Geography

Geography Colloquium: Kate Marvel
2022-04-25 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Turning Data into Stories: Climate Change in Space and Time
Dr. Kate Marvel
Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research
Columbia University

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture: Rebecca Lave
2022-04-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Wednesday April 20, 2022 @ 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Luskin Conference Center Hotel
Seating limited: RSVP recommended

Critical physical geography in practice: Our depth perception improves when we look through biophysical and social lenses
Dr. Rebecca Lave
Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography
Indiana University

Spring 2022 Colloquium Schedule
2022-03-28 14:30 - 2022-05-23 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Geography Colloquium: Enrique Vivoni
2022-03-28 14:30 - 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Water Resources Sustainability along the US-Mexico Border Region
Dr. Enrique Vivoni
Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences
Arizona State University, Tempe

Geography Colloquium: Dr. David Stein
2022-02-14 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Jobs or Jails: Superintending Neoliberalism in Reagan’s America
Dr. David Stein
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of African American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Winter 2022 Colloquium Schedule
2022-01-24 14:30 - 2022-03-24 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Geography Colloquium: Dr. Danya Al-Saleh
2021-11-15 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Land-Grant University Geographies between Qatar and Texas
Dr. Danya Al-Saleh
ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow
Department Geography
University of California, Los Angeles

Geography Colloquium: Dr. Brandi Summers
2021-11-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession
Dr. Brandi Summers
Assistant Professor
Department Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies
University of California, Berkeley

Geography Colloquium: Deshonay Dozier
2021-10-25 14:30 - 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Forming Skid Row: Redevelopment, Policing, and Indigenous Sites of Care in Downtown Los Angeles, 1950s to 1980s
Dr. Deshonay Dozier
Assistant Professor
Departments of Geography
California State University, Long Beach

Fall 2021 Colloquium Schedule
2021-10-06 00:00 - 2021-11-29 00:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Geography Colloquium: Katherine Ennis
2021-05-10 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Climate consequences for pest predation, production and producers in coffee
Dr. Katherine Ennis
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Plant and Microbial Biology and Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Geography Colloquium: Michael Mendez
2021-04-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Climate Change from the Street
Dr. Michael Mendez
Assistant Professor of School of Social Ecology
Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy
University of California, Irvine

Geography Colloquium: Miriam Marlier
2021-04-19 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fires, Smoke Exposure and Public Health
Dr. Miriam Marlier
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Fielding School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles

Ursus Environmental Symposium: Ballona Wetlands and the Future of Southern California Coastal Conservation
2021-04-13 12:00 - 13:15 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Professor MacDonald invites you to attend the Ursus Environmental Symposium. The Ursus Symposium top UCLA scientist that will discuss Ballona Wetlands and the Future of Southern California Coastal Conservation. Join us!

Geography Colloquium: Charmaine Chua
2021-04-12 14:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fast Circulation, Slow Life: The Racial Fix of Logistics
Dr. Charmaine Chua
Assistant Professor of Global Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

Geography Colloquium: Laureano Gherardi Arbizu
2021-03-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Precipitation Variability Effect on Ecosystem Functioning: Experimentation, Modelling and Data Synthesis from Local to Global Scale
Dr. Laureano Gherardi Arbizu
Senior Manager, Global Drylands Center
Arizona State University
Recorded lecture and Q&A.

Geography Colloquium: Meredith Palmer
2021-02-22 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Termination’s Creeds: Race, Health Science, and Spatial Matters in US Colonialism
Dr. Meredith Palmer
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Cornell University

Geography Colloquium: Alvaro Montenegro
2021-02-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Using Voyaging Simulations to Study the Prehistory of the Pacific
Alvaro Montenegro
Associate Professor, Geography & Director of Atmospheric Sciences Program
Ohio State University

Geography Colloquium: Mohammed Rafi Arefin
2021-01-25 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
From Threat to Frontier: The Commodification of Waste in Cairo, Egypt
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Assistant Professor, Geography
The University of British Columbia
Recorded lecture and Q&A.

Geography Colloquium: Glen MacDonald
2020-11-30 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
California Wildfires in the 21st Century – Days of Future Past?
Glen Macdonald
Endowed Chair and Professor, Geography
UCLA

Geography Colloquium: Marilyn Raphael
2020-11-16 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Antarctic Sea Ice: Variability, Change, and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation
Marilyn Raphael
Professor of Geography and Interim Director of Institute of Environment and Sustainability
UCLA

Geography Colloquium: Jennifer Greenburg
2020-11-09 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War
Jennifer Greenburg
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford University

Geography Colloquium: V. Kelly Turner
2020-10-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Cooling the City: Regulating Microclimate through the Built Environment
Dr. V. Kelly Turner
Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs
UCLA

Fire, Climate Change and the Management/Mismanagement of California Forests?
2020-04-21 12:00 - 17:00 | California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, 570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
3rd UCLA Symposium
Tuesday Afternoon
April 21, 2020
California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium, UCLA

Alexander von Humboldt lecture: Katherine McKittrick
2020-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Living Just Enough for the City: Volume VII/Black Methodologies
Katherine McKittrick
Department of Gender Studies
Queen’s University
Canada
Recorded lecture and Q&A.

Geography Colloquium: Hengchun Ye
2019-11-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
What’s Going On WIth Precipitation Behavior over Northern Eurasia?
Hengchun Ye
Associate Dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences
California State University, Los Angeles

Geography Colloquium: V. Kelly Turner
2019-10-21 14:30 - 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Microclimate Regulation through Urban Design Experiments
V. Kelly Turner
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Special Colloquium: Pierre-Alexandre Balland
2019-10-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Spatial Inequality and Innovation Policy in a Complex World
Pierre-Alexandre Balland
Utretch University and MIT

Birkha Bawari: A Contemporary Construction of a Traditional Indian Stepwell to Address Modern Water Scarcity
2019-10-16 17:00 - 20:00 | Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Musuem, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Birkha Bawari: A Contemporary Construction of a Traditional Indian Stepwell to Address Modern Water Scarcity
A. Mridul and Shilpa Mridul

Geography Colloquium: Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
2019-10-07 14:30 - 15:30 | Bunche 1261, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Researching multi-direction migration: Citizens in motion and contemporaniety
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
