Political Ecology Group meetings

The trouble with relational values

Rogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

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

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Silk Road Urbanization: Cities, Infrastructure-led development and Global Inequality

Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

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

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

"There is no better place to lie about: Racial capitalism and the urban metabolism of water in U.S. cities

Kate Meehan, King's College London.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

Reading discussion led by Chris Sandbrook.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

Heather 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.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Celestial Incantations

Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ethnographic citizen science: camera traps and human-fox relations in inner-city London

Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

A celebration of women in astronomy

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Before colonization (BC) and after decolonization (AD): The Early Anthropocene, the Biblical Fall, and relational pasts, presents, and futures

Reading discussion led by Roge Luque-Lora.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize

Professor Roger Davies, University of Oxford.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

ek338's list

Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution

Martha Muñoz, Yale University.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

Annette Green.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda

Thomas Pienkowski.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

Dr. Kate Meehan.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

Prof. Bill Adams.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

How to produce energy from geostructures

Dr Jean de Sauvage, Université Gustave Eiffel, France.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief

Speaker to be confirmed.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

Hannah Parris, University of Cambridge .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Leveraging cultural and scientific knowledge and practices for environmental conservation in Tali, Bhutan

Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Only the orangutans get a life jacket: Uncommoning responsibility in a global conservation nexus

Dr. Liana Chua.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management

Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Mechanical response of unsaturated expansive soil

Dr. Khalid Abdalla, Lecturer East London University.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene to planthroposcene

Anna Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme

Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:55-15:20

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes

Emília Santos (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:30-14:55

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Experimental unsaturated soil mechanics: Multi-physics and multi-scale outlooks

Prof. Enrique Romero, Director of Research, Head Geotechnical Laboratory, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland

Guillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The roots of our ecological crisis

Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Modelling large deformation problems in geotechnics (MPM)

Dr. Alba Yerro-Colom, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance: A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality

Revati Pandya, University of Wageningen.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning

Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Limits of Stewardship: land rights, legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities and extraction in Odisha, India.

Arpitha Kodiveri, European University Institute..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Securing the (mud)line – considerations in design of offshore foundation

Prof. Richard Whitehouse, Chief Technical Director in Sediment Dynamics, HR Wallingford, UK.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

Innovation Seminar Series

Innovation Seminar Talk: From cancer diagnostics to anti-ageing skincare

Cristiana Banila and Shakiba Kaveh.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

CEENRG Research Seminars

How technology spillovers contribute to clean energy innovation

Dr Sergey Kolesnikov, CEENRG, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Dynamic soil-structure interaction in buildings with oil dampers.

Jad Boksmati, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

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Dr Sabrina Eisenbarth, University of Exeter.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

How places matter: A new theory of environmental value.

Dr Simon P. James, University of Durham.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation

Professor Veerle Heyvaert, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic soil-pile-structure interaction in soft clays and layered soils

Dr Thejesh Kumar Garala, Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in southern Madagascar

Dr Amber Huff, Institute of Development Studies.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Climate refugees: The big challenge of Public International Law and the European Union

Karla Zambrano, University of Valencia, CEENRG.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The impact of TBM EPB tunnelling on ground surface and existing buildings.

Professor Anna Lewandowska, Warsaw University of Technology.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 19:00-20:00

Innovation Seminar Series

Innovation Seminar Talk: Academic innovation turned start-up company

Dr Ruizhi Wang, Hexagonfab.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Defending lands and forests: NGO histories and extraordinary violence in the Philippines.

Dr Wolfram Dressler, University of Melbourne.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 10:00-11:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon

Dr Thales West, CEENRG Fellow.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees.

Adam Searle, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Maximizing Efficiency and Economy of Storage Balance for 100% Renewable Power Supply

Dr Wolfgang Richter, TU Graz.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Can we estimate the actual stiffness and mass of soil contributing to vibrations of monopiles for offshore wind turbines?

Dr Luke J Prendergast, University of Nottingham, UK.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Landscape values, rewilding, and contested discourses of rural change in West Wales.

Dr George Holmes, University of Leeds.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Network for Participatory and Collaborative Research Methods

Collecting Data at the Scene of the Crime: reflecting on and writing about criminalized subcultural lives

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Dr Stefano Bloch, University of Arizona.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

CEENRG Research Seminars

The emerging and promised climate change policies of the Biden administration

Professor Michael Gerrard, Columbia University.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Compliance under the Paris Agreement: The Compliance Committee and the Interplay between Compliance and Transparency

Professor Christina Voigt, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Innovative design criteria for piled foundations of wind turbines

Professor Luca De Sanctis, University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, Italy.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 19:00-20:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions during COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Zhu Liu, Tsinghua University.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

CEENRG Research Seminars

Accelerating energy and low-carbon transitions

Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Multi-functional applications of graphene related materials in cementitious composites

Ioanna Papanikolaou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 16:00-16:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Life in Medieval Cambridge: evidence from isotopic analysis

Alice Rose (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hydraulic fracturing of artificially generated soft sandstones

Charalampos Konstantinou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Give me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift

Give me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift with Professor Dame Janet Thornton

Professor Dame Athene Donald and Professor Dame Janet Thornton.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa

Dr Jon Phillips.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Performance of drains in earthquake-induced liquefaction mitigation under new and existing buildings

Samy Garcia-Torres, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge..

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

Dr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Weighty Matters: Bullion economies in Scandinavian Scotland

Tom Horne, University of Glasgow.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860

Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Biomimetic vascular self-healing systems for cementitious materials

Zijing Li, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil

Dr Fiona Hughes, Graduate Geotechnical Engineer at Arup.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London

Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an 'agricultural revolution’

Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Self-healing cut-off wall materials

Benyi Cao, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-16:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75

Cameron Coventry (Federation University).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Early Medieval Transitions: An isotopic perspective on change and social complexity

Sam Leggett (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:15-14:00