Research

• Past Cultural Change (PCC)
• Environmental Change (EC)
• Society, Space and Culture (SSC)
  • Cluster Members
  • Seminars for 2011-12
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholars
  • Current PhD Students
  • 2011-12 Reading Group
  • New and Forthcoming Books
• Postgraduate Research
• Research Grants
• GAP Lectures and Seminars
• CAF
• CCS
• CDDA
• CHRONO
• GAP Weather Station
• GIS
• Spatial Technologies Forum
• Map Library

The Scheme:

The Visiting Scholar Scheme was established some years ago to enable eminent scholars from outside of the UK to be invited to visit the School for a period of one or two weeks. These distinguished academics have interacted with staff on research matters, delivered a seminar in the School, and taken on a few other duties such as presenting one or two lectures to undergraduate classes and meeting with post-graduate students.

2011 SSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar:

Our visiting scholar this academic year is Nicolaas Rupke who will be at Queen's from Monday 14 March to Friday 18 March. Nicolaas is Lower Saxony Research Professor of the History of Science at Göttingen University. His areas of expertise are the late modern earth and life sciences. Among his books are Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (2008) and Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin (2009). He is currently working on the non-Darwinian tradition in evolutionary biology. Rupke is a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, where he directs the project “Blumenbach Online.”

Distinguished Visitor Lecture 

Tuesday March 15: 5pm in 0G029 (Main lecture theatre, Elmwood Building)

Professor Nicolaas Rupke

Title: 'Roll Over, Darwin: an Historian's Perspective on Deep Structure in Evolution'

SSC 2011 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Research Seminar

Wednesday March 16: 3pm in Room 01-009, Elmwood Building (Geography), QUB

Professor Nicolaas Rupke

Title: 'Humboldt and the spatial ordering of scientific knowledge'.

 Previous SSC Visiting Scholars: