2026 Winter Term 2 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday January 20th
Marc Tadaki, Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Jane Kitson, Ecologist and environmental scientist with ancestral connection to Murihiku/Southland, New Zealand
Environmental Justice and the Indigenous Governance of Introduced Species
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
and from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in Room 215D for an informal workshop/discussion with Marc and Jane about Indigenous environmental governance issues and practices.
See here for talk details.
Tuesday January 27th
Mike Turley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, UBC
Living with Rivers in a Changing Climate: Lessons Learned from One of the Most Studied, and Visited, Watersheds in BC
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
See here for talk details.
Tuesday February 10th
Dan Hiebert, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, UBC
Immigration Levels Planning in Canada: Balancing Complex Demographic Trade-offs
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
See here for talk details.
Tuesday March 3rd
Michele Koppes, Professor, Department of Geography, UBC
Holly Chubb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, UBC
Community Co-developed Geohazards Research and Management
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
See here for talk details.
Tuesday March 10th
Wes Attewell, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong University
The Lifelines of Empire: Logistical Life in the Decolonizing Pacific
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
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Tuesday March 17th
Amy East, Research Geologist, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Understanding Physical Landscape Effects of Climate Change: How Much Do We Know, and What Are We Doing About It?
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
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Tuesday March 24th
Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior lecturer in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne
Socializing Land: Intersections of Plantations, Dispossession and Resistance in Laos
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
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Tuesday March 31st
Jessica Pilarczyk, Associate Professor, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Natural Hazards, School of Environmental Science, SFU
Constraining Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Insights from Northern Cascadia
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
Tuesday April 7th
Kim Bain, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, UBC
Sensing Ground
12:30 – 2:00 pm in Room 229 Geography Building and Zoom
