Cultural Geography

As we are approaching the end of 2024, the Cultural Geography Group (GEO) would like to wish you a warm and festive holiday season, we hope 2025 is filled with peace, joy and happy moments. We have a lot of exciting things coming up in 2025, so stay tuned!

🔥Let’s sue them! Dive into this course on mobilities and climate change and discover how to take action against the big polluters of our planet. ⚖️ In the Tourism & Globalization course, you’ll dive into how tourism and related activities are affected by climate change. You’ll do this by preparing for, acting out, and thinking about a mock greenwashing court case. You’ll learn about different ideas, theories, and ways to study global mobilities, how these mobilities are connected to the environment, and especially, climate change. This course will teach you how to use academic knowledge to help make big changes that go beyond and are critical of technofixes and redirecting responsibility to individuals or others elsewhere.    🌍 This course is meant for MTO (MSc Tourism, Society & Environment) students and others who are interested the multiple and dynamic relations between tourism, mobilities, and climate change.     🗓10 March – 2 May 2025 (WUR Period 5)  📝 Registration deadline: 9 February 2025  📖 More information*: https://lnkd.in/eB3TyviP  *Please note that this course is currently being redesigned, minor discrepancies between the study handbook and the course may occur.  Martijn Duineveld Cheryl van Adrichem

Gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union and is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals and therefore a cross-cutting theme in their programming.   On 3 December the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) "Gender+ Equality Plan 2024-2028" was officially launched by rector Prof. dr. Carolien Kroeze.   The WUR Gender+ Equality Plan is “a next step to collectively address biases and inequalities in all fields required by the EU: education and research, governance and leadership, recruitment and career support, social safety and work-life balance”.   During this launch event, the WUR Gender+ Equality Award was handed out to GEO’s Chizu Sato who coordinates the Gender+ minor and CoP, Marrit van den Berg (DEC-SSG) and Joshua Wambugu (DARE).   Congratulations to Chizu, Marrit and Joshua!   More information here: https://lnkd.in/esq-2Fjg

We are excited and looking forward to the upcoming screening of the film documentary made by GEO’s Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong based on his research project that was funded by the NWO Veni grant. Event | Premiere Screening of Film Documentary (The Embodied Absence of the Past: tourism’s intersection with slavery and colonial heritage memories in the Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands triangle) 🗓 Friday 6 December 2024 🕒 18.30 doors open and 19.00 film screening starts 📍 Visum Mundi (old WUR Aula), Generaal Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen After the documentary screening there will be a moderated discussion with the audience. 

At Cultural Geography we decided to make the work on our mid term review fun. So the working session on making it was about learning how to illustrate our ideas and ambitions

The Cultural Geography Group (GEO) proudly announces that two of our courses coordinated by GEO’s Chizu Sato have been nominated for the WUR Excellent Education Prize! Each year, the courses most appreciated by students across the whole of WUR are identified based on the results of the course evaluations. In the upcoming weeks, the jury, consisting of four teachers and four students from four different sectors (Environmental Sciences, Technology and Nutrition, Social Sciences, and Life Sciences) will decide on the eventual winners. The nominated courses, ‘Gender and Diversity in Transnational Worlds’ and ‘Responsibilities for Equality and Sustainability’ are both part of the minor Gender and Diversity for Sustainable Worlds. In this minor, students start from their own position to become aware of their responsibilities and then, to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that support integration of gender and diversity into their efforts to advance a more equal and sustainable world. More information about the the minor Gender and Diversity for Sustainable Worlds can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eKf426YU We are very proud of Chizu’s accomplishment, and we look forward to the outcome of the WUR Excellent Education Prize ceremony on the 10th of December!

📣 Upcoming event - Lunch Lecture on Anti-colonial resistance by GEO's Jennifer Veilleux, Ph.D. 🗓️ Monday 2 December 2024 🕧 12:30 - 13:45 📍 Wageningen Campus, Forum Building Room B0404 OtherWise Wageningen Centre for Space, Place and Society

Interested in studying the MSc in Tourism, Society and Environment (MTO) but unsure what to expect? Join the Master Open Day on the 28th of November and get answers to all your questions about studying MTO at Wageningen University! During the Master Open Day, you can attend a presentation about the MTO programme, chat in person with students and teachers and, learn more about application and admission. More details:  MTO programme presentation: 17:40 – 18:25 & 18:45 – 20:15 Information session ‘from HBO to WO’ (in Dutch):  18.45 - 19.30 & 19.50 - 20.35 📍 Orion Building, Wageningen Campus - room details will be updated soon here: https://lnkd.in/eUm97gen 💻 Not able to visit the Open Day in person? The Virtual Open Day will take place on the 12th of December from 15:00 – 21:00 CET. More information about the Virtual Open Day can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eAVVexBw

Wat vertelt een tiende-eeuwse beschrijving van Nederland ons over hoe een persoon uit de islamitische wereld het land toen ervoer? Samen met Jelle Bruning publiceerde Roy van Beek (GEO) onlangs een artikel over de oudste Arabische beschrijving van Nederland. De beschrijving is een opmerkelijke tekst over een vooral vreemde wereld. “Het moet rond het jaar 960 na Christus zijn geweest dat een man genaamd Ibrahim ibn Ya‘qub vanuit Andalusië, toen geregeerd door een islamitische kalief die in Cordoba zetelde, naar het noorden trok en de omgeving van Utrecht aandeed. Hij trof daar een wereld die hem totaal vreemd was: een landschap dat op het eerste gezicht niet erg geschikt was voor bewoning maar waar toch mensen woonden, en lokale gebruiken die hij niet kende uit de hoogontwikkelde islamitische beschaving. Ibrahim beschreef dit, en meer, in een reisverslag dat in de vorm van citaten en parafrasen bewaard is gebleven in de werken van een handjevol islamitische auteurs. Ibrahim was weliswaar niet de eerste inwoner uit de middeleeuwse islamitische wereld die door niet islamitisch Europa trok, maar zijn beschrijving van Utrecht en omstreken is wel de oudst bekende Arabische tekst over Nederlands gebied.” Lees het volledige artikel in Madoc, het Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen: https://lnkd.in/eCu8hFVT

Event | Introducing Dr. Ing. Paul Peeters; Symposium with Q&A on (un)sustainable tourism development. 🗓 26 November 2024 🕒 15:00 - 17:00, with drinks afterwards 📍 Room Gaia 1&2, Gaia Building, Wageningen Campus + online Paul Peeters recently joined the Cultural Geography Group as a guest scholar following his retirement as professor of Sustainable Tourism Transport at Breda University of Applied Sciences. During this symposium, Paul will give a short introduction about himself and talk about (un)sustainable tourism development, followed by some comments on the subject presented by Cheryl van Adrichem and Harald Buijtendijk. After the presentation there will be a moderated discussion with the audience. This meeting will be hybrid and can also be joined online by using the Teams link: https://lnkd.in/es2Uc8Yx We hope to see you on November 26th!