Events

A hemispheric approach to decolonial feminist geography. There is a clear link made between the Americas and the Hemispheric from activists and scholars working on decolonial feminist and antiracist perspectives. This talk explores how the hemispheric can act as an alternative to transnational analysis and decenter the colonial nation-state from decolonial feminisms. Other spatial formations […]

James Wescoat Aga Khan Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT Rural Drinking Water Planning in Maharashtra, India—An Important Chapter in Panchayati Raj Reforms Rural drinking water planning remains a small field of research notwithstanding the severe deficiencies faced by almost one billion people.  There are many challenges, including fragmentation by levels and sectors of governance (e.g., […]

Brian King Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University Infectious Addictions: Geographies of Colliding Epidemics  The U.S. opioid epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic are two of the most pressing societal challenges of the 21st century. The use and abuse of opioids spans several decades with varied and significant impacts that have expanded into a national health crisis. […]

Aaron Grade The George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University Fear, Parental Behavior, and Community Structure of Wildlife in Residential Lands In an urbanizing world, residential lands provide an opportunity for conserving biodiversity right in our own backyards. Identifying the ecological mechanisms underlying patterns of backyard wildlife populations and communities requires novel experimental approaches. In this […]

Meha Jain School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Joint Colloquium with The George Perkins Marsh Institute Adapting to Global Environmental Change: How Can We Ensure Food Security in a Time of Uncertainty? Global environmental change, including climate change and natural resource degradation, is challenging food security around the world. This is particularly true […]

Lucy Hutyra Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University Impacts of Urbanization & Landscape Fragmentation on the Carbon Cycle Forest fragmentation is ubiquitous across urban and rural areas. While there is mounting evidence that forest fragmentation alters the terrestrial carbon cycle, the extent to which differences in ambient growing conditions between urban and rural landscapes […]

Sacoby Wilson University of Maryland, Dept of Public Health New Earth Conversation event co-sponsored by Geography A Syndemic 400 Years in the Making In the United States, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have been impacted by systemic racism and structured inequalities since the founding of this country.  Communities of color do not have […]

Sharlene Mollet University of Toronto, Dept of Human Geography CO-Sponsored with IDCE Tourism Troubles: Feminist political ecologies of land and body in the making of residential tourism space in Panama In this address, I examine the ways in which settler colonial logics shape residential tourism development on the Atlantic Coast of Panama. With a focus […]

Alex Tarr Worcester State University Dept Of Earth, Environment and Physics Beyond Berkeley: Critical Cultural Landscape Studies and A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area has long been celebrated and decried as a hearth of liberalism and radicalism in the United States. Place names like “San Francisco,” “Berkeley” […]

Danielle Wood   Joint Colloquium with the George Perkins Marsh Institute MIT Media Lab, Director of the Space Enabled Research Group Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group The presentation will present the work of the Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. The mission of […]