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: Simon Donner(co-Chair), Philippe LeBillon(co-Chair), May Farrales, Doris Leong,
Claudia Von Flotow,
Sophie Webber.
Spring 2012 Schedule:
January |
|
16 |
"Securing Circulation: Producing Spaces and Times of Market Authority"
Deborah Cowen
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto |
17 |
"Projections of the Climate-forced Deglaciation of Western Canada Using a Regional Glaciation Model"
Garry Clarke
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC |
24 |
"Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Community Responses to Climate Change"
Jessica Blois
Biogeography Search Candidate |
26
Thursday |
"Charting the Course of the Anthropocene: An Aquatic Perspective"
Irene Gregory-Eaves
Biogeography Search Candidate |
February |
|
2
THURSDAY
Room 200 |
"One Species, Two Continents: Changes in Species Interactions Between Ranges Determine Invader Success"
Jennifer Williams
Biogeography Search Candidate |
6
MONDAY
Room 214 |
"No Here, No There: Transit Disability and Spatial Entrapment"
Tom Koch
Department of Geography, UBC
|
7 |
"Changing Climate, Human Evolution, and the Revival of Environmental Determinism"
David Livingstone
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast |
14 |
"What Lies Beneath: Rediscovering the Environment at Canada's Historic Landscapes"
Claire Campbell
Department of History, Dalhousie University |
28 |
"Land Use / Land Cover Change Impacts to Biodiversity and Carbon Storage After Five Years of Agriculture Intensification in a Millennium Village in Western Kenya"
Sean Smukler
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC |
March |
|
6 |
"Violent ‘development’ & Alleged Crimes of Canadian Mining in Guatemala: Which Way Forward?"
Catherine Nolin
Geography Program, University of Northern BC
|
13 |
"Cumulative Carbon as a Framework for Climate Stabilization"
Kirsten Zickfeld
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
|
19
Monday
Room 214 |
"Telling Spatial Stories: The Narrative Impulse in Historical GIS"
Anne Knowles
Department of Geography, Middlebury College
|
27 |
"Waterscapes and the Ghost of the Scarcity Postulate"
Lyla Mehta
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
April |
|
3 |
"Sustainable Lifestyles, Technology and Social Influence"
Jonn Axsen
School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University |
