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

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

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
21st February 2013

Ms Julie Van Kemenade

&

Ms Hilary Carberry

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

Ms Katherine Stewart

&

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

Mrs Cerys Jones

Aberystwyth University

Markers of extreme: what makesunusual weather in Wales.

23rd May 2013 Mr Jon Brettell Aberystwyth University TBA