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Past Events - Geography Speaker Series

2020's Speaker Series

2023-24 Speaker Series

 

  • 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

 

  • 04-03-2020

    • Yu Liu
    • CANCELED Arthur Robinson Lecture CANCELED
    • University, Beijing

 

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

 

  • 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

 

  • 09-28-2018     

    • Abdi Samatar     
    • Taaffe Colloquium
    • University of Minnesota

 

  • 11-16-2018

    • Leo Zulu
    • Colloquium Speaker
    • Michigan State University

 

  • 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

  • 09-28-2012

  • 10-12-2012

  • 11-16-2012

  • 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]

2000's Speaker Series