Colloquium Schedule
3:00 pm, American Geographical Society Library
3rd floor, Golda Meir Library
Unless otherwise noted
Fall 2008
Friday, September 12th
No colloquium
Friday, September 19th
Academic Adventure Series in the AGS
Ewa Barczyk, Director of Libraries; Christopher Baruth, Curator, AGS Library, and Neal Pease, Professor of History
"Georgia on My Mind: How Four Academics Absorbed the Culture, Toured the Countryside, Tasted the Wine, Opened an Exhibition and Fled the Russian Tanks"
Friday, September 26th
Workshop: Presenting and Publishing Your Research
Friday, October 3rd
Academic Adventure Series in the AGS
William Roselle, Library Director, Retired, Golda Meir Library
"A Moving Experience: The Historic Move of the AGS Library 30 Years Ago"
Friday, October 10th
Dr. Ghada Masri, UWM Institute for Global Studies
Re-narrating the City: Tourism, Identity and Sectarian Conflict in Beirut
Friday, October 17th
Ashley Adair, Master's Degree Research
Friday, October 24th
Academic Adventure Series in the AGS
Dr. Nigel Rothfels, Director of Undergraduate Research, UWM
"In Search of Germans, Butterflies, and History in Papua New Guinea"
Friday, October 31st
Dr. Ryan Holifield, UWM Department of Geography
Environmental justice and Lake Michigan Areas of Concern.
Dr. Kristin Sziarto, UWM Department of Geography
The Uneven Landscape of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: Genealogies of Local Ordinances
Friday, November 7th
Dr. Dale Splinter, UW-Whitewater Department of Geography
Ecoregions, drainage basins, and stream channels of eastern Oklahoma
Friday, November 14th
No colloquium Attend GIS Day events on Nov. 19th
Friday, November 21th
Mayer Lecture
Dr. Lawrence Knopp, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Race, Gender, and Venereal Biopower in Wartime Seattle
Friday, December 5th
Dr. Ellen J. Amster, UWM Department of History
Saints and the Islamic City: Geographies of the Sacred in Fes, Morocco
If you are interested in presenting a Geography Department Colloquium, please contact Ryan Holifield ( holifiel@uwm.edu )
