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Human Geography seminars

The Human Geography seminars explore new frontiers in research and policy on human-environment interactions. The series brings together interests and expertise from the various research groups in the Department of Geography.

All seminars will be held on Wednesdays in room 6.05. Seminars starting at 13:00 will be preceded by coffee and snacks; seminars starting at 16:00 will be followed by a drinks reception.

Seminars are free and open to the public. If you are external to King's and would like to attend, please contact the event organiser directly.

22 Apr

Berghain: landscape, affect, and sexual disorientation

22 April 2020, 16:30 to 17:30

Join Johan Andersson for this discussion on Berghain and its impact on sexual orientations and identity.

26 Feb

Water, energy and food security

26 February 2020, 16:00 to 17:00

Join Ashok Chapagain (University of the Free State) for this talk on water, energy and food security in South Africa.

12 Feb

Urban conservation and urban development: Why retain the past?

12 February 2020, 16:00 to 17:00

Join Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) on this talk about the role of emotion and urban development.

5 Feb

The search for the Holy Grail: On funding and high-risk research

5 February 2020, 13:00 to 14:00

Join Jon Reades (King's College London) for this talk on the highs and lows of a sabbatical year.

29 Jan

The battle for a beach: Blue legalities, wet ontologies and coastal conflict

29 January 2020, 16:00 to 17:00

Join Professor Phil Hubbard (King's College London) for this talk.

22 Jan

Modelling Airbnb locations and potential rents: A gravity-spatial interaction approach

22 January 2020, 13:00 to 14:00

Join Dr Zara Shabrina (King's College London) as she talks about the platform economy, specifically Airbnb.

15 Jan

Democratising infrastructure? Energy democracy and decentralisation in South Africa

15 January 2020, 16:00 to 17:00

Join Jon Phillips (University of Cambridge) for this seminar on infrastructural perspectives on democracy and democracy perspectives on infrastructure.

27 Nov

Actors and observers: A dialogue on contrasting professionable experiences

27 November 2019, 13:00 to 14:00

Stephen Lintner (King's College London) reflects on two contrasting professional roles and experiences as academics.

20 Nov

Fake concepts in development, disasters and climate change: are academics complicit?

20 November 2019, 16:00 to 17:00

Regular Human Geography seminar series at King's College London given by Terry Cannon on the nature of development institutions.

13 Nov

Analog labour in a digital world: Repair and jugaad in India’s used electronics economy

13 November 2019, 13:00 to 14:00

Regular Human Geography seminar at King's College London given by Julia Corwin (LSE) on India's used electronics industry.

6 Nov

Climate Leviathan

6 November 2019, 16:00 to 17:00

Regular Human Geography seminar series at King's College London given by Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) on what happens if we don't respond to climate change.

30 Oct

Contested Development Annual Lecture- Commoning and Decannonizing Political Ecology: An example from Melanesia and New York City

30 October 2019, 17:00 to 18:30

Contested Development Annual Lecture hosted by the Department of Geography, King's College London, given by Paige West (Barnard and Columbia).

23 Oct

Going probiotic: using life to manage life for human and environmental health

23 October 2019, 16:00 to 17:00

Regular Human Geography seminar series at King's College London given by Jamie Lorimer (Oxford) on managing life through probiotics.

Urban development surrounded by green space

27 Mar

Extracting Value, London Style: Developers and states in urban development

27 March 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

This paper signposts a comparative agenda to bring into view new insights on state interests in urban development.

20 Mar

Film screening and discussion with director and story consultant: Water at the Margins (2018)

20 March 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Film screening and discussion with director and story consultant: Water at the Margins (2018)

13 Mar

How wealth is cascading into cities on the margins

13 March 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

This presentation seeks to contribute new insights about how wealth is cascading into cities on the margins.

6 Mar

Political and domestic geographies of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank

6 March 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Mark Griffiths discusses how the lives of the men are tied to the checkpoint and, beyond the immediate space of the checkpoint itself, how the domestic lives of families, especially those of women,…

27 Feb

Gentrification, Neoliberalism and the Right to Buy

27 February 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Adam Elliott-Cooper discusses how the renewals carried out by councils and multinational development companies, demonstrate a contradiction between the neoliberal discourses advocating home ownership…

13 Feb

Mapping participation in low carbon energy transitions

13 February 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Helen Pallett talks the onus on citizens to translate their perspectives into the registers and issue framings of decision-makers.

6 Feb

Three postgraduate students share their research

6 February 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Rosa Heimer, Peter McGowran and Ivana Bevilacqua from the Department of Geography share their research.

30 Jan

The Anthropocene as death trap and counterfeit currency (perish the thought)

30 January 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Professor Marcus Doel deconstructs the currency of the Anthropocene, both in terms of its timeliness and untimeliness, and also in terms of its libidinal economy.

23 Jan

Percolation as a clustering technique for multi-scalar analysis

23 January 2019, 16:30 to 17:30

Dr Elsa Arcaute explores the use of percolation in networks embedded in space in order to uncover spatial resolutions that are relevant for the specific phenomena under study.

16 Jan

Have I Got Nature for You

16 January 2019, 16:30 to 18:00

What makes something a natural versus an artificial commodity? How is nature used to get you to buy more stuff?

Human Geography seminars