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If you aren’t bored of looking at maps like the ones on this website, you may want to see them outside the virtual world. The best chance is to come to one of the talks that I occasionally give. The following list gives an overview of upcoming talks and some past talks I did (since 2013, for a full list please see my CV). Note that not all talks may be open to the public, so please check on the details of the event before heading off to it. Slides and the occasional video recording can be found in the archive of this website and on my Slideshare repository. Contact me if you think I may have something interesting to say at your institution or event.

• 13 April 2018, New Orleans (USA): The challenges and potentials of contemporary atlases. Panel co-organiser & paper presentation. AAG Annual Meeting.
• 6 April 2018, Sheffield (UK): Worldmapper: a whole new dimension of seeing our planet. Lecture at the 125th Anniversary Conference of the Geographical Association at Sheffield Hallam University.
• 7 April 2018, Sheffield (UK): A brief introduction into making cartograms using QGIS. Workshop at the 125th Anniversary Conference of the Geographical Association at Sheffield Hallam University.
• 6th March 2018, Halle/Saale (Germany): Inequalities in Higher Education / Ungleichheiten in der Hochschulbildung. Global Young Academy / Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences.
• 8th February 2018, Oxford (UK): Sustainable Development GoalsData and Visualisation for Development. Oxford Study Programme at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
• 24th January 2018, Coventry (UK): Geographical perspectives: The role of spatial thinking and geovisualisationin understanding urban issues. Public lecture and research seminar in IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

Past talks (since 2013)

• 15 Jan 2013, London (UK): Megacity London – ever growing, ever more unequal. Event on Tackling poverty and exclusion in London organized by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation.
• 26 Jan 2013, Munich (Germany): Spaces of the Anthropocene. Talk, Impulse workshop for the Anthropozän special exhibition at Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology).
• 12 Feb 2013, York (UK): Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space. Keynote at the Geography Forum of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) GI network.
• 6 Apr 2013, Derby (UK): One Planet, Many Worlds: Visualising the Social and Physical Environment of Humanity. Lecture, Annual Conference of the Geographical Association, University of Derby.
• 13 May 2013, Sheffield: Warped worlds: Visualising a changing planet. Lecture, U3A Science and Technology Group.
• 15 May 2013, Dagstuhl (Germany): Cartograms as representations of geographic space. Towards Multivariate Network Visualization, Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization, University of Saarland.
• 29 May 2013, Loughborough (UK): Visualisation of geospatial data. Talk, ESRC/HEA workshop on Visualisation and Teaching Quantitative Research Methods, Loughborough University
• 4 Sep 2013, Stoke-on-Trent (UK): Mapping London. Talk, 49th Annual Conference of the Society of Cartographers, Staffordshire University.
• 17 Sep 2013, Nottingham (UK): Think before you map. Keynote, FOSS4G, OSGeo’s Global Conference for Open Source Geospatial Software.
• 4-10 Oct 2013: Salamanca (Spain): Visualising wilderness. Poster display and talk, 10th World Wilderness Congress.
• 21 Oct 2013, Erlangen (Germany): Planet der Menschen: Neue Kartenwelten im Anthropozän. Lecture, Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Institut für Geographie, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• 23 Oct 2013, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany): Ein neues Bild der Erde. Public lecture, Sektion Hessen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie.
• 24 Oct 2013, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany): Kartenwelten des Anthropozän. Research seminar, Institute of Physical Geography, University of Frankfurt.
• 8 Nov 2013, Berlin (Germany): Breaking the Walls of World Views. Falling Walls Lab, Berlin Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
• 25 Nov 2013, Oxford (United Kingdom): A new image of the World. 1887 Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
• 28 Nov 2013, Norwich (UK): Visualising Spatial Social Structures. Seminar series on ‘Geographies of injustice’, School of International Development, University of East Anglia.
• 11 Mar 2014, Birmingham (UK): Data driven storytelling: the impact of visualisations on teaching and research, panelist at the Jisc Digital Festival.
• 18 Mar 2014, London (UK): Londonmapper. #geomob, Google London Campus.
• 3-6 Apr 2014, Olomouc (Czech Republic): Visualisations of a country in transition. Invited talk at the Conference on the socio-economic transition of China, Palacký University.
• 8-12 Apr 2014, Tampa (Florida, USA): Visualization of Satellite Data Availability: TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Running Against Time (paper presentation in the session on Real-time GIS: System and Science) & panelist on the session on Time to harvest the low hanging webviz fruit? Tools and strategies for promoting experts, education, and leveraging non-specialists using geographic visualizations on the web. AAG Annual Meeting.
• 16 Apr 2014, Guildford (UK): Smashing your views of the world. Future Geographers programme, Annual Conference of the Geographical Association, University of Surrey.
• 30 Jun 2014, London (UK): One Planet, Many Worlds: Novel visualisations of the spaces we live in, 2014 Schools Programme Day at the Prince’s Teaching Institute, Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London.
• 27 Aug 2014, London (UK): The Social Atlas of Europe, book launch session, RGS Annual Conference.
• 1 Sep 2014, Glasgow (Scotland): Society and Social Geography – designing a new social atlas of Europe, joint talk with Danny Dorling at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society of Cartographers, University of Glasgow.
• 15 Oct 2014, London (UK): Inequality and Sustainability, meeting of the Sustainability Knowledge Alliance and the Environmental Audit Committee at the British Academy.
• 12 Oct 2014, Olomouc (Czech Republic): New geographies of China, guest lecture at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc.
• 29 January 2015, Coventry (UK): Mapping London: A new approach to visualising cities. Warwick Institute for The Science of Cities (WISC) seminar series, University of Warwick.
• 11 February 2015, Kingston upon Thames (UK): Visualising the Physical and Social Environment of Humanity. Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research (CEESR) seminar series, Kingston University London.
• 17 March 2015, London (UK): Mapping inequality. Joint talk with Danny Dorling at Living Maps Seminar Series, Young Foundation London (book ticket here).
• 20 May 2015, Munich/Unterschleissheim (Germany): Ein neues Bild der Erde. ESRI GISTalk, Dolce Munich Unterschleissheim.
• 22 May 2015, Oxford (UK): Visualising Space and Place: New Geographies of the Anthropocene. Image – Object – Data Workshop, Department of History of Art, University of Oxford.
• 28 May 2015, London (UK): 100% Equality. Nexus Europe Youth Summit 2015, One Whitehall Place.
• 22 June 2015, Cambridge (UK): Geographies of the Anthropocene. Keynote lecture at the Prince’s Teaching Institute Geography Summer School, Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
• 25 June 2015, Delft (Netherlands): Keynote lecture at the New Urban Languages Conference, Delft University of Technology.
• 2 July 2016 Bar Harbor (Maine, USA): Mapping practices in a digital world. Paper presentation at the International Early Career Scholars Institutes in GIScience – 2015 Vespucci Institute, College of the Atlantic.
• 15 July 2015, London (UK): Poverty and Wealth in London. Talk at the Social Exclusion Data Users Group, Greater London Authority, City Hall.
• 30 July 2015, Oxford (UK): Keynote lectures on Sustainable Development. Oxford Study Programme at St Cross College, University of Oxford.
• 8-10 September 2015, York (UK): ‘Electoral mapping’, poster presentation. Mapping together, joint annual conference of the British Cartographic Society and Society of Cartographers, Park Inn by Radisson.
• 1 October 2015, Berlin (Germany): “Calling Abidjan” – estimating population distribution through analysis of mobile phone call data records (joint talk with Harald Sterly). Fachsitzung Extended Spatial Analytics, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Humboldt University of Berlin.
• 2 October 2015, Berlin (Germany): Diskussionsforum: Geographie machen im digitalen Zeitalter (panel chair, with Georg Glasze). Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Humboldt University of Berlin.
• 3 October 2015, Berlin (Germany): Forschungsqualität in der Humangeographie (panel discussant). Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Humboldt University of Berlin.
• 21 October 2015, Oxford (UK): Warped worlds. ‘Restless Earth’ GSCE Geography Day. Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford.
• 26 November 2015, Oxford (UK): Cartography of the Anthropocene. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA), Weston Library.
• 28 November 2015, Oxford (UK): Map cube activity. Super Science Saturday. Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford.
• 9 December 2015, Mytilene (Greece): Cartographies of a globalising world. University of the Aegean.
• 19 January 2016, Berkhamsted (UK): Visualisations of the Anthropocene – investigating humanity’s impact on the Earth. Berkhamsted School Geographical Association.
• 1 February 2016, Elstree, Hertfordshire (UK): Changing the climate, changing the world. Y9 Climate Change Conference, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School Geographical Association.
• 2 February 2016, Oxford (UK): Keynote lectures on Visualising Sustainability. Oxford Study Programme at Merton College, University of Oxford.
• 26 February 2016, Oxford (UK): Visions of the Anthropocene. Climate Culture: Making the Anthropocene, event by agile-ox & Tandem, in association with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
• 5 March 2016, Altrincham/Manchester (UK): The Power of Maps: A cartographic journey along the world’s borders. Geopolitics and borders, New Teacher Subject Day for Geography of the Prince’s Teaching Institute, Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School, Altrincham.
• 1 April 2016, San Francisco (CA, USA): A Social Atlas of Europe (paper presentation in the session on Other cartographies, other geographies, other voices). AAG Annual Meeting.
• 23-27 May 2016, Mytilene, Lesvos Island (Greece): Spaces in the sea: New approaches to mapping islands. ISISA Islands of the World XIV Conference 2016.
• 31 May 2016, Vienna (Austria): Cartograms – an alternative map projection? CartoTalk Seminar Series, Research Group Cartography, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformationm, TU Wien.
• 21 June 2016, Ely (UK): Remapping the World (Keynote) & Maps Matter (Lecture). GIS Day 2016, King’s Ely School.
• 24 Jun 2016, Plymouth (UK): Visions of (Un)Sustainability. Sustainable Earth Conference 2016.
• 27 Jun 2016, Oxford (UK): Seven new maps of the world. Oxfordshire Science Festival 2016, Story Museum Oxford.
• 30 Sep 2016, Reykjavík (Iceland): Beyond fire and ice: Mapping Iceland in the 21st Century. Afmælisráðstefna Félags landfræðinga 2016 / 30th Anniversary Symposium of the Association of Icelandic Geographers, Þjóðminjasafns Íslands / National Museum of Iceland.
• 16 Nov 2016, Reykjavík (Iceland): Cartograms – an alternative map projection? GIS Day organised by LISA in cooperation with the University of Iceland / GIS dagurinn er skipulagður af LÍSU samtökunum í samstarfi við námsbraut í land- og ferðamálafræði, Háskóla Íslands.
• 24th January / 13th February 2017, Oxford (UK): Mapping the Anthropocene / Visualising Sustainability. Oxford Study Programme at Worcester & Merton College, University of Oxford.
• 27th February 2017, Reykjavík (Iceland): Visualising the Anthropocene. LUV (Líf- og umhverfisvísindadeild / Life and Environmental Sciences) Research Seminar Series, Askja, University of Iceland.
• 6 April 2017, Boston (MA, USA): The Human Atlas of Europe (paper presentation and panel discussant in the sessions on The Futures of Atlases. AAG Annual Meeting.
• 29 June 2017, Steep (UK): Can geography help us avert catastrophe?, Geography Festival, Bedales School.
• 11/12 July 2017, Brighton/Hove (UK): Model United Nations Conference, Cardinal Newman School.
• 22nd July / 8th August 2017, Oxford (UK): Landscape and nature in the Anthropocene: Visualising sustainability in the 21st century. Oxford Study Programme at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
• 30 November 2017, Reykjavík (Iceland): Cartography: Good, bad, or „necessary evil”? LÍSA Jólaráðstefna / LÍSA Christmas Conference, Norræna húsinu / Nordic House.
• 15 December 2017, Southampton (UK): Reimagining geophysical data using cartograms, National Oceanography Centre seminar series, Henry Charnock Lecture Theatre of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

More talks from the past can be found in my CV.