
October 2015
Colloquium – Rebecca Lave
Department of Geography, Indiana University Rebecca Lave Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Indiana University Integrating critical human and physical geography in practice The relationship (or lack thereof) between physical and human geography is a longstanding discussion within our field. Some commentators assume the possibility of synthesis and call for integrated work; others assume no deep integration is possible or desirable. But even a brief review of the literature on this topic makes two points glaringly clear: this discussion has been…
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1st Annual Department of Geography Trivia Throw Down
Please come to the 1st Annual Department of Geography Trivia Throw Down. Date: Friday, Feb 5, 3:35 PM Where: Carolina Hall 220 All welcome! Meet Geography majors, faculty and graduate students. Snacks provided. Prizes!!
Find out more »1st Annual Department of Geography Trivia Throwdown event
Please come to the 1st Annual Department of Geography Trivia Throw Down. Date: Friday, Feb 5, 3:35 PM Where: Carolina Hall 220 All welcome! Meet Geography majors, faculty and graduate students. Snacks provided. Prizes!!
Find out more »Colloquium – Scott Kirsch, UNC Geography
Title: Technology as a keyword Abstract While for centuries technology referred to a systematic study of the ‘practical arts’ – typically a kind of book or technical manual –its usage has expanded dramatically so that today we think nothing of the same word being used to describe a massive hydro-power dam, a set of methods for building the dam, or the means of communication for a youth-based social movement against the dam; a specific piece of machinery or mechanical object…
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Colloquium – Corene Maytas, Geography, University of Florida
Corene Maytas, Geography, University of Florida Title: On the Edge – Identifying and Measuring Tropical Cyclone Rain Fields Abstract: Geographers measure space, and with that comes the challenge of first delineating the space. In this presentation I will discuss how I have defined the edges of the rain fields of tropical cyclones (TCs) utilizing a GIS. I have primarily employed data from ground-based weather radars to examine TCs as they make landfall in the U.S. However I have also used data…
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Colloquium – Kafui Attoh, Murphy Institute for Worker Education, CUNY
Title: Public Transportation and the Idiocy of Urban Life Abstract: Drawing on research conducted in California's East Bay, this talk argues for linking fights over public transportation to ongoing debates on the "right to the city." It suggests that debates over public transit are also debates over the nature of the public itself and who has a right to be part of the public -- a key theme in the "right to the city" literature. In developing this argument, I…
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Department welcome back Colloquium
Colloquium: Fridays from 3:35-5 pm in 220 Carolina Hall.
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Bridging transnational scholarship and broadening conceptual tools in nature-society scholarship
Dr. Tom Perrault (Geography, Syracuse University) and Dr. Manuel Prieto (Instituto de Arquelogía y Anthropología, San Pedro de Atacama, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile) who will lead a conversation on bridging transnational scholarship and broadening conceptual tools in nature-society scholarship.
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Dr. Faith Kearns Colloquium
Dr. Faith Kearns (California Institute for Water Resources), who will share her work on communicating science and increasing the relational capacity of the science community, drawing on her work on water issues and environmental change.
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Dr. Jason Delbourne Colloquium
Dr. Jason Delbourne of NC State will be coming to talk with us about his work on genetic engineering, scientific innovation and society, including his recent experience as part of a 15 person National Academy of Sciences that produced a report on the science and policy of 'gene drives'. For an overview and interview with Jason, see: https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/06/delborne-genedrive-qa/
Find out more »January 2017
Dr. Anthony Bebbington and Scott Sellwood
Dr. Anthony Bebbington (Clark University) and Scott Sellwood (OXFAM-America) will use our regular colloquium time (3:35-5pm) to lead a panel with Dr. Arturo Escobar and Dr. Betsy Olson on research and advocacy titled: “NGOs and scholars conversing: Geography, advocacy, and pathways to environmental justice.” As part of this visit, on Friday January 27 we will have a workshop at 10am and a graduate student lunch at 12:30pm.
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Geography Colloquium – screening of “Standing Rock II: Red Power”
Introduction by Andrew Curley http://politicalecology.web.unc.edu/
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Colloquium: Jennifer Baka
Dr. Baka will be examining how local and non-local stakeholders impact nationwide hydraulic fracturing (fracking) regulations on U.S. federal and Indigenous lands.
Find out more »Colloquium – Jennifer Baka
Dr. Jennifer Baka of Pennsylvania State University will be examining how local and non-local stakeholders impact nationwide hydraulic fracturing (fracking) regulations on U.S. federal and Indigenous lands. Her talk title is "Making science: How stakeholder coalitions frame scientific claims to influence federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands in the United States"
Find out more »Colloquium: Graduate Student Research Presentations
Pavithra Vasudevan, Willie Wright, Charles Scaife, and Sarah Schmitt will present their research.
Find out more »Colloquium: Xochitl Leyva
Xochitl Leyva has been living and working in Chiapas for over thirty years and is an active member of collectives and networks for local and global justice. In this talk, she will discuss the contemporary Mexican crisis, the electoral conjuncture, and the ways in which indigenous struggles against patriarchy, capitalism, and development are interwoven in one of the most creative political strategies in the continent at present. Abstract The National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation have recently…
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September 2017
Dr. Rob Haswell
Robert Haswell was a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Natal: Pietermaritzburg between 1974 and 1989, before entering Parliament in South Africa first as a member of the Democratic Party and then as an African National Congress Member of Parliament (1989-1994). Between 1996 and 2010 he serves as the Municipal Manager and Senior Executive Manager of the Msunduzi Municipality and since 2016 is a Board member of the Umgungundlovu Economic Development Agency. As a geographer and as a…
Find out more »Dr. Daniel Exeter
Dr. Daniel Exeter Using Big Data to understand the geography of health and deprivation in New Zealand Dr Daniel Exeter, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland Abstract There has been a considerable amount of research into socio-demographic patterns of health outcomes in New Zealand using record linkage of key routine health databases (e.g. primary care enrolments, hospitalisations, medication dispensing). These administrative data capture patient journeys through the publically-funded health system in New Zealand used by the majority of…
Find out more »Dr. Robert McDonald
Robert McDonald (TNC) Colloquium Title - Conservation for Cities Flyer download Abstract Homo sapiens are now primarily an urban species. By 2050, the world’s urban population will swell by almost 3 billion. All this growth will require new infrastructure, as will the challenge of adapting cities to climate change. Ecologists, urban planners, economists, and landscape architects are increasingly asked to consider the role that green infrastructure - the natural habitat, inside or outside the city’s walls that supplies crucial benefits to…
Find out more »Dr. Amber Pearson
Amber Pearson (Mich State U) Link to CV. Link to flyer TITLE Quantifying the health benefits of nature in cities ABSTRACT The last decade has seen mounting evidence to suggest that the presence of natural environments in urban neighborhoods is associated with health benefits. Most of these studies assume that living near a green (eg park) or blue (eg ocean) space renders benefits - including behaviors such as increased physical activity and outcomes including lower blood pressure and improved…
Find out more »October 2017
Dr. Heather Randell
Heather Randell (SYSYNC) Link to CV TITLE: The impact of climate change on educational attainment: Evidence from the global tropics ABSTRACT: Investments in education serve as an important pathway out of poverty, yet reduced agricultural productivity due to droughts or temperature shocks may affect educational attainment if children receive poorer nutrition during early childhood, are required to participate in household income generation during schooling ages, or if households can no longer pay for school-related expenses. In order to understand…
Find out more »Dr. Aaron Hipp
Aaron Hipp (NCSU) Link to CV. Title: Spatial Energetics To address current obesity and inactivity epidemics, researchers have attempted to identify spatial factors that influence health behaviors. Technological and methodological developments have led to a revolutionary ability to examine dynamic, high-resolution measures of temporally-matched location and behavior data through Global Positioning Systems (GPS), accelerometry, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). These advances allow the investigation of ‘spatial energetics,’ high spatio-temporal resolution data on location and time-matched physical activity, inactivity, and nutrition…
Find out more »November 2017
Dr. Eric Delmelle
Eric Delmelle (UNC-Charlotte)
Find out more »Dr. Ian Baird
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 for assessing the impacts of big hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree plantations. However, the cross-sectoral and cumulative effects of such projects have not been sufficiently addressed. Where cumulative impacts have been considered, studies typically focus on a single sector,…
Find out more »January 2018
Dr. Eric Tate
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 and spatially-varying connections among physical, social, and built environment systems that produce adverse impacts. Major focus areas in flood research include risk, vulnerability, and the emerging field of disaster resilience. This presentation profiles the application of geospatial modeling in these…
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Dr. Ryan Emanuel
Dr. Ryan Emanuel, NC State University
Find out more »Dr. Tendai Chitewere
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 conscious residents who promote a sense of community as a tool for confronting social and environmental degradation. Through establishing a green lifestyle with architecture that can decrease ecological footprints and reduce social isolation, these communities propose structural, cultural change in…
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Graduate Student Colloquium
Graduate Student Colloquium: Mental Health First Aid Training
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Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & Jouni Hakli
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & Jouni Hakli: "Political agency in vulnerable life situations: studying refugee political subjectivities"
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Colloquium Series: “I know what you did last summer”
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 you wish to present (3-5 minutes + a few photos), please reply to this email by end of day Sept 5th. Friday, September 7th, 2018 at 3:35 Light refreshments Carolina Hall 220 All welcome
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CH meets Greensboro
UNC-Greensboro Geography
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January 2019
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September 2019
Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn
Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn, Asian Cultures and Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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November 2019
Dr. Courtney Wood
Dr. Courtney Woods, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Find out more »Dr. Lisa Campbell
Dr. Lisa Campbell, Rachel Carson Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Find out more »January 2020
Dr. Yulong Zhang
Dr. Yulong Zhang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Institute for the Environment and Geography Department, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Find out more »Dr. Jen Swenson
Dr. Jen Swenson, Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University (host: Aaron Moody)
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Dr. Matt Himley
Dr. Matt Himley, Associate Professor of Geography, Illinois State University (hosts: Gabriela Valdivia and Elizabeth Havice)
Find out more »Dr. Josh Lepawsky
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.
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Celebration of Geography Graduate Student Research
Celebration of Geography Graduate Student Research (host: Sara Smith and Grad Committee)
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Dr. Mark Anderson
Dr. Mark Anderson, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Cruz
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Undergraduate student event (host: Gabriela Valdivia and UGrad Committee)
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October 2021
Colloquium Event: DR. ARRIANNA MARIE PLANEY “Intersectionality & Time: Thinking Spatially and Relationally about Health Inequities”
Title: Intersectionality & Time: Thinking Spatially and Relationally about Health Inequities DR. ARRIANNA MARIE PLANEY Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Health Policy and Management Gillings School of Global Public Health Faculty Fellow, Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research CAROLINA HALL 220 OR ZOOM RSVP VIA QR CODE
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February 2022
March 2022
Colloquium: Jovan Scott Lewis
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Colloquium: Dr. David Padgett
"Democratizing Geospatial Technology: A Model for Providing Technical Assistance in Community Based Participatory Mapping to Environmental Justice Stakeholders” Abstract: The “Democratizing Geospatial Technology Project,” funded by the American Geographic Society's EthicalGEO Fellowship program, has as its central vision, that environmental justice stakeholders themselves are best equipped to produce spatial data visualizations of their communities. The primary goal is the development of a community-based participatory mapping tutorial model, that can be replicated for use by grassroots organizations employing geospatial data visualizations…
Find out more »Colloquium on Ugrad Research
Celebrate undergraduate research, learn something new, and enjoy a snack! Please join our colloquium on 3:30PM Friday (22 Apr) to hear from honors theses students Janis Arrojado and Gloria Hope.
Find out more »August 2022
I Know What You Did Last Summer Colloquium
Join us for this annual department-wide event where we share our tales of summer adventures, research activities, and finding joy in the everyday. All Geographers are invited to present (with a special welcome to our undergraduate students) for a few minutes and perhaps share some photos. If you would like to present, email Nina by 8/24 (ninam@email.unc.edu). This event is organized by the Geography Undergraduate Advisory Committee (GUAC).
Find out more »September 2022
Colloquium: Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui “A Research Update from the Carbonshed Lab”
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 Carbonshed Lab Abstract: In this seminar, I will offer examples of ecohydrological observations conducted in the Carbonshed Lab across different ecosystems and climates, emphasizing the role of the physical template of landscapes in mediating watershed dynamics. I argue that new…
Find out more »Colloquium: Dr. Willie Wright “Right Beyond the Site: Otabenga Jones & the Social Practice of Belonging”
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 muse for John Biggers, and the home of Project Row Houses, Third Ward has become a hub for Black artists. In this talk, I highlight the politicized aesthetic praxis of the artist collective, Otabenga Jones & Associates. Informed by their…
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Research in Geography Colloquium
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, 4. Q&A Panel! 3:35-3:40 pm: Introduction to Research Rachael Fisher, an Undergraduate Ambassador at the Office of Undergraduate Research, will broadly explain how to get involved with research, what does research look like, and the benefits of undergraduate research 3:40-4:00…
Find out more »Colloquium: Dr. Michael Emch
Geography Colloquium: Landscape Genetics of Infectious Diseases: Influenza Etiology and Malaria Vaccine Evaluation Studies
Find out more »November 2022
Colloquium: Dr. Yousuf Al-Bulushi
Geography Colloquium: Racial Capitalism, Black Radicalism, and Dual Power: A South African Genealogy of Contemporary Struggles
Find out more »January 2023
Colloquium: Sopheak Chann
Sopheak Chann (Michigan State, co-sponsored with Carolina Asia Center)
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Colloquium: Shaowen Wang
Shaowen Wang (UIUC, co-sponsed with School of Data Science & Society)
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April 2023
Colloquium: Angel Xu
Angel Xu (UNC Public Policy)
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