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Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Series

This lecture series is made possible by an endowment from Harold and Florence Mayer. Harold Mayer (1916 - 1994) was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of the leading scholars in the field of urban geography in the twentieth century. He specialized in Urban and Transport Geography of North America with a focus on New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and British Columbia.

Spring 2013: Richard Walker, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley; "The Rise and Fall of the Golden State: Hard Lessons of Liberal Capitalism Learned in California"

Fall 2012: James McCarthy, Department of Geography, Clark University; “Socializing urban environments? The case of Boston’s Big Dig”

Spring 2012: Janice Monk, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona; "The Normal Way: Exploring The Career Paths of Early Women Geographers"

Fall 2011: Andy Herod, Department of Geography, University of Georgia; “Labor union organizing strategies in early 21st century USA”

Spring 2011: Craig Colten, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University; "Forgetting the Unforgettable: Social Memory and Resilience in New Orleans”

Fall 2010: Julio Betancourt, U.S. Geological Survey; "Climate and Ecosystems in the American West: Past, Present and Future”

Spring 2010: Mei-Po Kwan, Department of Geography, Ohio State University; "Analysis of Time-Space Behavior in the Urban Context: Geovisualization and Geocomputational Approaches”

Fall 2009: Sarah McLafferty, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; "Locating Diversity: Place, Immigration and Women's Health Inequalities in U.S. Cities”

Spring 2009: Jennifer Wolch, College of Environmental Design, University of California-Berkeley; “Climate Change and the Carbon Footprint of Cities”

Fall 2008: Larry Knopp, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Duluth; “Race, Gender, and Venereal Biopower in Wartime Seattle”

Spring 2008: Randall Schaetzl, Department of Geography, Michigan State University; “Geographic studies on loess in the upper Midwest: New findings and potential”

Spring 2008: William Cronon, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago”

Fall 2007: Robert Beauregard, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; “The Spaces of Urban Theory: From Chicago to Johannesburg and Beyond”

Spring 2007: Robert Lake, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers; “Fictitious Urbanization: The Multiple Relational Geographies of Urban Redevelopment”

Fall 2006: James Duncan and Nancy Duncan, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; “Colonizing Nature: The Production of an Environmental Disaster in 19th Century Ceylon”

Spring 2006: Glen MacDonald, Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles

Fall 2005: Allen Scott, Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles; “Creative Cities; Conceptual Issues and Policy Problems”

Spring 2005: Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; “Contesting Neoliberal Urbanization: Spaces and Scales of Activism”

Fall 2004: Neil Smith, Anthropology, City University of New York; “The End Game of Globalization”

Fall 2003: Erik Swyngedouw, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University; “Circulations and Metabolisms: Hybrid Natures and Cyborg Cities”

Spring 2003: Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College of London; “Agent-based pedestrian modeling”

Spring 2002: Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison; "Workfare states: Geographies of Welfare Reform”

Spring 2000: John Gurda, Author and Independent Historian; “Where Milwaukee is”

1997: Joseph Schwartzberg, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; “Deconstructing two cryptic Asian maps”

1996: Ronald Abler, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University; “Geography, striving and thriving in the 90s”

1995: Harold Rose, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “Urban Violence and Urban Geography”

Spring 1994: Robert Sinclair, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Wayne State University; “Detroit - One city or many?”

1993: James Duncan, Geography Department, Syracuse University

1991: Eckart Ehlers, Department of Geography, University of Bonn

Fall 1990: Rutherford Platt, Geography, University of Massachusetts

Fall 1989: Nick Crawford, Department of Geography, Western Kentucky University; “Environmental Problems in Urbanized Limestone Terrains”

Fall 1988: Philip L. Wagner, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University; “Communication and Environment: Why we change the Earth”

Fall 1987: Paul E. Lydolph, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “The Agricultural Situation in the Soviet Union”

Spring 1987: Jean Gottman, School of Geography, Oxford University; “Action at the Crossroads - Revitalizing the Cities”; Norton Ginsburg, University of Chicago, “The Extended Metropolis”

Spring 1987: Chauncy Harris, Geography, University of Chicago; “A Geographical Introduction to the Soviet Union”

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Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Series