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Department of Geography
Colloquium Speaker Series
Funded in part through The John Nelson Endowment and the alumni, faculty, and friends of the Ohio State Geography Endowment.
Speakers Committee: David Porinchu; Mei-Po Kwan; Kendra McSweeney; Jeff Olson.


Colloquia are held on Thursdays from 3:30-5:00pm in Derby Hall, Room 1080.


Upcoming Colloquia:

DATE SPEAKER LECTURE TYPE LECTURE TITLE AFFILIATION
2008-01-03 Alsdorf, Doug Guest Scholar How Much Water is on the Amazon Floodplain? Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
2008-01-17 Mann, Geoff Guest Scholar TBA Geography, Simon Fraser University
2008-02-07 Prudham, Scott Guest Scholar TBA Geography, University of Toronto
2008-02-28 Couclelis, Helen Robinson Lecture TBA Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
2008-03-06 Woodhouse, Connie Guest Scholar TBA Geography & Regional Development, University of Arizona
2008-05-08 Kobayashi, Audrey Taaffe Human Geography Lecture TBA Geography, Quenn's University

See the official flyer for the 2007-08 Colloquium Series by clicking here.



Past Colloquia:

DATE SPEAKER LECTURE TYPE LECTURE TITLE AFFILIATION
2007-11-15 Samers, Michael Guest Scholar Islamic banking and finance: postcolonial political economy and the geography of purification Geography, University of Kentucky
2007-10-11 Gahegan, Mark Guest Scholar Utilizing Cyberinfrastructure to Support United Nations Disaster Relief Efforts Geography, Penn State University
2007-09-27 Overpeck, Jonathan T. Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture Climate Change, Sea Level and Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference? Geosciences and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
2007-05-24 Shepherd, Marshall Guest Scholar How Cities Affect The Water Cycle Geography, University of Georgia
2007-05-03 Braun, Bruce Guest Scholar Spatial solutions for temporal problems? Political reason and the waywardness of matter Geography, University of Minnesota
2007-03-29 Peluso, Nancy Lee Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture Landscapes of Violence and Peace in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Division of Society and Environment, University of California Berkeley
2007-03-01 Richardson, Douglas Robinson Lecture GIScience and Technology: Innovation, Discovery, and Knowledge Production in Societal Context Executive Director, AAG
2007-01-18 Cutter, Susan Taaffe Human Geography Lecture Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Who, Where, and Why? Geography, University of South Carolina
2006-05-18 Fotheringham, A. Stewart Robinson Lecture New Ways of Looking at the World: A Sample of Research at the National Centre for GeocomputationNational University of Ireland
2006-03-30 Smith, Neil Taaffe Human Geography Lecture After Iraq: Failed Endgames, Failing Globalizations, New Political Geographies City University of New York
2006-02-02 Davis, FrankTaaffe Physical Geography Lecture Setting Conservation Priorities in Human Dominated EcosystemsUniversity of California at Santa Barbara
2005-04-21 Clarke, Keith Robinson Lecture Clarke Lecture Details (click) University of California, Santa Barbara
2005-03-17 Bradley, Raymond Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture High Resolution Paleoclimatology University of Massachusetts
2004-09-28 Zimmerer, Karl Taaffe Human Geography Lecture Trends in Global Conservation and Development Wisconsin-Madison
2004-05-13 Pequet, Donna Robinson Lecture A New Approach for Representation and Analysis of Complex Space-Time Processes Pennsylvania State
2004-03-05 Walsh, Steve Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture Approaches and Challenges for Characterizing Landscape Dynamics in Coupled Human-Natural Systems UNC - Chapel Hill
2003-05-22 Sheppard, Eric Robinson Lecture Spatial Analysis on the Edge of Chaos University of Minnesota
2003-04-10 Mitchell, Don Taaffe Human Geography Lecture The Liberalization of Free Speech: Or, How Protest is Silenced in Public Space Syracuse University
2002-11-07 Orme, Antony Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture Fifty Years On: Retrospect and Prospect in Geomorphology UCLA
2002-05-16 Wolch, Jennifer Taaffe Human Geography Lecture Region by Design: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California University of Southern California
2002-01-31 Band, Lawrence Taaffe Human Geography Lecture Ecosystem approaches to urban watersheds UNC - Chapel Hill
2001-11-01 Monmonier, Mark Robinson Lecture GIS, Racial Gerrymandering, and 'Expressive Harms': Can Geography Matter in Congressional Redistricting? Syracuse University
2001-05-10 Turner, B.L II Taaffe Human Geography Lecture Contested Identities: Human-Environment Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy Clark
2001-04-12 ReVelle, Charles Robinson Lecture The Richness of the Location Model; From Constantine to Lewis Carroll to the Present Johns Hopkins
2000-10-26 Veblen, Thomas Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture Humans and Climatic Variation as Drivers of Vegetation Change in Northern Patagonia, Argentina University of Colorado
2000-05-11 Willmott, Cort Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture   University of Delaware
2000-04-11 Watts, Michael Taaffe Human Geography Lecture   UC - Berkeley
1999-10-28 Goodchild, Michael Robinson Lecture   University of California, Santa Barbara
1999-05-13 Hanson, Susan Taaffe Human Geography Lecture   Clark University
1999-04-15 Oke, Tim Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture   University of British Columbia, Vancover
1999-01-28 Getis, Art Robinson Lecture   San Diego State University
2006-10-19 Ismail, Qadri Guest Scholar Is Culture A “Construct”? On The Emergence Of A Colonial Concept English, University of Minnesota
2006-02-23Grossman, Lawrence Guest Scholar Changing Colonial Policies and Discourses on Peasants and the Environment in the British Caribbean from the late 1800s to the 1940s  Virginia Tech
2005-10-27 Katz, Cindi Guest Scholar The State Goes Home: Social Reproduction and the Terrors of Hypervigilance in Contemporary US Childhood City University of New York
2005-09-29 Schuurman, Nadine Guest Scholar Database ethnographies in support of extended metadata for non-spatial attributes Simon Fraser University
2004-10-28 Brown, Michael Guest Scholar To Make a Map: The Contradictory Consequences of Mapping Seattle's Lesbian & Gay Historical Geography University of Washington
2004-10-24 Parkinson, Claire Guest Scholar Satellite Passive Remote Sensing of the Earth/Atmosphere System NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2004-04-29 Toal, Gerard Guest Scholar Reversing ethnic cleansing? The international community and human security in Bosnia Virginia Tech
2003-11-06 MacDonald, Glen Guest Scholar Global Climate Change and the Arctic - 18th Century Explores, Missing Helicopters and the Lost Forests of Siberia UCLA
2003-10-23 Armstrong, Marc Guest Scholar A Role for Mobile Computing in Geographic Education University of Iowa
2003-10-02 Horn, Sally Guest Scholar Sediment Records and Environmental History in Costa Rica University of Tennessee
2003-02-06 Molotch, Harvey Guest Scholar How Place Makes Product: Art, Design, Development, and Good Stuff UC-Santa Barbara AND NYU
2003-01-23 Yarnal, Brent Guest Scholar Integrated Regional Environmental Science: An Opportunity and Challenge for Geography Pennsylvania State
2002-11-21 McLafferty, Sara Guest Scholar Geographic Information and Community Health: Critical Insights from a Breast Cancer GIS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002-10-10 Howe, Nicholas Guest Scholar North Looking South: Narrative Cartography in Anglo-Saxon England UC-Berkeley
2002-05-09 Carney, Judith Guest Scholar Rice and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World UCLA
2002-04-25 Greene, Scott Guest Scholar The Development and Applications of Hot Weather/Health Watch Warning Systems Using Synoptic Climatology University of Oklahoma
2002-01-17 MacEachren, Alan Guest Scholar Geovisualization and Geocollaboration to Support Data Exploration and Decision-Making: Human-centered foundations Pennsylvania State
2001-11-15 Nast, Heidi Guest Scholar Concubines and Power: The Geo-politics of Fecundity in Agrarian States DePaul
2001-10-11 Gomez, Basil Guest Scholar Sediments as Recorders of Natural and Anthropogenic Change: Waipaoa River Basin, New Zealand Indiana State University
2001-04-26 Griffith, Daniel Guest Scholar The Geographic Distribution Of Soil-Lead Concentration: Description And Concerns Syracuse University
2001-04-19 Phillips, Jonathan Guest Scholar From Laws to Lessons: Dealing With Uncertainty and Contingency in Geography Kentucky
2001-08-02 Wright, Melissa Guest Scholar Asian Spies, American Motors And The Time-Space Of Value  Pennsylvania State
2001-01-25 Hirtle, Stephen Guest Scholar Navigation in Real and Virtual Spaces University of Pittsburgh
2000-11-30 Rhoads, Bruce Guest Scholar Integrating Physical and Human Geography within the Context of Watershed Science University of Illinois
2000-10-12 Jokisch, Brad Guest Scholar Transnationalism and the Ecuadorian Diaspora: Conceptualizing  University of Ohio
2007-02-01 Kim, Sook-Jin OSU Post-doc Research Neoliberalism as Hybrid: the Transformation of the Korean Seed Industry and Transnationalization of Korean Social Movements Geography Post-Doc, The Ohio State University
2006-11-30 Modan, Gabriella Ohio State Speaker Neighborly Relations: A Discourse Analytic Approach to Community Orientations and Place English, The Ohio State University
2006-03-02Jeff McKenzie and
Aaron Potito
Ohio State Speaker Reconstructing late Quaternary climate: Lacustrine archives from California and the American MidwestOSU Dept. of Geography
2005-11-10 Robertson, Claire Ohio State Speaker   Ohio State
2005-04-28 Box, Jason Ohio State Speaker A New Approach for Representation and Analysis of Complex Space-Time Processes Ohio State
2005-04-14 Saalfeld, Alan Ohio State Speaker Map Topology:  Principles and Practicalities Ohio State
2004-05-06 Johnston, Kevin Ohio State Speaker Anthropogenic Change, Population Dislocation, and the Collapse of Classic Maya Society: Paleoecological Evidence from Northern Guatemala Ohio State
2003-12-04 Thakur, Sudhir Ohio State Speaker Regional Science Research in India: Retrospect, Application and Prospects Ohio State
2003-11-13 Brown, Larry Ohio State Speaker Change, Continuity, and the Pursuit of Geographic Understanding: A Fieldwork Essay Ohio State
2003-05-29 Bodaar, AnneMarie Ohio State Speaker   Ohio State
2003-05-29 McChesney, Ron Ohio State Speaker   Ohio State
2003-05-29 Wu, Changshan Ohio State Speaker   Ohio State
2003-04-24 Merry, Carolyn Ohio State Speaker Using remote sensing data in engineering studies Ohio State
2002-12-05 Farhan, Bilal Ohio State Speaker A GIS-Based Approach for Delineating Market Areas for Park-and-Ride Facilities Ohio State
2002-06-06 Wu, Changshan Ohio State Speaker Estimating population distribution for transit planning using integrated GIS and RS technologies Ohio State
2002-05-23 McCord, Mark Ohio State Speaker Improving AADT and VMT Estimation with High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and The National Consortium on Remote Sensing of Transportation - Flows Ohio State
2002-02-28 Fraser, Alistair Ohio State Speaker Contradictions of the Capitalist State and Socialist Politics: The Case of the Scottish Socialist Party Ohio State
2001-11-29 Coleman, Jill Ohio State Speaker Ohio River Valley Winter Moisture Conditions Associated with the Pacific/North American Teleconnection Pattern Ohio State
2001-11-29 Hennon, Paula Ann Ohio State Speaker Helping Hurricane Intensity Prediction by Exposing the Clouds in the Hurricane Eyewall Ohio State
2001-10-23 Mosley-Thompson, Ellen Ohio State Speaker Deciphering Earth’s Climate and Environmental History from Ice Cores Ohio State
2001-05-24 Grubesic, Tony Ohio State Speaker Using Points of Presence to Measure City Accessibility to the Commercial Internet Ohio State
2001-05-24 Hennon, Chris Ohio State Speaker A Probabilistic Real-Time Prediction Scheme for Tropical Cyclogenesis Over the Atlantic Basin Ohio State
2001-05-24 Maddock, Tara Ohio State Speaker The Science and Politics of Water Quality Regulation Ohio State
2001-02-15 Horner, Mark Ohio State Speaker Excess Commuting: Analyses and Extensions Ohio State
2001-02-15 Lee, Jiyeong Ohio State Speaker A 3D Object-Based Data Model for Representing Topological Relations in Urban Micro-Spatial Environments Ohio State
2001-02-15 Lee, Sang-Il Ohio State Speaker Developing a bivariate spatial association measure: An integration of Pearson's r and Moran's I Ohio State
2001-02-01 Curtis, Peter Ohio State Speaker Estimating Net Ecosystem Production in a  Northern Hardwood Forest: Meteorological vs. Plot-based Approaches to Measuring Annual Carbon Storage Ohio State
2000-11-16 Rotman, Brian Ohio State Speaker Book End Ohio State
2000-09-28 Bosco, Fernando Ohio State Speaker Spatializing Social Movement Networks Ohio State
2000-09-28 Park, Bae-Gyoon Ohio State Speaker Labor Regulation and Economic Change: A View on the Korean Economic Crisis Ohio State
2000-09-28 Weber, Joe Ohio State Speaker Bringing Time Back In: A Study on the Influence of Travel Time Variations and Facility Opening Hours on Individual Accessibility Ohio State

CURA Roundtables may also be of interest (please click on the link to see the full schedule).

Please contact any of the committee members with comments, questions, or suggestions.


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