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The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Populism

UserErik Swyngedouw.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Literary geographies and the Irish colonial past.

UserMary Kelly, Kingston University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Economic Geographies

UserSimona Iammarino, LSE.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

‘Landscape Art and Cultural Geography: Making and Meaning’

UserStephen Daniels.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

‘Landscape Art and Cultural Geography: Making and Meaning’

UserStephen Daniels.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

The New Right and the Crisis of Masculinity

UserJan Nielsen.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

British Geography, Privilege, Positionality, and Inequality: What We Get Wrong Because of Who We Are

UserDanny Dorling, Oxford University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

Hydrogen and the ancient Martian climate puzzle

UserNick Tosca NASA.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 October 2025, 17:00-18:00

Colonialism, Essentialism and the Historical Geography of Capitalism

UserGerry Kearns, Professor of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Sam Brandt - More Than a Home: Dwelling, Place, and Poverty in Rural Uruguay

UserSamuel T. Brandt (University of Cambridge).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Politics of the Future with Prof. Claeys

UserGregory Claeys Royal Holloway.

HouseWoodlegh Room Lucy Cavendish College.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Nihilism and Technology

UserNolen Gertz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Twente.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Border Wars: The conflicts that will define our future

UserKlaus Dodds.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Elizabeth Robinson - 'Tracking the links between climate change and health'

UserProfessor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-18:00

Patricia Noxolo - 'Black online geographies: Tales of Creativity and In/security'

UserPatricia Noxolo.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockFriday 06 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016

UserBertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016

UserBertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Can we end global poverty without tackling inequality?

UserMark Goldring.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Inequality and the 1%, what will Brexit bring?

UserDanny Dorling, University of Oxford.

HouseBates Auditorium, Gonville and Cauis College.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Limits to international institutions

UserRight Honourable John Baird, former minister of foreign affairs for Canada.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond academia

UserAzeezat Johnson.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockMonday 01 October 2018, 00:00-00:00

Saskia Sassen: Geographies of Expulsion

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserSaskia Sassen, Colombia University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 18:00-19:15

Jason Dittmer: Geopolitics of the UK & the World

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserJason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography, University College London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Nicholas Crane: Humans Shaping Britain

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserNicholas Crane, President, Royal Geographical Society.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Joe Smith: Climate Change in the Media

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserJoe Smith, Professor of Environment and Society, Open University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Global Environmental Risks and the role of Public-Private Solutions: A New 2030 Agenda

UserProfessor Dominic Waughray.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 17:30-18:45

‘Geographies of Radical Difference’

UserDoreen Massey.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 18:00-19:15

Klaus Dodds

UserKlaus Dodds.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 00:00-00:00

Iain Stewart

UserIain Stewart.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 00:00-00:00

Matthew Price - The Great Migration

UserMatthew Price.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 18:30-19:30

"Everything you always wanted to know about territory, but were afraid to ask Shakespeare"

UserStuart Elden, University of Warwick.

HouseEmmanuel college - Queens lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

'We're running out of time so we're going to have to science the sh*t out of it'

UserJustin Hall-Tipping, CEO of Nanoholdings LLC.

HouseWilliam Mong Building, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Professor Lynn Staeheli: "Producing Citizenship - Cosmopolitanism & the Citizenship Industry"

UserProfessor Lynn Staeheli.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Professor David Evans: "Observing processes and landscape change in recently deglaciated terrains"

UserProfessor David Evans .

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Professor Sarah Whatmore: The Nature/Culture Divide

UserProfessor Sarah Whatmore.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-18:15

Professor Danny Dorling: "Geography and Inequality- Is there a problem, and are we part of it?"

UserProfessor Danny Dorling.

HouseQueens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 20:00-21:30

Darran Messem: Managing Director of The Carbon Trust

UserDarran Messem.

HouseThe Old Library, Emmanuel College.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

'EVERYDAY DIPLOMACIES: UKUSA intelligence cooperation & geopolitical assemblages'

UserDr. Jason Dittmer.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 20:00-00:00

Martha Crockatt - Earthwatch

UserMartha Crockatt - Research Assistant to Head of Climate Change Research at Earthwatch.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Derek Gregory - 'Deadly embrace: war, distance and intimacy'

UserProfessor Derek Gregory.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Stuart Franklin - National Geographic Journalist and Photographer: 'Looking Back: 30 years of photographing - 15 of those with National Geographic'

UserStuart Franklin.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

ClockSunday 21 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Professor Nigel Thrift

UserProfessor Nigel Thrift - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Professor Klaus Dodds - CANCELLED

Unfortunately this talk has been cancelled for personal reasons. CUGS and Professor Klaus Dodds both extend their apologies. We hope that Professor Dodds will be able to rearrange - so watch this space!

UserProfessor Klaus Dodds.

HouseQueen’s Building Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Professor Stuart Elden

UserProfessor Stuart Elden - Durham University.

HouseRobinson College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

Dale Templar – producer of the landmark BBC natural history series, ‘Human Planet’

UserDale Templar.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Memorial Court Clare College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Geography and Google: because everything happens somewhere

UserEd Parsons - Google.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Memorial Court Clare College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 19:00-20:30

Professor Jamie Peck – ‘Beyond the neoliberal zombieland’

UserProfessor Jamie Peck - Professor of Geography at the University of British Colombia.

HouseQueen’s Building Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 19:00-20:30

Question and Answer with Stuart Corbridge

UserCambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS).

HouseRiley Auditorium, Memorial Court.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:00-20:00

Political Ecology: meeting travellers along the way

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserProfessor Piers Blaikie.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

To the Ends of the Earth

UserDr George McGavin.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre - Corpus Christi College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

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