Lecture series
Unless otherwise specified, all lectures will take place at 2:15 pm (refreshments) / 2:30 pm (lecture) in Room B215 of the David Turpin Building.
September 29 (2:00-3:00pm) - David Atkinson (Professor & Department Chair, Geography, UVic) - "Building Northern Resilience: Community solutions and the Federal Environmental Prediction Services"
October 16 (2:30-4:00pm; Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House) Special Seminar co-hosted with UVic English - 'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty) (UVic Geography) - Book launch: "Crushed Wild Mint"
September 16 - Deondre Smiles (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UVic) - "Paul Bunyan and te Settler Colonial Whitewashing of Indigenous Environments" (Abstract)
October 21 - TBA
November 18 - TBA
January 10 – (Sessional Lecturer, Department of Geography, UVic) – Unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a remote sensing platform to estimate the velocity of flood water (abstract)
January 31 – Gillian Krezoski (Senior Lab Instructor, Geography, UVic) – We had the roaring twenties, now we have the roving twenties (abstract)
February 7 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, UVic) – Geography and the working world: How co-op experiences bring Geography to life (abstract)
February 28 – (Associate Professor, Public Health, U. of Sao Paulo) – The water-energy-food nexus as a challenge for integrating scales and practices: A perspective to deal with anti-dialogical structures (abstract)
March 20 – CANCELLED: (Assistant Professor, Geography, SFU) and (Associate Professor, Geography UBC) – How does the environmental state keep nature cheap? (abstract)
March 27 – CANCELLED: Geography Grad Students (Geography, UVic) – The future of geography: A peek into graduate student research (abstract)
April 3 – CANCELLED: (Professor, Geography, U. of Tennessee) – The maps behind the movement: African-American freedom struggles as geographical work (abstract)
September 13 (7:00pm), HHB 105, Lansdowne Scholar – (Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University, USA ) – On Humboldt's Planet: Cosmos, Gaia, and the Coming of the Anthropocene
September 14 (8:30am-5:00pm), HHB 105, Colloquium – Facing the Anthropocene with Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature, celebrating Alexander von Humboldt's 250th Anniversary
October 4 – Geography Co-op Student Presentations (Geography Co-op, UVic) – Geography and the working world: How co-op experiences bring Geography to life
October 18 – Christopher Bone (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UVic) – It’s complex (not complicated)! Geography and the world’s big environmental problems
November 1 – Randy Scharien (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UVic) – Scaling the great Arctic sea ice pyramid during a period of rapid change
November 22 – Reuben Rose-Redwood (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UVic) – From Cartesian spaces to decolonizing the map: Becoming a geographer in the 21st century
November 29 – Chris Darimont (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UVic) – Resource management by humans and other predators
September 14 – (Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK) – Adaptive behaviour can permit coexistence between predators (abstract)
September 19 - Special Lecture - (Director, School of Architecture & Design Manipal University, Jaipur) - Experiences and challenges of community participation in urban renewal projects: A case study of Bhendi Bazzar, Mumbai, India (abstract)
September 21 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, 番茄社区) – Geography and the working world: how Geography comes to life during co-op experiences
September 28 – Sophia Carodenuto (Assistant Professor – Limited Term, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – Zero deforestation cocoa in West Africa: Interaction between public and private governance (abstract)
October 12 – Johan Feddema (Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – Future directions and initiatives in Geography
October 19 – David Atkinson (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) - Northern weather and climate: Impacts on end-users (abstract)
October 26 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Concordia University) – Displacing Blackness: Planning, power and race in twentieth-century Halifax (abstract)
November 2 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon) – Plumbing poverty in America: Mapping hot spots of racial and geographic inequality in household water provision (abstract)
November 23 – A pair of research talks: 1) (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geography, UVic) - Use of ocean-colour satellites to assess bigeochemical properties along British Columbia and Southeast Alaska (abstract); 2) (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geography, UVic) Salt in snow: A "villain" affecting the accuracy of Arctic sea ice thickness estimates from radar satellites? (abstract)
November 30 - (Principal, Lexeme Consulting, Vancouver) - Governance that considers the environment: How to bring Science into policy making to promote better land use (abstract)
January 11 – Thomas Reimchen (Department of Biology, UVic) – Very rapid phenotypic and genomic evolution in Haida Gwaii Stickleback (abstract)
January 18 – (Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada) – Arctic hydro-climatic regimes and changes in a warming climate (abstract)
January 25 – (Department of Geography, UBC) – Variable constraints on climate-induced species range shifts in alpine and flat landscapes: Shrinking habitat versus limited dispersal (abstract)
January 31 – (Geography & Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – The effect of nature on happiness: Impressions from social network data analysis (abstract)
February 1 – Geography Co-op Student Presentations (Geography Co-op, UVic) – Geography and the working world: How co-op experiences bring geography to life
February 8 (10:15am), Lansdowne Scholar – (Director for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Maryland) – Building capacity for socio-environmental research and problem solving (abstract)
February 8 – (Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC) – Climate science education: For whom? For what? How? (abstract)
February 15 – (Geography, University of Cologne, Germany) – Urban health challenges in India: Understanding health inequities and generating evidence for public health policies (abstract)
March 1 – (Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph) –Everyday development responsibilities: Geographies of care and consumption (abstract)
March 22 – (Environmental Governance & Political Science, Yale University) –Policy learning for 'super wicked' problems: Uncovering bottom up solutions for ameliorating the global climate crisis (abstract)
September 15 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, 番茄社区) –
September 22 – Susan Kerr (Sustainability Coordinator, Campus Planning & Sustainability) –
September 29 – John Harper (Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – ()
October 13 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University) – ()
October 20 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – ()
October 27 – (Lecturer, Department of History, University of Vienna) – ()
November 3 – Jeremy Venditti (Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University) – ()
November 10 – Maycira Costa (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – ()
November 24 –
January 19 – (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UVic) – ()
January 26 - (Geography, UVic) – () | (Geography, UVic) ()
February 2 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, UVic) –
February 7, 6:30 pm, DSB C118 – LANSDOWNE LECTURER (Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto) – ()
February 9 – (Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto) – ()
February 23 – (Northern Medical Program, UNBC) – (co-authored with Sarah Hunt) ()
March 2 – (Geography, UVic) – ()
March 9 – (Geography, SFU) – ()
March 16 – – (in DTB B215 and DTB B307 - all day!) -
March 22 – (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U. of California - Santa Cruz) – (in HSD 240 - refreshments @ 4:30 pm; lecture @ 5:00 pm)
March 23 – (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U. of California - Santa Cruz) –
September 16 – (Associate Professor, Departments of Gender Studies and Political Science, 番茄社区) – ()
September 23 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, 番茄社区) – ()
September 30 – (Senior Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service) – ()
October 14 – (Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UBC Okanagan Campus) – ()
October 21 – (Professor, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – ()
October 28 – No lecture
November 4 – (PDF, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, UBC (Alumni), and President, Outer Shores Expeditions) – ()
November 11 – No lecture
November 18 – Adam Monahan (Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, 番茄社区) – ()
November 25 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University) – ()
December 2 – Vera Pospelova (Associate Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, 番茄社区) – ()
January 13 – (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 番茄社区) – ()
January 20 – Geography Grad Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, 番茄社区) – ()
January 27 – Geography Co-op Students (Faculty of Social Sciences, 番茄社区) – ()
February 3 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, and Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health, 番茄社区) – ()
February 10 – No lecture
February 17 – No lecture
February 24 – (Professor, Geography and Native American & World Indigenous Peoples Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington) – ()
March 3 – No lecture
March 10 – (Biology Faculty, Vancouver Island University) – ()
March 17 – (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary) - ()
2015/2016
September 18 – (Special Projects Coordinator, Ktunaxa Nation Council) – Qat'muk: Where the Grizzly bear goes to dance (abstract)
September 25 – (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia) – Where is an Author? New geographies of knowledge production (abstract)
October 2 – Jennifer Bagelman (Sessional Lecturer, Department of Geography, 番茄社区) – Politics of Paddling: Turning the tide on extractivist development (abstract)
October 7 (Wednesday) – (Director, Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho) – Using Community Based Observing Networks and Systems (CBONS) for Adaptation to Global and Environmental Change (abstract)
October 16 – Thomas James (Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Division) – Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in British Columbia (abstract)
October 23 – (Associate, Office of Community Based Research, 番茄社区) – Vision Sandown: An opportunity for applied geography – Presentation and discussion
October 30 – Nick Claxton (Indigenous Education, 番茄社区) - ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (Together with the Land): Geography from the local Straits Salish Perspective (abstract)
November 6 – No lecture
November 13 – No lecture
November 18 (Wednesday, at 4:00 pm in HSD A240) – Michael Soulé (Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz) – The Anthropocene: Nature's Final Bow? (abstract)
November 20 – (Professor, Department of Linguistics, 番茄社区) – Linguist Meets Geography: Documenting Tłı̨chǫ knowledge of place through place names (abstract)
November 27 – Doug Bancroft (Visiting Scientist and Sessional Instructor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, 番茄社区) – Satellite Earth Observations in Support of Arctic Operations and Environmental Stewardship (abstract)
January 22 – (Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York) – Participation, Politics, and Technology: Agrarian development in postneoliberal Bolivia (abstract)
January 29 – CANCELLED
February 5 – (Canada Research Chair, Shellfish Ecosystems Interactions Research Program, Centre for Shellfish Research, Vancouver Island University) – Seaweed Strife: Ecological, commercial, and social perspectives on the invasion of the Red Alga, Mazzaella japonica (abstract)
February 12 – NO SPEAKER, READING BREAK
February 19 – (NSERC Fellow, Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre, 番茄社区 / Environment Canada) – Mesh-free Computing: Powerful modelling tool for violent hydro-environmental and geophysical flows (abstract)
February 26 – (Adjunct Professor, Geography Department, 番茄社区) - Captain Scott's Selfie (abstract)
March 4 – (Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science Department, UBC) - Why Talk is Cheap: Voice, land, and the decolonization of democracy (abstract)
March 11 – (Mayor, City of Victoria) - Happy Politics: City Making in the 21st Century
March 18 – Students from GEOG 407 - SHIFT Happens: Decolonizing sense of place and co-learning through grassroots pedagogy (abstract)
2014/2015
September 12 – (Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice Program, and Department of Geography, University of Washington) - (abstract)
2013/2014
September 20: , Borders Here, There, Everywhere: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Border and Borderland Studies
September 27: Eric Taylor, Ministry of Environment, Air Quality in BC
October 4: Louise Johnson, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia, Class, place and culture: Moving out of poverty in Northern Geeolong, Australia
October 11: , A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: A Politics of the Global Intimate
October 18: Layla Abdel Rahim, Modern Languages, University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres, The Ship of Fools as a Place of Spectacle, Healing, and Education where the Wild are Sent to Die
November 1: , Stump to Dump: The Logging Process on Vancouver Island, 1910-1945
November 8: Frank Duerden, Department of Geography, UVic, Land Use Planning in the Yukon: The Promise and the Failure
November 15: Nicholas Lynch, Department of Geography, UVic, "Prepare to be Converted!": Redundant Worship Spaces as Loft Living in the Post-Secular City
November 22: , Hierarchical Space: Geographers, Governmentality, and Neoliberalism
January 31: , Distinguished Professor, School of Environmental Studies, UVic - “Plant use and knowledge by First Nations peoples”
February 7: Jim Gardner, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, UVic - "Rockfall, warmer temperatures and risk in high mountain recreation"
February 21: , Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, UVic, "A sea-surface-height control barrage at the Strait of Gibraltar"
February 28: , Department of Geography, University of Northern British Columbia, "Small Grounds: Intimate domestic geographies and colonialism in British Columbia"
March 14: , Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Revisiting the Xe Bang Fai River in Laos: Assessing the downstream impacts of the Nam Theun 2 hydropower project in light of the World Bank’s increased emphasis on supporting large dams"
2012/2013
September 14: Alan Hallsworth, University of Portsmouth, Traditional Retail Markets in the UK: The Role of Select Committees
September 21: , Biographies of the Idea of Race in the Discipline of Geography
September 28: , The Neptune Cabled Instrument Array
October 12: , Community Networking for Local Tourism Entrepreneurs
October 19: Ed Wiebe, SEOS, 番茄社区, The School-Based Vancouver Island Weather Station Network
October 26: Frank Duerden, Geography, 番茄社区, Assessing Community Vulnerabilities to a Changing Climate in Dawson City, Yukon
November 9: Nikolaus Gantner, Geography, 番茄社区, Ecotoxicology 101: From Mercury in Arctic Fishes to the Tohoku Tsunami Aftermath
November 16: , Optical Dating: History and Theory of the Method and its Application to Research in Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, and Archaeology
January 11: Jodi Axelson, Geography, 番茄社区, Adventures in Wood Taxonomy: New Approaches to Examining the Effect of the Western Spruce Budworm on Douglas-fir Forests
January 18: , Earth Atmosphere Evolution and the Gaia Hypothesis
January 25: , The Strait of Georgia and VENUS: Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea
February 1: Dan Smith, Geography, 番茄社区, Walking in Dangerous Terrain: UVTRL Explorations in the British Columbia Coast Mountains
February 8: , Assessing Biosphere-Carbon-Climate Feedbacks Using Paleoecological Records From Northern Peatlands
February 15: Steve Kokelj, Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, Thawing of Ice-cored Terrain alters Landscapes and Fluvial Systems in Northwestern Canada
March 8: Rosemary-Claire Collard, University of British Columbia, Putting Animals Back Together / Taking Commodities Apart
March 15: Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Team, Selected Presentations
March 22: , The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy
2011/2012
September 23: , City Building: The Road Ahead for Victoria
September 30: , How Has Euro-American Settlement Altered Western New York’s Forest Composition? Will Future Climate Change Cause Larger Alterations
October 7: , China Transplants its SEZ Concept to Africa
October 14: Thomas James, , Projections of Relative Sea-Level Change in the Canadian Arctic
October 21: , Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Exploring the Nature of Disaster
November 4: , Resource management by humans and other predators; bear-salmon-human systems of coastal BC
November 18: Greg Henry, UBC, Lecture title TBA
January 20: , New Spatial Media, New Social Concerns: Privacy and the Geo-located Self
January 27: Brian Grover, formerly of the World Bank, How Aid Agencies Support Water Projects in Africa
February 3: , Boxed In: Searching for the Public Good in the Retail Landscape
March 2: , Travelling from Agri to Culture: The Secrets of Myko on Rural Innovation in Cuba
March 9: , Permafrost Stability and the Northern Polar World
March 16: , Environmental Geopolitics in the 21st Century
March 30: , WCIRC: What we are and how students are involved
