Geography Speaker Series

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

Past events

2024-2025 Speaker Series

This schedule is not complete yet and subject to change

• 9-6-2024 3:30-5pm Ohio Staters/Traditions Room, Ohio Union

  • Prof. Steve Fiorino
  • Colloquium Speaker
  • Talk Title: Researching How Atmospheric Conditions Affect Directed Energy Weapons Effectiveness
  • Air Force Institute of Technology (Dayton, OH)
     

• 9-27-2024 1:30-3:00pm Senate Chamber, Ohio Union      

  • Prof. Irus Braverman
  • Taaffe Lecture
  • Talk title: Settler Ecologies: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel
  • Dept. of Geog., University of Buffalo, NY
     

• 10-9-2024 3:30-5:00pm Senate Chamber, Ohio Union      

  • Prof. Henry Yeung
  • Colloquium Speaker
  • Talk Title: Theory and Explanation in Geography
  • Dept. of Geog., NUS, Singapore
     

• 11-1-2024 3:30-5:00pm Senate Chamber, Ohio Union

  • Prof. Lisa Bhungalia
  • Colloquium Speaker
  • Talk title: Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
  • Dept. of Geog., U of Wisconsin-Madison
     

• 1-31-2025 3:30-5:00pm Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library

  • Prof. Daniel Warshawsky
  • Colloquium Speaker
  • Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library
  • Talk Title: Food Waste, Food Insecurity, and the Globalization of Food Banks
  • School of Social Science and International Studies, Wright State University
     

• 3-21-2025 3:30-5:00pm Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library

  • Prof. Kim Cobb
  • Robinson Lecture
  • Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library
  • Talk Title: SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS FOR A WARMING WORLD
  • Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Brown University 
     

• 4-11-2025 3:30-5:00pm Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library

  • Prof. Julio Postigo
  • Colloquium Speaker
  • Colloquia Rm 340 3rd floor 18th Avenue Library
  • Talk Title: Understanding the Production of Local Knowledge to Address Global Environmental Change: Leveraging the Case of Bolivian Aymara Expert Farmers
  • Dept. of Geography, Indiana University