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News 26 Jan 2012 Ruud Huirne director of Food & Agro at Rabobank Ruud Huirne, professor Business Economics and general director of the Social Sciences Group, will be director of Food & Agro at Rabobank from February 1, 2012. Het will continue his relationship with... read more »  more News

Calendar 1 Mar 2012 WASS PhD Career Event 2012 The WASS PhD Council would like to announce the third annual Career Event for PhD candidates. Anyone who wants to learn from experiences of former PhDs and explore future career options is welcome... more 5 Mar 2012 MCB presentation Carmen M. Sabiote Ortiz: "The impact of culture on the online purchase of tourism products" Carmen M. Sabiote Ortiz works at the Marketing and Market Research Department of the University of Granada.  more 14 Mar 2012 Graduation L. (Latifou) Idrissou Aboubacary (COM): "Dynamics of Conflict in Participatory Forest Management in Benin: A Framing Perspective"  more 15 Mar 2012 Wageningen Geography Lecture Tim Edensor: "Landscapes of Illumination - Festivals of Light" Tim Edensor - Manchester Metropolitan, UKAcross the western world and beyond, numerous cities are investing in festivals and events organised around the innovative technologies of illumination. This... more 21 Mar 2012 Graduation M.A. (Merima) Ali (AEP): "Industrial Clusters and Social Networks and their Impact on the Performance of Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprises. Evidence from the Handloom Sector in Ethiopia"  more 19 Apr 2012 Wageningen Geography Lecture Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt: "Experiencing the Enchantment of Place and Mobility" Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt - Roskilde University, Denmark In many places, the experience economy of tourist performance present-in-place is seen as an attractive way to pursue. But the theoretical... more 10 May 2012 PhD Day 2012 More information: PhD Day 2012: Call for Abstracts  more 24 May 2012 Wageningen Geography Lecture Emma Mawdsley: "The Changing Geographies of Foreign Aid and South-South Development Cooperation: Contributions from Gift Theory" Emma Mawdsley - Cambridge University, USA This paper critically evaluates the ways in which Southern development actors, such as India and China, discursively construct the 'aid' element of... more »  more Calendar