Geography Tea Schedule
Spring 2007


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University of California, Berkeley Department of Geography
Geography Tea Schedule — Spring 2007
Wednesdays, 4:10 p.m., 575 McCone Hall (unless otherwise noted)

January 24 No Tea scheduled

January 31 Graduate Student Meeting

February 7 G. Donald Bain, Geography Computing Facility, University of California Berkeley, "Looking Around - Documenting landscapes with 360° digital panoramas"

February 14 *Elizabeth Lunstrum, PhD Candidate, Geography Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, "Security and State Sovereignty in a Transboundary Space: Mozambique and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park"

February 21 Canceled - *Barbara Tempalski, Project Director, Community Vulnerability and Response to IDU-Related HIV, Institute for AIDS Research

February 28 Canceled -*Joseph Nevins, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geography, Vassar College

March 7 Walter Oechel, Professor, Biology Department, San Diego State University, “Climate Change, Carbon, and Arctic Ecosystems: Is it already too late?”

March 14 Ananya Roy, UCB, Associate Dean of International & Area Studies, Associate Professor & Chair, Urban Studies Major, Department of City & Regional Planning, "Poverty Experts: Debt and Discipline in the New Global Order of Development."

March 21 Hugo Lambert, Post-Doctorial Scholar, Geography Department, UCB, "Difficulties in climate change attribution and prediction"

March 28 No Tea - Spring Recess

April 4 Canceled - Martina Rieker, Dean of the Social Sciences, American University in Cairo

April 11 Michael Armstrong, Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Development, City of Portland, "Climate Protection in Portland: The History and Effectiveness of Programs and Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Municipal Scale"

April 18 No Tea - AAG

April 25 Haas Scholars Joshua Belton and Agata Surma (Geography majors) will jointly present "Development, Livestock, and Society: Cultural Practices and Agricultural Intervention in Upper East Ghana."
Haas Scholar Miriam Solis (Geography major) will present "(En)Gendering Agrarian Reform: Geographies of Governance in Rio de Janeirio, Brazil."
(host: Carol Page, Student Affairs Officer, Geography Department)

May 2 Department Picnic

*Geography job talk candidate (human geography faculty position)


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