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Geography and Environmental Studies
Research Seminar Program

Geography and Environmental Studies research seminars are held fortnightly on Thursdays from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in room SRR205a of the Social Sciences Building. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.

Visitors are welcome and anyone is invited to subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular announcements about upcoming events.

Semester 1
Date Presenter Title Abstract
28 Feb Dr Kathy Mee
School of Environmental & Life Sciences		 Performing Public Housing: Performing Windale abstract
13 Mar Liam Phelan
Macquarie University		 Potentially powerful: Prospects for using the insurance function to address climate change abstract
27 Mar Therese Kenna
University of New South Wales		 Private communities in Australian cities abstract
3 Apr Honours presentations    
10 Apr Dr James Juniper
School of Economics, Politics & Tourism		 Deleuze, Whitehead and the Question of Spatial Analysis abstract
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8 May A/Prof Jenny Cameron
School of Environmental & Life Sciences		 From Problem-Solving to Performativity, Expertise to Experimentation: Researching Poverty and Marginalisation abstract
22 May Donna Houston
Macquarie University		 Earthy Peformativities: Memory, Materiality and Method  

Semester 2
Date Presenter Title Abstract
31 Jul Tim Conner The governance of trade union rights in the supply chains of Transnational Corporations: the cases of Nike, Adidas and Reebok  
14 Aug A/Prof Emily Gilbert Borders, security, geopolitics: re-mapping social citizenship abstract
28 Aug Geoff Evans A Just Transition to a clean energy economy: The Hunter Valley as a case study  
18 Sep Gerda Roelvink Theorising human---non-human relations in a diverse economy  
25 Sep Dr Mark Davidson
Urban Research Centre, UWS		 A Politics to the Socially Sustainable City? abstract
23 Oct Paul Hodge Development Discourse and the Postcolonial Challenge - The case of Fiji's Aid Industry  
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