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Carlingford Trip
| Posted | 9th Mar 2023 |
| Author | Orla Murray (President) |
Hey everyone! The sign up for our trip away to Carlingford will be live this evening! We will be going from the 16th of March to the 18th meaning we will be away for St. Patricks' Day celebrations.
If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to reach out :) we hope to see as many of you there as possible.
Green Campus Nature Photo Competition
| Posted | 6th Mar 2023 |
| Author | Leo McConnell (Vice President) |
Hi Guys,
Hope you had a great weekend. This week we are celebrating Green Campus Week! As a result we are hosting a nature photography competition. Submit your best nature photos of our beautiful campus before Friday 10/03 to be in with the chance of winning a sustainable goodie bag! Find more info on Instagram.
We are also joining EnviroSoc for a movie night. The movie 'The Seeds of Vandana Shiva' will be screened on Tuesday 7th March from 6-8pm in JHL2. There will be also lots of pizza so be sure to join us :)
Lots of lava,
Leo.
Resuming weekly events
| Posted | 3rd Feb 2023 |
| Author | Orla Murray (President) |
Hello everyone! Welcome back, we hope you had a great break. We would like to inform you that our weekly walk and study group will resume from Monday the 13th.
This is the weekly Mindfulness Mondays walk from 1-2pm every Monday beginning outside the Library, and the Group Study Sesh from 2-4pm every Wednesday in the Waddington Tutorial room (a.k.a. the geography tutorial room in Rhetoric House.
We have many more events in the works for this semester and we cant wait to share them with you.
Feel free to follow and message us on twitter, Instagram or tiktok, @mugeogsoc
Lots of Lava,
MU GeogSoc
Galway Trip
| Posted | 18th Mar 2022 |
| Author | Orla Murray (Chairperson) |
Hi All!
There are still a limited number of spaces available for our trip to Galway next month. If you're interested please send us an email or message us on one of our social media pages @mugeogsoc on both twitter and Instagram.
For those who are not aware, the trip will take place from the 19th-21st of April. We are travelling by private bus to Galway where we will stay in a hostel and have numerous activities planned. There is a fee of 50euro to attend the trip but we promise it is worth the money.
We would love to see as many of you there as possible!
Lots of Lava,
GeogSoc
Seachtaine na Gaeilge
| Posted | 8th Mar 2022 |
| Author | Orla Murray (Chairperson) |
Keep an eye our social media pages this week to see our collaboration with Cuallacht na Gaeilge for Seachtine na Gaeilge. We are posting our geography word of the day as Gaeilge every day this week on both instagram and twitter @mugeogsoc
A big shout out to Ailbhe for posting our first word of the week, "Lus an chromchinn" , Daffodil.
Society Hoodies
| Posted | 16th Feb 2017 |
| Author | Katie Thiesen |
Hey Guys! We're here in the arts block taking deposits for society hoodies. They'll be grey and will say ''Geographers aren't perfect, they have their faults'' on them. We have them in sizes XS-XL. We'll be here until four pm today, or you can tweet us @MUGeogSoc or find us on facebook MU Geography Society, or alternatively see one of us in lectures! Deposits are ten euro, and the hoodies will cost 20-25 depending on numbers!
Final Week already....
| Posted | 14th Dec 2016 |
| Author | Geog soc :) |
So, first of all, we would like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who signed our postcards in the Arts Block last week - all of the 250 postcards given to us by Amnesty International were signed, which is such an incredible show of solidarity with Ibrahim Halawa. To build upon the momentum of this, we are holding a minute's silence outside of John Hume tomorrow (Tuesday 13th) morning at 10AM for Ibrahim (tomorrow is his 21st birthday, and 10AM is when his trial is scheduled to take place) to ensure that we raise as much awareness of his struggle as possible. We hope that you can join us. (Click here for the Facebook event).
Our second event of the week this week will be a film screening! This week we'll be screening Before The Flood, over the course of 2 days, in conjunction with the Geography Dept (click here!). The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will be screened by Claire McGing in her lecture slots on Tuesday and Wednesday from 12-1PM, please click for more details - we hope to see you there!
Our final event of the week, and of the semester (we'll miss you all over the break!) will be our Ear to Peer event! Held from 2-4PM in Meeting Room 2 (upstairs in the SU!) on Wednesday, we'd like to invite all geography students to get together for a little peer review session! (click here) Basically, if you have concerns about an assignment, or you want to get other students critiques and opinions, or just want to come and talk a little bit of Geography, this is the event to go to- there'll even be cups of tea and coffeefor those who come, so if you just want a cuppa come along! We look forward to seeing you there :)
And that's it for the semester! We are completely brimming with ideas for the second semester, and look forward to (hopefully) seeing some of you at them when they come up. Until then, from everyone at the Geography Society:
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS :)
Welcome to December!
| Posted | 14th Dec 2016 |
| Author | Geog soc |
Here's hoping you just had a wonderful weekend, and are ready to hear all about the week of events we here at the Geography Society have planned for you:
First of all, our Postgraduate Roadshow! This will be taking place this Tuesday December 6th, from 1-2PM, in Roque Lab (in Rhetoric House). This is being facilitated by the Geography Dept., and is a chance to find out all about your postgraduate opportunities with the Geography Dept., and get any burning questions you might have about postgraduate degrees answered. It's open for everyone to attend - if you have any questions about the event just shoot us an email at geography@nuimsu.com
On Wednesday, we're going to be hosting another film screening, this time in collaboration with International Society! It's going on from 6- PM in TH1, and the film is still yet to be decided, but will have a Christmas Theme- we'll be announcing it at some point on the Facebook event page though (click here!) If you have a few free hours on Wednesday evening, why not come along and spend it with us? :)
Our final event this week will be a collaboration with a number of other societies- Law, Business, Media, and Mental Health Societies, along with ourselves here at Geography, will be holding a photoshoot in the Arts Block from 10AM-5PM on Thursday, in which we want to ask students to sign a postcard / petition and have their picture taken demanding the release of Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish student who was arrested by Egyptian authorities for taking part in a peaceful protest three years ago. This is an important issue, and we urge all of our society members to come to the stand and help raise awareness of his situation.
On a final note, I'd like to make sure everyone knows what decisions were made at the EGM last week:
Our new Secretary, Bob Tysall (that'd be me) was elected. Our PRO position was split into 2 roles, poster and social media, which are now filled by Emily Purtell and Megan Oglesby respectively. The position of Meet and Greet officer was formalised, and Aran Kelly will continue in the role. Finally, two new members were added to our events team, Christopher Brogan and Aisling Meaney. Our congrats to all who were elected, and our thanks to all who made the EGM such a success :)
And that's all we have for the week! Hope you've enjoyed the email, I'll provide a summary underneath this, and I look forward to many emails to come.
Bob.
tl;dr:
Postgraduate Roadshow, Tuesday December 6th, 1-2PM, Roque Lab - info on postgrad opportunities.
Film screening, Wednesday December 7th, 6-9PM, TH1, film TBA.
Postcard signing & photographed protest for Ibrahim Halawa, Thursday December 8th, 10AM-5PM, Arts Block.
EGM decisions from last week above.
November updates
| Posted | 14th Dec 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc :) |
EGM and other news :)
| Posted | 27th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc |
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Geog news week 8!
| Posted | 20th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc |
Hey Guys,
?Soooo... what have we got for you this week I hear you ask???
EGM
| Posted | 20th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc |
On Tuesday 29th November we are holding an EGM and are looking for some cool people to join our vibrant society. Due to the success of the society, and the workload of some committee members, we are looking to expand. We have roles in PRO - both a social media PRO along with a poster PRO (training WILL be provided).
Due to some restructuring in the committee we are also looking for a secretary.
This is a great opportunity to get involved in a society that is already on its feet and running successfully. It is this type of involvement that changes the college experience (for the better), while also getting your CV to the top of the pile when it comes to the big bad real world in a year or few!
So have a think about it, if you have any questions please ask one of the existing committee members, we are all tagged in the poster. There is no question too big or small, if one of us can't answer we'll pass it along to the person who can. Come join our team, we'd love to have you on board :) MU Geog Soc.
For more info check out Facebook: https://facebook.com/events/575722399280425
TY students, maps and parks
| Posted | 18th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc |
The Geography Society were delighted to help welcome some TY students to the Geography Department on Tuesday this week as part of Geoweek. Geoweek is an annual week dedicated to an element of geography which changes every year. This year the focus was on 'The power of the park'.
The students had a talk from Dr. Kevin Keegan on the local parks, their history and significance. We talked to them about our involvement in last year's happy campus, and the importance of finding a good space for mental health and well being. Neasa Hogan of the Geography Department talked to them about the Roque Maps, which are on display in Rhetoric House and are seriously impressive (check them out). Then they went for a walk to explore the grounds of the campus.
If you haven't done this yourself, please do. We are so lucky to have such green space on campus, many colleges and universities in Ireland don't have what we have.
Perfect way to take a break from all the study :)
All the best,
Geog Soc.
Independent Film Director Screen
| Posted | 13th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Geography Society |
Hey folks,
FILM SCREENING: this week in the land of all things geography we have the amazing Joe Lee appearing in the third year's City In Film class, to honour that we are showing two of his award winning documentaries on Tuesday night, 6pm TH1 in the Arts building.
MILIEU! (bless you, I hear you say) ;) Milieu is the geography journal made by students and staff for all. We are looking for your submissions! 1000 word (approx.) pieces that are in some way geography related (remember, geography is the intersection of humans and places so that literally leaves it open to ANYTHING!!). If you have some work that you are happy with and its close to 1000 words (we are aware that a lot of assignments come in the 1500 word category so no worries if you can't cut it down), then please submit it to us. We will happily take in photo submissions also. If you have been to some place with your club / society / class / family and you thought it was particularly beautiful, and geographical, then why not send them in? The journal will be published in spring 2017. Anything that gets published in Milieu is considered a proper publication, so if you are looking to go further in your academic career this is one step forward.
So what else is going on in the world of geography? Well...
FOE IRELAND: Friends of the Earth Ireland are asking people to email their TDs asking them to meet in Buswell's hotel to discuss climate action. It takes about 2mins to email your TDs (they have it all set up nice and neat), and then you pick an hour slot to go meet your TDs on Tuesday. Friends of the Earth can fill you in on what to say if you want to take action but are nervous about what to say.
GEOG SEMINAR: The geography department have yet another interesting seminar on Thursday 4-5.30pm in Roque Lab: Benjamin Thebaudeau, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit, Maynooth University. Talk title: “Mapping the Porcupine Bank and reconstructing its past.”
BAKE SALE: We plan on holding a fundraising bake sale next week so if you fancy yourself as a budding Mary Berry or Paul Hollywood, why not bake up a few goodies and help raise some worthy funds for St. Raphael's School in Celbridge. Bake sale takes place on 23rd Nov.
BOUNCEATHON: Plus, trampoline soc are having an amazing bounceathon on Tuesday 15th, if you fancy representing Geog soc and bounce the night away, or a little while anyway, please get in touch! Or just pop down to the event and tell the guys you'd like to bounce for geography!
SAFETALK: Safetalk is happening again this week, this is an amazing half day course that skills you up on practicalities of dealing with a situation where somebody feels suicidal, sounds heavy, but I promise, it is really good, hugely important and very practical. If you want to get involved please contact MHS or Karen in the Welfare Office in the SU.
Keep it real folks and have a gneiss day :)
Geog Soc.
Round 2, ding, ding, ding
| Posted | 6th Nov 2016 |
| Author | Rhonda. |
Whale hello Geography Fans!
Welcome back to the final half of the first semester. You are officially ¼ of the way through your academic year, well done you :)
And remember, it’s GUST week on campus this week so if you haven’t ‘Gotten Ur Stuff Together’ yet there’s still time!
We have a few things planned to help ease you in to things…
We will be joining Chris in the pastoral care hour to talk to people about what we do in the society, if that’s not enough to make you break down the Student Services Door at 1pm (it’s in an Tobar in Student Services from 1-2pm), then perhaps the free tea, coffee and refreshments can convince you. Come along, I promise we’ll have fun :)
On Wednesday evening, we are screening The Hours at 6pm in TH1 in the Arts Block. This will be particularly beneficial to anyone doing GY339 as it is the film focussed on this week but we’d love to see as many of your friendly faces as possible thereJ Bring your mates and relax, everyone welcome along. This is a freebie event as well, perfect for midweek ;)
Plus, if you’re into eskers (who isn’t?!), then the Geography Department, as part of their seminar series have a talk on in Rocque Lab on Thursday at 4-5.30pm. Cathy Delaney, Senior Lecturer in the Division of Geography & Environmental Management from Manchester Metropolitan University will be talking on: “What do eskers tell us about ice sheets?”
So that’s all for this week folks, we hope to see you at some of the events :)
Geography Society.
AGM
| Posted | 6th Oct 2016 |
| Author | Geog Soc |
We held our AGM last night in TH1 in the Arts Building. Thanks to everyone who showed up to vote, guess the countries of the world that qualified for the World Cup 2010 and helped eat the pizza!
We are delighted with our new comittee and are pleased to welcome Ryan Harris as the first year rep., Cathal Cullivan as 2nd year rep., Pat Kane as mature rep., Jason Kershaw as events officer, Patricia Healy and Charlotte Greene the new events team, Emily Lawless as the treasurer and Aran Kelly as the Meet and Greet Officer.
We hope to run weekly events so keep posted here and on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/mugeogsoc and our twitter feed: https://twitter.com/MUGeogSoc
Talk to you soon Geographers :)
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