The Department of Geography hosts weekly colloquia and special lectures during term. Colloquia are held on Fridays at 3pm in CSA 303 unless otherwise indicated.

[NEW EVENT] Please join us and the speaker for further conversation at the Coffee Social in CSA 302 immediately after the colloquium.

Spring 2008

• Jan. 18 Dr. Daniel Sui , Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  "The Wikification of GIS and its Consequences."

• Jan. 25 Dr. Lori Daniels, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
  "Hot Topics in Biogeography: The Impacts of Climate and People on Fire Regimes in British Columbia, Canada"

• Feb. 1 Dr. Srinivasan, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University
  "Estimation of Global Freshwater Availability"

• Feb. 8 Dr. Phil Osborne, Pacific International Engineering
  "Towards Low Impact High Speed Waterborne Transit in Puget Sound"

• Feb. 15 Dr. Lisa Ellis, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University
  "Kantian Provisionalism and the Case of Species Preservation"

• Feb. 22 Dr. Menno-Jan Kraak, Department of Geo-Information Processing, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) - Netherlands
  "From Cartography to Geovisual Analytics" 

• Feb. 29 Dr. Garth Myers, Department of Geography, University of Kansas
  "What Do Africa's Urban Poor Make of 'Pro-Poor' Planning?"

• Mar. 7 Dr. Peter Hugill, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  "The American challenge to British hegemony, 1861-1946"

• Mar. 14 No seminar (spring break)

• Mar. 28 Dr. Jonathan Smith, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  "The Stagnation of Secularization: Fertility, Epistemology, and the 
  Future Geography of American Beliefs" 

• Apr. 4 Dr. Nicholas Lancaster, Director, Center for Arid Lands Environmental Management, Desert Research Institute
  "Long-term dune dynamics - new data and new concepts"

• Apr. 11 AAG practice talks

• Apr. 18 No seminar (AAG)

• Apr. 25 Dr. Danny Edelson, Vice President, Education and Children's Programs;
  Executive Director, NG Education Foundation, National Geographic Society
  "Geography Education and GIS to Prepare 21st Century Citizens"