The Tod Spieker Colloquium Series
Fridays at 3:00pm in the Green Room, 1261 Bunche Hall
Refreshments served.
Fall Quarter 2009
9 October
Leila Carvalho, UCSB Geography
Climate Variation and Change In the South America Monsoon System
23 October
Tom Puleo, ASU Politics and Global Studies
The empty set and a case for chaos
6 November
Professor Cort Willmott, Geography, University of Delaware
Some statistical issues in estimating and mapping climate and climatic change from weather-station records
13 November
Susan Ustin, UC Davis, Dept. of Land, Air, and Water Resources Spread and Persistence of Invasive Plants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Ecosystem Change Observed from Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy
4 December
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA English (and Global Studies)
Yam, Roots and Rot: Excavating the Soil of the Provision Grounds
Spring Quarter 2009
17 April
Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor, SUNY, Stony Brook
A Matter of Edge: Border vs. Boundary at La Frontera
24 April
John Jensen, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
Advancements in Remote Sensing of the Earth from Airborne and Satellite Platforms
8 May
An Yin, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
Formation of the Tibetan plateau: A process from large intra-continental basins to a wide orogen
29 May
Stuart C. Aitken, Department of Geography, San Diego State University
The Awkward Spaces of Fathering and the Poetics of Becoming Other
Winter Quarter 2009
9 January
Norman Thrower, UCLA
Maps and Civilization, Revisited: A Publishing Horror Story
23 January
Jutta Gutberlet, University of Victoria
The contribution of inclusive waste management in building sustainable communities: Experiences with organized recycling groups in Brazil
6 February
Libby Wentz, Arizona State University
Computational spatial analysis techniques for better understanding urban water demand
20 February
Susan Christopherson, Cornell University
Power in Firm Networks
27 Feburary
Heather Merrill, Dickinson College
Excluding Categories and Racing Labor in Italian Class Politics
13 March
Julienne Stroeve, University of Colorado
Arctic Sea Ice: Standing at the Threshold
Fall Quarter 2008
10 October
Kathleen A. Galvin, Colorado State University
Household Decision Making in Rangelands: Effects of Change Using an Integrated Modeling Approach
24 October
Mark Harrower, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Maker! Mapping the World’s Data
7 November
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University
Unique Insights to Earth's Climate History Preserved in its Cryosphere
21 November
John May, UCLA
Imaging the Spectral Earth: Some Remarks on Technology and Perception in Geographic Thought
5 December
Tandong Yao, Tibetan Plateau Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Climatic Changes On Tibetan Plateau Based On Ice Core Records
Spring Quarter 2008
4 April
Mark Lorenzen, Copenhagen Business School
Breakout From Bollywood? The Roles of Social Networks and Regulation in the Evolution of Indian Film Industry
25 April
David Pinder, University of London
Mobile cities: walking, circulating, floating, dissolving
9 May
Alex Hall, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, UCLA
Narrowing the Uncertainties Surrounding Climate Change
23 May
Humboldt Event in Honor of Denis Cosgrove
Landscapings: Iconographies and Beyond
30 May
Phillip Morrison, Victoria University, Wellington
The Power of the Positional Good
Winter Quarter 2008
11 January
Antony Orme, Geography, UCLA
Bar Migration and Barrier Formation across Seasonal Estuaries
25 January
Suzanna Hecht, Urban Planning, UCLA
Euclides da Cunha's Amazon: Territorial Scrambles and the Dream of Tropical Civilization
8 February
Thomas Painter, University of Utah
When Deserts and Mountains Collide: The Forcing of Snowmelt by Disturbed Desert Soils
22 February
Carolyn Cartier, USC
China
7 March
Becky Mansfield, Ohio State University
The surprises of property: remaking nature-society relations through privatization
Fall Quarter 2007
Friday, Oct 12
Robin Doughty, University of Texas at Austin
Conserving the Albatross: Establishing an Environmental Regime
Friday, Nov. 2
David Rigby, UCLA Geography -and - Sebastien Breau McGill University, Montreal
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis using Matched Employer-Employee Data
Friday, Nov. 30
Keith D. Stolzenbach, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA
Atmospheric Deposition of Contaminants: a Study of Air, Water, and Earth
Friday, Dec. 7
Elena Ivanova, Shirshov Inst.
Postglacial and Last Millenium environments in the Barents and Kara Seas: response to climatic change
6 April
Robert Kloosterman, University of Amsterdam
TBD
13 April
Michael Ross, UCLA Political Science
The Resource Curse
27 April
David Howard, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
"Safe Neighborhoods" in the Dominican Republic: urban violence, territory, and the Plan for Democratic Security
4 May
Katrina Moser, University of Western Ontario
Messages from Oceans, Atmospheres and Deserts Recorded from Lake Sediments
11 May
Charles Taylor, UCLA Biology
Malaria in Mali and the Cameroon
24 May (Thursday), von Humboldt Lecture
David Livingstone, University of Glascow
Darwinian Landscapes
Winter Quarter 2007
12 January
Gert Verstraeten, Catholic University of Leuven
The changing human impact on sediment fluxes since the onset of agriculture
19 January
Desiree Tullos, Oregon State University
River engineering and restoration: are we fixing what we broke?
2 February
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Tropical Forests and Global Carbon Cycle: Human Impacts and Climate Perturbations
16 February
Anson Mackay, University College London
Past and future climate impacts on the endemic diatom flora of Lake Baikal, SE Siberia
2 March
Haim Tsoar, Ben Gurian University
The effect of drought and climate change on the mobility and stability of sand dunes
16 March
Michael Conzen, University of Chicago
Conceiving cultural geography: Ernst Christian Kapp and his American period
Fall Quarter 2006
13 October
David Blackbourn, Harvard University
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making Of Modern Germany
27 October
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Department of Geography, SUNY Buffalo
Medium-sized Enterprises in the US Biotechnology Sector
17 November
Ulrich Oslender, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
Geographies of Terror: A Framework
8 December
William L. Fox, Independent Scholar, Writer and Poet
On the Edge of Land and Language: Cognition and the Geographic Imperative
Spring Quarter 2006
7 April
Doug Martinson, Columbia University
Ventilation of ocean heat along the Western Antarctic Peninsula
21 April, von Humbolt Lecture
Diana Liverman
Environmental Science, School of Geography
Oxford University
Geographies of a changing and commodified atmosphere
5 May
Daniel Sui, Department of Geography, Texas A & M
Geospatial Technologies and the E-merging Panopticon:
Tracking kids, dogs, old people, and everybody else in between
19 May
Norman Thrower, Geography, UCLA
Doctors and Maps
2 June
Glen MacDonald, Geography, UCLA
Southern California and Its Perfect Droughts: Past, Present and Future
Winter Quarter 2006
20 Jan
John Brock, USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies
Sensing the Ecosystem Structure of the Florida Reef Tract
3 Feb
Susan Ustin, Land, Air and Water, UC Davis
Estimating Wildfire Risk Using New Remote Sensing Indicators
CANCELLED!
Jamie Peck, Geography, Wisconsin-Madison
Liberating the city: between New York and New Orleans
3 March
Pat Kirch, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Three Islands And An Archipelago:
Human-natural System Interactions In Oceania
17 March
Antoine Picon, History of Architecture & Technology, Harvard
Mapping the City, from Renaissance Portraits to Digital Models
Fall Quarter 2005
7 October
Trevor Paglen, UC at Berkeley
The Secret Bases:
Exploring the Pentagon's 'Black World'
14 October
Dr. Ian McPhail AM
East Melbourne, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
"DOES IT MATTER, IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT?"
21 October
Kendra McSweeney, Dept. of Geography, Ohio State.
Demographic Reconquista? The Dynamics and Implications of Indigenous Population Recovery in Lowland Latin America
4 November
Mark Serreze
National Snow and Ice Data Center,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
The Arctic on the Fast Track of Change
18 November.
Veronica Della Dora
Department of Geography, UCLA & Getty Research Fellow
Taking 'genius loci' out of place: shifting visions of Mount Athos
2 December
Catherine LeGrand. Dept. of History, McGill University, Montreal
The Colombian Crisis: Historical and Geographical Roots
Spring Quarter 2005
Friday, April 8
No colloquium: AAG Conference, Denver, Colorado
Friday, April 15
Ted Scambos
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
"Glacier and Ice Shelf Changes on the Perimeter of Antarctica: Climate
Warming and the Future of the World's Largest Ice Sheet."
Friday, April 22
Juliet Fall
Geography, University of British Columbia
POSTPONED
Friday, April 29
Karen Frey
Dissertation Fellow, Geography, UCLA
"West Siberia: A harbinger of Arctic and global change"
Aaron Potito
Dissertation Fellow, Geography, UCLA
"Reconstructing Holocene climate in the eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, using
lake sedimentary records and tree-rings"
Friday, May 6
Vincent Delcasino
Geography, Cal State Long Beach
"Health/Sexuality/Geography"
Friday, May 13
John Lambrinos
Environmental Science and Policy, UC-Davis
"How space and time change the context of plant invasions"
Friday, May 20
Norman Thrower
Geography, UCLA
"The Scientific Exploration of the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of
California, including Yosemite."
Friday, May 27
Michael Shapiro
Political Science, University of Hawaii
"Robert Altman's West"
Thursday, June 2
Kenneth Schwarz, Ph.D.
Associate Principal, Jones & Stokes Associates
"So, you want to be an environmental consultant?"
Friday, June 10
Richard Grant
Geography, University of Miami
"Out of Place? Global Citizens in Local Space. A Study of the Largest
Slum in Ghana."
Fall Quarter 2004
Friday, October 1
Welcome to fall quarter. Colloquia begin next week.
Friday, October 8
Nick Entrikin
Department of Geography, UCLA
"Place, Political Ecology, and Pragmatism"
Friday, October 15
Brigitte Waldorf
Geography, University of Arizona
"Driving Life Expectancies of the Elderly"
Friday, October 22
Dov Sax
Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, UCSB
"Exotic Species Distributions: A Source of Insight to Biogeography"
Friday, October 29
Alexander Diener
Geographer in International Studies, Pepperdine
"One Homeland or Two?: Migration of Mongolia's Kazakhs and the Implications for State-Building in a 21st Century Mongolia and Kazakhstan"
Friday, November 5
Katy Semple Delaney
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
"Historic extinctions of the Island Scrub-Jay on Calfornia's Northern Channel Islands"
Friday, November 12
Anne Nolin
Geography, Oregon State University
"Albedo Variations on the Greenland Ice Sheet"
Friday, November 19
Latha Varadarajan
Political Science, San Diego State University
"Producing a Domestic Abroad: India and the Indian Diaspora"
Friday, November 26
Thanksgiving Holiday
Friday, December 3
Geoff Mann
Anthropology, UCSB
"Neither Just Return nor Golden Chain: The Cultural Politics of the Wage"
Friday, December 10
Margaret Hudson
Geography, University of Georgia
"Contextualizing Identity and Performance in Los Angeles's White/Mexican Multiethnic and Mixed-Race Households: Residential Location and Ethnic and Racial Belonging"
Winter Quarter 2005
Friday, January 7
Sue Trumbore
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
"Carbon dynamics in Amazon forests - consequences for C sequestration and management"
Friday, January 14
David Jacobs
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
"Genes, Geography and Geologic History of the Pacific Coast"
Friday, January 21
Trevor Barnes
Geography, University of British Columbia
"Regional Warfare: the Office of Strategic Services, the Cold War, and the changing conception of the region in American geographical thought"
Friday, January 28
Sarah Elwood
Geography, University of Arizona
"GIS-based spatial knowledge in urban politics: Flexible representations of space, place, and neighborhood change"
Friday, February 4
Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail)
School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech University
"Reversing Ethnic Cleansing? The Returns Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
Friday, February 11
Paul Laris
Geography, Cal State Long Beach
"Exploring the Scale Issue in Nature-Society Geography through a Study of Mosaic Fire Regimes in West Africa"
Friday, February 18
Sue Grimmond
Deparmtment of Geography, Indiana University
"Understanding urban climate: Measuring and Modeling Surface-Atmosphere Exchanges."
Friday, February 25
Robert Sack
Geography, University of Wisconsin
"Facing the Gap: What Geographic Theory Says about Agent, Society, and Nature"
Friday, March 4
Mona Domosh
Geography, Dartmouth College (Von Humboldt Lecture)
"Representations of the foreign in an age of commerical imperialism"
Friday, March 11
Dydia Delyser
Geography, Louisiana State University
"Doing Qualitative Geography."
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