The inaugural British Academy lecture in Geography is taking place next Tuesday at the RGS and a very worthy speaker too… Worth a look if you’re (going to be) in London:
Who reads Geography or History anymore?
The challenge of audience in a digital age
Professor William Cronon
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 6-7.15pm followed by a reception
Venue: The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
(Please note the main entrance to the RGS is through the Exhibition Road reception)
Chaired by: Professor Felix Driver FBA, Royal Holloway, University of London
The disciplines of history and geography favour quite different rhetorical venues for communicating their research findings. Geography long ago joined the rest of the sciences in preferring peer-reviewed journal articles as its principal mode of professional communication, whereas history is one of the last remaining disciplines still committed primarily to the book-length monograph. Neither format seems ideally suited to the increasingly dominant rhetorical media created by the digital revolution. How might geographers and historians best respond to the challenge of reaching academic and non-academic audiences in the 21st century?
About the speaker:
William Cronon studies North American environmental history: how human beings depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us.
FREE. Registration not required.
Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis.
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