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Spring 2009 Colloquia
All presentations are held in Saunders 220 unless otherwise indicated. Talks are between 3:30PM and 4:30PM, and refreshments from 3:15PM to 5PM.

Date Speaker Title/Event

Jan. 16   

Priscilla Ward, Department of English, Duke University

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
Jan. 30 Martin Doyle, Department of Geography, UNC at Chapel Hill The American River: From George Washington to George Bush
Feb. 20 Stephen Davis and Brett Riggs, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC at Chapel Hill Archaeology in the Old Catawba Nation
Feb. 27 Nik Theodore, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago TBA
Mar. 20 UNC at Chapel Hill Geography Department Graduate Student Panel Association of American Geographers Presentations
Apr. 3 Mark Green, University of New Hampshire & City College of New York

Human-Water Interactions in the Colonial Northeast United States

Apr. 17

Elisabeth D. Root, Department of Geography, Carolina Population Center, UNC-CH

Evidence for neighborhood effects on health: the case of birth defects in North Carolina
Apr. 22 Scott Curtis, Department of Geography, East Carolina University The El Nino/Southern Oscillation and Global Precipitation Patterns: A View from Space
Apr. 24 Bobby M. Wilson, Department of Geography, University of Alabama Consumer Political Economy and Race


Previous Colloquia:
Spring 2008 Colloquia Spring 2007 Colloquia
Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Colloquia
Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Colloquia
Spring 2004 Colloquia

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