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New perspectives on migrations in Latin America
This event aims to bring together young researchers affiliated with French or British institutions who carry out social science research on migration in Latin America.
23 May 2024 - 24 May 2024
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
CB-1017 (Confluence building) & W309 (Geography building) see programme for details
- Research event
“Overlookedness: Where do we go from here?”
Event 3 of the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Grant 2023-2024 'Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently' 10-11 June 2024
10 June 2024 - 11 June 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday June 10th (W007) Tuesday June 11th (TLC116)
- Research event
Professor Jon Woodruff, Massachusetts Amherst: ‘Mud on the Marsh: Controls on Sediment Delivery and Resulting Limits on Future Resilience’.
Professor Jon Woodruff, Massachusetts Amherst: ‘Mud on the Marsh: Controls on Sediment Delivery and Resulting Limits on Future Resilience’.
13 June 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
WOO7, Geography building
- Research event
Henning Bauch (GEOMAR): 'The impact of glacial boundary conditions on interglacial climate development'
Henning Bauch (GEOMAR) will discuss his study exploring the causes for different ice-sheet size history and elaborate on the consequences that arose after the onset of deglaciations, and which determined the timing and further development of environmental conditions during the ensuing peak interglacials.
17 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W414 Geography
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Alessandro Silvano (University of Southampton) 'Impacts of ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica: from global sea level to ocean overturning '
In this seminar, Alessandro Silvano will explore the oceanic processes that drive melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and consequent global sea level rise.
31 October 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W414 (Geography)
- Research event
Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz) 'To Reimagine a Body Starting from Its Joints'
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology.
05 November 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
W010 (Geography West building)
- Research event
Postgraduate Workshop with Michael Marder (Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz).
This workshop, designed specifically for postgraduates, offers the opportunity to engage further with Marder’s lecture and work more broadly, and invites participants to think through how the topic of joints might relate to their own research interests. We look forward to your participation in this discussion of what it means to think about the body when we begin to think about the body when we begin with its joints.
05 November 2024
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
W010 (Geography)
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Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz) 'Seeds for Thought, or Several Tips on How to Follow Plants'
What does it mean “to follow plants”? How to re-learn the work and the play of thinking from them? I propose shifting the focus and perspectives of our thought and attention from the extremes to the middle, whence the extremes emerge and develop in their tireless interplay.
06 November 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Agora, 9th Floor of Henry Daysh Building, Newcastle University
- Research event
Sophie Webber (University of Sydney), 'Flood protection as adaptation labour in Jakarta, Indonesia'
Dr Sophie Webber is a geographer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the impacts of attempts to make adaptation to climate impacts ‘economic’ through market and financial instruments. She has conducted research about large-scale climate transformations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.
11 November 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
W007 (Geography building)
- Research event
Ivan Haigh (University of Southampton): 'The impact of sea level rise on storm surge barriers'
In this seminar Ivan Haigh (University of Southampton) will discuss the work he has done in his research to assess changes in the frequency of storm surge barriers and their implications.
14 November 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W414 (Geography)
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