Past Events - Geography Speaker Series | Department of Geography

2020's Speaker Series

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

Air Quality, Climate, and Water Implications.pdf (opens in a new window)184.2 KB

01-31-2020
- Sapana Doshi
- Colloquium Speaker
- University of California, Merced

Racial Capitalism and the politics of Global Urbanization, A View from Mumbai.pdf (opens in a new window)2 MB

02-21-2020
- Hongtao Yi
- Colloquium Speaker
- John Glenn College, Ohio State

What drives the performance of collaboration networks.pdf (opens in a new window)283.64 KB

02-28-2020
- Vinay Gidwani
- Edward ‘Ned’ Taaffe Lecture
- University of Minnesota

The Infrastructure of Values.pdf (opens in a new window)408.33 KB

04-03-2020
- Yu Liu
- CANCELED Arthur Robinson Lecture CANCELED
- University, Beijing

Big Geo-Data for an Urban China, Methods and Applications.pdf (opens in a new window)414.58 KB

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

Mara Goldman - Knowing Nature Otherwise.pdf (opens in a new window)222.79 KB

03-22-2019
- Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
- Faculty Presentation
- The Ohio State University

Adeeko_Speaker.pdf (opens in a new window)1.61 MB

03-29-2019
- Lonnie Thompson
- Robinson Colloquium
- The Ohio State University

Thompson_Speaker_Series.pdf (opens in a new window)3.9 MB

10-18-2019
- Youjeong Oh
- Colloquium Speaker
- University of Texas-Austin

Pop city Korean popular culture and the selling of place.pdf (opens in a new window)144.07 KB

10-25-2019
- Max Woodworth
- Faculty Presentation
- The Ohio State University

Picturing Ruin in Urban China.pdf (opens in a new window)3.43 MB

11-15-2019
- Liang Chen
- Colloquium Speaker
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbanization and Climate in China.pdf (opens in a new window)1.3 MB

Dr. Liang Chen-Urbanization and Climate in China.pdf (opens in a new window)74.63 KB

02-09-2018
- Michael Mann
- Colloquium Speaker
- Prof., Dir., Earth System Science Center, Penn State University

Michael Mann Colloquium 2-9-18.pdf (opens in a new window)169.48 KB

03-30-2018
- Rinku Roy Chowdhury
  CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
- Colloquium Speaker
- Associate Prof., Geography, Clark University

Roy Chowdehury flyer.pdf (opens in a new window)85.96 KB

09-28-2018
- Abdi Samatar
- Taaffe Colloquium
- University of Minnesota

Africas First Democrats.pdf (opens in a new window)1.27 MB

11-16-2018
- Leo Zulu
- Colloquium Speaker
- Michigan State University

Prospects for Development in the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Africa-grown Initiatives.pdf (opens in a new window)3.51 MB

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

Quiring Flyer.pdf (opens in a new window)245.88 KB

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

OBRIEN flyer.pdf (opens in a new window)47.2 KB

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]

Past Events - Geography Speaker Series

2020's Speaker Series

2023-24 Speaker Series

9-29-2023

10-27-2023

11-3-2023

2-16-2024

3-22-2024

4-12-2024

03-04-2022

04-01-2022

04-08-2022

04-22-2022

09-16-2022

10-07-2022

10-28-2022

11-18-2022

03-03-2023

03-31-2023

04-07-2023

04-14-2023

02-12-2021

02-26-2021

03-19-2021

03-26-2021

04-02-2021

10-01-2021

10-22-2021

11-05-2021

11-19-2021

01-24-2020

01-31-2020

02-21-2020

02-28-2020

04-03-2020

09-25-2020

10-16-2020

10-30-2020

11-20-2020

2010's Speaker Series

02-22-2019

03-22-2019

03-29-2019

10-18-2019

10-25-2019

11-15-2019

02-09-2018

03-30-2018

09-28-2018

11-16-2018

03-03-2017

04-14-2017

09-15-2017

10-05-2017

11-16-2017

02-19-2016

10-21-2016

01-16-2015

02-13-2015

02-27-2015

03-27-2015

04-03-2015

10-29-2015

01-24-2014

02-14-2014

02-21-2014

02-28-2014

03-21-2014

04-04-2014

09-12-2014

09-26-2014

10-10-2014

10-17-2014

10-24-2014

10-31-2014

11-21-2014

01-11-2013

02-01-2013

04-05-2013

09-20-2013