Research seminars
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Main Departmental seminar series
Main Departmental seminar series at the Department of Geography.
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Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography
All seminars begin at 1pm and take place in the Hardy Building, Room 101 (unless otherwise stated), Department of Geography. All welcome!
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Research seminar series run by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
The support of the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History) is gratefully acknowledged.
The seminar meets on Wednesdays at 13.15 in Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History. Sandwiches and fruit will be available.
Convenors: Romola Davenport (rjd23@cam.ac.uk), Alice Reid (alice.reid@geog.cam.ac.uk) and Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge Conservation Seminars
The series is intended to provide a research and social focus for university lecturers, research staff and postgraduate students interested in conservation research. The primary aim is to inform university colleagues of what research is going on in different departments and to bring in high quality outside speakers. Equally, members of conservation organisations are welcome to attend. A key element is the opportunity after each talk to socialise with colleagues from different departments and organisations.
Generously funded by the CCI Strategic Initiative Fund
http://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/
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Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography
Seminars which may be of interest to members of the Climate and Environmental Dynamics research group within the Department of Geography.
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Political ecology
Polar Physical Sciences
Histories, cultures, environments and politics research seminars
Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop
Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)
A series of 50 minute lectures, followed by discussion, on the broad topic of environmental evolution, climate, ecological and human change during the Quaternary (the last ~2.6 million years). The lectures are aimed at a broad audience (including geoscientists, glaciologists, environmental scientists, atmospheric chemists, biologists, anthropologists and archaeologists).
Seminars are on Thursdays starting at 17:30. Wine is served after the talks and there is time for discussion over drinks and/or dinner.
QDG is currently organised by David Hodell, Christine Lane, Francesco Muschitiello, Eric Wolff. Please feel free to contact us with queries and suggestions.
To sign up to the QDG mailing list, follow this link:
https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/soc-qdg-quaternary-disc-reminder
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Cambridge Volcanology
Cambridge Volcanology seminars.
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Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography (CCHG) - Department of Geography
Seminars and public lectures within the Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography research group of the Department of Geography.
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Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography
Seminars and public lectures within the Geographies of Knowledge research group of the Department of Geography.
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- # Tuesday 29th September 2020, 4.00pm - Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
- Why we should develop Arctic Humanities
- Venue: Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University
In the first two decades of the present century we have seen a growth of what has been called the “integrative humanities”. Looking back at politics of frugality and various symptoms of crisis, humanities scholars and institutions around the world have looked for new agendas. These have varied, but a common feature has often been the idea that relevance and a sense of purpose has increased when different strands of humanities have organized themselves into intellectual and issue oriented alliances around, for example environment, climate, natural resources, rights issues, health, sustainable development. In this respect the Arctic, or the Poles, may be seen as an issue area, rather than as just a region among other regions, or as just the object of a set of disciplinary practices, like any topic.
Arctic knowledge production remains dominated by the sciences while the issues that are looking for answers are by and large societal and cultural, indeed also political. I am in earnest interested in the issue of how the humanities can articulate the desire for a stronger presence in polar research, and despite some progress (mostly limited to certain disciplines) I am confident we have not yet reached as far as we can.
Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography
Seminars and public lectures within the Biogeography and Biogeomorphology research group of the Department of Geography.
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Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography
Seminars and public lectures within the Infrastructural Geographies research group of the Department of Geography.
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Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'
These seminars at the Department of Geography are based on reflections from recently undertaken (though this is not essential) fieldwork, and will engage with the challenges of fieldwork, and the contradictions between methodology as we understand it in abstraction, and what plays out in the field.
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Graduate Workshops in Economic and Social History
Mondays at 12:30 pm in Room 5, Faculty of History
All welcome.
Convenors: Ying Dai (Murray Edwards College,yd282) and Emelyn Rude (King’s College, er496)
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Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography
Description to be confirmed
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ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography
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Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series
The Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University are pleased to host the Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series.
As the Arctic gains greater visibility among academics and diverse publics, we see an urgent need for humanities scholars to help shape the current debates and research priorities too often limited to the natural and social sciences. This rise in awareness of Arctic issues coincides with widespread academic initiatives in the emerging interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. These growing interests in the Arctic and in the environmental humanities are in turn both catalyzed by the climate crisis; the urgency of this crisis is central to, but not exhaustive of, our collective commitment to Arctic environmental humanities (AEH).
We envision this workshop series as a collaborative enterprise that is robustly interdisciplinary and brings together diverse expertise of humanistic scholars, artists, and researchers drawn from international circles. Presentations and conversations will take place in varied formats, all online and freely accessible to all those interested. The perspectives and participation of northern communities and people will be particularly valuable and encouraged.
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- # Tuesday 29th September 2020, 4.00pm - Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
- Why we should develop Arctic Humanities
- Venue: Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University
In the first two decades of the present century we have seen a growth of what has been called the “integrative humanities”. Looking back at politics of frugality and various symptoms of crisis, humanities scholars and institutions around the world have looked for new agendas. These have varied, but a common feature has often been the idea that relevance and a sense of purpose has increased when different strands of humanities have organized themselves into intellectual and issue oriented alliances around, for example environment, climate, natural resources, rights issues, health, sustainable development. In this respect the Arctic, or the Poles, may be seen as an issue area, rather than as just a region among other regions, or as just the object of a set of disciplinary practices, like any topic.
Arctic knowledge production remains dominated by the sciences while the issues that are looking for answers are by and large societal and cultural, indeed also political. I am in earnest interested in the issue of how the humanities can articulate the desire for a stronger presence in polar research, and despite some progress (mostly limited to certain disciplines) I am confident we have not yet reached as far as we can.
Other talks
Talks in the Department of Geography not connected to any other seminar series.
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