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'The Church as an Open Closet'
Organised by the Queer and Trans Geographies Thematic research Group, we are pleased to invite you to a talk on Dr Josep Almudéver Chanzà's new book Women Leaders, Queer Faithfuls.
11 March 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
W414 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Curating Learning Journeys - Transformational Experiences in the Classroom
In this lecture, Dr Erzsébet Strausz will draw on her open access book, which invites exploration into learning journeys as they unfold in, through, and beyond the thinking space of a critically oriented postgraduate International Relations theory course.
30 April 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
PCL 054 (Palatine Centre)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Disposal, Deferral, Doubt, Disavowal. Elements of a Politics of Suspension
The talk aims to explore mechanisms of suspension in contemporary societies. It seeks to map different elements of what could be called a politics of suspension. I suggest distinguishing four distinct – yet often connected and interrelated – modes of suspension: ontological, temporal, epistemic, and affective.
12 May 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CB-0008
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Elemental Commons: Pyropolitics and the Governance of the Flammable
This panel discussion explores pyropolitics as a critical lens for understanding how the management and manifestation of fire shape contemporary sovereign power and social space. As ‘we’ unevenly navigate the "Pyrocene," the panel seeks to theorise fire not merely as a geophysical hazard, but as a fundamental logic of territorial control, colonialism, and struggle in a heating world. Through diverse geographical scales, we aim to map how flames can both exert power and make possible resistance.
19 May 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
W309 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Professor Bruce Braun: 'Infrastructural Dismantlings: On Harm and Repair in Polyphonic Assemblages'.
Proceeding through a series of interwoven stories that explore, in turn, enactments of the “prior” in a hydrology lab; the emergent biopolitics of a lock and dam; inscriptions and erasures of settler cosmotechnics; toxic ecologies of repair; and the geologics of (white) property, I argue for an ethics and politics of dismantling attuned to the diverse, entangled, and decidedly non-teleological spatial and temporal rhythms of environment-infrastructure.
20 May 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
W309 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Professor Adam Hanieh: 'Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism, and the ‘East-East’ Axis of World Energy'
Abstract: Drawing upon his recent book Crude Capitalism (Verso 2024), Adam Hanieh explores the growing role of the six Gulf Arab states (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman) in solar, wind, and other climate technologies that underpin dominant approaches to the 'Green Transition'.
02 June 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
W309 (Geography)
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Professor Matt King (University of Tasmania, Australia) 'Variability in Recent Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Change, and Near-Future Trends'.
Observations show that Antarctica’s ice sheet is experiencing significant mass loss characterized by substantial interannual to decadal variability linked to large-scale climate modes like ENSO, the Southern Annular Mode, and the Amundsen Sea Low. The long-term observational record, combined with ice-sheet inertia, now holds predictive power for assessing Antarctica’s contribution to future sea-level rise.
04 June 2026
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
W309 Geography West
- Research event
Forecasting Climate Change using a Multivariate Cointegrated System
University of Oxford researchers Jennifer L. Castle, Jurgen A. Doornik, David F. Hendry, and Luke P. Jackson (Durham Geography) will present an advanced mathematical model designed to track and forecast global climate patterns. This seminar highlights new approaches for predicting future environmental changes with increased precision.
04 June 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W309, Geography West building
- Research event
Professor Joseph Weiss 'Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada'
Reconciliation is everywhere in contemporary Canada: in treaty processes, government commissions, curriculum changes, business rebranding, and a new national holiday. But what if the goal of reconciliation is simply to make a better Canada? And what if that's the problem?
11 June 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 210, Dawson building
- Research event
- Department of Geography
Calum Mitchell (Aarhus University). 'Digital Natures: prefiguration and the aesthetic regimes of nature recovery'.
Contemporary nature recovery is increasingly mediated through digital visualisation technologies. This working paper examines the emerging aesthetic regimes of future landscapes asking how such tools organise perception by reinforcing a bifurcation of nature that separates objective ecological processes from subjective perceived experience.
24 June 2026
3:30 AM - 5:30 PM
W414 Geography
- Research event
- Department of Geography