Geography Colloquium Schedule
3:00 pm, American Geographical Society Library
3rd floor, Golda Meir Library
Fall 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Introduction to series/meet and greet
Friday, September 10, 2010
No colloquium – Department closed (furlough)
Friday, September 17, 2010
Christopher Baruth, Curator, American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee
"TBD"
Friday, September 24, 2010
AGS Academic Adventurers Series, AGS Library 3:00pm
Stefan Schnitzer, Biological Sciences, UW-Milwaukee
"Nature is Green in Tooth and Claw: A Photographic Journey into Tropical Ecology"
Friday, October 1, 2010
Urban Studies Programs Fall Lecture – Hefter Center, 4:30pm
Raquel Pinderhughes, Urban Studies and Planning, San Francisco State University
"TBD"
Thursday, October 7, 2010
AGS Geofocus Lecture – AGS Library, 7:00pm
Frederick Nelson, Geography, University of Delaware
"The American Geographical Society's Transcontinental Excursion of 1912"
Friday, October 8, 2010
Center for 21st Century Studies – Curtin Hall 175, 1:45-3:15pm
James Rojas, Latino Urban Forum, and Karen Till, Virginia Institute of Technology
"Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces, Part I"
Friday, October 15, 2010
Fall 2010 Harold and Florence Mayer Lecturer
Julio Betancourt, U.S. Geological Survey
"Climate and Ecosystems in the American West: Past, Present and Future"
Friday, October 22, 2010
No colloquium – Department closed (furlough)
Friday, October 29, 2010
AGS Academic Adventurers Series, AGS Library, 3:00pm
Chukuka Enwemeka, Dean, College of Health Sciences, UW-Milwaukee
"Analyzing Urban Park System Using Statistical and Spatial Models"
Friday, November 5, 2010
Center for 21st Century Studies – Curtin Hall 175, 3:00pm
Arun Saldanha, Geography, University of Minnesota
"A Tear in the Fabric of Time: The Immediate Impact of Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario"
Friday, November 5, 2010
Critical Geography Mini-Conference, Keynote Speaker – AGS Library, 6:00pm
Mona Domosh, Geography, Dartmouth College
"Toward a Genealogy of Geoeconomics: America's 'Mission' in the Early Twentieth Century"
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Critical Geography Mini-Conference
www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/criticalgeography
Bolton Hall, 7:45am - 5:00pm
Friday, November 12, 2010
Professional Development Workshop: Grants and Fellowships for Graduate Students
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
GIS Day - www4.uwm.edu/gis/gisday
Friday, November 19, 2010
Woonsup Choi, Geography, UW-Milwaukee
"Urban growth and groundwater recharge: The case of Waukesha County."
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thanksgiving Break
Friday, December 3, 2010
AGS Academic Adventurers Series, AGS Library, 3:00pm
Anna Mansson McGinty, Geography and Women's Studies, UW-Milwaukee
"Blue-and-Yellow Islam? Muslim Identities in Sweden"
Friday, December 10, 2010
Richard Shaker, Geography, UW-Milwaukee
"The Scaling of Sustainability and Landscape Science: An Investigation of Human Behavior in the Republic of Moldova"
