Political Ecology Group meetings

Racist dispossession: indigenous territories and wars over energy resources

Josefa Sánchez Contreras.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic

Mia Bennett (Geography, University of Washington).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

State and Industrialization in Turkey since 1930

Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University).

William Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Zoom.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene sea-ice dynamics north of Greenland – from the Arctic’s Last Ice Area to the North Water Polynya

Henrieka Detlef, Aarhus University.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Arctic Subsurface Ocean Change under the Climate Crisis: Long-Term CPIES Observations in the Chukchi Sea

Dr. Jae-Hun Park (Inha University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Constraining Carbon in Earth’s Mantle

Dr. Joshua Shea, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1, Dept of Earth Sciences .

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Urban multiplicities seminar series

Climate Apartheid: the politics of reappropriating apartheid in climate discourse

Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge .

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 12:30-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation Health Security: The Politics, Ecologies, and Spaces of Conservation-led Infectious Disease Containment

Francis Masse ( University of Durham).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Movable Nature: “Greening” Large Dams in Northeastern Turkey

Dr Ekin Kurtiç (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Pedestrianship: Jan Gehl, Revanchist Urbanism and the Making of “Liveable Cities”

Professor Maroš Krivý (Estonian Academy of Arts).

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800

Mike Braddick, Oxford.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Understanding the deep sea mining state: The case of Canada

Rosanna Carver (University of Cambridge).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room..

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past.

Colin Pooley, University of Lancaster.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Antarctica as a pacemaker of Pleistocene climate transitions: from the Mid-Brunhes Transition to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Xu Zhang, British Antarctic Survey.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Lakes on the ice - modelling Antarctica's surface hydrology

Dr. Sammie Buzzard (Northumbria University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Environmental dispossession and undocumented migration between Mexico and New York City

María Inés Hernández (University of Cambridge) .

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room..

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

[POSTPONED] Climate, uncertainty, and the slippery measurement of Antarctic ice

We regret this talk has been postponed.

Amelia Urry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Urban multiplicities seminar series

Rendering the everyday: Geographies of urban digital infrastructuring

Prince Guma, University of Cambridge.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Mapping the French gabelles: Fiscal fragmentation, tax evasion, and social conflict

Joseph Enguehard (École normale supérieure de Lyon).

William Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Zoom.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

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

“To those who knew him best because they loved him most”: Loss, Grief, and Family in British Antarctic exploration, c. 1901-1922

Deb Wood, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute.

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

Thursday 12 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Against the rising tide: polar climate change and comms in the misinformation era

Dr. Ella Gilbert.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective

Pinar Ceylan, Cambridge and Christopher Markiewicz, Ghent.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plants, Places and Space: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge in the Pacific, c. 1768-1830

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge) .

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room..

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

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

Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain

Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

IntCal26 and Radiocarbon Dating: An essential dating method and key tracer for studying the Earth system

Timothy Heaton, University of Leeds.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 17:30-19:00

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

Rights of Nature, Ecocentrism, and Antarctica

Jordane Liebeaux, PhD candidate, University of Bristol.

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

Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Quantifying the unquantifiable? Assessing the importance of almsgiving in early modern France and Spain

Julie Marfany, Durham.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-19:00

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

Discovery Investigations: Science, Empire and the Making of the British South Atlantic

Daniella McCahey (History, Texas Tech University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 May 2026, 16:30-18:00

Urban multiplicities seminar series

An Amphibious Urbanism | | Cut 4: The Desert Arrives Slowly

Maan Barua (University of Cambridge).

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 May 2026, 16:30-18:00

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

Climate, uncertainty, and the slippery measurement of Antarctic ice

Amelia Urry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 May 2026, 16:30-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illegal trade in the North Atlantic

Anna Knutsson, Cambridge.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 17:00-19:00

Urban multiplicities seminar series

Animating urbanism: the demotic multiplicities of seeing cities digitally

Gillian Rose, University of Oxford.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:30-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

TBC

Harry Smith, Emily Vine, and Jane Whittle, Exeter.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 21 May 2026, 17:00-19:00