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Geography Spring 2009 Colloquium Schedule

Date Who From Title Where When
1/16/2009 Richard Field School of Geography, University of Nottingham "Modeling spatial biodiversity patterns".  CB 238 3:30
1/30/2009 Risa Whitson Department of Geography, Ohio University "Crisis, Displacement and Managed Absence: Geographies of Informal Waste Collection in Buenos Aires CB 238 3:30
2/6/2009 Richard Wilk (Social Theory Seminar) Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University "The Morality of Drinking Bottled Water" West End Room, 18th floor, POT 2:00
2/13/2009 Karen Till Department of Geography, Virginia Tech "Spectral Ground in new Cities: Towards a memorial cartography of Cape Town" CB 238 4:00
2/20/2009 Lakshman Yapa Department of Geography, Penn State University "The End of Poverty: Is that Possible?" CB 238 4:00
2/27/2009 Susan Bordo (Social Theory Seminar) Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky Beyond 'Eating Disorders': Why we need to re-think" Young Library Auditorium 4:00
3/6/2009 Joshua Gamson (Social Theory Seminar) Sociology, University of San Francisco "Celebrity culture Old and New" West End Room, 18th floor, POT 4:00
3/13/2009 Karl Raitz, Dick Gailbreath and Jeff Levy Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
"Mapping Kentucky’s Frontier Road Alignments through Geographic Information and Cartographic Applications"
CB 304 3:30
4/3/2009
Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington (Social Theory Seminar)
Anthropology, Amherst College and Trinity College "One Supersize Does Not Fit All: Lamb Flap Versus Big Mac in the Politics of Personal Consumption" 18th floor, POT 2:00
4/10/2009 David Kaplan Department of Geography, Kent State University "Foreclosures and Mortgage Lending in a Local Context" CB 238 3:30
4/24/2009 Matthew Hilton (Social Theory Seminar) History, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Consumer activism in an Era of Globalisation Young Library Auditorium 3:30
5/1/2009 Caroline Nagel Department of Geography, University of South Carolina Immigration, religion, and spaces of belonging in the South CB 238 4:00

 

Geography Fall 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Date Who From Title Where When
9/11/2008 Casten Lorz Landscape Sciences and Geoecology, Dresden University of Technology The Regolith-Continuum- a Key
Compartment for Processes, Properties
and Functions of Landscapes
CB 242 4:00
9/19/2008 Marshall Wilkinson Department of Geography, University of Kentucky Soil bioturbation (not bioperturbation!):
from Darwin to the present
CB 238 4:00
9/22/2008 Oliver Froehling

Director, Centro de Dialogos
y Encuentros Interculturales, Universidad de la Tierra

Building barricades in the neoliberal world
order: Repression and Social Movement
in Oaxaca, Mexico
CB 238 4:00
9/26/2008 Wendy Larner

School of Geographical Sciences, University of
Bristol

Neoliberalism, Mike Moore and the
WTO
CB 238 4:00
10/17/2008 Rebecca Lave Department of Geography, Indiana University The Rosgen Wars and the Political
Economy of Expertise
CB 238 4:00
10/24/2008 Mitch Snider Department of Geography, University of Kentucky Being a man in Kentucky: Perspectives of Rural Migrant Workers CB 238 4:00
10/31/2008 Stan Brunn Department of Geography, University of Kentucky A Fulbrighter in Kazachstan: Where Old
and New World Meet (Sometimes)
CB 238 4:00
11/07/2008 Ann Oberhauser Department of Geography, University of West Virginia Globalizing Gender and Scale:
Perspectives from Ghana
CB 238 4:00
11/14/2008 Elizabeth Povinelli (Social Theory Seminar) Department of Anthropology, Columbia University TBA 18th floor, POT 2:00
11/21/2008 Shawn Banasick Department of Geography, Kent State University   CB 238 4:00
12/5/2008 Mat Coleman Department of Geography, Ohio State University Psychopathic Personality and Social Control: Homosexual Exclusion During the Cold War CB 238 4:00
12/12/2008 Phil McManus Department of Geography, University of Sydney Perceptions of environmental and reproductive issues among thoroughbred and standardbred breeders. CB 238 4:00