Geography Commencement, May 16
The Geography Commencement ceremony will be held on Monday, May 16th, from 9:30am - 12:30pm in the Pauley Ballroom. We are excited to honor all of our Geography students who graduated during the pandemic and weren't able to participate in-person as well as our current, graduating class, celebrating Fall 2019 - Fall 2022 graduates. After our ceremony, join us on the 5th floor balcony for a champagne toast!
Exit Talks, May 12-13
We are excited to host a very special event highlighting three years' worth of Exit Talks by PhD students! Please join us this Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13 to celebrate the work of our amazing PhD students and connect with our larger Berkeley Geography community.
Here you will find the program for the event, which will be hosted in 575 McCone Hall (on campus) as well as virtually via Zoom. Refreshments and great conversation guaranteed.
We sincerely hope you can attend! Please feel free to share with anyone else who might be interested.
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 |