Past Colloquia Speakers

Date	Speaker	Lecture Type	Title	Affiliation
05/5/11	Kurt Cuffey	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change	UC Berkley
04/28/11	Dawn Parker	Guest Scholar	Do land markets matter? Exploring the effects of land market representation on land-use change projections using agent-based modeling	University of Waterloo
04/7/11	Michael Batty	Arthur Robinson Cartography Lecture	Visualising Cities Through Models, Maps and Machines	University College London
02/3/11	Julie Guthman	Guest Scholar	Environmental toxins and fat bodies: toward a critical political ecology of obesity	UC Santa Cruz
01/13/11	Natalie Oswin	Guest Scholar	Queer time in a developmental state: Family, futurity and global city Singapore	McGill University
12/2/10	Karen Till	Guest Scholar	ReinhabitingPlace: Body Memory and Witnessing as Empathic Vision	Virginia Tech
11/18/10	Alec Murphy	Guest Scholar	Strategic Directions for Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade.	University of Oregon
11/4/10	Stuart Elden	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	The Birth of Territory	Durham University
10/21/10	David Bromwich	Guest Scholar	Arctic Climate Change	The Ohio State University
10/7/10	Andrew Comrie	Guest Scholar	Catching Climate Fever: Diagnosing the Changing Environment of Infectious Disease	University of Arizona
05/6/10	Dan Brown	Robinson Lecture	Understanding and Modeling of Exurban Land Change in Arthur H. Robinson Colloquium g Southeastern Michigan	Univ. of Michigan
04/29/10	Paul Robbins	Guest Scholar	Producing Wildlife: India's Conservation Areas as Territories of Prehension	University of Arizona
04/22/10	Sara Fabrikant	Guest Scholar	Designing Cognitively Inspired Displays for Effective and Efficient Spatio‐temporal Inference Making	Univ. of Zurich
04/8/10	Bill Mitsch	Local Scholar	Wetlands as the Lost Carbon Sink?	OSU, Environment and Natural Resources
02/25/10	Erle Ellis	Guest Scholar	Anthropogenic Biomes: Creating the Human Biosphere	Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
02/11/10	Post-Doc Speakers	Post-Doctoral Researchers	Chandana Gangodagamage and Nathan Stansell	The Ohio State University
01/28/10	Tom Swetnam	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Climate Change and Temperate Forests of the Western United States: Evidence of Rising Impacts?	University of Arizona
11/12/09	Jim Glassman	Guest Scholar	Global Capitalism: A Love Story, a Tragedy, an Enigma	University of British Columbia
10/29/09	Mona Domosh	Guest Scholar	The World Was Never Flat: Early Global Encounters and the Messiness of Empire	Dartmouth
10/13/09	Rob Kitchin	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Soft Cities: Software and the Remaking of the City	National University of Ireland, Maynooth
05/21/09	Undergraduate Research Showcase	Panel Session	Multiple, See Flyer	Geography, The Ohio State University
05/15/09	John Agnew	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture/ Centenni	Money Games: Currencies and Power in World Politics	Geography, UCLA
04/30/09	Cindy Fan	Guest Scholar	Circularity, Flexibility, and Security: Labor Migration and Split Households in China	Geography, UCLA
04/9/09	Marilyn Brown	Guest Scholar	The Geography of Metropolitan Carbon Footprints	School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
02/19/09	Harvey Miller	Robinson Lecture	What about people in geographic information science?	Geography, University of Utah
11/20/08	Rickie Sanders	Guest Scholar	Streets, Sidewalks, Alleyways: Urban Public Spaces	Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
10/23/08	Alumni Professionals Panel	Panel Session	See Poster	Various Affiliations
10/9/08	Ellen Mosley-Thompson	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Unique Insights to Earth's Climate History Preserved in its Cryosphere	Geography, The Ohio State University
05/8/08	Kobayashi, Audrey	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Space and Spatiality: Some critical moments in modern and postmodern geography	Geography, Quenn's University
03/6/08	Woodhouse, Connie	Guest Scholar	Colorado River Water: Past, Present, and Future?	Geography & Regional Development, University of Arizona
02/28/08	Couclelis, Helen	Robinson Lecture	Landscape and Purpose: Modeling the human use of space in GIS	Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
02/7/08	Prudham, Scott	Guest Scholar	Richard Branson, the Entrepreneurial Capitalist Subject, and Notes on Performing Greening Capitalism	Geography, University of Toronto
01/17/08	Mann, Geoff	Guest Scholar	The Cultural Politics of Inflation in Post‐World War II Los Angeles	Geography, Simon Fraser University
01/3/08	Alsdorf, Doug	Guest Scholar	How Much Water is on the Amazon Floodplain?	Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
11/15/07	Samers, Michael	Guest Scholar	Islamic banking and finance: postcolonial political economy and the geography of purification	Geography, University of Kentucky
10/11/07	Gahegan, Mark	Guest Scholar	Utilizing Cyberinfrastructure to Support United Nations Disaster Relief Efforts	Geography, Penn State University
09/27/07	Overpeck, Jonathan T.	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Climate Change, Sea Level and Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference?	Geosciences and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
05/25/06	Paul Bates	Guest Scholar	Hydrodynamic flood modeling	UK Bristol University
05/18/06	A. Stewart Fotheringham	Robinson Lecture	New Ways of Looking at the World: A Sample of Research at the National Centre for Geocomputation	National University of Ireland
04/20/06	William Pizer	Guest Scholar	Public policy and the economics of climate change	Resources for the Future, Washington DC
03/30/06	Neil Smith	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	After Iraq: Failed Endgames, Failing Globalizations, New Political Geographies	City University of New York
03/2/06	Jeff McKenzie and	Guest Scholar	Reconstructing late Quaternary climate: Lacustrine archives from California and the American Midwest	OSU Dept. of Geography
02/23/06	Lawrence Grossman	Guest Scholar	Changing Colonial Policies and Discourses on Peasants and the Environment in the British Caribbean from the late 1800s to the 1940s	Virginia Tech
02/2/06	Frank Davis	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Setting Conservation Priorities in Human Dominated Ecosystems	University of California at Santa Barbara
11/10/05	Robertson, Claire	Guest Scholar	N/A	Ohio State
10/27/05	Katz, Cindi	Guest Scholar	The State Goes Home:Social Reproduction and the Terrors of Hypervigilance in Contemporary US Childhood	City University of New York
09/29/05	Schuurman, Nadine	Guest Scholar	Database ethnographies in support of extended metadata for non-spatial attributes	Simon Fraser University
04/28/05	Box, Jason	Guest Scholar	A New Approach for Representation and Analysis of Complex Space-Time Processes	Ohio State
04/21/05	Clarke, Keith	Robinson Lecture	N/A	University of California, Santa Barbara
04/14/05	Saalfeld, Alan	Guest Scholar	Map Topology: Principles and Practicalities	Ohio State
02/17/05	Bradley, Raymond	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	High Resolution Paleoclimatology	University of Massachusetts
10/28/04	Brown, Michael	Guest Scholar	To Make a Map: The Contradictory Consequences of Mapping Seattle's Lesbian & Gay Historical Geography	University of Washington
10/24/04	Parkinson, Claire	Guest Scholar	Satellite Passive Remote Sensing of the Earth/Atmosphere System	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
09/28/04	Zimmerer, Karl	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Trends in Global Conservation and Development	University of Wisconsin-Madison
05/13/04	Pequet, Donna	Robinson Lecture	A New Approach for Representation and Analysis of Complex Space-Time Processes	Pennsylvania State
05/6/04	Johnston, Kevin	Guest Scholar	Anthropogenic Change, Population Dislocation, and the Collapse of Classic Maya Society: Paleoecological Evidence from Northern Guatemala	Ohio State
04/29/04	Toal, Gerard	Guest Scholar	Reversing ethnic cleansing? The international community and human security in Bosnia	Virginia Tech
02/5/04	Walsh, Steve	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Approaches and Challenges for Characterizing Landscape Dynamics in Coupled Human-Natural Systems	UNC - Chapel Hill
12/4/03	Thakur, Sudhir	Guest Scholar	Regional Science Research in India: Retrospect, Application and Prospects	Ohio State
11/13/03	Brown, Larry	Guest Scholar	Change, Continuity, and the Pursuit of Geographic Understanding: A Fieldwork Essay	Ohio State
11/6/03	MacDonald, Glen	Guest Scholar	Global Climate Change and the Arctic - 18th Century Explores, Missing Helicopters and the Lost Forests of Siberia	UCLA
10/23/03	Armstrong, Marc	Guest Scholar	A Role for Mobile Computing in Geographic Education	University of Iowa
10/2/03	Horn, Sally	Guest Scholar	Sediment Records and Environmental History in Costa Rica	University of Tennessee
05/29/03	Wu, Changshan	Guest Scholar	N/A	Ohio State
05/29/03	McChesney, Ron	Guest Scholar	N/A	Ohio State
05/29/03	Bodaar, AnneMarie	Guest Scholar	N/A	Ohio State
05/22/03	Sheppard, Eric	Robinson Lecture	N/A	University of Minnesota
04/24/03	Merry, Carolyn	Guest Scholar	Using remote sensing data in engineering studies	Ohio State
04/10/03	Mitchell, Don	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	The Liberalization of Free Speech: Or, How Protest is Silenced in Public Space	Syracuse University
02/6/03	Molotch, Harvey	Guest Scholar	How Place Makes Product: Art, Design, Development, and Good Stuff	UC-Santa Barbara AND NYU
01/23/03	Yarnal, Brent	Guest Scholar	Integrated Regional Environmental Science: An Opportunity and Challenge for Geography	Pennsylvania State
12/5/02	Farhan, Bilal	Guest Scholar	A GIS-Based Approach for Delineating Market Areas for Park-and-Ride Facilities	Ohio State
11/21/02	McLafferty, Sara	Guest Scholar	Geographic Information and Community Health: Critical Insights from a Breast Cancer GIS	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/7/02	Orme, Antony	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Fifty Years On: Retrospect and Prospect in Geomorphology	UCLA
10/10/02	Howe, Nicholas	Guest Scholar	North Looking South: Narrative Cartography in Anglo-Saxon England	UC-Berkeley
06/6/02	Wu, Changshan	Guest Scholar	Estimating population distribution for transit planning using integrated GIS and RS technologies	Ohio State
05/23/02	McCord, Mark	Guest Scholar	Improving AADT and VMT Estimation with High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and The National Consortium on Remote Sensing of Transportation - Flows	Ohio State
05/16/02	Wolch, Jennifer	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Region by Design: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California	University of Southern California
05/9/02	Carney, Judith	Guest Scholar	Rice and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World	UCLA
04/25/02	Greene, Scott	Guest Scholar	The Development and Applications of Hot Weather/Health Watch Warning Systems Using Synoptic Climatology	University of Oklahoma
02/28/02	Fraser, Alistair	Guest Scholar	Contradictions of the Capitalist State and Socialist Politics: The Case of the Scottish Socialist Party	Ohio State
01/31/02	Band, Lawrence	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Ecosystem approaches to urban watersheds	UNC - Chapel Hill
01/17/02	MacEachren, Alan	Guest Scholar	Geovisualization and Geocollaboration to Support Data Exploration and Decision-Making: Human-centered foundations	Pennsylvania State
11/29/01	Hennon, Paula Ann	Guest Scholar	Helping Hurricane Intensity Prediction by Exposing the Clouds in the Hurricane Eyewall	Ohio State
11/29/01	Coleman, Jill	Guest Scholar	Ohio River Valley Winter Moisture Conditions Associated with the Pacific/North American Teleconnection Pattern	Ohio State
11/15/01	Nast, Heidi	Guest Scholar	Concubines and Power: The Geo-politics of Fecundity in Agrarian States	DePaul
11/1/01	Monmonier, Mark	Robinson Lecture	GIS, Racial Gerrymandering, and 'Expressive Harms': Can Geography Matter in Congressional Redistricting?	Syracuse University
10/23/01	Mosley-Thompson, Ellen	Guest Scholar	Deciphering Earths Climate and Environmental History from Ice Cores	Ohio State
10/11/01	Gomez, Basil	Guest Scholar	Sediments as Recorders of Natural and Anthropogenic Change: Waipaoa River Basin, New Zealand	Indiana State University
05/24/01	Maddock, Tara	Guest Scholar	The Science and Politics of Water Quality Regulation	Ohio State
05/24/01	Hennon, Chris	Guest Scholar	A Probabilistic Real-Time Prediction Scheme for Tropical Cyclogenesis Over the Atlantic Basin	Ohio State
05/24/01	Grubesic, Tony	Guest Scholar	Using Points of Presence to Measure City Accessibility to the Commercial Internet	Ohio State
05/10/01	Turner, B.L II	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	Contested Identities: Human-Environment Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy	Clark
04/26/01	Griffith, Daniel	Guest Scholar	The Geographic Distribution Of Soil-Lead Concentration: Description And Concerns	Syracuse University
04/19/01	Phillips, Jonathan	Guest Scholar	From Laws to Lessons: Dealing With Uncertainty and Contingency in Geography	Kentucky
04/12/01	ReVelle, Charles	Robinson Lecture	The Richness of the Location Model; From Constantine to Lewis Carroll to the Present	Johns Hopkins
02/15/01	Lee, Jiyeong	Guest Scholar	A 3D Object-Based Data Model for Representing Topological Relations in Urban Micro-Spatial Environments	Ohio State
02/15/01	Horner, Mark	Guest Scholar	Excess Commuting: Analyses and Extensions	Ohio State
02/15/01	Lee, Sang-Il	Guest Scholar	Developing a bivariate spatial association measure: An integration of Pearson's r and Moran's I	Ohio State
02/8/01	Wright, Melissa	Guest Scholar	Asian Spies, American Motors And TheTime-Space Of Value	Pennsylvania State
02/1/01	Curtis, Peter	Guest Scholar	Estimating Net Ecosystem Production in a Northern Hardwood Forest: Meteorological vs. Plot-based Approaches to Measuring Annual Carbon Storage	Ohio State
01/25/01	Hirtle, Stephen	Guest Scholar	Navigation in Real and Virtual Spaces	University of Pittsburgh
11/30/00	Rhoads, Bruce	Guest Scholar	Integrating Physical and Human Geography withinthe Context of Watershed Science	University of Illinois
11/16/00	Rotman, Brian	Guest Scholar	Book End	Ohio State
10/26/00	Veblen, Thomas	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	Humans and Climatic Variation as Drivers of Vegetation Change in Northern Patagonia, Argentina	University of Colorado
10/12/00	Jokisch, Brad	Guest Scholar	Transnationalism and the Ecuadorian Diaspora: Conceptualizing	University of Ohio
09/28/00	Bosco, Fernando	Guest Scholar	Spatializing Social Movement Networks	Ohio State
09/28/00	Park, Bae-Gyoon	Guest Scholar	Labor Regulation and Economic Change: A View on the Korean Economic Crisis	Ohio State
09/28/00	Weber, Joe	Guest Scholar	Bringing Time Back In: A Study on the Influence of Travel Time Variations and Facility Opening Hours on Individual Accessibility	Ohio State
05/11/00	Willmott, Cort	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	N/A	University of Delaware
04/11/00	Watts, Michael	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	N/A	UC-Berkeley
10/28/99	Goodchild, Michael	Robinson Lecture	N/A	University of California, Santa Barbara
05/13/99	Hanson, Susan	Taaffe Human Geography Lecture	N/A	Clark University
04/15/99	Oke, Tim	Taaffe Physical Geography Lecture	N/A	University of British Columbia, Vancover
01/28/99	Getis, Art	Robinson Lecture	N/A	San Diego State University
11/30/99	Kendra McSweeney	Friday Lunch Workshop Series	N/A	The Ohio State University

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