2020's Speaker Series
      
2024-2025 Speaker Series
9-6-2024 3:30-5pm Ohio Staters/Traditions Room, Ohio Union
9-27-2024 1:30-3:00pm Senate Chamber, Ohio Union
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
 
2023-24 Speaker Series
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
 
03-04-2022
- Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Exploring Climate Change through the Lenses of Vulnerability and Inclusion
 - Professor, University of Vermont Vermont State Climatologist
 
04-01-2022
- LaToya Eaves
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - “…but not under conditions of our own choosing”: Black livingness as method in geography
 - Assistant Professor University of Tennessee and Treasurer of the AAG
 
04-08-2022
- Marilyn Raphael
 - Taaffe Colloquium
 - Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Change and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation
 - UCLA and Vice President (and President-elect) of the AAG
 
04-22-2022
- Scott Sheridan
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Heat Vulnerability in a Changing Climate: can we acclimatize?
 - Professor of Climatology Chair, Department of Geography, Kent State University
 
09-16-2022
- Farhana Sultana
 - Coloquium Speaker
 - Title: Decolonizing Climate Coloniality
 - Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
 
10-07-2022
- Ken Kawashima
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis Today
 - Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies University of Toronto
 
10-28-2022
- Marshall Shepherd
 - Robinson Lecture
 - The Extreme Weather - Climate Gap: The Intersection of Extremes, Vulnerability and Risk
 - University of Georgia
 
11-18-2022
- He Yin
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Cropland abandonment: A nature-based solution to address environmental challenges?
 - Assistant Professor of Geography, Kent State University
 
03-03-2023
- Ahmed El-Geneidy
 - Taaffe Colloquium
 - The 15-Minute City: Moving beyond the concept
 - McGill School of Urban Planning
 
03-31-2023
- Harsha Bhat
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Do Corporations Breathe?
 - PostDoc Fellow on Race and Responsible Data Science, The Ohio State University
 
04-07-2023
- Harley Etienne
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Cognitive Mapping of Neighborhood Boundaries in Detroit: Racial Exclusion and Neighborhood Defense
 - City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University
 
04-14-2023
- Anais Delilah Roque
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Participatory Convergence: A framework for working with and for communities in the Anthropocene
 - Dept. of Anthropology The Ohio State University
 
02-12-2021
- Alyssa Battistoni
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Zero Carbon Democracy? State of Capital in the Age of Climate Change
 - Harvard University
 
02-26-2021
- Mary Thomas
 - Internal Speaker
 - The relational space of the juvenile prison
 - The Ohio State University, WGSS
 
03-19-2021
- Becky Mansfield
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Deregulatory science: Fossil fuels and chemical risk analysis in Trump's EPA
 - The Ohio State University, Geography
 
03-26-2021
- Morton O'Kelly
 - Taffe Lecture
 - Airlines on the edge
 - The Ohio State University
 
04-02-2021
- Thomas Mote
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Blocking and breaking: how changing weather accelerates melting of the Greenland ice sheet
 
10-01-2021
- Kavita Pandit
 - Robinson Colloquium
 - The Restructuring of Faculty Careers: Trends, Issues, and Models for the Future
 - Senior Advisor to the Provost, Georgia State University
 
10-22-2021
- Nari Senanayake
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Theorizing liminal states of health: A spatio-temporal analysis of undiagnosis and anticipatory diagnosis in the shadow of toxic pollution
 - Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
 
11-05-2021
- Arrianna Planey
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Intersectionality and Time: Thinking Relationally About Health(care) Inequities
 - Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
 
11-19-2021
- Mae Miller
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - On Safe Harbors, Worlding Education, and Transnational Black Feminist Geographies in the Early Twentieth Century
 - Visiting Scholar, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
 
01-24-2020
- Yue Qin
 - Faculty Presentation
 - The Ohio State University
 
01-31-2020
- Sapana Doshi
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - University of California, Merced
 
02-21-2020
- Hongtao Yi
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - John Glenn College, Ohio State
 
02-28-2020
- Vinay Gidwani
 - Edward ‘Ned’ Taaffe Lecture
 - University of Minnesota
 
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04-03-2020
- Yu Liu
 - CANCELED Arthur Robinson Lecture CANCELED
 - University, Beijing
 
09-25-2020
- Robyn Wilson
 - Internal Speaker
 - Understanding Climate Adaptation Decisions in the Eastern Corn Belt
 - The Ohio State University, SENR
 
10-16-2020
- Brian Jefferson
 - Robinson Lecture
 - Computerizing Carceral Power
 - University of Illinois
 
10-30-2020
- Sara Smith
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - The Cene Scene: CenteringIndigenous and Black Environmental Visions
 - UNC-Chapel Hill
 
11-20-2020
- Clio Andris
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Spatial Social Network Analysis: A Story of the American Mafia in the 1960's
 - Georgia Tech
 
            2010's Speaker Series
      
02-22-2019
- Mara Goldman
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - University of Colorado, Boulder
 
03-22-2019
- Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
 - Faculty Presentation
 - The Ohio State University
 
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03-29-2019
- Lonnie Thompson
 - Robinson Colloquium
 - The Ohio State University
 
10-18-2019
- Youjeong Oh
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - University of Texas-Austin
 
 
10-25-2019
- Max Woodworth
 - Faculty Presentation
 - The Ohio State University
 
 
11-15-2019
- Liang Chen
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
02-09-2018
- Michael Mann
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Prof., Dir., Earth System Science Center, Penn State University
 
03-30-2018
- Rinku Roy Chowdhury
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS - Colloquium Speaker
 - Associate Prof., Geography, Clark University
 
- Rinku Roy Chowdhury
 
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09-28-2018
- Abdi Samatar
 - Taaffe Colloquium
 - University of Minnesota
 
11-16-2018
- Leo Zulu
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Michigan State University
 
03-03-2017
- Nik Heynen
 - Taaffe-Human Colloquium
 - Dept. of Geography, University of Georgia
 - Abolition Ecology and Racializing the Commons
 
04-14-2017
- Karen Seto
 - Arthur H. Robinson Colloquium
 - School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
 - Future Urban Expansion and Implications for Building Energy Demand and Global Croplands
 
09-15-2017
- Steven Quiring
 - Faculty Presentation
 - Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University
 
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10-05-2017
- Chris Justice
 - Robinson Colloquium
 - Prof., Chair, Geography, University of Maryland
 - Global Agricultural Monitoring: Detecting the Impact of Extreme Climate Events
 
11-16-2017
- Karen O'Brien
 - Taaffe Colloqium
 - Prof., Sociology & Geography, University of Oslo
 
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          02-19-2016
- Matthew Zook
 - Arthur H. Robinson Colloquium
 - Dept. of Geography University of Kentucky
 - Socializing Data: Mapping Culture and Governing Cities in the Era of Big Social Media [pdf]
 
10-21-2016
- Elizabeth A. Wentz
 - Opportunity Speaker
 - School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Dean of Social Sciences, Arizona State University
 - Impact of Homeowner Association (HOA) Landscaping Guidelines On Residential Water Use
 
01-16-2015
- Vonu (Piyushimita) Thakuriah
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, School of Social & Political Sciences, Univ. of Glasgow
 - Data-Driven Public Transportation and Operations [pdf]
 
02-13-2015
- Xiang Li
 - OSU-Visiting-Scholar
 - Professor & Associate Dean, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University
 - Spatial Operational Research and Ots Application in Emergency Services [pdf]
 
02-27-2015
- Mark Carey
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Associate Professor, History & Associate Dean Honors College, Univ. of Oregon
 - Glaciers, Gender, and Science: Toward a Feminist Glaciology [pdf]
 
03-27-2015
- Melissa Wright
 - Taaffe-Human Colloquium
 - Professor, Geography and Womens Studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.
 - Mystical Modernity, Mapping Neoliberalism and Mexico’s “Disappeared” [pdf]
 
04-03-2015
- Sallie Maston
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, School of Geography and Development, Univ. of Arizona
 - “Imagine the Impossible”: Science, Art, Transversality and the Cultivation of Creative Subjects [pdf]
 
10-29-2015
- Tania Murray Li
 - Taaffe-Human Colloquium
 - Dept. of Anthropology University of Toronto
 - Land’s End:Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier [pdf]
 
01-24-2014
- Robert A. Bindschadler
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - NASA Emeritus Scientist, NASA-Goddard (Maryland)
 - What Ice Sheets Hate [pdf]
 
02-14-2014
- Joseph Fiskel
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Executive Director, Center for Resilience The Ohio State University
 - Sustainability and Resilience: How EPA Pioneered a Systems Approach in New England [pdf]
 
02-21-2014
- Ola Ahlqvist
 - Faculty Presentation
 - Life, liberty and the pursuit of scholarly excellence [pdf]
 - Associate Professor, OSU Geography
 
02-28-2014
- Kevin Cox
 - Faculty Presentation and Book Forum
 - Professor, OSU Geography
 - Making Human Geography [pdf]
 
03-21-2014
- Becky Mansfield
 - Faculty Presentation
 - Professor, OSU Geography
 - The New Epigenetic Biopolitics of Environmental Health [pdf]
 
04-04-2014
- Mark Friedl
 - Robinson Colloquium
 - Professor, Earth & Environment Department, Boston University
 - Characterizing the Sensitivity of Temperate Forest Growing Season Dynamics to Climate Change [pdf]
 
09-12-2014
- James Tyner
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, Dept. of Geography, Kent State University
 - Violence, Alienation, and the Transformation of Nature in Democratic Kamphuchea, 1975-1979 [pdf]
 
09-26-2014
- Piper Gaubatz
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, Dept. of GeoSciences, Univ. of Massachusetts
 - Dancing at Dusk: Public Space in Chinese Cities [pdf]
 
10-10-2014
- Nancy Ettlinger
 - OSU-Geography-Faculty Presentation
 - Associate Professor, OSU Geography
 - Accumulation by Desperation: Open Innovation, Open Networks, and the Predicament of Labor in the New Millennium [pdf]
 
10-17-2014
- Darla Munroe
 - OSU-Geography-Faculty Presentation
 - Associate Professor, OSU Geography
 - The Appalachian Ohio Forest Research Group (AOFRG) [pdf]
 
10-24-2014
- Michael Brown
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Washington
 - The Biopolitical Bar: Governmentality, Sexuality, and the Regulation of the Homosexual Tavern 1934-1971 [pdf]
 
10-31-2014
- Kendra McSweeney
 - OSU-Geography-Faculty Presentation
 - Associate Professor, OSU Geography
 - Grounding traffic: embedding the cocaine commodity chain in spaces of transit [pdf]
 
11-21-2014
- Shih-Lung Shaw
 - Robinson Colloquium Speaker
 - Professor, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Tennessee
 - Big Data, Human Dynamics and Space-Time GIS [pdf]
 
01-11-2013
- Emily Yeh
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - University of Colorado at Boulder
 - Following the caterpillar fungus: Nature, commodity chains, & the place of Tibet in China's uneven geographies [pdf]
 
02-01-2013
- Shaowen Wang
 - Colloquium Guest Speaker
 - Dept. of Geography University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 - From Computational Geography to CyberGIS: The Geospatial Dimensions of Extreme Digital Transformation [pdf]
 
04-05-2013
- Larry Smith
 - Robinson Colloquium Speaker
 - Dept. of Geography, UCLA
 - THE WORLD IN 2050: Four Forces Shaping Our Northern Future [pdf]
 
09-20-2013
- Daniel Sui
 - Geography Faculty Presentation
 - Professor & Chair, OSU Geography
 - Rethinking geographic research and education in the age of open science [pdf]
 
09-27-2013
- Bryan Mark
 - Geography Faculty Presentation
 - Associate Professor, OSU Geography
 - Hydrosocial transformation in an Andean waterscape: Implications for coupling human Variables with Climate-Glacier Runoff Models (Santa River, Peru) [pdf]
 
10-25-2013
- David Harvey
 - Taaffe Colloquium
 - Distinguished Professor, Program in Anthropology City University of New York (CUNY)
 - CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITAL [pdf]
 
11-16-2013
- Nada Moumtaz
 - Colloquium Speaker
 - Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Near Eastern Languages & Cultures (NELC) & Comparative
 - Beyond Profit? Beirut's Inalienable Land Trusts under a Private Property Regime [pdf]
 
11-22-2013
- Derek Van Berkel & Hungshuo Wang
 - Visiting Scholars Presentation
 - Post Doctoral Fellows, OSU Geography
 - Dr. Van Berkel: "Assessing the spatial heterogeneous variation in the use, mana gement, and plans for the forests in Appalachian Ohio". Dr. Wang: "Modeling forest responses to climatic variations in the Appalachian region" [pdf]
 
01-26-2012
- Aaron Wolf
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - Oregon State University
 - Healing the Enlightenment Rift: Rationality, Spirituality, and Shared Waters[pdf]
 
02-10-2012
- Jason Box
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - Dept. of Geography The Ohio State University
 - Greenland ice sheet albedo feedback: thermodynamics and atmospheric drivers
 
03-08-2012
- Elvin Wyly
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - University of British Columbia
 - Automated (Post) Positivism[pdf]
 
03-15-2012
- Katharyne Mitchell
 - Taaffe Human Geography Lecture
 - University of Washington
 - The New Washington Consensus: Education and the Rise of Philanthro Capitalism[pdf]
 
04-05-2012
- Rebecca Lave
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - Indiana University
 - Free Range Science: Producing Scientific Expertise Outside the Academy[pdf]
 
04-12-2012
- Alan MacEachren
 - Arthur Robinson Cartography Lecture
 - Pennsylvania State University
 - Geovisual Analytics: Leveraging place-relevant data to support health and safety[pdf]
 
05-10-2012
- Deborah Cowen
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - University of Toronto
 - Rough Trade: Logistics Space from Military Art to Business Science[pdf]
 
05-24-2012
- Cynthia Brewer
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - Pennsylvania State University
 - Multiscale Design for The National Map of the United States[pdf]
 
05-31-2012
- Mary Thomas
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - The Ohio State University
 - Mary Thomas to Present her new Book, Multicultural Girlhood[pdf]
 
09-14-2012
- Morgan Robertson
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - Dept. of Geography University of Kentucky
 - The Regulated Landscape: Water resources at the intersection of science, capital, and law[pdf]
 
09-28-2012
- Mytheli Sreenivas
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - Dept. of History, The Ohio State University
 - Governing (Over) population: Famine, contraception, and empire in historical perspective[pdf]
 
10-12-2012
- Sarah Elwood
 - Colloquium Guest Speaker
 - Dept. of Geography, University of Washington
 - New Spatial Media, New Knowledge Politics [pdf]
 
11-16-2012
- Derek Gregory
 - Taaffe Colloquium Speaker
 - University of British Columbia
 - Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy [pdf]
 
01-20-2012
- Ishan Ashutosh
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - Visiting Scholar
 - South Asian' in the Canadian Census and South Asian Identities in Toronto
 
01-13-2011
- Natalie Oswin
 - Guest Scholar
 - McGill University
 - Queer time in a developmental state: Family, futurity and global city Singapore[pdf]
 
02-03-2011
- Julie Guthman
 - Guest Scholar
 - UC Santa Cruz
 - Environmental toxins and fat bodies: toward a critical political ecology of obesity[pdf]
 
04-07-2011
- Michael Batty
 - Arthur Robinson Cartography Lecture
 - University College London
 - Visualising Cities Through Models, Maps and Machines[pdf]
 
04-28-2011
- Dawn Parker
 - Guest Scholar
 - University of Waterloo
 - Do land markets matter? Exploring the effects of land market representation on land-use change projections using agent-based modeling[pdf]
 
05-05-2011
- Kurt Cuffey
 - Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture
 - UC Berkley
 - Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change[pdf]
 
09-30-2011
- Joel Wainwright
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - Dept. of Geography The Ohio State University
 - Climate Leviathan
 
10-14-2011
- Ola Ahlqvist and Ulrik Mårtensson
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - OSU and Lund University
 - Practicing geography-perspectives on global environmental change, development, geographic analysis, and (e-)learning
 
10-20-2011
- Mark Serreze
 - Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture
 - University of Colorado at Boulder
 - The Arctic's Shrinking Sea Ice Cover: Why Should I Care?[pdf]
 
10-27-2011
- Jeremy Crampton
 - Colloquium Guest Scholar
 - University of Kentucky
 - Spooks, Scholars and Secrets: Mapping Sciences at the Formation of America's First Spy Agency[pdf]
 
11-18-2011
- Ryan Fogt
 - Friday Lunch Workshop Series
 - Ohio University
 - The Characteristic Variability and Connection to the Underlying Synoptic Activity of the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas Low
 
01-28-2010
- Tom Swetnam
 - Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture
 - University of Arizona
 - Climate Change and Temperate Forests of the Western United States: Evidence of Rising Impacts?[pdf]
 
02-11-2010
- Post-Doc Speakers
 - Post-Doctoral Researchers
 - The Ohio State University
 - Virginia Tech
 - Chandana Gangodagamage and Nathan Stansell[pdf]
 
02-25-2010
- Erle Ellis
 - Guest Scholar
 - Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
 - Anthropogenic Biomes: Creating the Human Biosphere[pdf]
 
04-08-2010
- Bill Mitsch
 - Local Scholar
 - OSU, Environment and Natural Resources
 - Wetlands as the Lost Carbon Sink?[pdf]
 
04-22-2010
- Sara Fabrikant
 - Guest Scholar
 - Univ. of Zurich
 - Designing Cognitively Inspired Displays for Effective and Efficient Spatio-temporal Inference Making[pdf]
 
04-29-2010
- Paul Robbins
 - Guest Scholar
 - University of Arizona
 - Producing Wildlife: India's Conservation Areas as Territories of Prehension[pdf]
 
05-06-2010
- Dan Brown
 - Robinson Lecture
 - Univ. of Michigan
 - Understanding and Modeling of Exurban Land Change in Arthur H. Robinson Colloquium Southeastern Michigan[pdf]
 
10-07-2010
- Andrew Comrie
 - Guest Scholar
 - University of Arizona
 - Catching Climate Fever: Diagnosing the Changing Environment of Infectious Disease[pdf]
 
10-21-2010
- David Bromwich
 - Guest Scholar
 - The Ohio State University
 - Arctic Climate Change[pdf]
 
11-18-2010
- Alec Murphy
 - Guest Scholar
 - University of Oregon
 - Strategic Directions for Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade.[pdf]
 
11-04-2010
- Stuart Elden
 - Taaffe Human Geography Lecture
 - Durham University
 - The Birth of Territory[pdf]
 
12-02-2010
- Karen Till
 - Guest Scholar
 - Reinhabiting Place: Body Memory and Witnessing as Empathic Vision[pdf]