Our Colloquia Series presentsengaging research from around the world. Guest presenters cover variedtopics from all aspects of Geography. This page lists abstracts from past and future colloquia.

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Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability

Oct. 29, 2024

Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi Assistant Professor of Geography University of Missouri Abstract: This presentation covers the recent work in health geography focused on vulnerable populations by Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi and colleagues. Specifically, this will cover the ongoing movement of the field in a direction of better encapsulating the needs of communities...

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Before You Are Here, and other critical cartographic interventions

Oct. 21, 2024

Dr. Clancy Wilcott Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley Abstract: This talk discusses a series of critical cartographic interventions undertaken in collaboration between local Indigenous, activist and community groups, and studio.geo?, a cartographic research and teaching studio based at UC Berkeley. It centers on Before You Are Here , one...

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Indigenous geographies, law, and the Piikani Water rights case

Oct. 14, 2024

Dr. Michael Fabris Blackfoot Scholar Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Abstract: In this presentation, I analyze the Piikani Nation’s attempts to halt the construction of the Oldman River Dam, as this struggle highlights the challenges Indigenous communities can face in attempting to assert our own forms of jurisdiction within...

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Tibetan Pastoralists as Analytical Agents: Epistemic Diversity, Documentary Filmmaking, and Collaborative Theorization

March 8, 2024

Huatsen Gyal Assistant Professor Anthropology Department Rice University Abstract Drawing on a group of Tibetan pastoralists’ efforts to make environmental documentary films as a means of creating alternative narratives of their relationship to their ancestral land, this talk details how documentary films produced by Tibetan pastoralists subtly challenge the power/knowledge...

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“We are the twins of Komodo dragons”: Multispecies Kinship and Indigenous Spatial Politics in Indonesia’s Ecotourism Frontiers

March 1, 2024

Dr. Cypri Jehan Paju Dale Research Fellow University of Wisconsin Madison Abstract In Komodo National Park, the natural habitat of world’s largest living lizard known as Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) and the indigenous people of Ata Modo, a zoning system has been instrumental in the process of commodification of the...

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Insurgent Cartographies

Feb. 19, 2024

Isaac Rivera Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Geography Boulder Abstract Insurgent cartographies are an expression of knowing the world from the standpoint of place. This talk delves into the concept of insurgency and its expressions as a modality of cartography and cultural memory, exploring the task for enacting anti-colonial...

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Nature-society interactions and political instability

Feb. 16, 2024

Andrew Linke Department of Geography Associate Professor University of Utah Abstract Political instability and social conflicts vary geographically and in severity. Intense violence – leading to many civilian casualties – engulfs some regions of the world. Simmering economic instability and political tensions exist in other countries that are conventionally viewed...

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The Long Climate Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Migration

Jan. 24, 2024

Malini Ranganathan​ Associate Professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health School of International Service Faculty affiliate of the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies American University in Washington, DC. Co-sponsored by: Department of Geography (GEOG) Center for Asian Studies (CAS) Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) Abstract...

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Towards Earth Data Science for Everyone (or, how I stopped worrying about developing global models and learned to love the local)

Nov. 27, 2023

Elsa Culler Earth Data Science Instructor Earthlab and ESIIL CIRES University of Colorado Boulder Abstract In situ Earth Data are unevenly distributed around the world. How can we then develop tools — resource planning, hazard warnings systems, climate adaptation plans — that benefit people around the world? We’ll start off...

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A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Infrastructure, Interface, Art/Policy Intersections

Oct. 27, 2023

Shiloh Krupar Associate Professor Culture & Politics Program Core Faculty Georgetown University Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Albert Smith Nuclear Age Fund at Boulder Abstract Operating in the tradition of the atlases and counter-maps developed by critical and activist scholars, A People’s Atlas of Nuclear...

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