{"id":81,"date":"2012-03-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2012\/03\/22\/2012-harvard-cga-conference-re-mapping-africa-in-gis-from-humanities-to-health-march-29-30-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:00:00","slug":"2012-harvard-cga-conference-re-mapping-africa-in-gis-from-humanities-to-health-march-29-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2012\/03\/22\/2012-harvard-cga-conference-re-mapping-africa-in-gis-from-humanities-to-health-march-29-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Harvard CGA Conference: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health: March 29-30, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/gis.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"26\" src=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/fs\/docs\/icb.site260.files\/\/CGA_new_banner_846_new.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">2012 Harvard CGA Conference: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b><br \/><\/b> This two-day conference, to be held on March 29-30, 2012, brings together scholars on GIS and Africa to share their knowledge and experiences; to explore the potential of geospatial methods in the social sciences, further humanities scholarship by critically engaging GIS methods, and promote interdisciplinary collaborative research in health and humanities in the continent of Africa.\u00a0WorldMap training and demo are offered on March 29. Keynote address by Patrick\u00a0Vinck &#8220;Putting Peace on the Map,&#8221; lightning talks, and panel discussion will be on March 30. To view details and register: <a href=\"http:\/\/gis.harvard.edu\/conference\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gis.harvard.edu\/conference<\/a><br \/>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Two competitions for excellence in GIS are held in conjunction with this conference. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Posters and videos will be considered from Harvard students for:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hvrd.me\/wBZ4Nq\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hvrd.me\/wBZ4Nq<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Davis Center Prize in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu\/news_events\/2012gis.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu\/news_events\/2012gis.html<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Submission\u00a0deadline for both prizes\u00a0is 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 27th.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Harvard CGA Conference: Re-mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health This two-day conference, to be held on March 29-30, 2012, brings together scholars on GIS and Africa to share their knowledge and experiences; to explore the potential of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2012\/03\/22\/2012-harvard-cga-conference-re-mapping-africa-in-gis-from-humanities-to-health-march-29-30-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-1j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}