Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

Past Events

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Expect the Unexpected: Empowering a Resilient Future with Responsible GIScience

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S4 Winter 2024 GIS Institute

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Geospatial Analysis for Health Studies

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The Landscape of Entrepreneurship in Traditional and New Hispanic Destinations

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Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies (MAPPS): Using mobility and social network data to predict and prevent future pandemics

In this talk, Epidemiologist Mark Lurie and co-investigators will discuss their newly funded NSF Center, MAPPS, aimed at predicting and preventing future pandemics.

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Bayesian Spatial Multilevel Modeling of Demographic and Health Surveys Data

This presentation by GIS Developer and Spatial Scientist Guixing Wei will explore the benefits of utilizing a multi-level framework that simultaneously considers samples' membership, spatial autocorrelation, and differing urban/rural within-cluster variances in order to provide valuable insights into the understanding of demographic and health outcomes.

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S4 Summer 2022 GIS Institute

Co-Sponsored by PSTC and Brown University Library

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Winter 2022 GIS Institute

January 3-14: The GIS Institute is an intensive two-week training focused on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data. The Institute is a partnership between S4, the Brown University Libraries, EarthLab, and the PSTC. The GIS Institute allows participants to refine and/or develop spatial/geographic research questions with guidance and critical feedback from Brown University faculty. Application deadline is December 12. More information here.

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Biosocial Network Modeling to Increase Population Health Equity

In this talk, computational epidemiologist Aditya Khanna will discuss some of his recent work developing biosocial network models that are embedded in social and geographical space in Chicago.

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Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns in COVID-19 to Guide Local Public Health Action

William Goedel – Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health

This talk will focus on the spatiotemporal epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection and related outcomes of hospitalization and death due to COVID-19 in Rhode Island.

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Using GPS to Measure Community Mobility and Participation of Individuals with Disabilities

Eugene Brusilovskiy - Director, Laboratory on GIS Analytics in Rehabilitation Research, Temple University

This talk will focus on the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to measure community mobility and participation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

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S4 Winter 2021 GIS Institute

Sign up now for the S4 Winter 2021 GIS Institute!

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S4 Virtual Colloquium - S4 Postdoctoral Research Associates

S4/PSTC Postdoctoral Research Associates Samuel Kye and H. Jacob Carlson will present their research.

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'Monstrous Giants of Infamous Repute': Wind-Powered Sugar Mills as Constructions of Control in Colonial Montserrat

Miriam Rothenberg, Winner of 2020 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize, Brown University

Miriam Rothenberg will present her research on the wind-powered sugar mills of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and how they signify the power and control of plantation owners.

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CANCELLED: China’s National Urbanization Program: Planning the End of the Village

Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS CANCELLED. Nick Smith of Yale-NUS College will discuss an experimental village on the outskirts of Chongqing and different visions for future urbanization and Chinese society.

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S4 Winter 2020 GIS Institute Final Presentations

Participants in the S4 Winter 2020 GIS Institute will present their projects.

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S4 Winter 2020 GIS Institute

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From Spatial to Platial Data Science

Data Visualization lecture

Grant McKenzie of McGill University will discuss how geographic information science has pushed beyond “spatial” to incorporate non-explicitly geospatial contextual data.

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S4 GIS Institute

Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

This two-week course will focus on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data. Participants will refine and/or develop research questions with Brown University faculty.

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Environmental Justice in the Post-Industrial Landscape

Thomas Marlow, Winner of 2019 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize, Brown University

Marlow will present his research on Providence manufacturing geography that shows the influence of race, class, and land-use history on environmental inequality.

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Exploring Application of Spatial Analysis in Urban and Public Policy Research

Adriano Borges Costa, Visiting Scholar, Brown University

Costa will present his research using historical GIS data to investigate the relationship between transportation policy decisions and the formation of São Paulo's peripheral area.

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GIS Institute Presentations

Participants in the GIS Institute will present their projects as the culmination of the intensive two-week GIS Institute that focuses on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data.

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GIS Institute begins

January 7-18, 2019

An intensive two-week course focused on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data.

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Segregation in Nineteenth-Century Mumbai

Sukriti Issar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, OSC, Sciences Po, Paris

Issar will explore cross-religious property transactions and the diversity of micro-spatial areas in early nineteenth-century Mumbai.

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S4 2018 Summer GIS Institute Conference

Participants in the GIS Institute will present their research projects

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GIS Institute

An intensive two-week course focused on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data. May 21-June 1.

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City Minimum Wages

Jorge Pérez Pérez, PhD candidate in Economics, Brown University

Pérez Pérez will present his research on the effects of changes in the minimum wage. His paper was selected for the 2018 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize.

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Characterizing the spatial structure of U.S. metropolitan employment using LODES data

Robert Manduca, doctoral candidate, Harvard University

Manduca will address a core question in urban planning and urban economics that concerns the extent to which urban employment is monocentric, polycentric, or diffuse.

Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), Special Events

Scott Allard – Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty

Panelists Roberto Gonzales, Margaret Weir, and Michael White

Discussion of Allard’s recent book will include PSTC Faculty Associate Michael White as a panelist. Book signing and reception to follow. 

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S4 Postdoc Mini Talks

Joseph Danko, Daniel Schleith, and Eric Seymour

Three postdocs will present their current spatial research.

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Geography and GIS: Questions on Discipline and Innovation

Matt Wilson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky

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Mostly Pointless Spatial Econometrics

Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics

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Urban transportation in India: Mobility and accessibility

Adam Storeygard, PSTC alumnus, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University