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Seminars at the Department of Geography and subdepartments and related units. This list is an automatic combination of all the sub-lists.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Geography/SPRI Webmaster. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

23 upcoming talks and 1870 talks in the archive: show first 500.

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

War and Prices: Austerity and the Cost of Living Index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)

User Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester).

House Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

Thursday 13 November 2025, 17:15-18:45

Labour History Cluster

Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History

User Melissa Calaresu, Katie Price, and Amy Erickson (all Cambridge).

House Room 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Understanding Environmental Governance in China through Central Government Environmental Inspection

User Weiye Wang (Renmin).

House Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

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

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

'Walk the Perimeter': Stories of Place in the Falkland Islands

User Bronte Evans-Rayward (SPRI, University of Cambridge).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Marine carbon cycle dynamics in the southern high latitudes during the Mid-Pleistocene transition: new insights from the central South Pacific Ocean

User Julia Gottschalk, Kiel University.

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

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

‘Goats, Grasses, and Glaciers’ - Rethinking Climate Migration in the Indian Tibetan Plateau

User Samira Patel, PhD candidate, SPRI, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 20 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Improving the synchronization of climate records using probabilistic methods and cosmogenic radionuclides

User Dr Francesco Muschitiello - Geography.

House Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Woodland and the Medieval Economic Expansion: a Comparative Perspective on North-West Europe

User Nicolas Shroeder (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

House Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

Thursday 20 November 2025, 17:15-18:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Wildlife Conservation and the Posthumanities: Plotting Conservation in Postcolonial Literature and Film

User Dominic O’Key (Cambridge).

House Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bolivia

User Dr Penelope Anthias (Durham University).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Meltwater, meteorites, and volcanoes: the elusive cause of the Younger Dryas Event

User James Baldini, Durham University.

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 17:30-19:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Landlocked: Oil, Empire, and Planetary Politics in Alberta

User Dr Jeremy Schmidt, Queen Mary University of London.

House Small Lecture Room, Department of Geography.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Marco Volpe, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland.

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

History of Urban Form of India (book talk)

User Prof Pratyush Shankar (Navrachana University, India and Guest Professor at TU Darmstadt, Germany).

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:00-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900

User Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge).

House Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 17:15-18:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Speculative and experimental political ecologies for an age of crisis, hope and action

User Maria Rusca (Manchester).

House Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

The Timeless Peasant & the Untimely Labourer: The Travails of Decolonising Labour in 20th Century Sri Lanka

User Andi Schubert (Cambridge).

House Room 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unprecedented changes on the physiology of Antarctic organisms over the last centuries

User Simone Moretti, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Free souls, poor soils: the nature of slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay

User Emiliano Travieso (University of Madrid).

House Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 17:15-18:45

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

Contradictory Contemporaneity? Sámi Building in Nordic Architectural Discourse

User Sofia Nivarti (Architecture, University of Cambridge).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic

User Mia Bennett (Geography, University of Washington) and Klaus Dodds (Independent Scholar).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 February 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

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

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

User Daniella McCahey (History, Texas Tech University).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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