Dialogues in Human Geography Seminar Series
The Dialogues in Human Geography Seminar Series continues on Thursdays at 4pm in the L Floor Common Room of Llandinam Building. Everyone is welcome to attend, including most warmly our new postgraduate contingent. Afterwards, there will be the usual post-seminar drinks and a meal.
We look forward to seeing you there.
For any further details, please contact Rob McKinnon rjm11@aber.ac.uk
Semester One
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th October 2012 | Dr Tricia Cusak | University of Bimingham | Riverscape imagery and the naturalising of the nation, 19th to early 20th centuries |
| 8th November 2012 | Dr Simon Pemberton | University of Birmingham | Disambiguating the politics and rescaling of urban planning: insights from the UK and Australia |
| 22nd November 2012 | Dr Kimberley Peters | Aberystwyth University | Waterworlds: human geographies of the sea |
| 6th December 2012 | Dr Kathryn Yusoff | University of Lancaster | Anthropocene aesthetics: anthropogenesis and geologic life |
Semester Two
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21st February 2013 |
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Aberystwyth University |
‘The way it displays itself’: the semiotic potential of a permaculture space’ Knowledge controversies, policy making and environmental justice |
| 7th March 2013 | Dr John Round | University of Birmingham | Geographies of protest in Moscow |
| 14th March 2013 |
Mr Chi Mao-Wang & Mrs Katherine Jones |
Aberystwyth University |
Governing the Taiwanese countryside: Guanxi, power and agency
Conceiving alternative rurality: low impact development in the Welsh countryside’ |
| 21st March 2013 | Dr Kevin Grove | Aberystwyth University | Hidden transcripts of resilience: power and resistance in Jamaica disaster management |
| 18th April 2013 | Dr Darren Smith | Loughborough University | Commons and the selling-off of public land: gentrification and community conflict |
| 2nd May 2013 | Dr Richard Yarwood | Plymouth University | A good night out? Street pastors and the post-secular city’ |
| 9th May 2013 |
& Mr Robert MacKinnon |
Aberystwyth University |
Practicing resilience building through crafting and gardening The social and cultural geographies of the hobbyist’s model railway |
| 16th May 2013 | Aberystwyth University |
Markers of extreme: what makesunusual weather in Wales. |
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| 23rd May 2013 | Mr Jon Brettell | Aberystwyth University | TBA |