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Author: Heike Jons

Peter Meusburger Doctoral Prize ‘Geography and Knowledge’ 2021

12th February 2021 Heike Jons

To honour the memory of our academic teacher and in appreciation of his distinguished service to geography (in particular, geography…

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Phase 2 of the HistGeogUni research network

18th January 2021 Heike Jons

The end of the funding period of the Thyssen research project that enabled the foundation of this research network (2016-2020)…

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Invitation to book launch: Utopian universities

16th November 2020 Heike Jons

The launch of the book Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (London: Bloomsbury Academic,…

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New book: Utopian universities: a global history of the new campuses of the 1960s

3rd August 2020 Heike Jons

Jill Pellew (IHR, University of London) and Miles Taylor (University of York) have completed an edited book on the Utopian…

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New article: Universities Scottish, Irish, and European: Lyon Playfair (1818–98) and University Reform

1st July 2020 Heike Jons

The new volume XXXIII/1 of History of Universities (2020) contains an article by Robert Anderson on the contributions of the…

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The Royal Society on diversity and racial inequality in science

30th June 2020 Heike Jons

The Royal Society’s President, Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, has issued a comment on racial inequality in science here. This comment links…

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POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HistGeogUni Lecture 2020 with Dr Tim Livsey on 30 April

31st March 2020 Heike Jons

You are cordially invited to attend The HistGeogUni Lecture 2020 to be delivered by Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria University) on…

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New exhibition: The Rising Tide – Women at Cambridge

12th November 2019 Heike Jons

Since October 2019, the University of Cambridge Library at West Road has been showing the exhibition ‘The Rising Tide –…

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HistGeogUni Lecture 2019 – Thank you, Tamson!

24th June 2019 Heike Jons

It has been a pleasure to host Dr Tamson Pietsch from the University of Technology Sydney in Loughborough on 23…

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New study: University of Cambridge investigates its links to slavery

1st May 2019 Heike Jons

The University of Cambridge has announced that an advisory group appointed by the Vice-Chancellor is overseeing a two-year archival inquiry…

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News & events

  • Invitation to the History of Universities Seminars 2022-23 28th September 2022
  • New articles: On research in learned societies and on international student mobility 28th September 2022
  • New publications: International critical geography traditions and Nordic socio-spatial theory 26th August 2022
  • New book: A Geographical Century 24th August 2022
  • HistGeogUni Lecture 2022 by Mariana Ajaúro Lamego on 13 May 5th April 2022

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