Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks


2011-10-24 19:00: To the Ends of the Earth (Dr George McGavin)

2011-11-01 17:00: Political Ecology: meeting travellers along the way (Professor Piers Blaikie)

2011-11-14 19:00: Question and Answer with Stuart Corbridge (Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS))

2012-01-25 19:00: Professor Jamie Peck – ‘Beyond the neoliberal zombieland’ (Professor Jamie Peck - Professor of Geography at the University of British Colombia)

2012-01-31 19:00: Geography and Google: because everything happens somewhere (Ed Parsons - Google)

2012-02-09 20:00: Dale Templar – producer of the landmark BBC natural history series, ‘Human Planet’ (Dale Templar)

2012-02-16 19:00: Professor Stuart Elden (Professor Stuart Elden - Durham University)

2012-03-01 17:00: Professor Klaus Dodds - CANCELLED (Professor Klaus Dodds)

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

2012-10-21 17:00: Stuart Franklin - National Geographic Journalist and Photographer: 'Looking Back: 30 years of photographing - 15 of those with National Geographic' (Stuart Franklin)

2013-01-18 16:00: Derek Gregory - 'Deadly embrace: war, distance and intimacy' (Professor Derek Gregory)

2013-02-15 16:00: Martha Crockatt - Earthwatch (Martha Crockatt - Research Assistant to Head of Climate Change Research at Earthwatch)

2014-10-28 20:00: 'EVERYDAY DIPLOMACIES: UKUSA intelligence cooperation & geopolitical assemblages' (Dr. Jason Dittmer)

2014-11-17 15:00: Darran Messem: Managing Director of The Carbon Trust (Darran Messem)

2014-11-26 20:00: Professor Danny Dorling: "Geography and Inequality- Is there a problem, and are we part of it?" (Professor Danny Dorling)

2015-01-22 17:00: Professor Sarah Whatmore: The Nature/Culture Divide (Professor Sarah Whatmore)

2015-02-10 20:00:  Professor David Evans: "Observing processes and landscape change in recently deglaciated terrains" (Professor David Evans )

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

2015-11-04 18:00:  'We're running out of time so we're going to have to science the sh*t out of it' (Justin Hall-Tipping, CEO of Nanoholdings LLC)

2015-11-25 18:00: "Everything you always wanted to know about territory, but were afraid to ask Shakespeare" (Stuart Elden, University of Warwick)

2016-01-25 18:30: Matthew Price - The Great Migration (Matthew Price)

2016-02-10 00:00: Iain Stewart (Iain Stewart)

2016-02-24 00:00: Klaus Dodds (Klaus Dodds)

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

2016-11-15 17:30: Global Environmental Risks and the role of Public-Private Solutions: A New 2030 Agenda (Professor Dominic Waughray)

2017-02-02 18:00: Joe Smith: Climate Change in the Media (Joe Smith, Professor of Environment and Society, Open University)

2017-02-09 18:00: Nicholas Crane: Humans Shaping Britain (Nicholas Crane, President, Royal Geographical Society)

2017-02-21 18:00: Jason Dittmer: Geopolitics of the UK & the World (Jason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography, University College London)

2017-03-02 18:00: Saskia Sassen: Geographies of Expulsion (Saskia Sassen, Colombia University)

2018-10-01 00:00: An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond academia (Azeezat Johnson)

2018-11-01 15:30: Limits to international institutions (Right Honourable John Baird, former minister of foreign affairs for Canada)

2018-11-07 19:00: Inequality and the 1%, what will Brexit bring? (Danny Dorling, University of Oxford)

2018-11-08 17:30: Can we end global poverty without tackling inequality? (Mark Goldring)

2018-11-26 17:30: Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 (Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016)

2018-11-26 17:30: Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 (Bertie Gregory, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016)

2023-01-06 17:30: Patricia Noxolo - 'Black online geographies: Tales of Creativity and In/security' (Patricia Noxolo)

2023-02-02 17:00: Elizabeth Robinson - 'Tracking the links between climate change and health' (Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE)

2025-03-11 17:00: Border Wars: The conflicts that will define our future (Klaus Dodds)

2025-05-02 17:00: Nihilism and Technology (Nolen Gertz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Twente)

2025-05-07 17:00: Politics of the Future with Prof. Claeys (Gregory Claeys Royal Holloway)

2025-05-12 17:00: Sam Brandt - More Than a Home: Dwelling, Place, and Poverty in Rural Uruguay (Samuel T. Brandt (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-15 17:00: Colonialism, Essentialism and the Historical Geography of Capitalism (Gerry Kearns, Professor of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland)

2025-10-13 17:00: Hydrogen and the ancient Martian climate puzzle (Nick Tosca NASA)

2025-10-14 17:00: British Geography, Privilege, Positionality, and Inequality: What We Get Wrong Because of Who We Are (Danny Dorling, Oxford University)

2025-10-28 17:00: The New Right and the Crisis of Masculinity (Jan Nielsen)

2025-11-11 17:00: ‘Landscape Art and Cultural Geography: Making and Meaning’   (Stephen Daniels)

2025-11-11 17:00: ‘Landscape Art and Cultural Geography: Making and Meaning’   (Stephen Daniels)

2025-11-18 17:00: Economic Geographies  (Simona Iammarino, LSE)

2025-11-25 17:00: Literary geographies and the Irish colonial past.  (Mary Kelly, Kingston University)

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