Department of Geography Bonn
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Heute kamen bei uns die Poster für den Deutschen Kongress der Geographie 2027 (dkg‘27) in Bonn ein - wir haben sie natürlich direkt aufgehangen (über den Infos zum DVAG) und erste Überlegungen zu unseren möglichen Beteiligungsformaten gestartet geographie.de/dkg27/
📚New open-access volume: African Futures in the Making Out in the Future Rural Africa Book Series @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn & Michael Bollig A multidisciplinary look at how futures are imagined and negotiated in rural Africa. ➡️ crc-trr228.de/african-futu...
African Futures in the Making: New Publication in the Future Rural Africa Book Series - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
African Futures in the Making, edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 "Green Futures") and Michael Bollig (Project A04 "Future Conservation") is the latest
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🚨IMPULSE Café 🗓Mar 24 🕓4:00–5:30 “Everyday geographies of young refugees and asylum-seekers in public space” 🎤 Prof. Dr. Kathrin Hörschelmann & Lea Haack @giubresearch.bsky.social 🎙 Moderator: Benjamin Etzold @bicc.de ☕ Exchange, discussion & coffee with colleagues in (forced) migration research.
📢 New paper alert! "Temporal influences on #accessibility to #healthcare, using the example of pediatricians in Bavaria, Germany" by Sebastian Rauch and @butschc.bsky.social published in Health & Place www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #geosky
Temporal influences on accessibility to healthcare, using the example of pediatricians in Bavaria, Germany
Accessibility to healthcare is shaped by spatial and temporal dynamics. This paper develops a framework that explicitly considers temporal variability…
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New Publication: From Kenya to Tanzania and Germany, Detlef Müller-Mahn @giubresearch.bsky.social, Evelyne Owino @bicc.de &Theobald Theodory examine how airports become “ghost projects” — stalled infrastructures that keep shaping regions long after plans unravel. ➡️ crc-trr228.de/when-airport...
When Airports Become Ghosts: New Study Examines Failed Mega-Projects in Africa and Europe - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
In this new study, researchers Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 "Green Futures"), Evelyne Atieno Owino (Project B03 "Violent Futures") and Theobald Frank
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📢 Hot off the press! "WaterS beyond #SDG6: unveiling the multiple dimensions of #water" by J. C. Rodríguez-de-Francisco et al. w/ many authors from our deparment @butschc.bsky.social, J. Dame & J. Budds in Water International @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #geosky
WaterS beyond SDG 6: unveiling the multiple dimensions of water
Published in Water International (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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New Publication: Valentine Opanga & Detlef Müller-Mahn reframe land cartels in Nairobi not as anomalies, but as structurally embedded actors in the city’s urban metabolism. Their research calls for moving beyond legality/illegality binaries. ➡️ crc-trr228.de/power-land-a...
Power, Land, and Informality: How Cartels Shape Governance and Urban Life in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
Valentine Opanga and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 "Green Futures") examine how land cartels operate as powerful, embedded actors in Nairobi’s informal
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‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...
Available Positions for Third Funding Phase - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
We are pleased that our research project has received funding for a third project phase (2026-2029).
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@butschc.bsky.social answers interesting questions about their new publication "Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of #health and #disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods" in the @unibonn.bsky.social 💥 FORSCHUNGSTICKER www.uni-bonn.de/de/neues/228...
Jenseits der Biomedizin: Gottheiten und übernatürliche Kräfte
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Department of Geography Bonn@giubresearch.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 Hot off the press! "Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of #health and #disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods" by Kevin Becker, Frauke Kraas & @butschc.bsky.social in the journal Social Science & Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #geosky #Bonn #Cologne
Was bewegt die #Geographie? // What matters in #geography? The new #podcast by the #vgdh features an episode with @butschc.bsky.social on "Warum braucht die Geographie eigene Ethikprüfungen?" // "Why does geography need its own ethics examinations?" Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/6e9Pa5e...
Dr. Felix Henselowsky@henselowsky.bsky.social · 9mo agoWas bewegt die #Geographie? Der neue Podcast des #VGDH ist nun online open.spotify.com/show/6e9Pa5e...
Susanne Bell was guest in the #podcast „ÜBERsLEBEN. Geschichten übers Leben und von Überlebensstrategien." by the #Malteser #Ahrtal She talked about "Die ‚Weisheit der Ahrtaler‘ - eine wissenschaftliche Betrachtung" (The ‘Wisdom of the #Ahr Valley People’ – a scientific perspective)
Die ‚Weisheit der Ahrtaler‘ - eine wissenschaftliche Betrachtung
Mit unseren Gästen werfen wir in den kommenden Folgen einen Blick auf das Flutgeschehen im Ahrtal. In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit Susanne Bell, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin des ge...
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#mittwochsimGIUB What a wonderful tradition at our department: On the Wednesday before Christmas, students from the 2025 MSc #excursions will present their travels, learnings and more. We look forward to exciting reports from #Canada, #Chile and #NorthernGermany! When? Dec. 17, 5:15pm #geosky
Congratulations to Dr. @arnerieber.bsky.social! Arne received the Dr. Hohmann Award 2025 by the Cologne Geographical Society @unicologne.bsky.social for his research project on "German Industrial Transformation: Geoeconomy and the Role of the State in the Chemical Industry". tinyurl.com/mr3upmvd
#mittwochsimGIUB #BGG On Wednesday, Dr. Johanna Mäsgen (@unicologne.bsky.social) will give a talk on "#Klimakrise im Geographieunterricht - Zwischen Notwendig- und (Un-)Möglichkeiten" (Engl: "The #ClimateCrisis in #geography classes– between necessity and (im)possibilities"). When? Dec. 10, 5:15pm
📢 Hot off the press! "Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of #health and #disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods" by Kevin Becker, Frauke Kraas & @butschc.bsky.social in the journal Social Science & Medicine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #geosky #Bonn #Cologne
Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of health and disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods
Health and disease are understood in diverse ways, and im/migrants bring cultural backgrounds that shape explanatory concepts. These understandings in…
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Welche Kompensationsmöglichkeiten gibt es in DFG-geförderten Projekten für familienbedingte Teilzeittätigkeiten? In einer Online-Infoveranstaltung gibt unser Team #Chancengleichheit einen Überblick. Teilnahme ohne Anmeldung über: 👇 www.dfg.de/de/grundlage...
📢 Hot off the press! "Mapping forest-covered #landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany" by @ikram-zangana.bsky.social, Rainer Bell, Lucian Drăguţ, Flavius Sîrbu & Lothar Schrott in NHESS @egu.eu #geosky #geomorphology doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany
Abstract. Landslide inventories are crucial for the assessment of landslide susceptibility and hazard. An analysis of old landslides can reveal periods of intensified landslide activity, but the featu...
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📢 New paper out! "Assessing the impact of #GlobalChange on #flood dynamics and rice submergence susceptibility in the #Kilombero floodplain, #Tanzania" by Marc Tuschen, Stefanie Steinbach, Hnin Phyu Sin & Mariele Evers in Frontiers in Earth Science #geosky #hydrology doi.org/10.3389/fear...
Frontiers | Assessing the impact of global change on flood dynamics and rice submergence susceptibility in the Kilombero floodplain, Tanzania
Climate and land use change are increasingly altering the water balance and flood dynamics of East African wetlands. In Tanzania’s Kilombero floodplain, rice...
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Very interesting article by our PhD student and memeber of the research group Social Geography Marlene Hobbs in @berlinergazette.bsky.social! Learn more on: How is technology incorporated into the design of care spaces? #geosky #geography #digitalization #aging #care
BG | berlinergazette.de@berlinergazette.bsky.social · 10mo agoMarlene Hobbs questions the ideas shaping current debates on #digitalization, #aging + #care. As a geographer, she examines how #technology is incorporated into the design of #care #spaces and argues for a reevaluation of #nursing homes: berlinergazette.de/politics-of-...
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#mittwochsimGIUB Today is the "#AI Day at GIUB" 12:15: Talk by Prof. Jürgen Gall (@unibonn.bsky.social) on "AI for Forecasting Extremes" 5:15: Panel discussion on "AI in Geographical Research and Teaching" #geosky #geography
Congrats to Dr. Benedikt Walker who successfully defended his PhD thesis this year! He worked on "The German Hydrogen Sector in Global Production Networks: Structures, Agency, and Uneven Development" Read more about his research: www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/news/bene...
New article on our website: #COP30 – Prof. @lisaschipper.bsky.social emphasises the importance of adaptation and climate justice Read more: www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/news/cop3...
#mittwochsimGIUB Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy" When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography #geosky #geography
Episode 2 of #COPOut is LIVE! Tune in to hear from @lisaschipper.bsky.social and @rodschoonover.bsky.social about how climate change overlaps with development and security, the unintended consequences of climate adaptation, and what they expect from #COP30. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
#mittwochsimGIUB We continue our lecture series with Prof. Christopher Kyba @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de). Christopher will give a talk on "Artificial Light at Night: Current Practices, Lightning Conflicts and Advances in #RemoteSensing" When? Nov. 12, 5:15pm
You can tell a lot about a project by its filenames… and final_reallyFINAL.xlsx tells us everything 😅 Instead: Use clear, consistent names with version numbers Your future self will thank you zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... #BestPracticeThursday @UniBonn #RDM
Just a little reminder: This very interesting talk by Paul Zschoke is today at 5:15 pm!
Department of Geography Bonn@giubresearch.bsky.social · 11mo ago#mittwochsimGIUB #BGG We start our lecture series in the winter term with Paul Zschocke (@unihalle.bsky.social). Paul will give a talk on "Räumliche Dimensionen des Erstrarkens der radikalen Rechten" When? Oct 22, 5:15pm Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography #geosky #geography
Congrats to Dr. Phillip Innis who successfully defended his PhD thesis this year! He worked on "Navigating Urban Riskscapes: Everyday Risks, Infrastructure Challenges, and Governance in Monrovia, Liberia" Read more: www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/news/phil... bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...
