Colloquia and Research Seminars
Meetings will be held in Room 200, Geography, every other Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. unless stated otherwise. Brief speaker profiles will be circulated during the week before each meeting. All are welcome.
Colloquium Committee: Michele Koppes (co-chair), Philippe LeBillon(co-Chair), Dan Cohen, Sarah Przedpelska, and Emily Rosenman.
Spring 2013 Schedule:
January |
|
15 |
"The Science Behind Hydroelectric Power Generation"
Georg Jost
Generation Resource Management, BC Hydro |
22 |
"Beyond the Anthropocene: Toward modest mathematical narratives
for more-than-human global communities
"
Luke Bergmann
Dept. of Geography, University of Washington |
29 |
"Medical Mapping and the Ethics of Space, the Geography of Responsibility"
Tom Koch
Dept. of Geography, UBC |
February |
|
5 |
"Wildfire-induced Sediment Yield and Debris-flow Initiation in Steep, Bedrock Landscapes"
Michael Lamb
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology |
12
CANCELLED |
"Property as Investment: Private Property, Government Authority, and Eminent Domain"
Deborah Becher
Department of Sociology, Columbia University |
March |
|
1
FRIDAY
room 100 1:00pm
|
"Education, Philanthrocapitalism and the New Neoliberalism"
Katharyne Mitchell
Dept. of Geography, University of Washington |
5
|
"‘Our home, our way of life': spiritual homelessness and the socio-cultural dimensions of Indigenous homelessness in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada
Julia Christensen
Department of Geography, UBC |
12CANCELLED |
"Below-grade Vancouverism: Rents and work in the livable city"
Pablo Mendez
Department of Geography, UBC |
19 |
"A Critical Geopolitics of Space and Spectacle at British Military Airshows"
Matthew Rech
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University |
26 |
"The Capitalist Spaces of Sale: Towards a Concept of Distribution Time"
Sébastien Rioux
Dept. of Political Science, York University |
