Each week, for almost a century, the Department of Geography invites an expert guest to share their research. Unless stated, Colloquiums are held on Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in Condon Hall 106.
Fall 2025 Weekly Colloquium Schedule
October 2, 2025: Department Welcome-Back Social
October 9, 2025: Departmental Community Building Activity (Host: Shaul Cohen)
October 16, 2025: Natalie Koch, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University. Authoritarian Developmentalism and Urban Techno-Futures in the Gulf. (Host: Xiaobo Su).
(Location: Knight Library Browsing Room, 4:00 pm).
October 23, 2025: No Colloquium
October 30, 2025: Xiaobo Su, University of Oregon, Department of Geography. Sabbatical Report: Drifting from border to venture capital
November 6, 2025: No Colloquium
November 13, 2025: Chelsea Nestel, University of Oregon, David and Nancy Petrone GIS Librarian
November 20, 2025: TBA
November 27, 2025: No Colloquium, Happy Thanksgiving!
December 4, 2025: Aurora Roth, UC San Diego. What we (don't) talk about when we talk about science in Greenland
December 11, 2025: No Colloquium, Finals Week
Winter 2026 Weekly Colloquium Schedule
January 8, 2026: Schmitty Thompson, University of Oregon
January 15, 2026: TEP Career Readiness Workshop
January 22, 2026: TBA
January 29, 2026: No Colloquium
February 5, 2026: TBA
February 12, 2026: No Colloquium
February 19, 2026: Kelly Kay, UCLA
February 26, 2026: No Colloquium
March 5, 2026: TBA
March 12, 2026: No Colloquium
Spring 2026 Weekly Colloquium Schedule
April 2, 2026: TBA
April 8, 2026: No Colloquium
April 16, 2026: TBA
April 23, 2026: TBA
April 30, 2026: TBA
May 7, 2026: No Colloquium
May 14, 2026: Melissa Withers, USC
May 21, 2026: No Colloquium
May 28, 2026: TBA
June 4, 2026: No Colloquium
2024-25 Colloquium Series:
Jan 9, 2025: Cancelled
Jan 16, 2025: Graduate student discussion with faculty leadership
Jan 23, 2025: Jamon Van Den Hoek, Associate Professor from Oregon State. Mapping War via Satellite
Jan 30, 2025: Candidate talk - (Chilees 128, 3:30PM)
Feb 3, 2025: Candidate talk (Monday, Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)
Feb 6, 2025: Candidate talk - (Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)
Feb 10, 2025: Candidate talk (Monday, Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)
Feb 27, 2025: Dan Gavin, Geography Department Head from the University of Oregon. Temperate and Tropical Peatland Stratigraphy Provides Clues to their Vulnerability to Climate Change
March 6, 2025: Jeff Martin, Research Social Scientist from United States Forest Service. Rewilding and its Discontents: Conservation and Critical Social Science (Lillis 211)
March 13, 2025: No Colloquium
March 20, 2025: Finals Week; No Colloquium
March 27, 2025: Spring Break; No Colloquium
April 3, 2025: No Colloquium
April 10, 2025: No Colloquium
April 17, 2025: Angela Xuan Zhu, Professor from Shanghai Normal University, College of Tourism. Moral Geography and Tourism: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Cases
April 24, 2025: No Colloquium
May 1, 2025: Michelle Wilde Anderson, Professor of Law from Stanford University.
May 8, 2025: Dave Sapsis, Wildland Fire Scientist with Cal Fire.
May 15, 2025: Alison Johnston, Professor of Political Science from Oregon State University.
May 22, 2025: Shaul Cohen, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of UO Prison Education Program. Current Challengest in relation to high education=
May 29, 2025: Erica Smithwick, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Penn State University. Towards regenerative landscape design: Indigenous landscapes, land use legacies, and climate futures
June 5, 2025: Annual Student Awards!
June 12, 2025: Finals Week, No Colloquium
June 19, 2025: Juneteenth Holiday; No Colloquium