Download School of Geography Seminar Series Semester 1, 2016

Faculty of Science
School of Geography Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2016
Tuesdays, 1:00 – 2:00pm (except where marked ** Friday 4pm)
Theatre 2, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton (except where marked * will be in Theatre 1)
Date
Title of Seminar
Speaker
04 March**
Dr Emilie Capron
FRIDAY 4pm Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute
08 March*
THEATRE 1
15 March
22 March
Last Interglacial palaeotemperatures: data synthesis and
model/data comparison
Professor David Bowman
Fire driven land cover change in western Tasmania:
fingerprints of climate change?
Professor Craig Jeffrey and Dr Jane Dyson
“Be the Change You Want to See in the World”: Youth Social
Action in India
Dr Tom Slater
When Opinion Becomes Fact: Free Market Think Tanks, the
UK Housing Crisis, and the Production of Ignorance
School of Plant Sciences, The University of Tasmania
School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Dr Agathe Lisé-Pronovost
Ancient Roman Technologies Unravelled by High-Resolution
Core Scanning and Sediment Analysis
05 April
Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe
University
12 April
PhD Speed Talks
To Be Confirmed
Professor Lesley Head
Sustainability and climate change adaptation – unlocking
the potential of ethnic diversity
Professor Jon Barnett
Governing Extinction? Exploring the ethics of adaptation in
atoll countries
19 April
26 April
School of Geography, the University of Melbourne
School of Geography, the University of Melbourne
Dr Paul Gierz
03 May
Department of Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred Wegener
Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
10 May
PhD Speed Talks
17 May
26 May
Explorations of the Last Interglacial: Insights from a Stable
Water Isotope Enabled Climate Model
To Be Confirmed
Dr Ann Hill
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney
University
Professor Peter Kershaw
Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University
Strengthening three ecologies of care: postdevelopment
practice for the Anthropocene
A life on maars: contributions to the Quaternary history of
Australia
Enquiries:
Michael-Shawn Fletcher 9035 3048 [email protected]
Full program, abstracts, bios & updates: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/events