Maxwell School Events Calendar

Geography & the Environment Department Events

• Geography and AI

  January 31, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 018

  A discussion with geography and the environment faculty members Bob Wilson, Jane Read and Ethan Coffel, along with Gus Lott, AI and computer technology teacher at Manlius Pebble Hill School

• Examining the Politics of Natural Resource Governance and Energy Systems

  January 24, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 018

  Andrea Marston, assistant professor of geography at Rutgers University, will present at the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series.

• GIS Day

  November 20, 2024, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  A day-long event featuring workshops, panel discussions, a career talk and a reception.

• Forgotten Fires: Reconsidering the Fire Regimes of Upper Great Lakes Red Pine Landscapes

  November 15, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Envrionment Colloquium Series. "Forgotten Fires: Reconsidering the fire regimes of Upper Great Lakes red pine landscapes." Kurt Kipfmueller, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

• Green Extractivism and Expropriation of Emission Rights amidst Mitigation Policies & the Carbon Rush

  November 01, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "Green Extractivism and Expropriation of Emission Rights amidst Mitigation Policies & the Carbon Rush." Natacha Bruna, Cornell University.

• For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire

  October 25, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire." Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College.

• Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine

  October 09, 2024, 3:45 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  "Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine." Dr. Sandy Marshall, Elon University.

• Why and How to Include Animal Welfare in Local Policymaking

  October 04, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  The Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series. "Why and how to include animal welfare in local policymaking." Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University.

• Poner la vida en el centro: Centering Social Reproduction in Agrarian Studies and Politics

  September 20, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 018

  "Poner la vida en el centro: Centering Social Reproduction in Agrarian Studies and Politics," with Professor Diana Ojeda from Indiana University Bloomington.

• Geography and the Environment- Donald Meinig Lecture

  April 25, 2024, 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography at Penn State University, will present "Making Beautiful Maps Using GIS Tools."

• Does Energy Have History?

  April 18, 2024, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Daniela Russ, assistant professor at the University of Leipzig, will present "Does Energy Have History?"

• Archival Research for Housing Covenants

  April 16, 2024, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Lyman Hall, 215

  This Community Geography methods workshop will explore community-engaged archival methods with a focus on mapping racist housing covenants in Syracuse, New York.

• Monitoring Dynamics of Invasive Plants Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Tools

  April 05, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 032

  Part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series with guest speaker Susan Meerdinck from the University of Iowa.

• Toward Understanding Temperature and Humidity Impacts on Human Health

  March 29, 2024, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 032

  "Toward Understanding Temperature and Humidity Impacts on Human Health." Cascade Tuholske, assistant professor of human-environment geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University.

• Community Geography Methods Workshop: Lauren Ashby on Youth Participatory Action Research Projects

  March 05, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. EST

  Lyman Hall, 215

  Join Syracuse Community Geography and Lauren Ashby for a discussion of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and ongoing YPAR projects in Syracuse.

• Slow Plants on a Burning Planet

  March 04, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220, The Strasser Legacy Room

  Historian Jared Farmer will discuss ancient trees as cultural and religious symbols, their importance as data collectors, and the dire threats they face in a rapidly changing climate.

• Imperialism and the Production of Space: Dimensions and Political Implications

  March 01, 2024, 3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, with guest speaker Stefan Kipfer, professor, York University, Toronto.

• American Imperialism in Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis

  March 01, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060

  Part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series, with guest speaker Jennifer Fluri, professor, University of Colorado, Boulder.

• Today’s Geographies of Imperialism Symposium

  March 01, 2024, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 060, the Global Collaboratory

  The symposium invites faculty, grad students, and scholar activists to refine and complicate our understanding of imperialism today in specific historical, political-economic and geographic contexts.

• Faith and Flood: Indigenous Responses to Ecological Catastrophe in Coastal Pakistan

  February 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Adeem Suhail will highlight the practices of cosmological speculation born in the wake of ecological catastrophe on the Makran Coast of Pakistan.