The Department of Geography lecture series features a wide variety local, US, and international guest speakers from all of the subfields of the discipline. Lectures are held in Saunders Hall room 443b on Thursdays at noon, unless otherwise noted. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Fall 2009 Lectures:

Thursday October 15: Dr. Jefferson Fox, Senior Fellow, East-West Center

Title: Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in montane mainland Southeast Asia and implications for the environment and human livelihoods

Thursday October 22: Dr. Lesley Potter, Associate Professor of Geography, Australian National University

Co-hosted with the East-West Center

Title: Kalimantan’s agrarian transitions, ‘new poverty’ and the world economic crisis. More information…

Thursday October 29: Dr. Honami Kageyama, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan

Title: Japanese women's networks in Honolulu

Thursday November 12: Dr. Marc Imhoff, NASA Goddard Research Center

Co-hosted with the Bishop Museum, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture, *** Begins at 4:30pm

Title: Gray Wave of the Great Transformation: A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security.

Thursday November 19: Dr. Chris Lepczyk, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: tba

Spring 2010 Lectures:

Thursday January 28: Sugato Dutt, PhD Candidate and Leandro Romero, MA Student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Masked by the tiger: a study of rural livelihoods and conservation values in Northeast India

          Adjudicating modern water under ancient rules: An instance of 'translation between two laws' in Kona, Oahu

Thursday February 11: Donovan Preza, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Title: The Empirical Writes Back: Re-examining Dispossession Resulting from the Māhele of 1848.

Friday February 19: Dr. Katharyne Mitchell, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Co-hosted with Political Science

Title: Broken Windows Policing and the Geopolitics of Ungoverned Space

Friday February 19: Dr. Matthew Sparke, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Co-hosted with Political Science

Title: Between the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Global Health

Thursday March 11: Dr. James Speer, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University

Title: tba

Monday March 29th, noon-1pm Saunders 442: Dr. George Hurtt Associate Professor Department of Community and Ecosystems Ecology University of New Hampshire

Title: Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for IPCC-AR5

Thursday April 01 CANCELED: Dr. Brian Szuster, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Scuba Diver Perceptions of Crowding

Fall 2011 Lectures:

Thursday September 23: Dr. Kathryn Besio, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

Title: "Eating Hawai‘i: Local foods and place-making in Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine"

Thursday October 21 : Dr. Gerry Marten, Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center

Title: "EcoTipping Points: Levers for turning decline to restoration – Disseminating the lessons from environmental success stories"

Thursday November 04 : Dr. Creighton Litton, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Title: “Impacts of rising temperature on carbon input, allocation and storage in tropical wet forests”

Thursday November 18 : Dr. Brian Szuster, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Title:“Encounters, Norms and Crowding in Marine Recreation: Applications at the Molokini Shoal MLCD.”

Thursday December 02 :Ryan Riddle, Graduate student, Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Title: "Remote sensing techniques for classifying the habitat of an endangered bird species on Mauna Kea"

Spring 2011 Lectures:

Thursday January 13 :Human Geography of Global Economic Change Job Candidate

Thursday January 20 :Human Geography of Global Economic Change Job Candidate

Thursday January 27 :Human Geography of Global Economic Change Job Candidate

Saturday, February 12, 11 am; Hawaii State Library Kiyonuri Kanasaka Professor of Geography, Kyoto University

Title: "My Study of Isabella Bird"

Thursday March 03: Dr. Dr. Basil Gomez, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Title: Sediment Dispersal From Pacific Rim Steeplands To The Coastal Ocean

Thursday April 07 : POSTPONED Dr. David Hyrenbach, Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Hawai'i Pacific University

Title: "Conservation Oceanography: Mapping Protected Species and their Ocean Habitats"

Tuesday April 19 :Rupal Oza, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York

Co-sponsered with the Watumull collabortive lecture series, Center For South Asian Studies and Dept of Womens Studies

Title: Scales of security at the boundaries of neoliberalism