Maxwell School Events Calendar
Geography & the Environment Department Events
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Rivers of Power: How an Ancient Force Rules Us Still
Eggers Hall, 220
Larry Smith, John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, will present at the Donald W. Meinig Undergrad Lecture.
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Inside Federal Agencies: Public Service, Politics and Navigating Institutional Upheaval
Eggers Hall, 060
India Luxton, postdoctoral research fellow in the Geography and the Environment Department and the Center for Policy Research, will present as part of the Spring 2026 Colloquium Speaker Series.
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Unbounding Europe Bordering and the Politics of Mediterranean Solidarity in Sicily and Tunisia
Eggers Hall, 060
Ilaria Giglioli, assistant professor in the International Studies Department at the University of San Francisco, will present as part of the Spring 2026 Colloquium Speaker Series.
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Listening to Urban Soils: Stories of Contamination, Excavation and Compost Co-Creation
Eggers Hall, 060
Presented by S. Perl Egendorf, assistant professor of environmental studies and science at Pace University, as part of the geography and the environment spring 2026 Colloquium Speaker Series.
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Salmon Peoples: Cross-Cultural Connections and Community Geography in Arctic Alaska
Eggers Hall, 060
Presented by Chie Sakakibara and Andre Ortega, both associate professors of geography and the environment, as part of the Geography Colloquium Speakers Series.
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Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation
Eggers Hall, 341
The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee Brooklyn Montgomery will present their work.
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Maxwell School - Geography Graduate Programs Virtual Information Session
Virtual
Learn more about graduate programs in the Maxwell School's Geography and the Environment Department with an overview on coursework, potential career paths and admission information.
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Unspoiled Paradise or Microcosm for the End of Times: Community Building & Conservation, Madagascar
Eggers Hall, 341
Madagascar is a household name thanks to DreamWorks’ Madagascar movies and PBS’s Zoboomafoo, yet it is rarely recognized for its true significance as one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
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New Openings for Worker Justice in the Food System: A Call for Centering Labor in Food Justice
Eggers Hall, 018
This talk considers the thorny question of labor exploitation across the food system, examining historical and contemporary conditions, contexts and forms of resistance.
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Land (Ab)use Planning: Consequences of Failed Planning Models; Food Systems in Global South Cities
Eggers Hall, 341
Professor Raja explores how acontextual planning frameworks influence urban food systems, especially in cities in contested, occupied and conflict regions.
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Mineral Ecologies: Formalization, Alluvial Mining and Territorial Struggles in Latin America
Eggers Hall, 018
This presentation examines community engagement with small-scale alluvial mining in tropical regions. Presented by Gisselle Vila Benites, Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University.
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Holding the River, Holding the Past: Co-Creating Knowledge in a Changing Alaskan Landscape
Maxwell Hall, 204
The Anthropology Department welcomes Jonathan Lim to discuss the community-owned geospatial company Nalaquq and how it works to mitigate environmental challenges faced by Alaska Native communities.
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Conversations in Conflict Studies Presents Avia Nahreen
Eggers Hall, 400A
Ava Nahreen will present: “An Intersectional, Postcolonial Analysis of Peri-Urban Dhaka’s Potable Water Crisis” at our next Conversations in Conflict Studies.
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Meinig Lecture: Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change
Eggers Hall, 220
Emily Yeh of the University of Colorado Boulder will present this year's Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture.
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Book Talk | Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Eggers Hall, 341
Omer Aijazi explores remote valleys in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, shaped by environmental disasters and the violence of the India/Pakistan border conflict.
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Advice From an Ex-Editor: Some Things to Think About When You're Submitting an Article Manuscript
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Room 114 )
Joshua Piker, former editor of the William & Mary Quarterly, will urge authors to think about the publishing process from within the context of their own scholarship and professional trajectory.
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Environmental Repair and Reparations in San Francisco
Eggers Hall, 018
As part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, Lindsey Dillon, associate professor of sociology at UC Santa Cruz, will present "Environmental Repair and Reparations in San Francisco."
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Infrastructures of Dispossession: India's National River-Linking Project & the Urbanization of Water
Eggers Hall, 018
Trevor Birkenholtz, professor of geography at Penn State University, will present at the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series.
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Cognitive Mapping as a Community Engagement Strategy: A Workshop
Eggers Hall, 018
As part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, Anne Mosher, associate professor of geography and the environment, will present a workshop on “Community Geography and Mapmaking.”
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Mechanisms and Impacts of Increasing Extreme Precipitation Across the Northeastern United States
Eggers Hall, 018
Jonathan Winter, associate professor of geography at Dartmouth University, will present at the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series.
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