Geography Events

Becoming differently modern: geographic contributions to a generative climate politics  

The Graduate School of Geography and The George Perkins Marsh Institute welcome Professor Lesley Head and Professor Chris Gibson from the University of Wollongong, Australia to speak on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 in Grace Conference Room at the Higgins University Center from 12 PM - 1:15 PM. More information

CUGS Speaker Series 2011

Talks in Grace Conference Room at the Higgins University Center at 12:00 PM.

Melissa Wright, PhD, Professor of Geography and Women's Studies at Penn State University will speak in conjunction with the Critical Geography Conference at 4 PM, November 4, 2011, location to be determined.

Annual Wallace W. Atwood Lecture Series presents "Urbanization Trends in China: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability"

The department is proud to feature Karen Seto, Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University where she studies the human transformation of land and the links between urbanization, global change, and sustainability.  She is an expert in remote sensing analysis and integrating satellite data with social science research methods.  She is Co-Chair of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC) of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and a Coordinating Lead Author for Working Group III of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.  She is the Executive Producer of "10,000 Shovels: Rapid Urban Growth in China," a documentary film that highlights urban growth issues in China.

Please join us on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 6:30pm in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts (92 Downing Street). Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

The event will culminate in a private colloquium held Friday, October 14th at 12:00pm.

18th Annual Critical Geography Conference: Constructing a radical politics in an age of crisis - Clark University, November 4-6, 2011

The Graduate School of Geography is proud to co-host with the journal Human Geography, the 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference here at Clark. Keynote address by Neil Smith, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center will be at 7 PM Friday, November 4 in Jefferson 320. On Saturday, November 5, the plenary session will include panelist discussions on the theme of the conference by: Vinay Gidwani, PhD, University of Minnesota, with expertise in post-socialism and justice, labor geographies, Marxism, identity politics and subaltern social movements, geographies of work, agroecological transformations, social theory, and India. Dianne Rocheleau, PhD, Clark University, with expertise in environment and development, political ecology, forestry, agriculture and landscape change, with an emphasis on the role of gender, class and "popular" vs. "formal" science in resource allocation and land use. Joel Wainwright, PhD, Ohio State University, with expertise in political economy of development, environmental and agrarian change, and social theory and Melissa Wright, PhD, Penn State University, with expertise in political economy, Mexico and Mexico-U.S. border, social justice, political and urban geography, and feminist studies.  Sunday, November 6, will include additional sessions.

The events of the conference are free and open to the public