CCI Conservation Seminar Series

The hunting, consumption, and trade of wildlife in changing times: from rural hunters to urban consumers

Dr Dan Ingram, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Just Ice For All: Global Ice-Thickness Inversions and Committed Ice Loss to 2050

Dr. Samuel Cook, Friedrich-Alexander-University.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

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

North to the Future

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Rise and fall of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies: a new geoarchaeological and chronostratigraphic sequence of Nuragic Sardinia

Gian Battista Marras (British School at Rome).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.​

Nick Fitzhenry (LSE)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Argentine Economic Policy Pendulum: A Refined Measure of Policy Volatility and Its Economic Consequences (1880–2019)

Ana Catelen (Carlos III University of Madrid).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 16:30-17:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 16:00-16:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plastik: Dense objects, racialised worlds, and black holes

Lydia Gibson (Georgetown) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Net zero by 2040: an Antarctic perspective

Professor Ian Willis.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800

Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

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

Inuktitut in the Archive: Early insights from research into 19th century writing about Inuktitut

Leah Palmer (University of Galway, Ireland).

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Quantitative History Seminar

The cultural legacy of historical ethnic violence: The impact on access to finance and innovation

Jianan Lu, University of Portsmouth.

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:15-14:45

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

Beyond the Sensor: Participatory Socio-Ecological Mapping Reveals New for Equitable Restoration in Mosaic Landscapes of Ghana

Dr Eric Mensah Kumeh, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Border Wars: The conflicts that will define our future

Klaus Dodds.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

A Slippery Signifier: Sea Ice in the Norwegian National Imaginary

Philip Steinberg (Durham University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Carbon Futures in the Mire? Knowledge Controversies in the Remaking of European Peatlands for Climate Mitigation

James Palmer (Bristol).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

How can music propel environmental action?

Betsy Mortensen, co-founder Sustain Music & Nature.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

Arctic Voices: Indigenous Leadership and Self-Determination in Arctic Governance

Elena Kavanagh (University College Cork, Ireland and CSER, Cambridge University).

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

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation

Ruza Ivanovic (University of Leeds).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550

Alex Sapoznik (King's College London).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.​

Charlie Udale and Eric Schneider (LSE)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Trotter of the Empire: Krepysh, National Dreams, and the Price of Perfection

Dr Olga Petri, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The Fractured North: International Research and People in the Russian Arctic

Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Economic Growth and Productivity of China, 1840-2010

Menggelisha (Oxford).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:30-17:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

How Sick Were the Three Sick Men? Comparing Manufacturing Productivities in the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing Empires in World War I’s Eve

Guillem Blasco-Piles (University of Barcelona).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-16:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

From settler ecologies to ecologies otherwise? The possibilities and limitations of inclusive conservation in northern Kenya

Charis Enns (Manchester) & Brock Bersaglio (Birmingham) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanoes, Rhinoceros and Cabbage

Professor Matthew Watson (University of Bristol).

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

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Property, debt, and women’s economic agency in 18th-century Austria

Matthias Donabaum (University of Vienna).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers in the Present and Future Climates

Dr. Michelle Maclennan, British Antarctic Survey.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Science in a Crisis: Networks, hierarchies and colonial continuities in responses to volcanic crisis

Dr Martin Mahony, University of East Anglia.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Railway closures in France, 1900-1940

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

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Glacial Fractures: An Environmental Art History of Sioqqap Sermia, Greenland

Isabelle Gapp (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Lone Rangers? How Did Trade Develop in Eastern Europe During the Cold War?

Marko Cokic (LSE).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:30-17:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Heart of the Empire: Constructing the London Docklands, 1799-1886

Madeleine Miller (University of Cambridge).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-16:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Workers of the Earth. A research and political agenda

Stefania Barca (Santiago de Compostela) .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Book launch: "Pub", by Philip Howell

Speaker to be confirmed.

Emmanuel college.

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

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

ArctiC-EUrope relations: A Case Study of Inter-Regional Co-Construction and Its Geopolitical Impacts

Emilie Canova (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene

Jack Longman (Northumbria University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.​

Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:30

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

The Rio Trio: climate, biodiversity and desertification and the path to 2030

Melissa de Kock, Melanie Coath and Martin Harper.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Reconsidering the Southern European Household: Wealth, Credit and Servanthood in Central Sicily, 1584-1623

Victor Melfa (University of Cambridge).

Room 11, Faculty of History (and on Microsoft Teams).

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm

Carolyn Smith (Cambridge).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

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

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

History Faculty Room 11.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The Greenland Inland Ice Sheet and its watery margins: sediments and freshwater fluxes

Prof. Nanna Karlsson, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate-ice sheet interactions in the long-term past and their importance for the long-term future

Marie-Luise Kapsch (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

"There was no auditor who could trip him up": Demesne managers and the auditing process in 14th-century England and Wales

Jerome Gasson (University of Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

New Perspectives on the Economic History of War

Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki.

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

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

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Governing through Gaia: modulating earth systems to deliver metabolic repair

This talk has had to be cancelled, owing to illness.

Jamie Lorimer.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, with a reception at Emmanuel College.

Monday 10 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

Can Indigenous Political Representation Improve Forest Conservation? India’s Experience

Prof. Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911.​ ​

Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:00-17:30

Labour History Cluster

Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain

Laura Schwarz, University of Warwick.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice with and against the canon

Alex Loftus (King’s College London).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Birders

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

CCI Conservation Seminar - Integrating deep history into conservation efforts on the African continent: opportunities, challenges and applications

Prof. Paul Lane, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Are They Coming Home? Transient Worker–Iñupiat Relations on Alaska's North Slope

Elizabeth Walsh (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Vital geographies for the kids

Prerna Singh Bindra, Philip Howell, and Olga Petri.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Climate justice, financing and resistance in the Indian Sundarbans

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Film premiere: European premiere of Pantanal

Speaker to be confirmed.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 17:30-00:00

Labour History Cluster

Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s

Sheila Rowbotham.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

CCI Conservation Seminar - Making a case for nature to investors: Conversation with Siddarth Shrikanth

Siddarth Shrikanth, author of 'The Case for Nature: Pioneering Solutions for the Other Planetary Crisis''.

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World

Emanuele Felice (IULM).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 17:15-18:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Large herbivore ecology in Greenland - the short(est) path (ever) to bring research evidence into policy

Dr Mathilde Le Moullec, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene

Prof. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Vital geographies for the kids!

Philip Howell and Olga Petri.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 15:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

CANCELLED: World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm

Carolyn Smith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Meltwater feedbacks on ice-sheet dynamics

Professor Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Discretionary power: technologies of 'seeing' urbanisation in the Global South

Ayona Datta, UCL.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

Tom White, Kings College London.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

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

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Debangana Bose

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

A fifty-year brief analysis of nature conservation in Malaysia and pointers for future approaches

Dr John Payne, Bringing Back Our Rare Animals (BORA).

Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Antarctica by Proxy : an Anthropological Exploration of the Values of Antarctica’s Scientific Data.

Emilie Pillon (Université Paris Nanterre).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast

Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Linking individual ecological dynamics to the Greening of the Arctic: remote sensing as hero, villain, and redeemer

Dr Jeff Kerby, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

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

The impact of sensing Antarctica through sound: Insights from my fieldwork as a guide in Antarctica

Simone Eringfeld, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Imagining negative emission technologies: looking to the recent past and present to contemplate futures

Dr Léon Hirt, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

Dr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 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/

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

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

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Public private parks: the soft privatization of London’s parks and green spaces

Andrew Smith, University of Westminster.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

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

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

Maria Agren, University of Uppsala.

Room 3, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Sixty Eears after Fogel’s Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery

Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

The story of nature: A human history

Jeremy Mynott.

Periodicals room, Geography Library.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Confined strain response to Greenland lake drainages sets inland hydro-fracture bound

Dr Laura Stevens, University of Oxford.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Urban metabolism and flood protection infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia

Dr Sophie Webber, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Inuit Piqutingit: What Belongs to Inuit [Film Screening]

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

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Group Discussion: ‘Beyond the hype: navigating the social implications of AI for conservation’ by Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge

Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking the behaviour of sulfur in oxidised magmas using sulfur isotopes

Zoltán Taracsák (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

Regina Grafe (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Artery: racial ecologies in fluvial Columbia

Austin Zeidermann, LSE.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:30

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

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

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

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Life, land and sea: socio-ecological change and land-use in Shetland

Dr Ilona Kater and Dr Andrew Garrick.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

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).

Dr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Species In Between: Negotiating Animal Belonging in a Changing World

Sarah Crowley, University of Exeter.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s

Brian Varian (Newcastle).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Investigating the stability of Antarctica’s ice shelves

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Rebecca Dell

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Urban Futures in the North - A Collective Imagination of an Arctic Borderland

Morgan Ip (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ghost Rats: Afterlives of Eradication on Lord Howe Island

Sally Montgomery, University of Cambridge.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

The formation of co-genetic silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated igneous rocks: pressure, fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation

Carrie Soderman (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011)

Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Urban metabolism redux

Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science

Dr Devon Dunmire, KU Leven, Belgium.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Exploring Earth's snowy regions with satellites and data science

Dr. Devon Dunmire - KU Leuven, Belgium.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

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

Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and temporality of a Concordia telescope.

Emilie Pillon, PhD candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, LAA.

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Welcome lightning talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

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

Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Kasia Paprocki, London School of Economics.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Vital Geographies start of term social event

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 18 October 2024, 15:00-17:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

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

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

Online (email organisers for details).

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Arctic Research Seminar

Various speakers.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussing: Huber, Matt ‘Ecology at the Point of Production: Climate Change and Class Struggle’

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Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring changes in exposure to glaciovolcanic hazard

Max Van Wyk De Vries (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire

Chris Briggs (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

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

Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS

Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh & Deb Wood, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friend's Room.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Annual International Polar Film Festival screenings - day 2

Various filmmakers.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 27 September 2024, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Annual International Polar Film Festival screenings - day 1

Various filmmakers.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Thursday 26 September 2024, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Photogrammetry from a non-UAV perspective: a low-cost high-resolution alternative to drone use for recording plots in the field

Millie Harding, University of Durham.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Thursday 26 September 2024, 10:30-11:30

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

Ecosystem order and political rupture in the Arctic

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

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Labour History Cluster

Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe

Radka Šustrová, University of Vienna.

History Faculty Board Room.

Wednesday 19 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

PlotToSat: A Tool for Generating Time-series Signatures from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at field-based plots for Machine Learning applications

Dr Milto Miltiadou.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 12:00-11:00

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.

Simon Haberle, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 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.

Vasiliki Margari, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

From endemicity to demise - Malaria in Denmark ca. 1800-1900

Mathias Ingholt (University of Cambridge).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 13:15-14:45

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales

Phil Slavin (University of Stirling) .

Board Room, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

Phil Withington, University of Sheffield.

History Faculty Room 11.

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

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

Digital Colonial Histories: the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its Polar Collections

John Woitkowitz and Larissa Schmid, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative History Seminar

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

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

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britain’s economic development, 1660-1720

Edmond Smith, University of Manchester.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

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

Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales

Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) and Gabriel Mesevage (King’s College, London) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Building global resilience to volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

Uncertainty on Ice

Amelia Urry, PhD candidate SPRI & HSPS, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Max van Wyk de Vries

Dr Max van Wyk de Vries, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management?

Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911

Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards an Ecological Mathematics

Dr Siddharth Unnithan Kumar.

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy

Natashia Glaisyer, University of York.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony

Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)

Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

Accessing Qikiqtaruk in a changing Arctic: Using immersive virtual reality for community engagement

Dr Jeffrey T. Kerby, SPRI, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 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.

Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

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

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

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Adventures in Antarctica: Travelogue ad Fieldwork from Thwaites Glacier

Mark Hehlen, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

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

Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest

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

Online (email organisers for details).

Thursday 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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Film Screening: Pure Clean Water

[Producer: Tony Eva].

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Sex and the City Centre: Prostitution, Urban Planning, and Sociological Research in 1960s Lebanon

Jan Altaner (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820

Juan Rivas Moreno, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

Beyond knowledge-building: Research infrastructure, technology, and the practice of Arctic (in)security

Aleksis Oreschnikoff, Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki.

Online (email organisers for details).

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Environmental consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine

Eugene Simonov.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:30-20:30

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.

Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Inuit pastoralism in South Greenland: Navigating the spectrum from wild to domestic herds in an era of rapid Arctic change

Professor Bruce C. Forbes, Research Professor at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland .

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative History Seminar

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

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

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The flow pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet reconstructed from high-resolution mapping of subglacial bedforms.

Frances Butcher, University of Sheffield .

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitative Insights from Chinese Literary Sources

Michele Bolla (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society

Perry Gauci, Oxford.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

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

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

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

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Author-Meets-Readers: Theory and Explanation in Geography

Professor Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, National University of Singapore‬.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

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

Saija Saarni, University of Turku.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

Hillary Vipond (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

From the margins of the Third Pole: the geopolitics of cryosphere in Tajikistan

Professor Christine Bichsel, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 16:30-17:45

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

Arctic Museum Cultures: A Critical Perspective on Heritage Practices in/about the North

Liz Walsh and Morgan Ip, postdoctoral researchers, ERC Arctic Cultures Project, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning

Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University).

Seminar Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Who were the Hand-Spinners and Handloom Weavers When Industrialisation Struck? Findings from Silesia and the Swiss Canton of Glarus, First Half of the 19th Century.

Sandra Ujpetery.

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

What happens if permafrost is going to vanish? Interactions of pastoralism and environmental change in Russia and Mongolia

Professor Otto Habeck, University of Hamburg.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 09 February 2024, 18:30-20:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

Amy Erickson, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

The role of international law in socio-ecological resilience to climate change of coastal Arctic communities - An international law study of the case of Arctic bowhead whaling

Johanna Sophie Bürkert, Ph.D. fellow at Københavns University, Law Faculty.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

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.

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

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939–1945. Verification of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Changes

Konrad Wnęk (Jagiellonian University).

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

In search of stardust – the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops

Jon Larson, University of Oslo.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

In search of stardust: the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops

Jon Larsen (Oslo).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

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

Room 9, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761

Alexander Wakelam, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 17:00-19:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Svalbard: Four Times Faster (Registration LInk Below)

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iverson, Zdenka Sokolíčková.

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

Martin Daunton (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

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

End of term Polar social gathering

Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In-person - location TBC.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:00-19:00

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.

Abi Stone, University of Manchester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Antarctic Research in the Anthropocene

Professor Alejandra Mancilla, Professor Peder Roberts, Ms. Amelia Urry.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

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

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor. Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller (1890-1914)

Xavier Jou (University of Barcelona).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)

All welcome

Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Unpacking Colonial Ties: Self-determination in Inuit Nunangat, Canada

Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914

All welcome

Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

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

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

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

Online (contact organiser for Zoom link).

Thursday 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.

Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Wine Production and Exchange in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries: A Micro-Economic Analysis’

Thomas Laver (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community

All welcome

Paul Warde, Cambridge.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914

All welcome

Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

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

Visual culture masterclass – Arctic Expedition Photography: Critical Perspectives, Inuit Returns

Dr Carol Payne, Professor of Art History, Carleton University.

In-person - SPRI Old library.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn and Deborah Kigjugalik Webster.

The Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Factory families: textile work and women’s life courses in late nineteenth-century Derbyshire

Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money

Jordan Claridge, LSE.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

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

“Tragedy was not our business”: Individual emotional experience and the Terra Nova Expedition

Deb Wood, PhD candidate and Sarah Airriess, research associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

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

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire

Leigh Gardner, LSE..

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

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.

Aidan Starr, Department of Geography.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion

Heqi Cai (LSE).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-13:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

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

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

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

Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS

Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In-person - SPRI Friend's room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 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.

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

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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

CCI Conservation Seminar Series

Rewilding big and small

Isabella Tree.

Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

Wednesday 12 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

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

End of term Polar social gathering

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In person - pub Fort St George.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 17:30-19:30

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.

Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

The wolf’s tale retold: How capitalism and more-than-human agencies co-produce societal relationships with wolves

Valerio Donfrancesco, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

Oceanic Ecotopia, (De) colonizing the South; China’s First Encounter with Antarctica, 1882-1906

Po-hsi Chen, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period

Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

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

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

Dr Daniel Mann, Queen Mary University of London.

HB101.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe

Christopher Pihl (Uppsala).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

Human-insect relations and material culture in Western Alaska

Amanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University .

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

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

Dr Liang Lu, Aalto University, Finland.

Friends Room, .

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

Dr Rachel Carmenta, University of East Anglia.

HB101.

Tuesday 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.

Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The occupational structure of the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley: institutions, gender, and experiences

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

In conversation with Tom Fry on political ecologies of rewilding and conservation subjectivities

Dr Tom Fry, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Thinking from the East? Geographies of Postsocialism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Voices and Power: Academic-Activism and Writing from Anywhere Real (here, from Global East)

Dr Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

Monday 15 May 2023, 16:00-17:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England

Charmian Mansell (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

People, places, politics and science in the historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present

Alice Oates, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute.

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

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records

Tim Stretton (Saint Mary’s University, Canada).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

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.

Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Scientific perspective of the state of the Arctic

Dr Matt Osman, Assistant Professor in Physical Geography.

Lecture Theatre, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects

Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

Emiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge.

HB101.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime

Julie Hardwick (UT Austin).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:15-14:30

Thinking from the East? Geographies of Postsocialism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route

Dr Piro Rexhepi, Southern New Hampshire University.

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 12:30-14:00

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

The Arctic and Antarctica in popular novels

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In person - Panton Arms.

Friday 17 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies

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

Mark Sier, CENIEH.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED: ‘Rendered much cheaper, than our work-people can make’; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722

Hugo Bromley (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920

Cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

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

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911)

Elif Yumru (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

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

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

Zoom - email organiser for details.

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Picturing the Invisible

Makoto Takahashi.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

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.

Lauren Davies, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A spatial analysis

Dr Stefan Nikolic (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Placing Halley research station in the history of UK Antarctic science, 1960 to present

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecologies of Whale Biology

Anna Guasco, University of Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 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

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

Zoom - email organiser for details.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Current Directions of Political Ecology Scholarship. A broad overview from the Editor of Journal of Political Ecology

Prof Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

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.

Chris Day, University of Oxford.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole

Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850

Eugene Costello (UC Cork & Stockholm University).

Crausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College, Adams Road.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

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.

Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

THIS SEMINAR WILL BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION When the future hits the ground: navigating logistical ruins on the Black Sea.

Dr Evelina Gambino.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:45-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Antarctica is not one thing

Jean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

Ellie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

Hardy Building room 101.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The social and political life of Latin American infrastructures: Insights from the Ecuadorian Andes

Geoff Goodwin, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:45-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620

Li Jiang (Exeter).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

Thursday 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.

Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

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

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Divided Environment: an International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Prof Jan Selby
, Sheffield University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 831 416 6462 .

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

Europe's cartographic 'Arcticulation' of the North: The use of maps in official European and national Arctic policies.

Emilie Canova, SPRI - University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

Professor David Green (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

Dr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

Hardy Building Room 101.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern England

Hillary Taylor (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

Book launch: Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation

Bert de Jonghe, Harvard University and Dr Mia Bennett, University of Washington.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friends' Room.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:00-17:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

Chris Briggs, Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Patricia Noxolo - 'Black online geographies: Tales of Creativity and In/security'

Patricia Noxolo.

Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

Friday 06 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Earth Observation Centre Seminar

Remote Sensing of Glacial Hazards in the Mountains

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

Olga Tutubalina.

Main Seminar Room (1.25), David Attenborough Building.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

James Davis (Queens University Belfast).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30

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

Stakeholder perspectives on knowledge exchange practices at the Antarctic science-policy interface

Natasha Gardiner, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 19:00-20:00

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.

Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Dr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

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

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Climate Repair and Governance: Science and Ethics Panel Discussion

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 16:00-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office

David Green (Kings College London).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

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

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

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 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

Professor Thembela Kepe - University of Toronto .

Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

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

Rurality, Indigeneity and the Alaska Income Tax, 1949-1980

Maximilien Zahnd, Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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.

Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921

A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

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

Introduction to PHaSS for new students and members of staff

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friends' Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Postgraduate Presentations

Anna Guasco, Diane Borden and Ilanah Taves.

Online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/97015026296?pwd=RkNvcFJJWTl5OUUwQllXZFp6akJCdz09 Meeting ID: 970 1502 6296 Passcode: 507013.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Decolonial Research Lab

The (in)animation of coloniality: resistance to decolonising initiatives in environmental and geographical disciplines

Dr Laura Loyola-Hernandez and Dr Arjan Gosal .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 12:45-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

Dr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892

Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

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.

Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

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

Dr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Jane Humphries (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

A game of semantics: a political ecology of Kenya's tree planting targets and forest metrics

Alasdair Neilson, Cambridge University.

https://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

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

Labour History Cluster

Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950

Arvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University.

History Faculty Board Room.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation

Catia Antunes (Leiden).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Why do rural people in Mali join jihadist groups? A political ecological explanation

Professor Tor Benjaminsen, NMBU.

HB101.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

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.

Amy McGuire, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Progress towards understanding the glacier debris cover anomaly in High Mountain Asia

Dr Evan Miles, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:15-17:00

Decolonial Research Lab

Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies

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

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

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

Decolonisation of Arctic library and archive metadata

Sandy Campbell, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, Canada.

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

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations

Jane Whittle (Exeter).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Remote sensing of the impact of land change to climate and ecosystem services in tropical highland-lowland ecosystem in Taita Hills, Kenya

Prof Petri Pellikka, University of Helsinki.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 12:40-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Gendered Dimensions of Urban Wildmeat Trafficking in the Republic of Congo

Aalayna Green (University of Cornell) .

In person (venue TBC).

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation

Alexandra Zimmermann (University of Oxford) .

In person in the David Attenborough Building.

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

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

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Icebergs and Oil in the North Atlantic, Reframing Human Relationships with Ice

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 14:30-15:30

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England

Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 02 June 2022, 17:00-19:00

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

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

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

History Faculty Room 5.

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

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

Histories of Antarctica

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

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

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records

Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ecoterritorial Turn and Relational Narratives in Latin America. From the Indianist moment to the Ecofeminist moment in the fights against Neo-extractivism

Maristella Svampa (University of Cambridge) (in person).

In person (venue TBC).

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries

Maïka de Keyzer (KU Leuven).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography: Blackness and Policing

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

Zoom.

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

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

Arctic coastal communities and increasing shipping activities: local impacts and adaptive responses

Dr. Julia Olsen.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay

Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

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.

Michael Guida, University of Sussex.

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

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Family conflict, legal strategies, and women’s litigation in early modern Scotland

Rebecca Mason (Glasgow University).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

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

A tale of two price-lists: economic topography and colonial governance in the context of the Royal Greenland Trading Company

Dr. Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm

Jonas Lindström (Uppsala universitet).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

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

Our experiences: Why Polar Research needs to be accessible

Accessibility In Polar Research (@AccessPolar).

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England

Misha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-19:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium

Speakers' details are shown below.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 18:00-20:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Workshop: Infrastructures of Wellbeing

Co-organisers: Ash Amin and Sarah Radcliffe.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-16:30

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

Black in Geography student led talks

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

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

Zoom.

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

Decolonial Research Lab

Land-Grab Universities

Dr Robert Lee, History Faculty, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

The Sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

Ayesha Siddiqi (University of Cambridge).

Online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Isolate and Assimilate: Settler Colonialism in the Canadian Arctic (a bipolar perspective)

Sam Kramer (William and Mary).

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

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

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

Dr Michael Simpson, University of St Andrews.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - 7 March at 4pm GMT: Decolonial posturing and unethical citational politics

Dr. James Esson - Loughborough University .

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

[Postponed] The sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

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

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

A Gaian Sensibility: Sensing Soils

Dr Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81826008101?pwd=NWJZS1JEZmtSdDFWWGFNUHRKT3RGQT09 Meeting ID: 818 2600 8101 Passcode: 116680.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

Decolonial Research Lab

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

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

Hardy Building rm101, Downing Site.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

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

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

An Assessment of Progress to Decarbonize Antarctic Stations

Juan Lucci, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Singing the Universe: Kant’s aesthetic and indigenous Siberian pop

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

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

Decolonial Research Lab

Decolonising Initiatives: Geography and Architecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protection in the Arctic

Romain Chuffart, University of Durham.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The changing world of reindeer: People, climate and forests in Northern Fenno-Scandia

Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

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

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - Mobilities Across Boundaries

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

Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The Greenland Self-Government's enhanced agency in Arctic politics

Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

David Fox.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Defence and Security in the Arctic

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

Annette Green.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 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

Anna Guasco, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

Short film discussion session: Utuqaq

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making money in the early Middle Ages

Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Curating the Arctic: Northern Museums and Decolonization

Speaker to be confirmed.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Perfecting the River: Dams, Dreams and Organic Machines

Professor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

Dr. Kate Meehan.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Values, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile

Decolonial Research Lab occasional series

Rogelio Luque-Lora.

Seminar Room, main building, Department of Geography (max 15 people), plus online on Teams.

Friday 12 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

Rogelio Luque-Lora, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Online Teams.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tropical development

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

What is left unsaid within images of the aurora borealis? The use of linguistic strategies in deciphering the ‘Flaming Letters on the Dark Vault of Night’ in the First International Polar Year (1882-3)

Fiona Amery, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

Prof. Bill Adams.

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

pmh1000's list

Veganism, Archives, and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World

Dr Catherine Oliver, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84036973246?pwd=TXhtRFg5RWcyd3dhUy9YYTVlREpMZz09 Meeting ID: 840 3697 3246 Passcode: 358721.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

pmh1000's list

Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene

Professor Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075862878?pwd=WmVsWUFJTjNmaW0vd1hLc1BxcURUQT09 Meeting ID: 820 7586 2878 Passcode: 066892.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

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

The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narration of Apocalypse

Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI).

Zoom.

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

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

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Friday 22 October 4pm BST Black History Month Panel: Centring Blackness through Access and Research Practice

Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis (University of California Berkeley) and Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Zoom.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism – a concept too big to fail?

Craig Muldrew, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

“What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s”

Prof. Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

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

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s

Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 14 September 2021, 11:30-13:00

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

Improving the relationships between researchers and Indigenous rights holders in the Arctic - What needs to change in funding?

Nina Döring (IASS) and Elle Merete Omma (Saami Council).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Storms, surf, & swells: Bedrock breakdown and the geodynamic demise of volcanic ocean islands

Kim Huppert - GFZ Postdam.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Trade-offs in Biodiversity Conservation; Stewardship and Reward

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

Tom Heritage (Southampton).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 16 June 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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum

Mia Surridge & Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum, Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82103353807?pwd=QTNTUGFFMWVjNjZuRFlsdE5RZVlJZz09 Meeting ID: 821 0335 3807 Passcode: 354795

jsd24@cam.ac.uk.

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:30

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

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

Mariinsky Post as a Meeting Place: Affective Encounters and Ethnographic Records

Marisa Karyl Franz (New York University).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Crystallisation temperatures as a proxy for mantle temperature; and the 2021 eruption in Reykjanes

Simon Matthews - University of Iceland.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach

Xuesheng You (Swansea).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey

Zijing Shen (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Imperial Slippages: Encountering and Knowing Ice in and beyond Colonial India

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87871680387?pwd=VUtzZkwzZVR4TktXSTQxaWViVHh4UT09 Meeting ID: 878 7168 0387 Passcode: 362935

Tom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[Cancelled] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Cancelled

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

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

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Talk 7 May, 1-2pm

Jazmin Scarlett (Independent Researcher) .

Zoom.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Conviviality and companionship: tarrots and people in the African forests

Nancy Jacobs.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

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

Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists

Sophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

Zoom.

Thursday 06 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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

Eric Schneider (LSE).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 April 2021, 13:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

2018 Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano – Use of Social Media and the U.S. Department of Interior Strategic Sciences Group

Aleeza Wilkins and Alice Pennaz (USGS).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Pat Noxolo Talk - 12th March 1-2pm

Dr. Pat Noxolo University of Birmingham .

Zoom.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Lethal Necessities: Precarity, Citizenship, and the Paradigm of Racial Violence (Subaltern & Decolonial Citizenships series)

Dr Franco Barchiesi.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention

Marc Jacobsen (SPRI).

Zoom.

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

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Refined eruptive history of Mount Pelée volcano and implications for tephra fallout hazard in Martinique

Dr Audrey Michaud-Dubuy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Decolonial Kinship and Freedom through Indigenous Mobilities (Subaltern and Decolonial Citizenships series)

Dr Michelle Daigle.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences

Laura Seddon (University of Durham).

Zoom.

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Towards Humble Geographies

Sam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87664367578?pwd=c0hwRmFXbDFEQWlXMW9kaWRFa3EwQT09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Looking Through the Sunda Arc: An Overview of Java’s Magmatism

Dr Esti Handini, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The Option of Non-Violence (part of Subaltern & Decolonial Citizenships series)

Dr Humeira Iqtidar.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

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

Fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean: methodological challenges with stakeholders’ interviews

Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London).

Zoom.

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Science-Politics Alliances and the Career of Climate Engineering: Making Sense of a ‘Bad Idea Whose Time has Come’

Julia Schubert (University of Bonn).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89064485170?pwd=VERUMndwSHdPTWpXZHBTd0NiS29pUT09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

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

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

Rethinking the Virtual: Towards Digital Decolonisation in the Scott Polar Research Institute

Eva Crowson and Elise Nyborg (University of Cambridge, SPRI).

Zoom.

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum

Efram Sera-Shriar, Alex Rose, and Rupert Cole (Science Museum, London).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86705370977?pwd=ak1XblJvRFFWVllSYU1wUFc3bG91QT09.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Sumé: the Sound of a Revolution (film pre-screening and discussion)

Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

David Todd (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

SCAR in the 60s: The successes and failures of science diplomacy in Antarctica

Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

An auto-ethnographic account of a hitchhiking journey from Gateshead to Poland

Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University).

Online.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The new global apartheid

Further information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29382

Professor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Linking Urban Public Space and Migrant Integration in China: The Struggle for and the Magic of Time

Chen Qu.

Online (Zoom).

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring volcanoes in Central Iceland as Analogs for Planetary Environments

Jacob Richardson, NASA/GSFC.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

The climatic pivot: Mapping water, people, and empires in Central Asia, c.1850-1930

Tom Simpson (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

Charlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

Beatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

Online, via MS Teams.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

Joe Day (Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Caribbean Vacay: Sun, Sand, Sea and Volcanoes?! An introduction into volcanic outreach in the Eastern Caribbean

Alia Juman, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses

Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

Harold James (Princeton).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Modeling volcano-tectonic interactions in a youthful continental rift: the East African Rift System

Joshua Jones (Virginia Tech).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History

Note that the talk is accompanied by a "pre-reading" available to download upon registration.

Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Debrief of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

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Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Integrating social and institutional vulnerabilities into volcanic risk scenarios: A case study at Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador

Dr Julie Morin, Department of Geography.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 16:00-17:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

Professor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History University of Stavanger, Norway.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 01 September 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Snapshot of a magmatic system immediately prior to an explosive eruption: Tenerife 289 ka

Emma Horn, University of Southampton.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

[online] Polar humanities research in the Covid-19 pandemic: Where does the SPRI library fit in?

Eleanor Peers and Frances Marsh (Polar Library, Scott Polar Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring controls on the distribution of sulfur-loving elements in Icelandic magmas

Callum Reekie, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Using documentary archive material to develop an improved historical chronology of cyclones in Mauritius and lessons for disaster risk reduction

Rory Walshe (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

[online] On Blue Ice: Antarctic Meteorites and Deepening Planetary Time

Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanic activity along the enigmatic South Sandwich arc

Dr Emma Liu, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields

Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Insights from mapping Greenland’s supraglacial lakes at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Dr. James Lea, University of Liverpool.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Initiation of a composite volcano: The complex beginnings of the long-lived Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand

Rachael Baxter, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:00-10:00

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

[online] Elusive Resources and Community Expectations: Petroleum Narratives by the Norwegian Barents Sea

Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment

Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Dr. Hester Jiskoot, Associate Professor of Physical Geography & Glaciology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Offshore oil, unruly icebergs, and the war against unpredictability in the North Atlantic Ocean

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:15-00:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Toward climate justice -- Should we rethink our narratives of Arctic glaciers and icebergs?

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 17:00-00:00

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

[online] Researching the field at home: the field and its doubles

Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Virtual Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative History Seminar

When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain

Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

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

[Cancelled] ‘No work before breakfast’: Putting people first at Halley Bay research station, Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event

Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Overview of the RESPONDER project

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Fridtjof Nansen’s FRAM expedition and the Making of a Transnational Hero

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: people, power and conservation surveillance in the Corbett tiger reserve, India

Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

Christine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00