The Department of Geography lecture series features a wide variety local, US, and international guest speakers from all of the subfields of the discipline. Lectures are held in Saunders Hall room 443b on Thursdays at noon, unless otherwise noted. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Fall 2009 Lectures:

Thursday October 15: Dr. Jefferson Fox, Senior Fellow, East-West Center

Title: Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in montane mainland Southeast Asia and implications for the environment and human livelihoods

Thursday October 22: Dr. Lesley Potter, Associate Professor of Geography, Australian National University

Co-hosted with the East-West Center

Title: Kalimantan’s agrarian transitions, ‘new poverty’ and the world economic crisis. More information…

Thursday October 29: Dr. Honami Kageyama, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan

Title: Japanese women's networks in Honolulu

Thursday November 12: Dr. Marc Imhoff, NASA Goddard Research Center

Co-hosted with the Bishop Museum, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture, *** Begins at 4:30pm

Title: Gray Wave of the Great Transformation: A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security.

Thursday November 19: Dr. Chris Lepczyk, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: tba

Spring 2010 Lectures:

Thursday January 28: Sugato Dutt, PhD Candidate and Leandro Romero, MA Student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Masked by the tiger: a study of rural livelihoods and conservation values in Northeast India

          Adjudicating modern water under ancient rules: An instance of 'translation between two laws' in Kona, Oahu

Friday February 19: Dr. Katharyne Mitchell, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Title: tba

Friday February 19: Dr. Matthew Sparke, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Co-hosted with Political Science

Title: tba

Thursday April 01: Dr. Brian Szuster, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Scuba Diver Perceptions of Crowding