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University of California, Berkeley Department of Geography |
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| January 23 | Graduate Student Meeting | |||
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| January 29 (Tuesday) |
Farhana Sultana, Lecturer, Department of Geography, King’s College, London, Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Arsenic, Water and Development in Bangladesh |
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| January 30 | Melissa Wright, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State University, Femicide, Testimony and the Geography of Protest: Reflections from Northern Mexico [Aschmann Lecturer] |
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| February 6 | Pamela McElwee, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Arizona State University, Beyond Biodiversity in Vietnam: Conflicts over Local Species in Global Landscapes |
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| February 13 | Maxwell Boykoff, Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, The Cultural Politics of Climate Change |
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| February 20 | Leila Harris, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Water Securities, Socio-spatial Difference, and the Politics of Development in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin |
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| February 27 | Jake Kosek, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & American Studies, University of New Mexico, Modern Hives and Violent Swarms: Toward a Political Geography of the Honey Bee |
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| March 5 | Paul Wiley, School of Geography, University of Leeds, The Tokyo-ization of the Japanese Landscape Abstract: In my talk, I discuss the 'Tokyo-ization' of the Japanese landscape and what it means for how people live in Japanese cities. In doing so, I review the literature on Japanese cities and its hesitations as to the ways in which change can be related to wider regional or global trends. I argue above all that the transformations that have been visited on the Japanese landscape have been predicated on an outstanding capacity to marshal capital for the purposes of construction, but I warn against a simplistic conflation of Japanese and global capital. |
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| March 12 | no colloquium | |||
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| March 19 | Gray Brechin, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley Mapping the Invisible Landscape of Depression-Era Public Works: A Progress Report on the Living New Deal Project with Richard Walker, and Lindsey Dillon Abstract: The Living New Deal Project is an unprecedented collaborative effort to discover, inventory, map, and interpret the cumulative impact of President Franklin Roosevelt's public works agencies on the state of California. Sponsored by the California Historical Society, the California Sutdies Center, and the Institute for Research in Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley, it is revealing both a wealth of indispensable public artifacts created within less than a decade and what compassionate and ingenious leadership can achieve in an effort to combat, rather than provoke, fear itself. |
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| March 26 | No Tea - Spring Recess | |||
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| April 2 | Teresa Caldeira, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley A Contested Public Space: Walls and Hip-Hop in São Paulo |
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| April 9 | Gail Hollander, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Florida International University Power is sweet: the political economy of sugar in the emerging global ethanol assemblage |
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| April 16 | No Tea - AAG | |||
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| April 23 | Gabrielle Bouleau, Visiting scholar, LAEP Department, UC Berkeley and associate researcher in environmental social sciences, Cemagref, Montpellier, France Welfare rivers: French river restoration and political agendas 1900-2000 The recent history of river restoration policies in France reveals the broader political stakes France faced during the twentieth century. Indicators constructed to enforce and monitor public investments in metropolitan rivers result from domestic conflicts and trade-offs between powerful actors. Indicators that are now tested and validated tools, were once contested. Tracking back controversies, competing narratives on nature, and political economy of river restoration, I argue that rivers in France have long been a locus for redistribution. This allows me to shed new light on the politics of the European Union's water policy. |
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| April 30 | Undergraduate Research Talk: Kevin Kahn, Current and Future Urbanization and the Need for Cummulative Impacts Analysis in the California Delta (host: Carol Page) |
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| May 7 | Department Picnic | |||
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| updated: March 25, 2008 | ||||