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Political Ecology Group meetings

Rendering renewable or the political ecology of "renewable energy"

UserCarlos Tornel (Global Tapestry of Alternatives).

HouseONLINE - Link in description .

ClockTuesday 03 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

History of Urban Form of India (book talk)

UserProf Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University, India and Guest Professor at TU Darmstadt, Germany).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 27 November 2025, 16:00-17:30

Labour History Cluster

Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History

UserMelissa Calaresu, Katie Price, and Amy Erickson (all Cambridge).

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Social debtfare policies. The financialization of welfare policy in Argentina

UserDr Tomás Nougués (Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Nacional de San Martín & National Council of Scientific Research, Argentina).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

The Living Cryosphere Lab

The Art of Listening: Reflections on Arctic Cultures

UserProfessor Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2025, 15:00-16:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visualising post-viral lives: Body mapping womens’ lived experiences of Long COVID

UserProf Beth Greenhough (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 16:00-17:30

The Living Cryosphere Lab

Holding up the skies: Is Starlink occupying Low Earth orbit?

UserProfessor Mia Bennett, Centre for Outer Space Studies, University College London.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

The collective imagination: envisioning urban futures in the Arctic

UserMorgan Ip, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseSPRI and online.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Climate Research Presentation Night

Polar Research Presentation Night

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's Divinity Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 18:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of British nature recovery

Co-hosted with Vital Geographies

UserJamie Lorimer (University of Oxford) .

HouseDepartment of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (book talk)

UserProf Katherine Brickell ( King’s College London) and Dr Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University and Visiting Reader in Urban Geography at King's College London).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 16:00-17:30

The Living Cryosphere Lab

Rethinking the territory of (critical) geopolitics through Arctic infrastructures

UserVesa Väätänen, Associate Research Fellow at the Arctic Center, University of Lapland.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 15:00-16:30

Department of Geography - other talks

The Gamification of Citizenship - CANCELLED

We regret this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

UserProf Sarah Mills, Loughborough University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

The Living Cryosphere Lab

Under Fedchenko’s teeth: knowing glaciers in the Pamir Mountains

UserProfessor Christine Bichsel ( Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 10:30-12:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Temporal Dynamics of Island Biodiversity

UserSandra Nogué Bosch, Autonomous University of Barcelona.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2025, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Quantifying Patenting by Women in the U.S., 1845-1924

UserRuveyda Gozen (London School of Economics), co-authored with Mike Andrews and Enrico Berkes.

HouseWilliam Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Indonesia's infrastructure dream and the search for autonomy

UserCaixia Mao (PhD candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia University).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 23 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars

Room changed. This event is now hybrid. Please see below for the Teams link.

UserRory Butcher (University of Leeds).

HouseBoardroom in the Cambridge History Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

New Books in Labour History

UserMassimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Nihilism and Technology

UserNolen Gertz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Twente.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

North to the Future

UserBennett Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Department of Geography - other talks

How 'Natural' are Natural Hazards?

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene

UserDr. Jonathan Kingslake, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - other talks

How can music propel environmental action?

UserBetsy Mortensen, co-founder Sustain Music & Nature.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation

UserRuza Ivanovic (University of Leeds).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanoes, Rhinoceros and Cabbage

UserProfessor Matthew Watson (University of Bristol).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Railway closures in France, 1900-1940

UserAlexis Litvine (University of Cambridge), co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Book launch: "Pub", by Philip Howell

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEmmanuel college.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene

UserJack Longman (Northumbria University).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?

UserLiam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

New Perspectives on the Economic History of War

UserJari Eloranta, University of Helsinki.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Birders

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Vital geographies for the kids

UserPrerna Singh Bindra, Philip Howell, and Olga Petri.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Climate justice, financing and resistance in the Indian Sundarbans

UserDr Annabel Dulhunty, Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene

UserProf. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2024, 17:30-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Bonded by Apps? Labour Geographies in the age of Algorithmic Despotism

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Debangana Bose

UserDr Debangana Bose, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

UserDr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Greening the Arctic [Panel Discussion Webinar, registration required]

Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom link to participate in the webinar. https://www.bu.edu/pardee/the-arctic-environmental-humanities-workshop-series-2/

UserHannah Bradley, Inuk Silis Hœgh, Jeffrey Kerby, Kim Neider, Ross Virginia.

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 15:00-16:30

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

UserMaria Agren, University of Uppsala.

HouseRoom 3, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Inuit Piqutingit: What Belongs to Inuit [Film Screening]

UserPanel Speakers: Bernadette Dean, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Inuit Heritage Insights), Carol Payne (Carleton University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 16:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Interrelations between security and the zero-carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic

UserMarja Helena Sivonen, Doctoral researcher, Sociology Department, Tampere University & Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Do look back – what can the palaeo record tell us about Antarctica’s Doomsday glacier(s)?

This talk is run in association with the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS).

UserDr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

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

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Urban metabolism redux

UserMatthew Gandy, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Why was the Arctic sea ice free 127 000 years ago?

UserDr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Gatekeepers of the Greenland icesheet: The international politics of knowledge production on climate change

UserLin Alexandra Mortensgaard, PhD candidate, Danish Institute for International Studies & Department of Political Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

HouseOnline (email organisers for details).

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ecosystem order and political rupture in the Arctic

UserDr. Elana Wilson Rowe, Research professor and Head of the Center for Ocean Governance at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 21 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

UserPhil Withington, University of Sheffield.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate

UserStephen Broadberry (Oxford University), co-authored with Hanhui Guan (Peking University).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

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

UserMaarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911

UserMichael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards an Ecological Mathematics

UserDr Siddharth Unnithan Kumar.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

UserDr Hannah Hasenberger, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

UserErik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest

UserNaï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (email organisers for details).

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall

UserProfessor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

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

Quantitative History Seminar

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

UserAmanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

HouseBoard Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

UserProfessor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory

UserStephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar.

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

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

UserEric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

UserLovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

UserMartin Daunton (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

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

UserAbi Stone, University of Manchester.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

UserMagnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

UserSvenja Holst (Bielefeld University); Anna Ott (Syke and University of Lapland); Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Oulu); Marlene Payva (University of Lapland).

HouseOnline (contact organiser for Zoom link).

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 13:45-15:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

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

UserGina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Atiqput ("our names"): Inuit Oral History and Project Naming

Organised by the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Visual Culture, and The Heong Gallery

UserCarol Payne, Beth Greenhorn and Deborah Kigjugalik Webster.

HouseThe Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 17:00-00:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

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

UserAidan Starr, Department of Geography.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

UserMaria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

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

UserKevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

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

UserMatthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Rambo in Palestine: Desert, War and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

UserDr Daniel Mann, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseHB101.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

A glance at risk management of shipping in ice-covered waters

UserDr Liang Lu, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseFriends Room, .

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 12:30-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

UserDr Rachel Carmenta, University of East Anglia.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

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

UserAndrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Processing in the Republic of Nauru

UserDr Julia C. Morris, International Studies Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 12:45-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

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

UserPoppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Heroes and Villains in the discourse of the Amazonian Bioeconomy of Brazil"

UserEmiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Insulating the wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture

UserDr Victoria Nuviala Antelo, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Archive SUR – Archive of Architecture & Habitat in Antarctica .

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

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

UserLauren Davies, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecologies of Whale Biology

UserAnna Guasco, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces

UserDr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval.

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

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

UserChris Day, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

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

UserWillem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

UserEllie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

HouseHardy Building room 101.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Elizabeth Robinson - 'Tracking the links between climate change and health'

UserProfessor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

UserDr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

UserDr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

HouseHardy Building Room 101.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Earth Observation Centre Seminar

Remote Sensing of Glacial Hazards in the Mountains

All is welcome -- networking event with drinks after the talk

UserOlga Tutubalina.

HouseMain Seminar Room (1.25), David Attenborough Building.

ClockThursday 15 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

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

UserMarco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

UserDr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe

UserDr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - Geographers as Insurgent Scholars 18 November at 4pm GMT

UserProfessor Thembela Kepe - University of Toronto .

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

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

UserThomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The place of desire for more-than-human political ecology

UserDr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

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

UserMarkus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

30% – ‘Re-percent-ing’ ocean governance

UserDr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

UserJane Humphries (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

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

UserAmy McGuire, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

Decolonial Research Lab

Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies

UserProf. James D Sidaway (Geography, National University of Singapore).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 14 October 2022, 12:45-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

UserWilliam H. Janeway (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

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

UserDaniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may be unable to access the venue

UserMartin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The trouble with relational values

UserRogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

UserKatie Dow (University of Cambridge) and Heather McMullen (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

UserDanielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Histories of Antarctica

UserHenrietta Hammant, Anthropology of Heritage PhD candidate, University of Reading; Elias Angele, PhD candidate Department for Contemporary East European History and Culture, University of Bremen.

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography: Blackness and Policing

UserDr. Wangui Kimari and Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Modern British birdsong and civilization

Please email pmh1000@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend this talk in person; owing to Covid safeguards, attendance is restricted in numbers.

UserMichael Guida, University of Sussex.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/98817387914?pwd=Y2pOV1Rsbko3RjRDTFZHQ0NKaXZ6QT09 Meeting ID: 988 1738 7914 Passcode: 640898.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

UserFrancesca Booker (IIED), Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

UserVictoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

BLACK IN GEOGRAPHY X RACE TALKS: Green Violence, Abolition Geographies and Black Repair

UserProfessor Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town), Assistant Professor Camilla Hawthorne (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Assistant Professor Kevon Rhiney (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Decolonial Research Lab

Land-Grab Universities

UserDr Robert Lee, History Faculty, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

UserJennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Decolonial Research Lab

The Paradox of Law and Violence: Policing on the Frontlines of Struggles against the Settler Colonial State

For information, please email Sarah Radcliffe sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Michael Simpson, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Decolonial Research Lab

Sound's Colonialities: Formatting, Recording and Saving on Indigenous Lands

UserDr Max Ritts, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building rm101, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

UserHeather McMullen and Katharine Dow Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Centre for Global Public Health Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - Mobilities Across Boundaries

UserDr. Rudo Mudiwa (UC Irvine), Dr. James Esson (Loughborough University), and Dr. Victoria Okoye (Sheffield Hallam University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

UserAnnette Green.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Fieldwork, Access, and (Dis)Embodiment: On An Ethic of Not Going There

For information on venue/virtual participation, please email Sarah Radcliffe sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserAnna Guasco, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Perfecting the River: Dams, Dreams and Organic Machines

UserProfessor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

UserDr. Kate Meehan.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

'Values, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile's uprising and constituent process'.

To get invite to Teams meeting, please email sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserRogelio Luque-Lora, Geography Department, Cambridge.

HouseOnline Teams.

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

UserProf. Bill Adams.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Please see above for contact details for this list.

 

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