Global Environment Speaker Series

Each year the Department of Geography & the Environment, the Environmental Studies Program and Global Studies Program partner to bring noteworthy speakers and scholars to Richmond to present lectures related to our global environment. All events are free and open to the public. Funding is also provided by the Class of 1992 Environmental Awareness Endowment.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Alex Marten
Economist, National Center for Environmental Economics, US Environmental Protection Agency
"Non-Market Valuation and Uncertainty in the Analysis of Environmental Policy"
International Center Commons
4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Mary Kuhn
Assistant Professor, English and Program in Environmental Thought & Practice, University of Virginia
"Plant Feeling in the Anthropocene"
Gottwald Auditorium
4:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 24, 2019
Dana Luciano
Associate Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University
"Melville's Anthropocenes"
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
5:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the English Department Lecture Series

Thursday, November 7, 2019  (Cancelled)
Nancy Tuana
Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
"Racial Climates"
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
4:30 p.m.
Co-Sponsored with the English Department Lecture Series and the WGSS Program

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Vivian Leung
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Richmond
"The largest dam removal in the world: The Elwha River Restoration project, wood debris, deltas, and habitat"
Robins School of Business, BUS 225
10:30 a.m.

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Kai Bosworth
Assistant Professor of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
"'This land is our land': Private property, settler colonialism, and the affective territories of populism in pipeline opposition movements"
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
5:00 p.m.
Co-Sponsored with the English Department Lecture Series and the WGSS Program

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (Cancelled)
Samantha Bova
L'Oreal For Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
"Putting climate change in context: reconstructing the history of Earth's climate with seafloor sediments”
Gottwald Auditorium
4:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 27, 2020
Greg Jaczko
Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) commissioner and chairman
"Nuclear Power: Climate Savior or Foe?"
Wilton Center, Multi-Faith Room
4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 10, 2020  (Cancelled)
Neel Ahuja
Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
"From Insurgency to Adaptation: Bangladesh and the Figure of the Climate Refugee"
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
5:00 p.m.
Co-Sponsored with the English Department Lecture Series