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Research Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2007
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 Boardroom, OUCE, 4.20pm - 5.30pm on Tuesdays unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Dr Andrew Currah or Dr Richard Bailey.
Week 1: Tuesday 9 October 2007
No seminar.
Week 2: Tuesday 16 October 2007
Place, Practice and Persistence at Maxwell Street, Chicago.
Tim Cresswell, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Week 3: Tuesday 23 October 2007
State, Science and the Skies: The Governmentalization of Air Pollution in Britain, 1926-1971.
Mark Whitehead, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Week 4: Tuesday 30 October 2007
Modalities of Utopia in Stalinist Landscape Art.
Mark Bassin, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.
Week 5: Tuesday 6 November 2007
Supervolcanoes and eruptions that shook the world: large historic and prehistoric eruptions and their impacts on environment, climate and society.
Dr Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge.
Week 6: Tuesday 13 November 2007
Human evolution in the Garden of Eden?
Prof. Mark Maslin, UCL.
Week 7: Tuesday 20 November 2007
Serious soil erosion around Midhurst, West Sussex, 2006-07: analysis and challenges.
Dr John Boardman, OUCE
Week 8: Tuesday 27 November 2007
Rapid thermohaline circulation shutdown in the last glacial and it's effects on global carbon cycling.
Dr Joy Singarayer, University of Bristol.