Public Keynote: Rob Kitchin - Data Mobilities
We warmly invite you to a public keynote lecture by Prof. Rob Kitchin on “Data mobilities: Rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data”, organized by the CURATE Project.
The event will take place on Wed, 11 June 2025, 17:15, Audimax (HG F30), ETH Zurich.
After the lecture, we invite you to a light Apéro at 18:45.
Please click external page here to register.
Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. His research examines the production of digital geographies and his present ERC-funded project (2022-27) is ‘Data Stories: Telling Stories About and With Planning and Property Data’. Through the projects such as the All-Island Research Observatory, the Digital Repository of Ireland, and the Dublin Dashboard he has undertaken data projects with a wide variety of state, civil society and business organisations over the past 25 years. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 37 academic books and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He an editor of Dialogues on Digital Society and has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography, and Social and Cultural Geography, and co-editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He is a recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.
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