Exit Talks & Honors Symposium

Friends, family, and the larger Geography community are invited to join us for our annual Exit Talks and Honors Symposium, which celebrates the research of our amazing graduating students.

Time & location

Our Exit Talks and Honors Symposium will take place in 575 McCone Hall. Participating students are expected to arrive 15 minutes before their scheduled talk in order to check in and test the AV setup. A reception on McCone Hall's 5th floor balcony will take place after each event.

Honors Symposium

10:00am - Antonio Pacheco

Visions of Madrid: An Examination and Analysis of Historical Cartography of Puerto Rico

Faculty Sponsor: Diana Negrin

10:30am - Bruno McDarrah

Mapping cattle grazing and ground-dwelling arthropod response in a California Annual Grassland

Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie Pau

11:00am - Zachary Thorpe

A Thousand Raves: Towards a Posthuman Cartography of Rave Culture

Faculty Sponsor: Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

11:30am - Robin Eubank

Living Different: Examining Alternative & Autonomous Lifestyle Movements in 21st Century U.S. Polycrisis

Faculty Sponsor: Diana Negrin

12:00pm - Henry Carlo Reichardt Pullara

The City as a Product: The Market-Driven Urbanism of Irvine, California

Faculty Sponsor: Lakshmi Sarah

12:30pm - Reception

Exit Talks

10:00am - Xander Lenc

Terra Carcer: Landscape Drift, Racialization, and the Ecology of the American Prison

Committee Chair: Jake Kosek

11:00am - Kendrick Manymules

Shí Naashá: Land and Sovereignty in the Navajo Nation

Committee Chair: Jake Kosek

12:00pm - Lunch Reception

Honors Symposium

1:00pm - Alondra Garcia Sifuentes

Roots of Ruins and Reclamation at the Oakland Coliseum

Faculty Sponsor: Seth Lunine

1:30pm - Sophia Meyers

Spatial and Variational Properties of Tree Canopy & Termite Mounds in the Okavango Delta

Faculty Sponsor: Laurel Larsen

2:00pm - Allyn Matheson

Maternity Care in a Post-Dobbs Reality: How State Abortion Restrictions are Risking the Expansion of Maternity Deserts in Rural Areas of the U.S.

Faculty Sponsor: Seth Lunine

2:30pm - Arfa Momin

Reimagining Heat

Faculty Sponsor: Clancy Wilmott

3:00pm - Elizabeth Fiske

Bungalow Courts of Berkeley

Faculty Sponsor: Seth Lunine

3:30pm - Ethan Radley Bungay

Toward a Sonic Approach to Place: Audio Narratives and Soundscapes of Pittsburg, California

Faculty Sponsor: Lakshmi Sarah

4:00pm - Katia Elisabeth Anderson

Algorithms Without Accountability: How State-Private Partnerships Profit from the Immigration Detention System

Faculty Sponsor: Desiree Fields

Exit Talks & Honors Symposium