Spring 2021 Upcoming Colloquia
Wednesdays, Zoom, 12:00-1:30pm or 3:30-5:00pm
Sign up here to receive email reminders and abstracts for each talk.
| Date | Time | Name | Title |
| February 3 | 3:30 PM | Amy Griffin, RMIT University | In Maps We Trust? |
| February 10 | 3:30 PM | Pao Wang, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica | Climate of China in 1368-1911 Reconstructed from Historical Documents and Impact on Chinese Society |
| February 17 | 3:30 PM | Michaela Biasutti, Columbia University | Climate Change in the Sahel: What happened? What will happen? How should we prepare? |
| February 24 | 12:00 PM | Mae Miller, UC Berkeley | "All Guitars and I played the Piano:” The Blues Geographies of Black Cardiff in the Early Twentieth Century |
| March 3 | 3:30 PM | Ruben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria | Erasing History? Decolonizing the Cultural Landscapes of Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy |
| March 10 | 3:30 PM | Destin Jenkins, University of Chicago | The Bonds of Racial Inequality in Postwar America |
| March 17 | 3:30 PM | Jack Scheff, UNC Charlotte | Causes of the gap between dryness-index and dryness-impact trends under climate change |
| March 24 | Spring Break | ||
| March 31 | - | ||
| April 7 | 3:30 PM | Ricado Jacobs, UC Santa Barbara | Agrarianization of Urban Space: Anti-Neoliberal Urban Planning from Below |
| April 14 | 3:30 PM | Ross Doll, UC Berkeley | From Place to Landscape: Agricultural Modernization and the Cultural Politics of Dispossession in Rural China |
| April 21 | 3:30 PM | Youjin Chung, UC Berkeley | Governing Liminality: The Gendered Politics of Life and Death in Tanzania’s New Enclosures |
| April 28 | 3:30 PM | Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto |
Abolition Infrastructures, Alimentary Infrastructures |
| May 5 | 3:30 PM | Ellora Derenoncourt, UC Berkeley | Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration |
| May 7 (Friday) | 1:00 PM | [Event] A Panel Conversation on the Centenary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (feat. Geography Professor Jovan Scott Lewis) |
|
| May 12 | 3:30 PM | Gabe Eckhouse, UC Berkeley | The dysfunctional political economy of oil during the renewable energy transition: North American hydraulic fracturing, carbon purgatory, and US petroimperialism in the Persian Gulf |