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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium - Dr. Dan Friess
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URL:https://geog.ucla.edu/event/90610/
LOCATION:Bunche 1261\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium - Dr. Nour Joudah
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us Monday\, April 27th at 2:30pm for a Geography Colloquium” \nWebinar Link \nWebinar ID:   923 9763 0041 \nPasscode:     167475 \n 
URL:https://geog.ucla.edu/event/geography-colloquium-dr-nour-joudah/
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium - Dr. Sara Kahanamoku
DESCRIPTION:Nineteenth-century emergence of a seafloor ecosystem beyond glacial-interglacial limits\n \nThe timescales of global change complicate our ability to effectively compare contemporary ecosystem changes with those of the past. Mismatches between ecological time and geologic time have fueled intense debates around what constitutes baseline conditions and whether the recent past is truly unique. In this talk\, I will show results from a recent study using sub-decadal paleontological and paleoceanographic data from a series of sediment cores from the Santa Barbara Basin (SBB) of Southern California to assess the evolution of benthic ecosystem structure over the past 34\,000 years\, across the rapid warming events of the glacial-to-interglacial transition. Beginning in the early 1800s AD\, I find that communities abruptly moved to a distinctive ecosystem space and became more ecologically variable than at any point in the last 34\,000 years. These results indicate that even deep-sea ecosystems of the anthropocene sensu lato – the past few centuries characterized by outsized\, often novel human impacts – are distinct from those of the geologic past. I also find that human land-use impacts beginning in the 19th century are correlated with compositional change and heightened variability and may have kickstarted ecological declines that were later exacerbated by global climate warming in the 20th and 21st centuries. Together\, this work suggests that colonial-era human land-use change drove the emergence of a novel ecosystem state more than a century before global climate warming began in earnest\, at a scale of deep-sea ecological impact that exceeds those induced by the glacial-interglacial transition. \n  \nDr. Sara Kahanamoku\, Assistant Researcher\, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program & Department of Earth Sciences \n Dr. Kahanamoku is a geologist and ecologist who uses sediment core records from nearshore reefs to the deep sea to build high-resolution multi-proxy datasets that capture the impacts of climate warming and human modifications on marine ecosystems over the  “intermediate timescales” relevant to modern global change. As a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) and Maʻohi (Indigenous Tahitian) scientist\, Dr. Kahanamoku is guided by the values of their kūpuna\, including the view that an understanding of the past is critical for long-term ecological and social resilience. To date\, they have raised close to $70 million in external funding and currently serve as co-PI on a five-year climate resilience award that brings together community\, county\, state\, federal\, and academic partners to develop a long-term program for Indigenous-led climate adaptation and resilience in the Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Kahanamoku holds a BS in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University and a PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently an Assistant Researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with faculty positions in the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program and the Department of Earth Sciences.
URL:https://geog.ucla.edu/event/geography-colloquium-dr-sara-kahanamoku/
LOCATION:Bunche 1261\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium - Dr. Ilaria Giglioli
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us TODAY\, Monday\, May 18th at 2:30pm for a Geography Colloquium”      \nIn Person – BUNCHE HALL Room 1261 \nWebinar link    –    Webinar ID: 927 1215 9615    –    Passcode: 986156 \n\nUnbounding Europe. Bordering and the politics of Mediterranean solidarity in Sicily and Tunisia.\n \nAt a moment of pervasive border fortification worldwide\, Mediterranean borderlands are often cast as laboratories for hybrid claims to identity\, and consequently alternative understandings of belonging to those proposed by bounded nationalisms. Drawing on research on colonial and contemporary migration and celebrations of multicultural coexistence in the central Mediterranean corridor between Sicily and Tunisia\, the talk argues that rather than sites of transformative politics\, borderlands may function as sites of reassertion and defense of precarious Europeanness at a time of heightened economic insecurity. Tracing the changing positionality of Sicilians in shifting geographies of uneven development and bordering in the Euro-Mediterranean region\, the talk argues that ambiguous borderland politics are a result of Sicily’s simultaneous role as an external fortified border and a long-internally marginalized periphery. The talk also argues that institutional celebrations of Mediterranean coexistence may serve to simultaneously depoliticize structural inequalities\, while naturalizing symbolic hierarchies between groups. Rather than idealizing mixing as an alternative to bordered nationalism\, the talk calls for a historical and relational account of how current material and symbolic borders came to be\, as well as the conditions under which effective solidarity can emerge. \nDr. Ilaria Giglioli is an Assistant Professor in the Global Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. She received her PhD in Geography from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDr. Giglioli is a political geographer of migration and borders\, with a focus on the Mediterranean basin (Southern Europe and North Africa). Her research examines the creation\, legitimization\, and contestation of borders\, and the relationship between border fortification\, territorial inequality\, and social difference. She is particularly interested in how peripheral regions and internally racialized populations are incorporated into the nation-state\, and in the possibilities and limits of solidarity across lines of uneven development and racialized difference. \nHer book\, Unbounding Europe: Bordering and the Politics of Mediterranean Solidarity in Sicily and Tunisia (Cornell University Press\, 2025)\, traces the shifting positionality of Sicilians and Tunisians across colonial and contemporary geographies of material and symbolic bordering in the central Mediterranean\, arguing against idealizations of Mediterranean coexistence and calling for a historical and relational account of the naturalization of the Mediterranean border. She is also co-editor of a forthcoming special issue in ACME on the Southern Mediterranean as a laboratory of border externalization.
URL:https://geog.ucla.edu/event/geography-colloquium-dr-ilaria-giglioli/
LOCATION:Bunche 1261\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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