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 2nd: TBD

October 9th: TBD

October 16th: TBD

October 23rd: TBD

October 30th: TBD

November 6th: TBD

November 13th: TBD

November 20th: TBD

November 27th: No Colloquium, Happy Thanksgiving!

December 4th: TBD

December 11th: No Colloquium, Finals Week

Spring 2025 Weekly Colloquium Schedule

April 3rd: No Colloquium

April 10th: No Colloquium

April 17th: Angela Xuan Zhu, Professor from Shanghai Normal University, College of Tourism. Moral Geography and Tourism: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Cases

April 24th: No Colloquium

May 1st: Michelle Wilde Anderson,  Professor of Law from Stanford University.

May 8th: Dave Sapsis, Wildland Fire Scientist with Cal Fire. 

May 15th: Alison Johnston, Professor of Political Science from Oregon State University. 

May 22th: Shaul Cohen, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of UO Prison Education Program. Current Challengest in relation to high education

May 29th: Erica Smithwick, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Penn State University. Towards regenerative landscape design: Indigenous landscapes, land use legacies, and climate futures

June 5th: Annual Student Awards!

June 12th: Finals Week, No Colloquium

June 19th: Juneteenth Holiday; No Colloquium

Winter 2025 Weekly Seminar Schedule

Jan 9th: Cancelled

Jan 16th: Graduate student discussion with faculty leadership

Jan 23rd: Jamon Van Den Hoek, Associate Professor from Oregon State.  Mapping War via Satellite

Jan 30th: Candidate talk - (Chilees 128, 3:30PM)

Feb 3rd: Candidate talk (Monday, Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)

Feb 6th: Candidate talk - (Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)

Feb 10th: Candidate talk (Monday, Knight Library Browsing Room, 3:30PM)

Feb 27th: Dan Gavin, Geography Department Head from the University of Oregon. Temperate and Tropical Peatland Stratigraphy Provides Clues to their Vulnerability to Climate Change

March 6th: Jeff Martin, Research Social Scientist from United States Forest Service. Rewilding and its Discontents: Conservation and Critical Social Science  (Lillis 211) 

March 13th: No Colloquium

March 20th: Finals Week;  No Colloquium

March 27th: Spring Break; No Colloquium