Spring 2013

Please join us for refreshments at 3:15, presentations from 3:30-4:30.

date	Speaker	Title/Event	Location
January 11	Sara McLafferty	“Beyond Spatial Targeting: Geographical Foundations for Public Health Policy.”	220 Saunders
January 18	Michael Watts	Eyre Distinguished Lecture: "A Tale of Two Insurgencies: Geography, Authority, and Identity in Contemporary Nigeria"	Pleasants Reading Room: Willson Library
February 8	Sarah Sharma	"Time, Precarity, and The Nights of Occupy."	220 Saunders
February 22	Joshua Inwood	"Contextualizing The State Mode of Production In The United States: Race, Space, and Civil Rights"	220 Saunders
March 1	Korine Kolivras	"Environmental Variability and The Continued Emergence of Lyme Disease."	220 Saunders
March 22	N/A	Geography Department's Graduate Student Research Presentations	220 Saunders
April 19	Joe Bryan	"Weaponizing Maps: Counter-Insurgency, Indigenous Peoples, and the Bowman Expedition."	220 Saunders
April 26	Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves	"From Geography to Geo-graphings: A World in Search of New Territorialities"	220 Saunders
May 2	N/A	Geography Departments' Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentations	220 Saunders

News: New NSF awards in the Department Jun 06, 2013; al-Bulushi receives Mellon Hays Award May 17, 2013; Courtheyn awarded Inter-American Foundation fellowship Apr 14, 2013; Wright award Ford Foundation fellowship Apr 14, 2013; Valdivia awarded NSF grant to study oil extraction in Ecuador Apr 14, 2013; Martin selected as CURS Scholar-in-Residence Apr 14, 2013; Qi Zhang awarded Summer Research Fellowship Apr 14, 2013; Duncan wins Keohane Professional Graduate Student Award Feb 19, 2013; ReOrienting the Veil Feb 19, 2013; Mapping the 2012 election Nov 12, 2012; New positions available in Geography and Geology Nov 07, 2012; Betsy Olson joins the Department Sep 05, 2012; International Year of Global Understanding Sep 05, 2012; Progressive places and movements in the South Aug 07, 2012; Antipode Scholar-Activist Award Aug 07, 2012; Walsh awarded Distinguished Profesorship Jul 10, 2012; Critical Geography Conference Nov 2-4 May 12, 2012; May Graduation Reception Apr 30, 2012; Stallmann inducted into UNC honors societies Apr 06, 2012; Paul Robbins to give Spring Eyre Lecture Jan 13, 2012