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Suing Polluters in the Public Interest

The lecture will be presented by Josh Kratka, Senior Attorney of the National Environmental Law Center, Boston MA. The National Environmental Law Center (NELC) is a non-profit public interest litigation […]

Geography Speaker: Wiranta Ginting, Asia Floor Wage Alliance

Building Worker's Power: Asia Floor Wage Alliance Wiranta Ginting is an organizer and labor rights educator, who has worked with trade unions, small grassroots NGOs and worker-led organizing programs in […]

Geography Colloquium: Andrea Marston, Rutgers University

Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia In an era of increased state involvement in natural resource governance, members of Bolivia’s “mining cooperatives” are commonly described as […]

Geography Speaker: Jennifer Taylor, The Brooklyn Strategist

Building worker’s power: Workers united at Brooklyn Strategist  Jennifer Taylor is a worker-organizer at the board game cafe Brooklyn Strategist. In late 2023, workers at Brooklyn Strategist joined those at three Hex & Co. locations as well as Uncommons to successfully demand union recognition. All of these workers have affiliated with Workers' United, the union […]

Geography Colloquium: Kimberley Davis, United States Department of Agriculture

Conifer forest resilience to changing climate and fire regimes in the western US The combination of increasing area burned at high severity and warmer, drier post-fire conditions is making forests in the western United States vulnerable to ecological transformation. Dr. Kimberley Davis will examine how the interactive impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity are […]

Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change

Despite the importance of weather modification in the context of climate change, it has not attracted much recent attention from social scientists. Emily Yeh will provide a wide-ranging and hopefully fun overview of weather modification in the US, China, and the United Arab Emirates through a geographical lens.

The Challenge of Managing Guyana’s Oil and Gas Industry

Extractives@Clark presents a talk by Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine, professor of Latin American and Caribbean jistory at Jackson State University, who has been researching the contentious development of one of the most important new oil fields in the Western Hemisphere.

Geography Colloquium: Mimi Sheller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Climate Change and Mobility Justice: The Kinopolitics of Climate Coloniality In this talk, Dr. Sheller will discuss what reactive border closures, wall building, and de-nationalization of undocumented populations around the […]

Putting Science on the Map

Greg Fiske of the Woodwell Climate Research Center will explore commonly used tools and techniques for making beautiful maps, as well as share challenges, success stories, and failures he has faced over 20 years of making maps for Woods Hole scientists.