Lectures

Lecture link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/96338211541

What does climate change mean for Thai people and which ways are they expected to respond? Climate change in Thailand has become a fleeting, boundless hybrid of linguistic and graphical interpretations, policies, mathematical equations, lay people, experts, natural and supernatural beings. As different kinds of climate knowledges meet, one needs to ensure that sensibilities and memories of personal weather stories are not lost in the totalizing idea of climate reductionism.

Part of the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture series hosted by the Department of Geography at UW-Madison.

Lecture location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences. 12:15-1:30 PM.

Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.

Lecture location: 1153 Mechanical Engineering. 4:15-5:15 PM.

The recent Sixth Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change further strengthens prior findings: climate change is happening now, and it is happening throughout the world. We can slow climate change and reduce its magnitude, but it will take a concerted worldwide effort to greatly reduce the human-related emissions that are driving these changes. View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.

Lecture location: 180 Science Hall. 3:30 PM.

To contain the COVID-19 spread, one of the nonpharmaceutical interventions is physical (social) distancing. The GeoDS Lab developed an interactive web-based mapping platform and created a novel mobility-augmented epidemic model to help analyze the COVID-19 spread dynamics at multiple geographical scales and inform public health policy.

Part of the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture series hosted by the Department of Geography at UW-Madison.

Lecture location: 1153 Mechanical Engineering. 4:15-5:15 PM.

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.

Lecture location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences. 12:15-1:30 PM.

Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.

Lecture link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/96338211541

Herrera examines 1960s and 1970s Chicanx activism in Oakland, California, underscoring how activists remembered their social movement participation by emphasizing their deep emotional connections with neighborhood projects. By seriously considering cultural politics rooted and routed through place, Herrera offers a theoretical and methodological understanding of space as archive of social movement activism.

Part of the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture series hosted by the Department of Geography at UW-Madison.

Lecture location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences. 12:15-1:30 PM.

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.

Lecture link will be updated soon.

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.

Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. Kotkin is the Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (opportunityurbanism.org) and the Executive Editor of the widely read website www.newgeography.com. View the full speaker bio HERE.

The link to this talk will be updated soon.

Online, connection information will be sent to those on the IRP Seminar list in advance. Contact the Institute for Research on Poverty for more information:

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar Series.

Lecture venue will be updated soon.

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.

Lecture venue will be updated soon.

View speaker bio HERE.

Part of the Weston Roundtable Series co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison.