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 304 on Friday afternoons at 3:30pm. A reception with light refreshments follows each talk (upstairs 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.
Autumn, 2012
September 28: Steve Herbert
October 12: Mike Goodchild
November 2: Agnieszka Leszczynski
November 9: Lise Nelson
November 30: Leonie Newhouse
December 7: Sanjay Chaturvedi
Winter, 2013
January 11: Finding a Job Panel (Stephen Young, Luke Bergmann, and Sarah Elwood)
January 18: Stephen Young
January 25: Mark Ellis
February 22: Eugene McCann
March 8: Will Buckingham
March 15: Mike Collyer
Spring, 2013
April 19: Bruce Braun (includes brown bag)
April 26: Workshop with CTL
May 3: Tech workshop
May 10: Ipsita Chatterjee (includes brown bag)
May 17: Brown Bag with Roger Lee
May 24: Matt Townley
June 7: Dena Aufseeser (includes brown bag)
