Colloquium provides a space for shared intellectual exploration within UW Geography, while also welcoming guest speakers and listeners from outside the department. Each year the UW Geography department hosts a lecture series, inviting guest speakers to share exciting new research from various subfields of Geography and from intersecting disciplines. The annual Colloquium series brings faculty guests from universities across the United States, as well as honored guests working here at the University of Washington in a range of disciplines. Graduate students nearing the completion of their PhD work are also invited to present their research in this forum. The colloquium series also hosts Special Workshops, which are often aimed at graduate students’ needs and include a Pedagogy Seminar Series taught by department faculty, as well as workshops on funding, human subjects review, and library resources and tools.
Colloquium lectures take place in Smith Hall, room 407 on Friday afternoons at 3:30pm. A reception with light refreshments follows each talk (next door in Smith 409). The current schedule of speakers is listed below. Additional information about these and past guests can be found on the Schedule of Guest Speakers & Workshops page. In addition, guests invited to talk at our colloquium series can find information about their visit here.
Winter 2012
January 6th – Jessica Dempsey: “Enterprising nature: economics and finance in global biodiversity politics”
January 13th – Writing workshop with Vicky Lawson
February 3rd – Tom Koch
March 2nd – Leila Harris
Spring 2012
March 30th – Becky Mansfield, Ohio State University
April 20th – Jin-Kyu Jung, UW-Bothell
April 27th – Natasha Rivers, UW (CSDE post-doc)
May 25th – Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota
