Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site


2010-11-12 13:00: Spectacular Events, Urban Space and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Beyond (Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)

2011-10-12 17:00: Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon. (Dr Toby Gardner ( Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology))

2011-10-19 17:00: The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future. (Steve Albon, Valuing Nature Network,The James Hutton Institute)

2011-10-26 17:00: Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services. (Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-02 17:00: Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species (Lucas Joppa, CEES Microsoft Research)

2011-11-09 17:00: The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships. (Netta Weinstein, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2011-11-16 17:00: Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential (Ruth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-23 17:00: Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation. (Amanda Vincent, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.)

2011-11-30 17:00: Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss. (Kerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends)

2012-01-25 17:00: iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour (David Roberts, DICE, University of Kent)

2012-02-01 17:00: Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland. (Lynn Dicks, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-02-08 17:00: How high should Climate Change taxes be? (Chris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2012-02-15 17:00: Wombats, Weapons & Water:  the making of international conservation treaties. (Catherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-22 17:00: Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change. (Richard Gregory, RSPB)

2012-02-29 17:00: Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes. (Julia Jones, University of Bangor)

2012-03-07 17:00: Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services:  Challenges beyond 2012. (Tom Spencer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-12 16:00: Professor Nigel Thrift (Professor Nigel Thrift - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick)

2012-03-12 16:00: Professor Nigel Thrift (Professor Nigel Thrift - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick)

2012-03-14 17:00: REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement? (Arild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB))

2012-10-10 17:00: How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future? (Dr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-10-17 17:00: Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation? (Dr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds)

2012-10-24 17:00: Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.)

2012-10-31 17:00: How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE (Dr Samuel Turvey, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.)

2012-11-07 17:00: Smarter ways to monitor wildlife (Prof Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL)

2012-11-14 17:00: Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals (Dr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-21 17:00: The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy. (Dr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International)

2012-11-28 17:00: 'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age (Prof. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

2012-12-12 17:00: Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas (Prof. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia)

2013-01-23 17:00: Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture (Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-01-30 17:00: Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be? (Professor Chris Thomas, University of York)

2013-02-06 17:00: Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions (Dr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-07 16:30: Spike Reid: Circumnavigating the Globe (Spike Reid)

2013-02-13 17:00: Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins? (Dr Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-20 17:00: Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security (Professor Mark Burgman, ACERA, University of Melbourn, Australia)

2013-02-27 17:00: Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation? (Dr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED))

2013-03-06 17:00: From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies? (Dr David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-03-13 17:00: Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track (Frans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands)

2013-10-16 17:00: Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius (Prof. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)

2013-10-23 17:00: Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment (Dr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL)

2013-10-31 17:00: Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making:  Frontiers in Research and Policy (Prof. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment)

2013-11-06 17:00: Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts (Dr Rob Ewers, Reader in Ecology, Imperial College London)

2013-11-13 17:00: Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation (Jenny Birch, Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International)

2013-11-20 17:00: Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal? (Prof. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC)

2013-11-27 17:00: Commercial Whaling:  Science, Society and International Relations (Dr Simon Brockington, International Whaling Commission)

2013-12-04 17:00: The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?) (Dr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography)

2014-01-22 17:00: Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change (Professor Adrian Newton; University of Bournemouth)

2014-01-29 17:00: Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation (Dr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-05 17:00: Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies (Professor Jeremy Thomas OBE; University of Oxford)

2014-02-12 17:00: Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India? (Dr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2014-02-19 17:00: The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation (Professor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-26 17:00: Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources (Dr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-12 17:00: Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability (Professor Gail Whiteman; Erasmus University)

2014-05-14 17:00: RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land (Dr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London)

2014-10-13 17:00: 'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds' (Dr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology)

2014-10-22 17:00: How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation (Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Imperial College Conservation Science)

2014-10-29 17:00: Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth (Johan Rockström  Professor in Environmental Sciences  Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

2014-11-05 17:00: MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism? (Dr Nick Hill, Zoological Society of London)

2014-11-12 17:00: Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action (Professor Heidi Ballard, UC Davis)

2014-11-19 17:00: Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view (Dr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science)

2014-11-26 17:00: Tracking marine turtles for conservation (Professor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter)

2014-12-03 17:00: Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (Dr Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-21 17:00: Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians? (Dr Trent Garner, Zoological Society of London)

2015-01-28 17:00: Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn?  Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world (Dr Robyn Veal, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-04 17:00: Biodiversity and the feel good factor (Dr Zoe Davies, University of Kent)

2015-02-11 17:00: Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (Professor Katherine Homewood, UCL)

2015-02-16 20:00: Professor Lynn Staeheli: "Producing Citizenship - Cosmopolitanism & the Citizenship Industry" (Professor Lynn Staeheli)

2015-02-18 17:00: REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were? (Dr Valerie Kapos, UNEP-WCMC)

2015-02-25 17:00: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world (Professor Georgina Mace, UCL)

2015-03-03 17:00: Climate and Poverty in the Americas (Professor Diana Liverman)

2015-03-04 17:00: Trees, ‘tribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar (Dr Ivan Scales, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-11 17:00: Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change – Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities (Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University)

2015-10-14 17:00: Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions (Steve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University)

2015-10-21 17:00: Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions (Anthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and  University of Dundee)

2015-10-28 17:00: The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity (Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2015-11-04 17:00: Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method (Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity))

2015-11-11 17:00: Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff? (Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum)

2015-11-18 17:00: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias:  lessons from plants that don’t stay put (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne)

2015-11-25 17:00: Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature (Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

2015-12-02 17:00: Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862) (Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University)

2016-02-23 17:00: Commodifications, Capitalism, Counter-movements: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (Professor Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto)

2016-03-02 18:00: ‘Geographies of Radical Difference’ (Doreen Massey)

2017-02-15 17:00: Critique of Punitive Reason  (Didier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science)

2017-03-06 14:00: The Death of the Clinic: surgical strikes and spaces of exception (Professor Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia))

2018-01-18 17:00: Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States (Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles)

2018-02-21 17:00: Greenland ice cores tell tales on past sea level changes (Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

2018-10-25 17:00: Border crossings: geographies of class, gender, mobility and migration (Professor Linda McDowell, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University)

2018-11-22 17:00: Climate Changed Urban Futures:  imaginaries, experiments & justice in the Anthropocene city (Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Department of Geography, Durham University)

2018-11-26 17:30: Bertie Gregory The New Face of Nat Geo ( Bertie Gregory, National Geographic)

2019-01-23 17:00: Public Lecture: Can we save nature by selling it? (Professor Rebecca Lave, Indiana University)

2019-02-07 17:00: Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war (Professor Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)

2019-03-07 17:00: Stratigraphical discourse in the Anthropocene: towards a more critical geographical tradition (Professor Stuart Lane, Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Université de Lausanne)

2019-03-28 16:00: The anatomy of abrupt climate change over Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles seen from the North Atlantic/Nordic Seas (Trond Dokken, Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen)

2019-04-15 17:30: Moments of crisis – volcanic eruptions, environmental impacts and societal change in the northern European past (Prof. Felix Riede, Aarhus University )

2019-05-08 17:00: Public Lecture: In Praise of Floods: homo sapiens and rivers (Professor James Scott, Yale University)

2019-10-17 18:45: Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse? (Bob Jarman)

2019-11-12 17:00: Geographies of Knowledge Annual Lecture: Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health: Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease (Professor Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

2020-03-12 18:45: Natura Urbana (film and discussion) (Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography)

2022-03-31 19:00: Truffles in a warming world (Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.)

2022-05-25 17:30: Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records (Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-08 14:30: Icebergs and Oil in the North Atlantic, Reframing Human Relationships with Ice (Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon)

2022-06-08 17:30: Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts (Martin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

2022-06-15 17:30: Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe (Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj)

2022-10-19 17:30: How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial (Amy McGuire, University of Leeds)

2022-11-02 17:30: Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide (Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen)

2022-11-16 17:30: When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data (Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-11-30 17:30: Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it (Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography)

2022-12-01 18:45: Insects in Flight (John Brackenbury)

2023-02-15 17:30: Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia (Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen)

2023-02-22 17:30: North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations) (Chris Day, University of Oxford)

2023-03-02 18:45: Moths (Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography)

2023-03-08 17:30: Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions (Lauren Davies, Department of Geography)

2023-03-15 17:30: The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies (Mark Sier, CENIEH)

2023-05-03 17:30: Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia (Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire)

2023-05-17 17:30: Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence (Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology)

2023-06-14 17:30: Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate (Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography)

2024-02-06 13:00: In search of stardust – the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops (Jon Larson, University of Oslo)

2024-02-06 13:00: In search of stardust: the discovery of cosmic dust on rooftops (Jon Larsen (Oslo))

2024-02-29 13:00: Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria (Professor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-12 17:00: Film Screening: Pure Clean Water ([Producer: Tony Eva])

2024-03-14 13:00: The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK (Professor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2024-04-25 13:00: Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger (Dr Hannah Hasenberger, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-08 17:00: How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management? (Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-09 13:00: Natural hazards in a warming world: landslides and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century (Dr Max van Wyk de Vries, Department of Geography)

2024-05-15 17:30: Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories (Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast)

2024-06-18 12:00: PlotToSat: A Tool for Generating Time-series Signatures from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at field-based plots for Machine Learning applications (Dr Milto Miltiadou)

2025-01-24 13:00: Climate justice, financing and resistance in the Indian Sundarbans (Dr Annabel Dulhunty, Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University)

2025-03-06 16:00: How can music propel environmental action? (Betsy Mortensen, co-founder Sustain Music & Nature)

2025-07-02 13:00: Climatic and biogeochemical impacts of the ~25.5ka Ōruanui supereruption (New Zealand) (Alexander Mattin, Victoria University of Wellington)