Past Colloquia
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- Fall 2023
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
- Fall 2018
Fall 2023 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00pm @ 575 McCone
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Spring 2023 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00pm @ 575 McCone
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| Date | Speaker/Event | Title |
| Jan 18, 2023 |
Maura Allaire, UC Irvine |
Community Response to Water Insecurity |
| Jan 19, 2023 |
Fuschia-Ann Hoover, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Green Infrastructure planning for justice; myth, mystery, or the future? |
| Jan 25, 2023 |
Tianna Bruno, University of Texas at Austin |
A Place Worthy of Being Honored: Black Ecological Life and Memory in the Face of Environmental Injustice |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Geography Department Community Gathering - Rescheduled | |
| Feb 8, 2023 | Beer and Babble on Balcony (not a public event) | |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Geography Department Community Gathering (not a public event) | |
| Feb 22, 2023 |
Tripti Bhattacharya, University of Syracuse |
Understanding future regional hydroclimate through the lens of paleoclimate |
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March 1, 2023 |
Joel Wanek, UC Berkeley Geography | Sonic Geographies of Oakland |
| March 8, 2023 |
Alan Rhoades, UC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley Labs |
Hydroclimatic change in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera |
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March 15, 2023 |
Mia Bennett, University of Washington | Inverted Worlds: Remote Sensing and the Reordering of Arctic Lands and Imaginaries |
| March 22, 2023 |
Savannah Shange, UC Santa Cruz |
Anthropology |
| April 6, 2023 370 Dwinelle Hall, 5-7pm |
Lisa Lowe, Yale University | Colonial Domesticity (co-sponsored with Rhetoric) |
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April 12, 2023 |
Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University | Think about this Seriously’: C. L. R. James, New World Group, and Decolonizing Black Studies |
| April 19, 2023 | Beer and Babble on Balcony (not a public event) | |
| May 3, 2023 | Orlando Patterson, Harvard University | The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament (co-sponsored with Social Science Matrix) |
| May 10, 2023 | Stephanie Pau, Florida State University | Understanding climate change impacts on species and ecosystems with eyes in the sky and boots on the ground |
Fall 2022 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00pm @ 575 McCone
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| Date | Speaker/Event | Title |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Geography Department Welcome Back Reception (not a public event) | |
| Sept 7, 2022 | Geography Community Meeting (not a public event) | |
| Sept 14, 2022 |
Madiano Marcheti |
A Conversation with Brazilian Filmmaker Madiano Marcheti (co-sponsor Matrix & Latin American Studies) |
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Sept 22, 2022 (5:00-7:00pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall) |
Anna Tsing, UCSC | The History of Maluku in Relation to Enslavement (co-sponsor Rhetoric) |
| Sept 28, 2022 |
Tanya Matthan, UCLA and UCB Geography |
Actuarial Politics: Navigating Risk and Responsibility in Rural India |
| Oct 5, 2022 | Beer & Babble on Balcony (not a public event) | |
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Gillian Rose, Oxford Monica Montserrat Degen Brandi Summers, UCB |
The New Urban Aesthetic |
| Oct 19, 2022 |
Juan Herrera, UCLA |
Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space (co-sponsor Center for Research on Social Change) |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Camilla Hawthorne, UCSC | Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (co-sponsor with ISSI & Sociology) |
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Nov 1, 2022 (12:00-2:30pm) |
Forrest Gander, Lenore Manderson, Brenda Hillman and Maya Khosla | Water's Edge: Writing on Water |
| Nov 9, 2022 | Nour Joudah | Mapping Decolonized Futures |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Beer & Babble on Balcony (not a public event) | |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Thanksgiving Break (no talk this week) | |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Event postponed | |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Event postponed | |
Spring 2022 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00pm @ 575 McCone (or join us virtually)
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Daniel Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Merced | Transversal borderwork and its agents: mobility regimes and urban divisions in two African cities |
| Feb 16, 2022 |
Adrienne Johnson, Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco (Environmental Studies) |
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and transnational hybrid governance in Ecuador’s palm oil industry |
| Feb 23, 2022 |
Riley Culberg, Stanford |
Near-Surface Cryo-Hydrology from Greenland to Europa: Insights from Ice-Penetrating Radar |
| Mar 2, 2022 (Zoom only) |
Laurel Larsen, USGS and Delta Stewardship Council | From "complex" to "wicked": A complex system scientist's journey as Delta Lead Scientist |
| Mar 9, 2022 |
Caitlin Keliiaa, UC Santa Cruz |
Settler Colonialism is a Sickness: How Federal Indian Health Failed Native Women |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Community Session – Transfer student event with BUGS (Noelani Fixler) | |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Spring Break (no meeting) | |
| Mar 30, 2022 |
Danielle Rivera, UC Berkeley (CED) |
Planning for Just Environments Beyond "Greening" |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Andrew Tucker, University of Cape Town | What can the Geographies of Sexualities mean for the urban South? Considering human rights, HIV/AIDS and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Daniel Aldana Cohen, UC Berkeley (Sociology) | Follow the Carbon: Climate Change and Inequality in 21st Century Urban Spaces |
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Apr 20, 2022, 4pm |
Catherine Hall, University College London (Hosted by Social Science Matrix, co-sponsored by Geography) |
Racial capitalism: what's in a name? |
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Apr 27, 2022, 12pm |
Online panel discussion (Hosted by Matrix Research Team) |
Digital Transformations in Global Land, Housing, and Property |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Brian Jefferson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Engineering Capitalist States |
Fall 2021 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 575 McCone, 3:30-5:00pm (or join us virtually)
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept 8 | Dept. Anti-Racism Working Group | |
| Sept 22 | Greg Niemeyer, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley |
From Moses to Metaverse: The Role of Illusion in Environmental Representations |
| Oct 6 | Don Tamaki, StopRepeatingHistory.org/CA Reparations Task Force |
The Legacy of Korematsu v. The United States: The Perils to Democracy When Racism Shouts Louder Than Facts, the Rule of Law, and the Constitution |
| Oct 13 | Sogorea’Te Community Land Trust | |
| Oct 20 | Meg Mills-Novoa, ESPM, UC Berkeley |
After Adaptation - A participatory analysis of the enduring impacts of climate change adaptation projects in the Ecuadorian highlands |
| Nov 3 | Desmond Jagmohan, Political Science, UC Berkeley |
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| Nov 17 | Andrew F. Jones, East Asian Languages, UC Berkeley |
The Far East Sound in Jamaica |
| Nov 22 (Monday) |
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol (UK) |
Masculinities, Gender and World Politics |
| Dec 1 | Maya Carrasquillo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley |
Green Infrastructure, Environmental Justice and Black America |
Spring 2021 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, Zoom, 12:00-1:30pm or 3:30-5:00pm
| 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) |
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| 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 |
Fall 2020 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, Zoom, 12.00-1.30pm or 3:30-5:00pm
Sep 23 |
3.30pm |
Rob Dull, Cal Lutheran University |
The Ghost of Ellsworth Huntington: How a Volcano in El Salvador Could Have Changed the World. |
Sep 30 |
3.30pm |
Sage Ponder, Florida State University |
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: infrastructural repair and social reproduction in the time of financialization |
Oct 7 |
3.30pm |
Manu Karuka, Barnard College |
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad |
Oct 14 |
3.30pm |
Hilary Faxon, UC Berkeley |
Welcome to the Digital Village: online practices and agrarian change in Myanmar |
Oct 20
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9-11am |
Matthew Shutzer, UC Berkeley |
Law, Capital, and Subterranean Property in India’s Energy Frontier, 1870 – 1975 (more info) |
Oct 21 |
Postponed |
Rebecca Lave, Indiana University |
Bridging the gap: Integrating critical human and physical geography in practice |
Oct 28 |
3.30pm |
Kristen Wilson, The Nature Conservancy |
Planning Forest Management to Increase Socio-Ecological Resilience to Fire, Drought, Beetles, and Climate Change in the Central Sierra Nevada: Tahoe Central Sierra Initiative |
Nov 4 |
12pm |
Loretta Lees, University of Leicester |
Beverley’s Story: survivability on one of London’s newest gentrification frontiers |
Nov 4 - 5 |
9-11am |
Post Imperial Oceanics Conference |
For more information, click here. |
Nov 11 |
12pm |
Jason Hackworth, University of Toronto |
"Manufacturing Decline: The economic consequences of anti-Black reaction in the American Midwest" |
Nov 16
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12:30pm |
Xiaowei Wang, UC Berkeley |
Commons Conversation — Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina, "Blockchain Chicken Farm and Grass Mud Horses" (more info) |
Nov 18 |
12pm |
Laura Lo Presti, Università degli Studi di Padova |
On the Migritude of Maps: tracing connections between mapping and the European migrant crisis |
Dec 2 |
3.30pm |
Sayd Randle, UC Berkeley |
Holding Water for the City: Emergent Geographies of Storage and the Urbanization of Nature |
Dec 9 |
3.30pm |
Luis Alvarez Léon, Dartmouth University |
Spatial reflections on the construction of an autonomous vehicle market |
Spring 2020 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 575 McCone Hall, 3:30-5:00pm
| Jan 29 |
Dan Ibarra, Miller Institute and UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley |
Drivers of hot and cold past wet states recorded by lakes in the western United States |
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Feb 5 |
Paola Bachhetta, UC Berkeley | Co-Formations, Co-Productions: Notes on Space, Power, and Subjects Together |
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Feb 12 |
Javier Arbona, UC Davis, Landscapes of Explosivity | Landscapes of Explosivity: San Francisco’s Parrot Block and the 1866 Nitroglycerine Explosion |
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Feb 19 |
Anna Brand, UC Berkeley |
Re-Membering Claborne Avenue: Mapping the Past Toward Black Mecca Futures |
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Feb 26 |
Sarah White, Newly appointed UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, UC Berkeley |
Long-term controls on the strength of El Nino |
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Mar 4 |
Vince Brown, Harvard |
Tacky's Revolt and the Martial Geography of Atlantic Slavery |
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Mar 11 |
Cancelled, read more | |
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Mar 12 |
Black Geographies Conference |
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Mar 18 |
Cancelled, read more |
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Mar 25 |
No colloquium, Spring Break |
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Apr 1 |
Cancelled, read more | |
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Apr 8 |
Cancelled, read more | |
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Apr 15 |
Cancelled, read more | |
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Apr 22 |
Cancelled, read more |
Fall 2019 Colloquia Series
Wednesdays, 575 McCone Hall, 3:30-5:00pm
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Sept 18 |
David Bates, UC Berkeley
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Spaces of decision in the cybernetic age
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Sept 25 |
Colleen Lye, UC Berkeley
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Maoism and Identity Politics |
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Oct 2 |
Diana Negrín da Silva, University of San Francisco
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Decolonizing the City: An Exploration of Guadalajara’s Contested Racial Landscape |
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Oct 9 |
Cancelled, read more
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Oct 16 |
Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz
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The greening imaginary: Urbanized nature and the making of cities and citizens in Germany’s Ruhr region |
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Oct 23 |
Judith Carney, UCLA
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Sauer Memorial Lecture, read more
4pm, Chevron Auditorium, International House
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Food Legacy in the Atlantic World |
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Oct 24 |
Melinda Cooper, The University of Sydney
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Cosponsored event, read more
4pm, Barrows Hall, MATRIX/Room 820
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Capitalism and the Question of Genealogy |
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Oct 30 |
Michael Polson, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley
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Equity and Erasure: Cannabis, Legalization, and the Legacies of Prohibition |
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Nov 6 |
Mark Waldrop, USGS
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Microbial and Geophysical Insights into the Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon |
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Nov 13 |
Cancelled, read more
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Nov 20 |
David Wahl, UC Berkeley
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Fire on the Mountain: Paleoenvironmental Evidence of Classic Period Warfare in the Maya Lowlands |
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Nov 27 |
No colloquium, Thanksgiving
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Dec 4 |
Ugo Nwokeji, UC Berkeley
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African Global Landscapes of New Slavery |
Spring 2019 Colloquium Series
Wednesdays, 575 McCone Hall, 3:30-5:00pm
| Jan 30 | Gökçe Günel, University of Arizona | Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi |
| Feb 6 | Desiree Fields, University of Sheffield | Automated Landlord: Digital Technologies and Post-crisis Financial Accumulation |
| Feb 13 | Christina Heatherton, Barnard College | The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution and Convergence Spaces of Global Radicalism |
| Feb 20 | Brandi Thompson Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University | Unmaking a Chocolate City: Spatial Aesthetics of Race and the Gentrifying Urban Landscape |
| Feb 27 | Lucia Cantero, University of San Francisco | Olympic Afterlives: Global Spectacles of Race and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro |
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Mar 7 |
Leah Meisterlin, Columbia University | Critical Distance and Cartographies of Difference |
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Mar 13 |
Erin McElroy, University of California, Santa Cruz | Mapping Techno-Imperialism in the Bay Area and Beyond |
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Mar 20 |
Clancy Wilmott, University of Manchester | Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography, Digitalities |
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Apr 10 |
Patrick Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology |
"On the Whole": City Models, Cartography, and Aerial Vision
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Apr 17 |
Margaret Zimmer, UC Santa Cruz |
More soil, less storage: The role of the critical zone in influencing runoff across high to low relief landscapes |
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Apr 24 |
Christina M. Patricola, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Characterizing El Niño’s Diversity and its Climate Implications
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May 1 |
Xiaoli Dong, UC Davis | Spatial Self-organization in Fluvial Landscapes |
Fall 2018 Colloquium Series
Wednesdays, 575 McCone Hall, 3:30-5:00pm
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Aug 29 Karla Slocum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Sept 19 Brett Story, Ryerson University |
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Sept 26 Richard Walker, UC Berkeley |
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Oct 10 Sheryl-Ann Simpson, UC Davis |
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Oct 17 Daniel Swain, UCLA & NCAR |
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Oct 31 Rear Admiral Shepard Smith, Director, Office of Coast Survey, NOAA |
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Nov 13 Earth-Writing Symposium: Lenore Manderson (Brown and Witwatersrand), Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke), Kath Weston and Geeta Patel (Virginia), and Amita Baviskar (IEG Delhi) |
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Nov 14 Katherine Verdery, CUNY |
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Nov 21 No colloquium, Thanksgiving |
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Nov 28 Ikuko Asaka, University of Illinois |