Jaskiran Dhillon (The New School) Title: Reflections on Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention Abstract: Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017) offers … Read more
Ian Baird (UW-Madison) Title: The Political Ecology of Cross-Sectoral Cumulative Impacts: Modern Landscapes, Large Hydropower Dams and Industrial Tree Plantations in Laos and Cambodia Abstract: Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region … Read more
Dr. Eric Tate, U. of Iowa Title: "Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience to Floods" Abstract: Flood disasters are the most frequent and deadliest among natural hazards. Designing and implementing sustainable solutions is somewhat of a wicked problem, due to the dynamic … Read more
Dr. Ryan Emanuel, NC State University
Dr. Tendai Chitewere, San Francisco State University (Click link for CV.) Green Lifestyles and Consumption-based Environmentalism: critical lessons from an ecovillage A growing number of ecological cohousing communities, ecovillages, are attempting to model sustainable ways to live. These efforts concentrate environmentally … Read more
Graduate Student Colloquium: Mental Health First Aid Training
Department of Geography Colloquium Series: "I know what you did last summer" Come learn about your favorite geographers’ summer adventures. Geography undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty will share photos and stories of their research, travel, and fun times. If … Read more
Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn, Asian Cultures and Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eyre Lecture, Dr. Tony Bebbington, Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Dr. Lisa Campbell, Rachel Carson Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Dr. Yulong Zhang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Institute for the Environment and Geography Department, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dr. Jen Swenson, Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University (host: Aaron Moody)
Dr. Matt Himley, Associate Professor of Geography, Illinois State University (hosts: Gabriela Valdivia and Elizabeth Havice)
Dr. Josh Lepawsky, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, (hosts: John Pickles and Jessica Tanner) Co-sponsored with Carolina Seminar on the Anthropocene, Social Science and the Humanities: stay tuned for information about an accompanying workshop.
Hello geographers, This is not an ideal semester for any of us. And this week is stressful and disorienting. We are supposed to be starting a semester, not transitioning. But here we are, shifting, re-organizing, moving, caring for each other, … Read more
A departmental welcome for Dr. Dalia Bhattacharjee. Dr Bhattacharjee is visiting UNC for 2-years as a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar. Title of the talk: Reproduction, a shift from home to the market: The Story of Commercial Surrogacy in India. Bio: Dalia … Read more
Date/Time: Friday, March 19th at 3:30 WILLIE J. WRIGHT Assistant Professor Geography and Africana Studies Rutgers University Title: Beyond Geographies of Race Abstract: Enthusiasm for black geographies has grown significantly since it was formalized in the edited volume, Black Geographies and the … Read more
CHOKEPOINTS: TEMPORALITIES OF NAVIGATION IN THE RED SEA Jatin Dua, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology - Univ. of Michigan Monday, Nov. 1 at 3:35 pm - Alumni 308 and Virtual co-sponsored by the Dept of Anthropology, Dept of Geography, and … Read more
To understand how urban ecosystem services are provided one must understand the "ecological" and "cultural" driving forces that explain how the green spaces in a particular urban morphology are structured or created. The aims of this study is to characterize … Read more
Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of Geography, Interim Co-Director of UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, will give a talk on Geography Colloquium Series on Friday, September 9, 2022 during 3:30-5:00pm. Title: A Research Update from the … Read more
Dr. Willie Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Abstract: Third Ward, one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas, is known for its residential demography, its political noncompliance, and its culture of arts. A onetime … Read more
3:30-3:35 pm: Event Introduction Ana Zurita Posas and Luke Francis will introduce colloquium and the Geography Undergraduate Advisory Committee (GUAC) Will also explain to the audience the structure of the event 1. Office of Undergraduate Research 2. Undergraduates, 3. Professors, … Read more
Geography Colloquium: Landscape Genetics of Infectious Diseases: Influenza Etiology and Malaria Vaccine Evaluation Studies
Geography Colloquium: Racial Capitalism, Black Radicalism, and Dual Power: A South African Genealogy of Contemporary Struggles
Sopheak Chann (Michigan State, co-sponsored with Carolina Asia Center)
Shaowen Wang (UIUC, co-sponsed with School of Data Science & Society)
Angel Xu (UNC Public Policy)
Title: Temporary Migrant Workers in (Post-) Pandemic Times: The Spatial Politics of Non-Integration and Prospects for Change Dr. Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore Tuesday, September 26th 12:15 pm-2:00 pm FedEx Global Education Center, Rm 4003 … Read more
This event will feature contributors from the recent special issue of Southern Cultures devoted to Black Geographies. Those contributors include: LaToya Eaves, UT Knoxville Priscilla McCutcheon, Univ. of Kentucky Christy Hyman, Cornell University + Mississippi State University Teona Williams, Rutgers … Read more
