News / Events : Archive : Colloquia Series Fall 2011
The colloquia series welcomes speakers from across the campus and the world to discuss their research.
All colloquia are scheduled at 3:30pm in Storm Hall 337 most Fridays during the semester unless otherwise noted.
Wildfire GIS Modeling
September 2
Dr. Joaquin Ramirez
Associate Professor of Forestry Engineering
University of León, Spain
‘A Thousand Points of Light’:
Exploring the Geographies of Nonprofit Activity
September 16
Dr. Pascale Joassart
Associate Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
An Observation-driven Geospatial Semantics
September 30
Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Qualitative Geographic Sample Size
in the Presence of Spatial Autocorrelation
The Getis Lecture
October 7
3:00pm
West Commons 220
Dr. Daniel A. Griffith
Ashbel Smith Professor of Geography
University of Texas at Dallas
The Spatial Political Demography of Carolatinos in Charlotte
October 14
Dr. Gregory Weeks
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Mapping Ideas from Cyberspace to Realspace - A New Research Frontier for Geographers
October 21
Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
Conflict over Land and the Local State-Society Relations
in China and India
October 28
Dr. Lei Guang
Professor of Political Science
San Diego State University
Youth and Citizenship:
Struggles On and Off the Street
November 4
Dr. Lynn Staeheli
Professor of Geography
Durham University, United Kingdom
Climate and Climate Change and Infectious Disease Risk in Thailand:
A Spatial Study of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Using GIS and Remotely-sensed Imagery
November 18
Dr. Kris Kuzera
Visiting Faculty, Geography
Clarke University
From Recalcitrant Bodies to Recombinant Selves:
How Disabled Children Renegotiate Body and Self
in Home School and Neighbourhood Settings.
December 2
Dr. Sue Ruddick
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Toronto, Canada