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Spring 2012
February 15 (Wednesday): Inila Wakan Janis, member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and founding member of the Green Party USA.
"The Journey Towards Social Change for Lakota People."
4:30 p.m., Persson Auditorium.
(Also giving NAST brown bag, ALANA center 12:20-1:10 p.m.)
April 5 (Thursday): Jessica Graybill, Colgate Geography Department.
"'It's all changing, but it isn't global climate change': Narratives about vulnerability and resilience in sub-Arctic Kamchatka."
12:15-1:50 p.m., 111 Alumni Hall. Social Science Brown Bag.
April 11 (Wednesday). David Campbell (O'Connor Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies Spring '12)
"From Robert Capa to the iPhone: How the photojournalism of war has (and has not) changed."
4:30 p.m., Persson Auditorium. Gould Memorial Lecture.
Fall 2011
September 26 (Monday): Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley.
"Economies of Violence: Oil, Conflict and Frontiers of Dispossession."
7-8:30 p.m., 300 Olin Hall (Love Auditorium). Co-sponsored with Global Engagements, Peace and Conflict Studies, Africana and Latin American Studies, Environmental Studies, University Studies and the Dean of Faculty Office.
GTU Talk:
October 21 (Friday) : Michael Kuby, School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University.
“Range anxiety, chickens and eggs, and the valley of death: spatial planning for the transition to alternative-fuel vehicles."
3:30 p.m., 101 Ho Science Center.
(Also giving ENST Brown bag, 12:15 p.m. ALANA Cultural Center)
October 29 (Saturday): Family Weekend Reception hosted by Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Environmental Studies and Geography
11:00-12:00 p.m., Cunniff Commons (Ho Science Center Atrium)
November 4 (Friday): Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University.
"Air Apparent: Rotating Storms, Lake-Effect Snow, and Two Hundred Years of Meteorological Cartography"
4-5 p.m., 101 Ho Science Center. Part of the Natural Sciences Colloquium Series.
November 29 (Tuesday): Andrea Worm, Augsburg University.
"Mapping Universal History: The Rudimentum Novitiorum, a world chronicle printed in Lubeck in
1475, was among the earliest printed books to be lavishly illustrated. It contains the first printed world map and the first printed regional map (of Palestine). Professor Worm will explore their iconography,
their place within the history of cartography, and questions of context and intended audience.
4:30 p.m., 105 Lawrence Hall. Part of Humanities Colloquium, Geography Department co-sponsor
Senior Honors Presentations
