Geography Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, the colloquium series presentations are held in the American Geographical Society Library of the Golda Meir Library 2:30 to 4:00 pm.
Related events (not part of the colloquium series) are indicated in italics.
Spring 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Wei Huang, Ph.D. Proposal
"Spatial Dimensions of Tower and Cockpit Karst: A Case Study of Guilin, China"
Friday, February 1, 2013
Anna Mansson McGinty, Geography and Women’s Studies, UW-Milwaukee
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Comparative Literature, UW-Milwaukee
Kristin M. Sziarto, Geography, UW-Milwaukee
"Muslim Milwaukee Project," discussing the difficulties and benefits of community collaboration"
Center for 21st Century Studies, Curtin 939, 12:00pm
Friday, February 1, 2013
Geography’s Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture
Richard Walker, Professor Emeritus, Geography, University of California, Berkeley
"The Rise and Fall of the Golden State: Hard Lessons of Liberal Capitalism Learned in California"
AGSL, 3rd Floor Golda Meir Library
Friday, February 8, 2013
Academic Adventurers
John Reisel, Engineering and Applied Science, UW-Milwaukee
"Water for Rural Guatemala: UWM Engineers Without Borders in Action"
AGSL, 3rd Floor Golda Meir Library, 3:00pm.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Chengbin Deng, Dissertation
"Remote Sensing and Geospatial Techniques for Urban Biophysical Compositions and their Applications"
Friday, February 22, 2012
William I. Woods, Geography, University of Kansas
"PreEuropean Amazonian Populations"
(Cancelled due to Weather)
Friday, March 1, 2013
Claire Reuning, Thesis
"'This is a New Story': Transnational Networks and Cultural Landscapes of Congolese Immigrants in Milwaukee"
Jonathan Kult, Thesis
"Regionalization of hydrologic response in the Great Lakes basin: Considerations of spatial and temporal scales of analysis"
Friday, March 8, 2013
Academic Adventurers
Arijit Sen, Architecture, UW-Milwaukee
"Teaching American Cultural Landscapes: Engaging Students in the Thurston Woods Neighborhood, Milwaukee."
AGSL, 3rd Floor Golda Meir Library, 3:00pm.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Joseph Larsen, Thesis
"A Re-examination of an Air-Mass Based Approach to Detecting Structural Climate Change"
Friday, March 22, 2013
Spring Break
Friday, March 29, 2013
Isaac Park, Dissertation
"Changes in Flowering over Time, Space, and Season; An Examination of Phenology through Historical Herbarium Records"
Friday, April 5, 2013
Center for 21st Century Studies Transdisciplinary Symposium
"Contested Ecologies: The Peril and Promise of Transdisciplinarity"
Curtin 175, 12:00–5:30 pm
Geography Colloquium:
Morgan Robertson, Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Everyday Transdisciplinarity: Working across logics in environmental management"
Curtin 175, 3:00–4:00 pm
Transdisciplinary Roundtable:
4:15-5:30pm: Tim Ehlinger, Ryan Holifield, Manu Sobti
Friday, April 12, 2013
AAG Meetings
Friday, April 19, 2013
I-Hui Lin, Dissertation
"Assessing the Effect of Parks on Surrounding Property Values Using GIS and Spatial Models"
Friday, April 26, 2013
Margaret Pettygrove, Ph.D. Proposal
"Mapping Urban Food: Exploring Food and Health Inequities and (Spatial) Knowledge Production in Milwaukee"
Angela L. Jackson, Thesis
"Spatial Patterns Influencing Foraging Activity of Insectivorous Bats in an Agricultural Landscape of Southeast Glacial Plains Wisconsin"
Friday, May 10, 2013
Geography 600 - Presentations and Awards
9:00am – 4:00pm, American Geographical Society Library
Symposium Schedule (pdf - 65kb)
