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Seminars and public lectures within the Vital Geographies research group of the Department of Geography.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Geography/SPRI Webmaster; Dr. P MR Howell; Dr. David Nally; 128116. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

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Book launch: "Pub", by Philip Howell

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEmmanuel college.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Governing through Gaia: modulating earth systems to deliver metabolic repair

This talk has had to be cancelled, owing to illness.

UserJamie Lorimer.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, with a reception at Emmanuel College.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Vital geographies for the kids

UserPrerna Singh Bindra, Philip Howell, and Olga Petri.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Vital geographies for the kids!

UserPhilip Howell and Olga Petri.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2024, 15:00-17:00

The story of nature: A human history

UserJeremy Mynott.

HousePeriodicals room, Geography Library.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 17:00-19:00

Vital Geographies start of term social event

User .

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 18 October 2024, 15:00-17:00

Postgraduate Presentations

UserAnna Guasco, Diane Borden and Ilanah Taves.

HouseOnline (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/97015026296?pwd=RkNvcFJJWTl5OUUwQllXZFp6akJCdz09 Meeting ID: 970 1502 6296 Passcode: 507013.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Modern British birdsong and civilization

Please email pmh1000@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend this talk in person; owing to Covid safeguards, attendance is restricted in numbers.

UserMichael Guida, University of Sussex.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/98817387914?pwd=Y2pOV1Rsbko3RjRDTFZHQ0NKaXZ6QT09 Meeting ID: 988 1738 7914 Passcode: 640898.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

The Sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

UserAyesha Siddiqi (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:00-16:30

[Postponed] The sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

UserDr Ayesha Siddiqi, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

A Gaian Sensibility: Sensing Soils

UserDr Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81826008101?pwd=NWJZS1JEZmtSdDFWWGFNUHRKT3RGQT09 Meeting ID: 818 2600 8101 Passcode: 116680.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

pmh1000's list

Veganism, Archives, and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World

UserDr Catherine Oliver, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84036973246?pwd=TXhtRFg5RWcyd3dhUy9YYTVlREpMZz09 Meeting ID: 840 3697 3246 Passcode: 358721.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

pmh1000's list

Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene

UserProfessor Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

Househttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075862878?pwd=WmVsWUFJTjNmaW0vd1hLc1BxcURUQT09 Meeting ID: 820 7586 2878 Passcode: 066892.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82103353807?pwd=QTNTUGFFMWVjNjZuRFlsdE5RZVlJZz09 Meeting ID: 821 0335 3807 Passcode: 354795

Userjsd24@cam.ac.uk.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:30

Imperial Slippages: Encountering and Knowing Ice in and beyond Colonial India

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87871680387?pwd=VUtzZkwzZVR4TktXSTQxaWViVHh4UT09 Meeting ID: 878 7168 0387 Passcode: 362935

UserTom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Conviviality and companionship: tarrots and people in the African forests

UserNancy Jacobs.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 22 April 2021, 13:00-18:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The slow death of Victorian liberal governmentality

UserPhilip Howell, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Decolonisation and disciplinary histories, 1948-1990

UserHannah Neate, Manchester Metropolitan University.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Making Imperial Citizens: Barnardo’s and the Preparation and Care of Child Emigrants, 1882-1905

UserTim Brown, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Mixed race children of black GIs and British women born in WWII

UserProfessor Lucy Bland, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

tbc

UserDr Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 16 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Mapping grief: a conceptual framework for understanding the diverse spatialities of death, mourning and remembrance

UserDr Avril Maddrell, UWE Bristol.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Rage against the Machine: Individuals in the British Empire

UserProfessor Anna Clark, University of Minnesota.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Awkward biopolitics: osprey conservation, pesticides and biosecurity on Speyside, 1963-1968

UserBen Garlick, University of Edinburgh.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Behaving badly? Perspectives on health inequalities in two socially contrasting neighbourhoods in North East England

UserKayleigh Garthwaite, Department of Geography, Durham University.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

NATO Interoperability and Geopolitical Assemblages

UserJason Dittmer, University College London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Untangling Black Internationalisms: Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence and the Promise of Africa, c. 1953

UserJake Hodder, University of Nottingham.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

An urban politics of subversive creativity: Architecture, objects and the urban terrain

UserOli Mould, Royal Holloway.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The spatial politics of aspiration

UserSam Strong, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Performance and aesthetics in geography: a cultural politics beyond representation?

UserLizzie Richardson (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The determinants of historic migration streams: The importance of cultural barriers

UserJoe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Geography’s final imperial frontier? On the influence of Geography on the humanities' 'spatial turn'

UserCarl Griffin (University of Sussex).

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The invention of wetlands: histories of conservation and contestation from Australia

UserEmily O’Gorman (Macquarie University).

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

British New Towns, decolonisation, and the global geographies of urban expertise

UserRuth Craggs (King’s College London).

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Conversations with Caroline: archival spaces of the Victorian asylum

UserCaroline Bressey, University College London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Can the past help us to understand the present? A life-course perspective on the predictors and consequences of adolescent education and life outcomes in rural India

UserAkanksha Marphatia, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The turbulent tale of Richard Burton, an armchair, and the Hakluyt Society: a story of nineteenth-century geography and the materialities of exploration

UserNatalie Cox, University of Warwick.

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Between comparison and singularity: architecture, Auroville and the aesthetic politics of urban Utopianism

Please note the time and venue: Seminar Room at 5pm.

UserDr Tariq Jazeel, Department of Geography, University College London.

HouseSeminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The pledge and the public sphere: Father Mathew and the politics of temperance

UserDr David Beckingham, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

“The ignorance of the uneducated”: Cold War Philanthropy and the Institute of International Education

UserMr Chay Brooks (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Finding a Forever Home? The Battersea Dogs Home and the Victorian Domestication of the Dog

UserDr Philip Howell (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Colonial Subjection: Emergent Forms of Governmentality in Early Modern Ireland.

UserDr John Morrissey (National University of Ireland, Galway).

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The English Riots of 2012: Race, Rhetoric and Policies, but What Solutions?

User Dr Patricia Daley (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Reflections on countertopography

UserProfessor Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Modern women on modern machines: cultural constructions of women motorists in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

User Dr Peter Merriman, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

User Dr Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

'Justifiable' Homicide? Responses to Wife-Murder in Nineteenth-Century India and Britain

UserDaniel Grey (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Patents and the Challenge of ‘Sharewaring’ in Post-Genomic Bioscience or …The Strange Case of Betty Crocker and The Mouse

Please note this is a Tuesday

UserBronwyn Parry (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseRoom 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Towards a Genealogy of Care: The Treatment of Scotland’s Inebriates

Please note this is a Tuesday; please note the earlier starting time.

UserDavid Beckingham (Sidney Sussex, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:45

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Taxidermy, Longing, and Beastly Allure

UserDr Rachel Poliquin.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Personifying Colonial Governance: Life Geography of George Arthur and the Transition from Colonial Philanthropy to Development Discourse

UserProfessor Alan Lester, Department of Geography, University of Sussex.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and History

UserDr. Ha joon Chang, Faculty of Economics.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915

UserMs Melanie Jones, PhD Candidate.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The dog fancy at war: breeds, breeding and Britishness, 1914-1918

UserDr. P MR Howell.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Assemblage and critical urbanism

UserDr Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Durham University.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Popping the question: how relevant was marriage in the European past? Evidence from the Gurk valley, Carinthia, 1868 to 1938

UserCatherine Sumnall, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915

New date to be confirmed

UserMelanie Jones, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

British Decolonization, 'Manpower Resource' Debates and the Politics of Scientific Governance in the Long Sixties.

UserJennifer Gold, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Rethinking the Imperial Difference in Global Times

UserProf. David Slater, Department of Geography, Loughborough University.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2009, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Traces of Europe

UserLuiza Bialasiewicz, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

I'm a Citizen of the World': Gender, Identity and the Politics of Scale among British Expatriates in China

UserKatie Willis, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Geography, mutualism and welfare: the geography of British hospital contributory schemes before, during and after (?) the NHS

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockSunday 22 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

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