The Department of Geography hosts a Speaker Series every year with stimulating geographic presentations from leading researchers in the field, intermingled with talks given by visiting scholars and OSU faculty.
We feature two main Marquee Events each year in this series, the Edward J. Taaffe Physical Geography Colloquium and the Arthur H. Robinson Cartography Colloquium.
The Speaker Series is funded in part through the John Nelson Endowment and the alumni, faculty, and friends of the Ohio State Geography endowment.
Recordings of previous talks are kept in our YouTube channel, OSU Geography
Speaker Series
Generally conducted on Fridays from 3:30-5:00PM unless otherwise announced
2023-24 Speaker Series
This schedule is not complete yet and subject to change
9-29-2023
- Jessica Tierney
- Robinson Lecture
- Paleoclimate data assimilation: New views into past climates
- Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
10-27-2023
- Xiaolin Zhu
- Colloquium Speaker
- Day and night monitoring of land surface dynamics from space
- Assistant Professor, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11-3-2023
- Anthony Praino
- Colloquium Speaker
- Via Zoom
- The Jefferson Project at Lake George
- Chief Engineer/Meteorologist - Environmental Sciences Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
2-16-2024
- Anais D. Roque
- Colloquium Speaker
- Water (In) Justice and Participatory Convergence: Working With and For Communities in the Anthopocene.
- Dept. of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
3-22-2024
- Kerry Ard
- Colloquium Speaker
- The Role of Spatial Segregation in Explaining Environmental and Health Disparities in a U.S. Context.
- Associate Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology, The Ohio State University
4-12-2024
- Jovan Lewis
- Taaffe Lecture
- Beyond Injury: New Terms for Black Reparations.
- Professor and Chair, UC Berkley, CA