Department of Geography – Colloquia Fall 2007

Updated 10/16/07

Friday, 8/31/07

Andrew Fountain, Portland State University,

Departments of Geology and Geography

"Valley of the Dead: The lakes and glaciers of the Antarctic Dry Valleys"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 9/7/07

James Kirchner, Goldman Distinguished Professsor for the Physical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science

"The chemistry of Earth's dynamic surface: interplay between physical erosion and chemical weathering in mountainous granitic landscapes"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 9/14/07

Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography

"Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions: Transnational Environmentalism, Nationalism and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 9/21/07

Hsuan L Hsu, Yale University, Department of English

"Geography, race, and literary regionalism"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 9/28/07

Jenny Smith, Yale University

"Empire of Ice Cream:  How Life Got Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 10/5/07

Rachel Epstein, University of Denver, Graduate School of International Affairs

"The Social Context in Conditionality: Internationalizing Finance in Postcommunist Europe"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 10/12/07

Liam Downey, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Sociology

"Inequality, Democracy and the Environment"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 10/19/07

cancelled

 

 

Friday, 10/26/07

Andrew Mackintosh, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ,

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science

"Identifying the major climatic drivers of glacier fluctuations: examples from New Zealand and East Antarctica"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 11/2/07

Josh Perdue, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography

"The Pasteurized State: Raw Milk, Public Health, and the Spatial Expansion of Governmentality in Colorado, 1945-1950"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 11/9/07

Frank Witmer, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography

"Satellite imagery as a tool for evaluating war outcomes: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 11/16/07

 

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 11/23/07

Fall Break

 

 

Friday, 11/30/07

Pending Confirmation

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 12/7/07

Pending Confirmation

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 12/14/07

Pending Confirmation