Urban metabolism and flood protection infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Investigating the stability of Antarctica’s ice shelves

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Rebecca Dell

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Max van Wyk de Vries

Dr Max van Wyk de Vries, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

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

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

What sort of challenge is climate change? Fifty years of editorialising in ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’

Professor Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

Protean geographies: Plants, politics and postcolonialism in South Africa

Professor Cheryl McEwan, Geography Department, Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:15-18:00

The Open City: its ethics and its design

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Taming The Flood

Jeremy Purseglove .

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:15-18:00

Governing Events: Emergencies and the Fragile Promise of the State

Dr Ben Anderson, Department of Geography, Durham University .

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:15-18:00

Critique of Punitive Reason

Didier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

The Public Presence of the Social Sciences

Distinguished Visitor lecture

Didier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Pathological Lives: on the cosmopolitics of losing self-assurance

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

“Swamped! The trials and tribulations of tropical peatland science”

Professor Susan Page, Department of Geography, University of Leicester.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 16:15-18:00

'Map-work' John Britton and the Topographical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Britain'

Professor Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:15-18:00

On Intuition: Machine Learning and Posthuman Ethics

Professor Louise Amoore, Department of Geography, Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:15-18:00

Enclaving global health? Investment in life and the uneven geographies of biological citizenship

Professor Matthew Sparke, University of Washington, Seattle.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:15-18:00

Limits without scarcity, or why Malthus was wrong

Professor Giorgos Kallis, SOAS.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:15-18:00

"Wondrous signs of wondrous times": cultural histories of extreme weather events in the UK

Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Nottingham.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:15-18:00

Challenges for an improved understanding of sea level extremes and coastal flood mitigation

Dr Kevin Horsburgh, National Oceanography Centre.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 16:15-18:00

Interspecies Iceland: more-than-human geographies, genealogies and family histories

Professor Catherine Nash, Queen Mary University of London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:15-18:00

Planetary Urbanization and the Right to the City

Dr Andy Merrifield, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 16:15-18:00

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Adapting Cities and Their Infrastructure to Global Change: An Integrated Modelling Approach to Understand Risks and Tradeoffs

Professor Richard Dawson, Earth Systems Engineering, Newcastle University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:15-18:00

Ebola and beyond: Interlaced inequalities, unsustainabilities and insecurities in a global development era

Professor Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:15-18:00

Of Knots and Blocks: Dwelling in Smooth Space

Professor Timothy Ingold, Anthropology, University of Aberdeen.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 16:15-18:00

The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in Jamaica and Barbados

Professor Miles Ogborn, Geography, Queen Mary University of London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:15-18:00

Ash, Ice, Mud: Tephras and Rapid Climate Changes

Professor Siwan Davies, Geography, Swansea University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 16:15-18:00

Machines and Markets: The Island Matching Engine and the Inversion of Finance

Professor Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

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

We regret this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

Professor Peter Coates, University of Bristol.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Accomplishing Climate Governance: new politics, new geographies?

Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

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

Paul Robbins is an International Visiting Fellow in Geography.

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

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

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

Professor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary, University of London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia Using Palaeoecology

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Interrogating the Political Situation: Between Science Studies and the Geography of Politics

Professor Andrew Barry, Dept. of Geography, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:15-18:00

Expecting the Best and the Worst from Synthetic Biology

Dr. Claire Marris, King's College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 16:15-18:00

Territorial Politics after the Financial Crisis

John Agnew, UCLA and Queen's University, Belfast.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:15-18:00

The scientific and cultural dynamics of climate change (1988-2013)

Michael Hulme,University of East Anglia.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:15-18:00

Mobility Systems and their Futures

Professor John Urry, University of Lancaster.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:15-18:00

Evaluating the impact of medical research, why bother?

Dr. Steven Wooding, RAND Europe.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:15-18:00

Generative Politics: Youth, Mobilization and the State

Professor Craig Jeffrey, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 16:15-18:00

Time, Space, and the Human Sciences: Some notes on a contemporary crisis

Professor Richard Drayton, King's College, University of London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 16:15-18:00

Modelling in support of policy negotiations for increasing food production whilst maintaining hydrological ecosystem services in the Andes

Dr. Mark Mulligan, King's College, University of London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:15-18:00

Where natural and social science meet? Reflections on an experiment in geographical practice

Professor Sarah Whatmore, Oxford University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:15-18:00

Exploring the impact of the Ukwazana Programme - the first structural HIV prevention programme for Men who have Sex with Men in Africa

Andy Tucker, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

Irrigation Resurrected in South Thailand

Janice Stargardt, Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

A Novel Technique or Monitoring Volcanic Plumes: from innovation to operational application

Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 12:30-14:00

TEPUI: Biological islands lost in space and time. From origins to conservation

Fabian Michelangeli, Simon Bolivar Professor, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge 2010-11.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Collaborative Watershed Management: Social Science Research Across the Pond" (NB: Additional Seminar)

Tomas Koontz, Ohio State University.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World

Tania Murray Li.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

OpenStreetMap and CycleStreets: collaborative map-making and cartography in the age of the internet

Martin Lucas-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Thursday 24 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Nuclear Renaissance

Dr. William Nuttall, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Thursday 10 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

The Geography of Arts and Culture: An Occupational Approach

Professor Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Thursday 27 January 2011, 12:30-14:00

Using knowledge fusion to map avian influenza H5N1 in East and Southeast Asia

Ms. Erjia Ge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 14 December 2010, 12:30-14:00

Spectacular Events, Urban Space and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Beyond

Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cities and the ethic of care among strangers

Professor Ash Amin, Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

The impact of choice of transport mode on personal pollution exposure

Dr Simon Kingham (University of Canterbury, New Zealand).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-14:00

Who gets what, where, in the tangled world of housing finance: the vexed question of price

Professor Susan Smith (Girton College, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 12:30-14:00

Renewable energy in India - opportunities and challenges

Dr Pallav Purohit.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 12:30-14:00

From sky to sea: modelling the production and movement of meltwater through ice sheets and glaciers

Neil Arnold (Geography/SPRI).

Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

Spaces of Economy & Society Cluster Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hardy Building 101.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 10:30-13:00

Healthy Country, Healthy People

Jonathan Kingsley (Visiting Scholar Cambridge/Deakin).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

Arsenic Levels in Drinking Waters of Emet-Kütahya – Turkey and its Relation to Arsenic Bearing Minerals in Borate Deposits.

Emeritus Professor Nazmi Oruc (Environmental Protection Association, Eskişehir-Turkey).

Room R5 Emmanuel College.

Saturday 25 April 2009, 16:15-17:30

Demarcating Boundaries. Geopolitical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Construction of an Israeli-Palestinian Border

Professor David Newman (Dept of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Bristol 2006-2007).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

"Miracles" on a Geographical Map': Geodetic Utopias and Cartographic Realism in the Soviet Union, 1920-1938

Dr Nick Baron (School of History, University of Nottingham).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Strategies of Similarity and the Movement of Governance Knowledge: Region-Building, Indigenous Identity and International Development in the Circumpolar North

Dr Elana Wilson (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Protecting the Environment: Criminal Law and the European Union

Mrs Nicky Padfield, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Professor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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