Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre


2022-11-24 13:00: A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe  (Dr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History)

2024-10-22 13:00: Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Kasia Paprocki, London School of Economics)

2024-10-29 13:00: Ghost Rats: Afterlives of Eradication on Lord Howe Island (Sally Montgomery, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-05 13:00: The Species In Between: Negotiating Animal Belonging in a Changing World (Sarah Crowley, University of Exeter)

2024-11-19 13:00: Public private parks: the soft privatization of London’s parks and green spaces (Andrew Smith, University of Westminster)

2024-11-27 14:00: China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier (Tom White, Kings College London)

2024-12-03 13:00: CANCELLED: World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm (Carolyn Smith, University of Cambridge)

2025-02-04 13:00: Teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice with and against the canon (Alex Loftus (King’s College London))

2025-02-18 13:00: World-making / -breaking: Towards a Political Ontology of Rhythm (Carolyn Smith (Cambridge))

2025-02-25 13:00: Workers of the Earth. A research and political agenda (Stefania Barca (Santiago de Compostela) )

2025-03-04 13:00: From settler ecologies to ecologies otherwise? The possibilities and limitations of inclusive conservation in northern Kenya (Charis Enns (Manchester) & Brock Bersaglio (Birmingham) )

2025-03-11 13:00: Carbon Futures in the Mire? Knowledge Controversies in the Remaking of European Peatlands for Climate Mitigation (James Palmer (Bristol))

2025-03-18 13:00: Plastik: Dense objects, racialised worlds, and black holes (Lydia Gibson (Georgetown) )

2025-05-06 13:00: Soil, Death, and Urban Governance in Late-Imperial St. Petersburg (1870 – 1914) (Olga Petri (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-13 13:00: Headstarting Futures – Ecological Anxiety and Divergent Prospects for Curlews, Cranes, Corncrakes and Godwits (Felix Clarke (Edinburgh))

2025-05-22 13:00: Forests, Gender, and Surveillance: Navigating Ethics, Risks, and Government Backlash Post-Publication (Trishant Simlai (Conservation Researcher))

2025-05-27 13:00: Paper discussion - Wild peripheries and green growth visions - towards a political ecology of conservation frontiers in Europe (George Iordachescu (Wageningen))

2025-06-03 13:00: Conservation labour and a political ecology of zoo-led in situ conservation (Anwesha Dutta and Nicky Sky (CMI Bergen))

2025-06-10 13:00: Challenges for implementing zero deforestation commitments in a highly forested country: perspectives from Liberia’s palm oil sector (Joss Lyons-White (Cambridge))

2025-06-10 13:00: Challenges for implementing zero deforestation commitments in a highly forested country: perspectives from Liberia’s palm oil sector (Joss Lyons-White, University of Cambridge)

2025-06-17 13:00: Ecologies of Violence: Nature Protection and Landscape Museumification in the Rural Highlands of Jerusalem (Fadia Panosetti (Cambridge & Free University of Brussels))

2025-06-24 15:00: Ecological Law and More-than-Human Rights in the UK: Challenges and Possibilities (Helen Dancer, University of Sussex)

2025-10-07 13:00: Understanding Environmental Governance in China through Central Government Environmental Inspection (Weiye Wang (Renmin))

2025-10-16 13:00: A discussion of ‘The great conservation tragedy? - 30 × 30’s (neo)protectionism’ (Bram Büscher (Wageningen))

2025-10-23 16:00: Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of British nature recovery  (Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford) )

2025-10-28 13:00: Enchantment and the Soft Activism of Attention: An Ethnography of Environmental Dance Practices in the UK (Andrew Sanger (The Place))

2025-11-04 13:00: Challenges to engagement with indigenous expertise in Northeast India (Rajindra Puri (Kent and Kew))

2025-11-18 13:00: Understanding Environmental Governance in China through Central Government Environmental Inspection (Weiye Wang (Renmin))

2025-11-25 13:00: Wildlife Conservation and the Posthumanities: Plotting Conservation in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Dominic O’Key (Cambridge))

2025-12-02 13:00: Speculative and experimental political ecologies for an age of crisis, hope and action (Maria Rusca (Manchester))

2026-01-27 13:00: Group reading with Charlie Gardner: ‘Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.’ (Charlie Gardner (University of Kent) )

2026-01-27 16:30: Writing the Asian Underground: new multiplicities, new ethnicities, and urban soundscapes, 1995-2005   (Tariq Jazeel, University College London)

2026-02-10 16:30: Time-bound: The digitalising state and fugitive urbanisation in the global south (Ayona Datta, University College London)

2026-02-18 17:00: The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Populism - Erik Swyngedouw  (Erik Swyngedouw)

2026-02-24 12:30: Climate Apartheid: the politics of reappropriating apartheid in climate discourse (Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge )

2026-03-03 13:00: Understanding the deep sea mining state: The case of Canada (Rosanna Carver (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-10 13:00: Environmental dispossession and undocumented migration between Mexico and New York City (María Inés Hernández (University of Cambridge) )

2026-03-10 15:00: Andrew Barry - 'Chemical Geopolitics' (Andrew Barry - London School of Economics)

2026-03-10 16:30: Rendering the everyday: Geographies of urban digital infrastructuring (Prince Guma, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-17 13:00: Plants, Places and Space: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge in the Pacific, c. 1768-1830 (Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge) )

2026-05-05 16:30: An Amphibious Urbanism | | Cut 4: The Desert Arrives Slowly  (Maan Barua (University of Cambridge))

2026-05-19 16:30: Animating urbanism: the demotic multiplicities of seeing cities digitally (Gillian Rose, University of Oxford)