This working group is designed for geographers who are interested in the philosophy of academic practices. Another way of saying that is, how do we approach the stuff we have to do in academia, and why those approaches fail or succeed for us?
We hope that you come away from this working group with both 1) a concrete set of new skills around research, writing, and spatial data management and 2) a stronger sense of why you work the way you do.
Over the course of the summer, please don't hesitate to contact Ian or Jack with questions about topics!
The AAG landing page, linked here, contains the Zoom link that you can always use to join.
The schedule is below. Meetings will always take place on Mondays or Wednesdays at 7pm EST, except for Open Labs, which are optional and start at 6pm.
Click here to add our meeting schedule to your Google calendar.
We also have a Slack channel that you can join here. If you don't have Slack, you can create an account and download the app here.
| Date | Time | Length | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 25-May | 7 PM EST | 90 | Welcome |
| Wednesday, 1-Jun | 7 PM EST | 75 | Research I: Philosophy of research |
| Wednesday, 8-Jun | 7 PM EST | 75 | Research II: Using Zotero |
| Monday, 13-Jun | 6-8 PM EST | 120 | Optional Open lab |
| Wednesday, 15-Jun | 7 PM EST | 75 | Research III: Challenges, reflections, & goals |
| Wednesday, 22-Jun | 7 PM EST | 75 | Writing I: Philosophy of writing |
| Wednesday, 29-Jun | 7 PM EST | 75 | Writing II: A plaintext workflow |
| Wednesday, 6-Jul | 6-8 PM EST | 120 | Optional Open lab |
| Wednesday, 13-Jul | 7 PM EST | 75 | Writing III: Challenges, reflections, & goals |
| Monday, 18-Jul | 7 PM EST | 75 | Geospatial I: Philosophy of geospatial data |
| Wednesday, 20-Jul | 7 PM EST | 75 | Geospatial II: Using QGIS and PostGIS |
| Monday, 25-Jul | 6-8 PM EST | 120 | Optional Open lab |
| Wednesday, 27-Jul | 7 PM EST | 75 | Geospatial III: Challenges, reflections, & goals |
| Wednesday, 3-Aug | 7 PM EST | 60 | Wrap-up |
