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Departmental Research Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2010
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 the A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, 4-6pm on Mondays and Thursdays, unless indicated otherwise below. For further information please contact Jan Burke
Week 1: 4pm, Monday 11 October 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Why the common sense of building sustainable urban infrastructure is continuously frustrated: case studies from Australia.
Professor Phillip O'Neill, University of Western Sydney.
Week 4: 4pm, Monday 1 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Are climate scientists their own worst enemies?
Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, UEA.
Week 5: 4pm, Thursday 11 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Predicting conservation need in an era of unprecedented environmental change.
Dr Jeremy Kerr, Visiting Research Associate, SoGE, Oxford.
Week 6: 4pm, Monday 15 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Event and anticipation: governing emergencies in UK civil contingencies.
Dr Ben Anderson, University of Durham, and Dr Peter Adey, University of Keele.
Week 6: 4pm, Thursday 18 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Strange witness. Rachel Whiteread's Art of the Immemorial.
Dr Paul Harrison, Durham.
Week 7: 4pm, Monday 22 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Late Quaternary aeolianite formation and aeolian dynamics in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Professor David Nash, University of Brighton.
Week 7: 4pm, Thursday 25 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Title to be confirmed.
Dr Richard Grenyer, SoGE, Oxford.
Week 8: 4pm, Monday 29 November 2010, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE
Global green best practice? The institutional stickiness of low carbon building design.
Dr James Faulconbridge, Lancaster University.