Past Events

 Why You Should Care About Low-level Clouds Over the Oceans Dr. Mark A. Miller is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Rutgers University and an internationally recognized expert in cloud physics,

 Reproduction of Enclosure through Education in Sri Lanka’s Tea Plantations: Malaiyaga Tamils Across the Eras of Statelessness, Bonded Labour, and Governmental Neglect. Initha Selvakumar will be presenting her Environmental Studies honors

The department has arranged a Title II accessibility workshop with Eliza Blau, Instructional Design and Technology Specialist in the morning of the first reading day, starting at 10am on Tuesday,

Dear students,   We'd like to invite you to the Department of Geography's Undergraduate Research Symposium — an afternoon celebrating student research across Geography, Environmental Studies, and Human Ecology.  

The Urbanization of Caste Power: Land, Labor, and Environmental Politics in Bengaluru Malini Ranganathan <https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/malini.cfm>Associate Professor, SIS | Environment, Development & Health Reception to follow talk in Lucy Stone Hall-A266

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The Big Ten GIS Conference brings together students, educators, researchers, librarians, professionals, and humanities scholars to share their geospatial work and explore emerging directions in research and practice. The program

This full-day symposium celebrates the career and impact of Dr. David A. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Rutgers University and New Jersey’s State Climatologist. For more than four decades, Dave has advanced our understanding of the climate system—particularly snow cover, regional climate monitoring, and applied climatology—while mentoring generations of students and serving communities, agencies, and decision-makers.

"The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown" Adam Welz is a South African writer, nature conservation consultant, photographer and filmmaker. https://www.adamwelz.net/

"Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power inthe Race for Lithium" Javiera Barandiarán is Associate Professor in the Global Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/javiera-barandiaran

Join us for this compelling meeting in San Francisco, California, with high-profile sessions, as well as many opportunities for networking and learning about the region. This is THE geography conference you don’t

Helen Glazer (Independent Artist), presenting on her book project on US military involvement in Greenland.  https://helenglazer.com/

Screening and discussion of documentary film, The Waste Commons. Rosalind Fredericks's research and teaching interests are centered on development, urbanism, and political ecology in Africa. As an urban geographer, her research

On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland Alex Werth East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

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MAPATHON will be on Wednesday, November 19, 2025  4:00-6:00pm (drop in or leave at any time during the event, but please register to get updates). Bring a laptop and meet

The Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life Marisa SolomonAssistant Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality StudiesBarnard College, Columbia University

Contradictory Formations: Jamaica’s Contemporary Conjuncture This talk approaches Jamaica’s current conjuncture as a field of contradiction and tension in which democracy, security, and the economy are being recomposed. Within this

Placing Racial Capitalism: South African Genealogies, Chinese Difference Since the turn of the millennium, the return of the People’s Republic of China to the African continent has been framed as a neocolonial scramble or revival of

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DEI Strategic Planning, MaGrann Initiatives, Annual Brush Lecture/Open House

Contact for this event: Nia Cambridge  "Feminisms Brexiteers? Cisness And/As Nativism" Everyone interested in attending the lecture is encouraged to register for the event by completing the following form:  https://forms.gle/RwYziBjwT18m232K9 . The

Anti-Racism and DEI

Shaping Climate Influence: Amazonian Indigenous Alliances and Transnational Strategies This presentation examines the evolution of alliances between Amazonian Indigenous organizations and key environmental actors, highlighting their rise as a force

Eric Tate,  is a geographer at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. More details coming soon! co-sponsored with  Human Ecology

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States of Illegality: Making a City for Contraband in the Paraguay-Brazil Borderlands With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital shows

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75th Anniversary Planning with a focus on the John Brush Lecture on 2/27 and the department open house on 2/28. February 75th Anniversary Events

Luis Alvarez Leon had to cancel due to illness The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play,

International and Global Studies Major proposal Environmental Studies major

Permutable Stratosphere: Overflights and a Geopoetics of Transpacific Top Secrecy (1958-2024) This talk explores how the stratosphere has taken shape as a front in the shifting geopolitics of China, Taiwan,

Mapathon in support of Humanitarian Relief in the Hatchery of Alexander Library. November 20, 4:30-6:30pm. Bring a laptop and join us. Please register in advance so we have enough snacks

 “The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras.”  The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on

more info: https://msaag.aag.org/annual-meetings/ The conference is called the Annual Meeting of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers.We just call it MSAAG or "Middle States". The conference makes

Jiaqi Liu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. His research lies at the intersection of political sociology, international

 Wasting and wanting: an extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies This talk examines the material relations through which contemporary human engagements with outer space are being produced across

The Nature-Society Workshop brings together faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from Geography and Geography-adjacent departments at nine regional universities (Clark, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania State, Rutgers, SUNY-ESF, SUNY-Buffalo, Syracuse, and

Against sacrifice zones Capitalism produces distinct and highly uneven geographies of extraction, production, development, and waste, with profound implications for social and environmental well-being. Activists, journalists, and academics condemn these

Step into the world of innovation and discovery at our upcoming event! Join us for a showcase featuring Geography and Environmental Studies students presenting their latest projects and insights from

Afropolitan Insecurities: Kairological Time and Urban Geographies Through a theorization of kairological time, that is an attention to notions of prophecy, propitiousness, and ordained moments of change, this talk contemplates

Resistant Ecologies in a Landscape of War: Lessons from South Lebanon What worlds take root in war? This talk takes us to the southern border of Lebanon where resistant ecologies thrive amid

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Advances in measuring, modeling, and understanding the consequences of climate change on snow hydrology Climate warming is impacting mountain snowpacks in ways that challenge water resources management and climate prediction.

Dana Veron, Professor and Co-Director, Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub  Local to regional forcing of sea ice coverage along the East Antarctic coast In the Adelie

“Afropolitan Insecurities: Kairological Time and Urban Geographies”

Flipping the knowledge model: geography, interdisciplinarity, and the body  The 21st century is marked by a series of interconnected crises for humans and the environment, all profoundly impacting health, well-being,

Insurgesea: Anticolonial Ships in the Contemporary Mediterranean  How could contemporary oceans connect struggles by indigenous people, grassroots social movements and racialized multitudes fighting against (neo)colonial formations at and via the

Violent Infrastructures: Ecologies of Decay and Displacement in Georgia   In this talk, Dr. Otruba will discuss her research and traveling photovoice exhibition, Violent Infrastructure: Ecologies of Decay and Displacement. This

Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological

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“Pests, keystone species and hungry ghosts: Human pika relations on the Tibetan plateau”

Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, where she teaches Wildlife and Biodiversity Law, Law and Genetics, Israel/Palestine: Environmental Justice Issues, and

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at AUB. His research interests include:

Ben Warner is an Assistant Professor in the University of New Mexico Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. His research focuses geographically on Latin America, with additional emphases in Central America, and Southwestern and

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Yolanda Valencia (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) work focuses on understanding how those made illegal by the law – undocumented Mexican immigrants, and Mexican immigrants in general – experience risk and

Join us for a casual virtual book launch celebration with Professor Leslie M. Alexander and ISGRJ Named Term Chair Professor J.T. Roane on their newly released and forthcoming titles scan QR code on flyer below

Kian Goh is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She researches the relationships between urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the