Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Picturing the Invisible

Makoto Takahashi.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

THIS SEMINAR WILL BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION When the future hits the ground: navigating logistical ruins on the Black Sea.

Dr Evelina Gambino.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 10 February 2023, 12:45-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The social and political life of Latin American infrastructures: Insights from the Ecuadorian Andes

Geoff Goodwin, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:45-14:00

Decolonial Research Lab

The (in)animation of coloniality: resistance to decolonising initiatives in environmental and geographical disciplines

Dr Laura Loyola-Hernandez and Dr Arjan Gosal .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 12:45-14:00

Decolonial Research Lab

Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies

Prof. James D Sidaway (Geography, National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 14 October 2022, 12:45-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory

Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums

Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats

Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

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.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Monday 27 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Tidal flat morphodynamics: Sediment sorting, self-weight consolidation and marsh distribution

Dr Zeng Zhou, Associate Professor in Coastal Geomorphology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 11 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Local perceptions of Justice and Natural Resources in a Mexican fishing community

Karen Wong-Perez, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Transforming global “win-win” discourse

Josie Chambers, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assemblages for sustainable development: omissions and transformations in Bolivia

Jessica Hope, University of Bristol.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Biodiversity offsetting, urbanization and the right to nature

Elia Apostolopoulou,University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi: policies, risks and benefits

Johanna Lindahl, Intl. Livestock Research Institute, Uppsala University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of voice (PEV) of oil company-community relations in Peru’s Loreto Region

Adrian Gonzalez, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

To be confirmed

Jess Hope.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Politics of Dam Resurgence: Exclusion and Inclusion of Socio-Ecological Impacts From Three Case Studies

Barnaby Dye, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Shaman is the White Man's Computer": The interaction of shamanism and conservation in Amazonian Guyana

Lewis Daly.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reflecting on success and failure in community-based conservation: a case study from Western Amazonia

Joe Hawes.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Charcoal Power: Woodfuels and Political Violence in Uganda

Adam Branch, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Perceptions across scales of governance and the Indonesian peatland fires

Rachel Carmenta, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation by Algorithm

Bill Adams, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

What do conservationists believe about people, nature and markets?

Chris Sandbrook, Department of Geography, University of CAmbridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Scarce land, diverse livelihoods - Tracking 35 years of change in central Mali

Professor Camilla Toulmin, Lancaster University and iied.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Assessing MIKTA's future as a 'middle power' alliance in global governance: an empirical study

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Petroleum in the Norwegian Arctic: Local content or dreams at sea?

Raghnild Freng Dale.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Drought, Politics or Historical Injustice? Reflections on fieldwork during the 2017 'Laikipia crisis’ in Kenya ?

Sipke Shaughnessy.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Securing the ‘value of nature’? Biodiversity offsetting in England and the implications for conservation policy at home and abroad

Louise Carver.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography (CCHG) - Department of Geography

CCHG series: Political Geology Workshop

Please note the adjusted time - starting 10am

Andrew Barry (UCL), Nigel Clark (Lancaster).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 10 March 2017, 10:00-12:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Nature conservation of the Dutch Wadden Sea: the role of science-policy interactions

Judith Floor.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 31 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Combining field observations and the volcanic plume model ATHAM to examine "dirty thunderstorm" dynamics of ancient and modern eruptions

Dr Alexa Von Eaton, U.S Geological Survey, Vancouver.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Friday 22 November 2013, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Int'l Land Grabbing and 'Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature?'

Reading and Discussion session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 04 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards a grounded and dynamic sociology of climate change adaptation

Dr. Martin Mulligan, Associate Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Conservation/Agriculture Relationship in the EU: High Nature Value Areas in Hungary

Eszter Kovacs, PhD Candidate, Dept. Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Local community participation in Wadi El-Gemel National Park

Salwa Elhalawani, PhD Candidate, Dept. Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Contested Forest: National Park, Local State, and Forest Owners in Postsocialist Romania

Dr. Stefan Dorondel, Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest & Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion of Global Political Ecology, eds. Peet, Robbins & Watts (2011)

Reading and Discussion session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion of Sandel (2012) What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Reading and Discussion session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

'Nature, Inc.' and 'Grabbing "Green": Questioning the Green Economy'

Reading and Discussion session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

'Understanding the changing relationship between land and rural women in western Maharashtra, India: reflections from the field'

Girija Godbole, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Policy making in confined spaces: the politics of exclusion in Canada's planning reform agenda

Lindsay Galbraith, PhD Student at the Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Valuing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Servicesin the Ewasu Ng'iro watershed

Dr. Rob Small, Flora & Fauna International.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, water and work - examining the role of the statecraft in irrigation management in Northern India

Alexandra Girard, DPhil candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Only what is counted counts? The scientific and economic representation of biodiversity

Esther Turnhout, Associate Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assessing discursive practices associated with Terra Preta governance in Amazonas state, Brazil

Isabel Melo Vasquez, Visiting student from the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Reviewing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation"

Dr. Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography) and others.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 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?

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

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Performance of Policy in Tanzanian CBNRM: Hidden Aspects of Governance and Participatory Spaces

Kathryn Humphries, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reading: Land Sparing/Land Sharing

Dr. Chris Sandbrook, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Framings of scale challenges in the governance of biodiversity’

Dr. Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Visiting Scholar from the Department of Ecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Biofuels and the politics of land-use change: The controversial place of "place" in environmental governance

James Palmer, PhD student, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reading, Jepson et al., (2011),‘What is a conservation actor?’

Reading and Discussion session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

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

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

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reading: Forsyth (2011), ‘Politicizing environmental explanations: What can political ecology learn from sociology and philosophy of science?’

Reading and Discussion Session.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecology Lunch Social

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Is it conservation or development? Pilgrimage or ecotourism? Identifying the genius loci in a hidden land (sbas-yul)'

Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, PhD Student, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

'The rights of nature in the Ecuadorian constitution’

Dr. Freddy Alvarez, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reading: Goodall (draft paper) ‘Peak Stuff’ Did the UK reach a maximum use of material resources in the early part of the last decade?

Chris Goodall.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

lvb23's list

'Regional economic evolution: creating a space for history in economic geography'

Prof. Ron Martin: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

lvb23's list

'Crop yields, environmental crises and historical change: Britain and Ireland 1290-1380'

Prof. Bruce Campbell: Department of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

lvb23's list

'Water under ice: investigating the basal zone ice sheets and glaciers'

Dr Poul Christofferson: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

lvb23's list

What is the State?

The Dr Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Quentin Skinner FBA.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 17:30-18:30