Title: ‘Malta: City island state?’
Date: Thursday 27 February
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Venue: Room 113, Old Humanities Building (OH113)
The Department of Geography at the Faculty of Arts is holding a talk entitled ‘Malta: City island state?’. The event will be held on Thursday 27 February from 12:00 to 13:00 in Room 113, Old Humanities Building (OH113).
The speakers are Janet Speake and David Chester.
Janet Speake is an economic and urban geographer whose long-standing research has focused on urban regeneration, visual culture, and spaces of affectivity. Much of her work explores the synergistic interfaces that operate when working within interdisciplinary contexts.
David Chester has spent more than four decades researching volcanic and seismic hazards, and has worked in Italy, Portugal (including the Azores), Malta and the USA. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England (Episcopalian) and has researched religious responses to disasters since the 1990s.