Postgraduate Presentations

Anna Guasco, Diane Borden and Ilanah Taves.

Online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/97015026296?pwd=RkNvcFJJWTl5OUUwQllXZFp6akJCdz09 Meeting ID: 970 1502 6296 Passcode: 507013.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Modern British birdsong and civilization

Please email pmh1000@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend this talk in person; owing to Covid safeguards, attendance is restricted in numbers.

Michael Guida, University of Sussex.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/98817387914?pwd=Y2pOV1Rsbko3RjRDTFZHQ0NKaXZ6QT09 Meeting ID: 988 1738 7914 Passcode: 640898.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

The Sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

Ayesha Siddiqi (University of Cambridge).

Online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:00-16:30

[Postponed] The sisyphean cycle of inequitable state production: state, space, and a drainage project in Pakistan

Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81592415012?pwd=N1NTNngwMjRiRGpHYU9tZXJEQ01Tdz09 Meeting ID: 815 9241 5012 Passcode: 303064.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

A Gaian Sensibility: Sensing Soils

Dr Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; and online (Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81826008101?pwd=NWJZS1JEZmtSdDFWWGFNUHRKT3RGQT09 Meeting ID: 818 2600 8101 Passcode: 116680.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:30

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Veganism, Archives, and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World

Dr Catherine Oliver, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84036973246?pwd=TXhtRFg5RWcyd3dhUy9YYTVlREpMZz09 Meeting ID: 840 3697 3246 Passcode: 358721.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

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Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene

Professor Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075862878?pwd=WmVsWUFJTjNmaW0vd1hLc1BxcURUQT09 Meeting ID: 820 7586 2878 Passcode: 066892.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82103353807?pwd=QTNTUGFFMWVjNjZuRFlsdE5RZVlJZz09 Meeting ID: 821 0335 3807 Passcode: 354795

jsd24@cam.ac.uk.

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:30

Imperial Slippages: Encountering and Knowing Ice in and beyond Colonial India

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87871680387?pwd=VUtzZkwzZVR4TktXSTQxaWViVHh4UT09 Meeting ID: 878 7168 0387 Passcode: 362935

Tom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge).

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Conviviality and companionship: tarrots and people in the African forests

Nancy Jacobs.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 April 2021, 13:00-18:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The slow death of Victorian liberal governmentality

Philip Howell, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Decolonisation and disciplinary histories, 1948-1990

Hannah Neate, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Making Imperial Citizens: Barnardo’s and the Preparation and Care of Child Emigrants, 1882-1905

Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Mixed race children of black GIs and British women born in WWII

Professor Lucy Bland, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

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Dr Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Monday 16 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Mapping grief: a conceptual framework for understanding the diverse spatialities of death, mourning and remembrance

Dr Avril Maddrell, UWE Bristol.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Rage against the Machine: Individuals in the British Empire

Professor Anna Clark, University of Minnesota.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Awkward biopolitics: osprey conservation, pesticides and biosecurity on Speyside, 1963-1968

Ben Garlick, University of Edinburgh.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Behaving badly? Perspectives on health inequalities in two socially contrasting neighbourhoods in North East England

Kayleigh Garthwaite, Department of Geography, Durham University.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

NATO Interoperability and Geopolitical Assemblages

Jason Dittmer, University College London.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Untangling Black Internationalisms: Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence and the Promise of Africa, c. 1953

Jake Hodder, University of Nottingham.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

An urban politics of subversive creativity: Architecture, objects and the urban terrain

Oli Mould, Royal Holloway.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The spatial politics of aspiration

Sam Strong, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Performance and aesthetics in geography: a cultural politics beyond representation?

Lizzie Richardson (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The determinants of historic migration streams: The importance of cultural barriers

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Geography’s final imperial frontier? On the influence of Geography on the humanities' 'spatial turn'

Carl Griffin (University of Sussex).

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The invention of wetlands: histories of conservation and contestation from Australia

Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University).

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

British New Towns, decolonisation, and the global geographies of urban expertise

Ruth Craggs (King’s College London).

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Conversations with Caroline: archival spaces of the Victorian asylum

Caroline Bressey, University College London.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Can the past help us to understand the present? A life-course perspective on the predictors and consequences of adolescent education and life outcomes in rural India

Akanksha Marphatia, University of Cambridge.

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The turbulent tale of Richard Burton, an armchair, and the Hakluyt Society: a story of nineteenth-century geography and the materialities of exploration

Natalie Cox, University of Warwick.

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Between comparison and singularity: architecture, Auroville and the aesthetic politics of urban Utopianism

Please note the time and venue: Seminar Room at 5pm.

Dr Tariq Jazeel, Department of Geography, University College London.

Seminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

Thursday 22 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The pledge and the public sphere: Father Mathew and the politics of temperance

Dr David Beckingham, University of Cambridge.

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 08 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

“The ignorance of the uneducated”: Cold War Philanthropy and the Institute of International Education

Mr Chay Brooks (University of Cambridge).

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Finding a Forever Home? The Battersea Dogs Home and the Victorian Domestication of the Dog

Dr Philip Howell (University of Cambridge).

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Colonial Subjection: Emergent Forms of Governmentality in Early Modern Ireland.

Dr John Morrissey (National University of Ireland, Galway).

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Thursday 13 February 2014, 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

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Reflections on countertopography

Professor Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:15-18:00

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

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

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

'Justifiable' Homicide? Responses to Wife-Murder in Nineteenth-Century India and Britain

Daniel Grey (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Patents and the Challenge of ‘Sharewaring’ in Post-Genomic Bioscience or …The Strange Case of Betty Crocker and The Mouse

Please note this is a Tuesday

Bronwyn Parry (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room 101 (Hardy Building, Downing Site).

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Towards a Genealogy of Care: The Treatment of Scotland’s Inebriates

Please note this is a Tuesday; please note the earlier starting time.

David Beckingham (Sidney Sussex, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:45

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Taxidermy, Longing, and Beastly Allure

Dr Rachel Poliquin.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Personifying Colonial Governance: Life Geography of George Arthur and the Transition from Colonial Philanthropy to Development Discourse

Professor Alan Lester, Department of Geography, University of Sussex.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and History

Dr. Ha joon Chang, Faculty of Economics.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915

Ms Melanie Jones, PhD Candidate.

Hardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The dog fancy at war: breeds, breeding and Britishness, 1914-1918

Dr. P MR Howell.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:15-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Assemblage and critical urbanism

Dr Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Durham University.

Room 101, Hardy Building.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Popping the question: how relevant was marriage in the European past? Evidence from the Gurk valley, Carinthia, 1868 to 1938

Catherine Sumnall, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915

New date to be confirmed

Melanie Jones, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

British Decolonization, 'Manpower Resource' Debates and the Politics of Scientific Governance in the Long Sixties.

Jennifer Gold, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Rethinking the Imperial Difference in Global Times

Prof. David Slater, Department of Geography, Loughborough University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 April 2009, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Traces of Europe

Luiza Bialasiewicz, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Room 101, Hardy Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

I'm a Citizen of the World': Gender, Identity and the Politics of Scale among British Expatriates in China

Katie Willis, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Room 101, Hardy Building.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Geography, mutualism and welfare: the geography of British hospital contributory schemes before, during and after (?) the NHS

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room 101, Hardy Building.

Sunday 22 October 2006, 16:15-17:30