Department of Geography - other talks


2008-02-29 00:00: Do salt marsh plant roots reduce wave-induced edge erosion? (Dr Rusty Feagin (spatial Sciences Lab at Texas A&M University, and Visiting Scholar at Fitzwilliam College))

2014-09-12 16:00: The Space of Property (Prof. Nick Blomley)

2014-10-28 13:00: Connecting health research and disaster research: global health, disaster risk reduction and disaster response (Dr Ilan Kelman, Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London)

2015-03-31 13:00: Nature conservation of the Dutch Wadden Sea: the role of science-policy interactions (Judith Floor)

2015-06-01 13:00: Governance of Coasts and Oceans: responding to rising sea levels and engaging with offshore development (Dr Tim Stojanovic)

2016-02-05 13:00: Mangrove loss & Ecosystem Services (Dan Friess, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)

2016-10-24 16:00: Mobilising Resources, Maximising Change (Anshu Gupta, Founder, Goonj India)

2017-02-06 16:00: The Mechara caves and speleothems, Southeastern Ethiopia: high-resolution palaeoclimate archives (Asfawossen Asrat (School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University))

2017-02-14 14:00: Ageing Population and Elderly Care in Sri Lanka (Professor K.A.P. Siddhisena (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka))

2017-02-24 16:15: Facing the Mountains - documentary film screening (Ross Harrison and Vaibhav Kaul)

2017-03-06 15:00: ‘The Future of Sustainable Food’ - panel discussion organised by the Geography Green Impact team (Dr. David Nally (Department of Geography), Emma Garnett, Bev Sedley)

2017-11-07 15:00: Converging Divergence: Unpacking the new geography of 21C development cooperation (Professor David Hulme)

2017-11-08 11:00: Assessing MIKTA's future as a 'middle power' alliance in global governance: an empirical study (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-17 16:15: Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies (Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles)

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)

2018-08-27 14:00: Pigs, Politics and Petroleum: Development, disruptive politics and disjunctures in Papua New Guinea's extractive sector (Professor Glenn Banks, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand)

2019-10-08 17:00: Foucault and the New Materialists (Thomas Lemke)

2021-06-17 11:30: Trade-offs in Biodiversity Conservation; Stewardship and Reward (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-12 13:00: Values, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile (Rogelio Luque-Lora)

2021-11-16 15:00: Perfecting the River: Dams, Dreams and Organic Machines (Professor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge)

2022-12-15 15:00: Remote Sensing of Glacial Hazards in the Mountains (Olga Tutubalina)

2023-04-25 12:30: White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route (Dr Piro Rexhepi, Southern New Hampshire University)

2023-05-03 17:00: Scientific perspective of the state of the Arctic (Dr Matt Osman, Assistant Professor in Physical Geography)

2023-05-15 16:00: Voices and Power: Academic-Activism and Writing from Anywhere Real (here, from Global East) (Dr Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge)

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

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)

2025-01-23 17:30: Film premiere: European premiere of Pantanal (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2025-03-13 12:30: How 'Natural' are Natural Hazards? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-05-14 00:00: Cambridge Hazard and Risk Research Day 2025 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-20 17:00: The Gamification of Citizenship - CANCELLED (Prof Sarah Mills, Loughborough University)

2026-01-20 17:00: CRASSH Connections: Urban History Evening: Roundtable + Social (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-01-20 17:00: CRASSH Connections: Urban History Evening: Roundtable + Social (Speaker to be confirmed)