Geosciences Seminar Series
Thinking Space Seminar Series 2016: Geographers and the Environment at the University of Sydney
These sessions explore current issues and debates in human geography and the social sciences through presentations about key thinkers, cross-cutting themes, skills, methodologies, and current postgraduate research. All welcome!
All sessions take place on Wednesdays from 1pm - 2pm in the Madsen Conference Room 449, Madsen Building F09, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. Presentations will normally take up 30-45 minutes, leaving plenty of time for comments and discussion. Most of the sessions will be recorded and distributed to those interested.
For more information, or if you want to be included on the mailing list, please contact
http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/documents/space_sept2.pdf||See the poster for the schedule here]].
Current Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 2, 2017 | Dr Sophie Webber (Geosciences) | Circulating climate change finance, policy, and science in the Pacific Adaptation Complex | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
Zur Adilah (Geosciences)
Lily Van Eeden (USYD, School of Life and Environmental Sciences) |
Impact of Indonesian Medical Tourists on Malaysia Economy
Learning to live with the dingo: understanding the social and political barriers to changing predator management |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | TBC | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 | |
| Wednesday, August 23, 2017 | Dr Amanda Tattersall (Geosciences) | Organising cities and urban alliances | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | Dr Paul Taylor (Pacific Community) | Volcanic Hazards in the SW Pacific: Personal Experiences with Govenments and Communities Over the Past Forty Years | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
Alistair Sisson (Geosciences)
Chieh-Ming Lai (Geosciences) |
Governing the 'undesirable' through stigmatisation: Public housing and Muslim communities in Sydney
Public Green Space in Bangkok, Thailand |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, September 13, 2017 | Dr Mark Vicol (Geosciences) | Playing with fire: Shifting cultivation and shifting livelihood pathways in the Chin uplands of Myanmar | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, September 20, 2017 | Dr Maria Melo Zurita (Geosciences) | Subterranean Geographies | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | Prof Graham Haughton (Geosciences) | Risky spaces: Creating contesting and communicating lines on environmental hazard maps | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | Dr Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran (Uni of Melbourne) | Betwixt and Between: State-Market entanglements in Australian Electricity Networks | 1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, October 11, 2017 |
Paula Camarero (Geosciences)
Annie Wu (Geosciences) |
The Role of Sacred Natural Sites in Forest Conservation
Australian Seasonal Worker Programme: Mapping East Timorese Workers in Australian Country Towns |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
Sandra Fritz (Geosciences)
Katharina Molitor (Uni of Cologne) |
Agriculture and the Instruments of Change in Timor-Leste
Food Prices, Markets and Food and Nutrition Security of Smallholder Farmers in the Global South |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2017 |
Dr Tom Baker (Uni of Auckland) |
Revisiting the rabble: Poverty management and the spectre of surplus life |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |
| Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
Dr Franklin Obeng-Odoom (UTS) |
Why border? Henry George and the Current Migration Crisis |
1pm - 2pm | Madsen Conference Room 449 |