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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

This talk is by the Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography Seminar Series - NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE & VENUE

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: From networks to fretworks: mapping the interface of patient involvement and animal research

Cancelled due to strike action

Professor Gail Davies, Geography, University of Exeter.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The infrastructural other: spatial effects of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

Gediminas Lesutis, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Harker II, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory

Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

"Constructing the ‘foetal environment:’ making intergenerational publics in a regional biobank"

Dr Maria Fannin, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:15-18:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Volcanic mercury and plant mutagenesis during the end-Permian mass extinction

Niall W. Paterson, CASP.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Constructing the Other: representations of Arctic native communities in Russian regional museums

Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar

Dr Sunil Kumar, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions

Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS).

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s

Dr. Tobias Bolch, University of St. Andrews.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Roundtable discussion on “Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies”

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Invasive species and ecological imperialism in South America. Current interactions between wood industry, wild boars, perroquets and hunters in Uruguay

Juan Martin Dabezies, Universidad de la República (Uruguay).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

El Niño, tropical forests and the potential instability of the global carbon cycle

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:15-18:00

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

Roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonising the Polar Library: Moving forward’

Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Introduction of new PhD students

CED new PhDs.

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870

Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

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

Gender and 20th century Antarctic fieldwork: Constructing and dismantling the 'ice ceiling'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Gender and Extractivism in Plurinational States – An intersectional approach to mining in Bolivia and Ecuador

Isabella M. Radhuber, University of Vienna (Austria).

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of polar bear conservation: a circumpolar policy trainwreck

Doug Clark, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Human Anxieties, Bovine Solutions: Political Subtexts of Native Cattle Conservation in Northeastern Siberia

Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern

Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea

Dr. Margaret Stewart, Senior Scientist - Marine and Petroleum Geology, British Geological Survey..

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic

Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The evolution of laminar thermals - from blob, to jellyfish, to ring.

Jack Atkinson (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Forest Governance in Guyana and Suriname

Ariadne Collins, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry .

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland

Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 ‘millionaire’ population

Prof. Peter Scott, Reading.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

New insight on the mycorrhizal fungus–host association, expected to emerge from combining dendrochronology, wood anatomy, mycology and ecology

Giada Centenaro (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Beyond mean climate change:  Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.

Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy

Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

The Selected Body: Investigating Ideas about Nerves and Constitutions in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration

Ed Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The uses of messiness: understanding climate governance in practice

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

From Arctic statehood to self: State personnel’s articulations of Arctic identity in Norway, Iceland, and Canada

Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Political Ecologies of Urban Macaques in India

Anindya Sinha, Indian Institute of Science.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)

Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

From Epic Bards to Pop Stars in North-East Siberia: Song as Patriotic Education

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums

Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Geographies of Knowledge Annual Lecture: Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health: Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease

Professor Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:15

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease

Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Other Radical Traditions: Brazilian geographers between exile and military dictatorship

Federico Ferretti.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic

Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr and Ellis Doeven (Visiting Artists, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Volcanic history archived in glacial ice

Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, USA).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

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

Note unusual time and venue

Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Coal, custom, and constitution: worldly politics in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thomas Cousins, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence

Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

"Minorities in Polar Research"-Network

Prem Gill (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Meat to Mittens: a short history of survival science and extreme physiology in the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Understanding the use of green spaces using social media data – possibilities and challenges

Dr. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Digital Geography Lab.

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia

Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

#AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]: Curating gendered digital lives in Delhi's urban peripheries

Professor Ayona Datta, Department of Geography, King's College, London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:15-18:00

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

Science Policy Workshop Report/Arctic Circle Assembly 2019

John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Validating the NAME dispersion model with TROPOMI satellite observations for the 2019 Raikoke eruption

Hans de Leeuw, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Rm Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

Maan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist

Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Zombie leopards, voodoo science and post-truth challenges to conservation

Martin Walsh, Wolfson College.

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics

Simon Szreter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

Christine Bachelor (SPRI).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Foucault and the New Materialists

ERC Horizon 2020 Urban Ecologies Lecture

Thomas Lemke.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Reconfiguring the effects of acetylene gas on the use of colour in Dr E. A. Wilson’s watercolours

Alex Partridge, Maciej M Pawlikowski MA, Dr Lindsay MacDonald, Dr Liz Watkins, Isaac Gilbert.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Thursday 29 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Japan and its Arctic identity: Forming a narrative about the region

Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 16 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

The Sublimity of Sublimating Ice: Ruins of the Anthropocene

Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The continued marginalisation of cocoa farmers: from colonialism to contemporary, climate-smart governance

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data: Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

Alice Vadrot University of Vienna.

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

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime film screening

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

'Museum Entanglements: acquisitions, engagement and exhibitions at the Polar Museum

Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Joana Kusiak

Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 17:30-19:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime film screening

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Antarctic Building and Dwelling: the Poetics of the 'Wide, White Page'

Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

Judith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

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

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Nature in the City: thinking 'post' ecologies in Delhi

Suresh Babu Ambedkar University Delhi .

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

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

‘They Should Do It Themselves’: Settler Affect and Indigenous Sovereignty on Alaska’s North Slope

Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

‘Indigenous’ avant la lettre. The Origin and Livelihoods of the Sámi in European Scholarly Thought 1930-1960

Otso Kortekangas (Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

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

Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective

Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

Identity in Change/Svalbard Futures - with an introduction to the Svalbard Social Science Initiative

Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven) & Sam Saville (Aberysthwyth).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public Lecture: In Praise of Floods: homo sapiens and rivers

Professor James Scott, Yale University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Who can afford (not) to mitigate? Agency, inequality, and additionality in agricultural carbon finance

Connor Joseph Cavanagh Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

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

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

Richard Bell, Oxford University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

Can Taxation Help Indigenous Peoples Remap Space?: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Kluti Kaah

Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical deforestation frontier

Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak.

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

Tuesday 16 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Moments of crisis – volcanic eruptions, environmental impacts and societal change in the northern European past

Prof. Felix Riede, Aarhus University .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Monday 15 April 2019, 17:30-18:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The anatomy of abrupt climate change over Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles seen from the North Atlantic/Nordic Seas

Trond Dokken, Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Ivan Chai and King Crabs

Ruth Maclennan (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Integrating Photogrammetry and Computer Vision into the study of Glacier Change

Dr Penny How, University of York.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing

Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Protecting a Beyul: Harnessing the Power of Mountain Gods and Environmental Law to Protect a Sacred Landscape

Bruce Huett, Associate member Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Stratigraphical discourse in the Anthropocene: towards a more critical geographical tradition

Professor Stuart Lane, Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Université de Lausanne.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses

Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-14:15

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

Professor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Memories in the Skolt Sámi Area of the Arctic: Notes from a Visiting Artist

Tuuli Malla & Skolt Sámi Cultural Foundation.

Boardroom, Department of Architecture.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:30-19:00

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

'As Far North As Whale Hunters Go': The Medieval Arctic Environment, Experienced and Imagined

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Partnerships in Mining: Stories, Emotions, and the Quest for Stable Relationships in the Greenlandic Mining Sector

Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815

Sir Roderick Floud.

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Urban ecologies: governing nonhuman life in global cities

Dr Maan Barua, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

Dr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Origins of ‘Penitents’: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914

Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village

Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition

Alice Reid (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

ARCTIC CULT

Dr Richard Powell, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

A tale of a Syrian city at war: destruction, resilience and memory in Homs

Ammar Azzouz, Arup.

Boardroom, Department of Architecture.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618

Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Roundtable discussion on "Gender in Polar Research"

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Quantitative History Seminar

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention Bureaucracies in Central India

Adam Runacres, UCL.

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta

Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war

Professor Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London

Charlotte Berry (Goldsmiths’ Company).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Ariel Caine

Ariel Caine, Goldsmiths University (Forensic Architecture).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland

Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party

Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats

Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

The role of the Arctic in the development of Soviet climate science

Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Endangered genes and the International Seed Bank: conserving crop diversity after the Green Revolution

Dr Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991

Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public Lecture: Can we save nature by selling it?

Professor Rebecca Lave, Indiana University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

John Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

TBC

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Gruia Badescu

Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

Ajay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries

Ying Dai (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

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Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny

Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Rethinking Urban Nature

Professor Matthew Gandy, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commodification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

Daniela Sanchez-Lopez, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

‘Doing’ comparative research in South Asia: Positionality, postcolonial cities and the making of urban place

Shreyashi Dasgupta, Centre of Development Studies.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The diffusion of mechanised technologies in the West Riding of Yorkshire textile industry c.1780­‐1911 and its impact on employment and wages

Alex Tertzakian (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Climate Changed Urban Futures: imaginaries, experiments & justice in the Anthropocene city

Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Department of Geography, Durham University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

Dr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30