Events

Spring 2012 Department Tea Schedule

Tea talks are held on Thursday afternoons at 4:00 PM in 106 Condon Hall, unless otherwise noted. Snacks and refreshments are offered preceding the talks at the departmental gathering at 3:30 PM in 108 Condon Hall. On days when students are presenting master's theses or defending doctoral dissertations, there will be no tea snacks.

2012 Spring Tea Seminars
Apr 5 Of Dikes and Dams: A Sediment Story
Martin Lafrenz
Portland State University
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Apr 12 No Tea
Apr 26 Fighting for Farmworker Housing and Social Belonging in Oregon
Roberto Jiménez
Farmworker Housing Development Corporation
4 PM, Lillis 111
May 3 PhD Defense
Leslie McLees, UO Department of Geography
Room TBA
May 10 No Tea
May 17 GIS and Geographic Context
Mei-Po Kwan
University of California
4 PM, 129 McKenzie Hall
May 24 PhD Defense
Adam Lake, UO Department of Geography
3:30 PM, 106 Condon Hall
May 31 The Annual Pecha Kucha Tea
Short presentations by grad students and faculty
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
June 7 PhD Defense
Ingrid Nelson, UO Department of Geography
Room TBA
   
2012 Winter Tea Seminars
Jan 12 Our Vanishing Glaciers: A Photographic Record of Glacier Change in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area, OR
Jim O'Connor
USGS
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Jan 19 Invisible Geographies and Invisible Geographers(?): Finding and Creating Spaces for Our Work
Shaul Cohen
University of Oregon
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Jan 26 Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of Drone Warfare
Ian Shaw
University of Glasgow
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Feb 2 Past and future evolution of temperate species distribution at the European scale - climate vs. dispersal
Frédérik Saltré
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Feb 9 Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival
Dan Jaffee
Washington State University-Vancouver
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Feb 16 NO TEA (AAG meeting)
Feb 23 NO TEA
Mar 1 Regional Policies of Development and Main Functional Zoning in China
Weidong Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
4 PM, 106 Condon Hall
Mar 8-9 The Gender Equality and Capitalism Conference
UO Morse Center for Law and Politics
co-sponsored by UO Geography
Mar 15 TBA