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Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Investigating the stability of Antarctica’s ice shelves

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Rebecca Dell

UserDr Rebecca Dell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Palaeoecological Insights into the Causes and Consequences of Mid-Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in Asia and Australia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSimon Haberle, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

(CANCELLED) Extreme glacial implies discontinuity of early human occupation of Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserVasiliki Margari, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGeorgina Falster, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAlistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSaija Saarni, University of Turku.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression

UserDr Saskia Witteborn, The Chinese University of Hong King.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Cancelled due to strike action

UserDr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

UserProfessor Julian Dowdeswell, Department of Geography & Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Foucault and the New Materialists

ERC Horizon 2020 Urban Ecologies Lecture

UserThomas Lemke.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

ARCTIC CULT

UserDr Richard Powell, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

UserProfessor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Rethinking Urban Nature

UserProfessor Matthew Gandy, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Is sea level rise accelerating and what are the implications for coastal flooding?

UserDr Ivan Haigh, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Seminar

UserProfessor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Open City: its ethics and its design

UserProfessor Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

UserDr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

UserProfessor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

UserDr Anya Schmidt, Department of Geography and Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

UserProfessor Christine Lane and Professor Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Public Presence of the Social Sciences

Distinguished Visitor lecture

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Pathological Lives: on the cosmopolitics of losing self-assurance

UserProfessor Steve Hinchliffe, Geography and College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Plantations, Violence, and the Monopoly Form

UserProfessor Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Department Seminar: Urbanisation at the interface of the habitable and uninhabitable: on redescription and detachment

UserProfessor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Neoliberalism and the environment revisited: The North American Free Trade Agreement and the US-Mexico border 20 years on

UserProfessor Diana Liverman Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Regents Professor of Geography and Development and Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment University of Arizona.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Fluvio-centric Currents of River History: From the Mersey to the Po

We regret this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

UserProfessor Peter Coates, University of Bristol.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate Confusion: Lessons and Pitfalls in the Study of Climates Past

UserProfessor John Lowe, Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science of the University of London, Gordon Manley Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

No Going Back: The Scientific and Political Ethics of Ecological Novelty

Paul Robbins is an International Visiting Fellow in Geography.

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, International Fellow, from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urbanism

Co-hosted with the University's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

UserProfessor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia Using Palaeoecology

UserProfessor Anson W. Mackay, Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 16:15-18:00

CUiD Events

International Security After the War on Terror: What are the Key Challenges?

UserProfessor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Writer, and Broadcaster.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 14 February 2000, 10:01-10:01

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