www.business-humanrights.fau.eu

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Feb 12

#Geodata for #Human_Rights Winter School @fau.de in #Erlangen & #Nürnberg is on!

You can follow us:

www.instagram.com/geodataforhu...

www.linkedin.com/in/geo-data-...

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Feb 7

Universität Münster: Professorship (W3) in Political Geography!

www.uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Ste...

Professur für Politische Geographie (W3)

www.uni-muenster.de

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Political Geography @politicalgeography.bsky.social · Feb 6

CFP: Virtual Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Convenors: Caroline Nagel, James D. Sidaway, and Chih Yuan Woon. This new Virtual Forum explores the complex political-geographical landscape that AI is helping to create www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Feb 5

Digital Investigations for #Human_Rights

Public Panel Discussion with Experts from UC Berkely Human Rights Center, Pax, Lund Univ and Mnemonic/Syrian Archive

@fau.de in #Nürnberg #CHREN, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1

👉Thu., 13.02. 16.00-18.30

www.geographie.nat.fau.de/geodata-for-...

Geodata for Human Rights Winter School: 10-14 February 2025

The Geodata for Human Rights Winter School 2025 is a unique interdisciplinary program designed to introduce early career researchers to the innovative use of geospatial technologies for human rights…

www.geographie.nat.fau.de

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Feb 5

Open Source Intelligence #OSINT: A Practice of Digital Investigation and Intelligence

Join us for public lecture & discussion with Dr. Marie Gabrielle Bertran (Paris) @fau.de

👉Tue 11.02. 18.30-20.00 (Kollegienhaus Universitätsstraße, #Erlangen)

www.geographie.nat.fau.de/open-source-...

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): A Practice of Digital Investigation and Intelligence - Vortrag am Di. 11. Feb. 18.30

Im Rahmen der Winterschool „Geodata for Human Rights“ laden wir zu einem öffentlichen Abendvortrag ein: Di., 11.02. 18.30-20.00 (Kollegienhaus Universitätsstraße, Erlangen) Open Source Intelligence…

www.geographie.nat.fau.de

Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jan 31

FGG-Vortrag:

Ökologische Krisen und die Transformation der Städte: Gesunde Stadtentwicklung in der Region Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen

PD Dr. Klaus Geiselhart, Leah Burgard, David Spenger (alle Institut für Geographie @fau.de)

Wann: Montag, 3.02.2025 um 18.30 Uhr
Wo: Hörsaal C, Kochstr. 4 #Erlangen

Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jan 31

Wie können Idee und Praxis der Menschenrechte auf die planetaren Umweltkrisen reagieren? Spannende Diskussion gestern Abend mit den KollegInnen des #CHREN @fau.de im voll besetzten Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.

👉https://www.gnm.de/ausstellungen/aktuell/hello-nature