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Monday, January 18, 2010

Spring 2010 NIU Geography Colloquium Schedule

Most Fridays between 3 and 4 pm, the Department of Geography hosts a colloquium in Davis Hall, Room 121. The colloquia provide a comfortable setting for innovative researchers both internal and external to NIU to share their work with NIU faculty, graduate students and the broader public. Critical and constructive discussion is encouraged in these settings. Listed below is the colloquium schedule for Spring 2010.
  • January 22: Dr. Michael Konen and Dr. Brandon Curry (Northern Illinois University)
  • January 29: "Finding Food in Metropolitan Chicago: Food Access, Food Justice, and Community Development" by Dr. Daniel Block (Chicago State University)
  • February 19: "Recording Insect Outbreaks with Tree Rings: Lessons from Cicadas and Pandora Moth" by Dr. James Speer (Indiana State University)
  • February 26: "Is there a choice to stay? The Global Ethics of Health Worker Migration." by Dr. Robert Huish (Dalhousie University)
  • March 5: "Climate Change Impact Assessments: Moving from the Local to the Global" by Dr. Julie Winkler (Michigan State University)
  • March 26: "Metabolism, Mortality, and Geography" by Dr. James Wilson (Northern Illinois University)
  • April 9, April 23 and April 28: Graduate Student Presentations (To be announced)