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Research Seminar Series (Human Geography) - Hilary Term 2005
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in the SCR, Dept. of Geography, Mansfield Road on Tuesdays from 12.10 unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Dr Daniel Buck. All welcome!
Week 1: Tuesday 18 January 2005
Negotiating capitalism: custom, property rights and the politics of timber in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.
Dr C.J. Griffin, Southampton.
Week 2: Tuesday 25 January 2005
Trading the genome: investigating the commodification of bio-information.
Dr B. Parry, Queen Mary, University of London.
Week 3: Tuesday 1 February 2005
Nonhuman charisma and the taxonomic scope of UK conservation concern.
Dr J. Lorimer, Bristol.
Week 4: Tuesday 8 February 2005
Thoughts from the cultural economy.
Dr D. Power, Uppsala.
Week 5: Tuesday 15 February 2005
Hindu nationalism and environmental discourses in India.
Dr E. Mawdsley, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Week 6: Tuesday 22 February 2005
Regional competitiveness: an elusive but key concept?
Professor R. Martin, Cambridge.
Week 7: Tuesday 1 March 2005
The geographies of big things.
Dr J. Jacobs, Edinburgh.
Week 8: Tuesday 8 March 2005
Human geography without scale.
Professor J.P. Jones III, Arizona.