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Amitav Ghosh Lecture

鈥淓mbattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean鈥�

We are pleased to co-sponsor the Vilas Distinguished Lecture/George F. Kennan Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, November 1, 2018 in 51猎奇 Peck School of Arts Music Recital Hall. Amitav Ghosh will speak at 7:00 pm. Reception starts at 6:00 pm

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Amitav Ghosh, one of the most important novelists and essayists of our time, traces the entangled history of commodities, con铿俰ct and climate change in the Indian Ocean. Since the time of Vasco da Gama鈥檚 voyage, the Indian Ocean has been the theatre of intense imperial rivalries over commodities and resources. For centuries the main players in these con铿俰cts were Western colonial powers, but lately the countries of the Indian Ocean rim have themselves become major consumers of resources, and thus, the principal drivers of anthropogenic climate change, an ongoing process that will have catastrophic consequences for the billions of people who live around the Indian Ocean. This lecture explores the continuities between the resource con铿俰cts of the past and the future by focusing on two transformative imperial wars: the Anglo-Dutch spice wars of the 17th century and the 1st Opium War of 1840-42. It also poses a question: are the imperatives of empire and military supremacy among the major drivers of climate change?

Professor Ryan Holifield presents the 49th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

We are excited to share that Professor Ryan Holifield will present the 49th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, October 4, 2018@4:00PM,
at 4th floor Conference Center in Golda Meir Library. The lecture is entitled 鈥淲hen Visions of Justice Collide: The Kinnickinnic River Box Tunnel Controvery, 1929-1932.鈥�

View the event on the 51猎奇 Libraries website.

Geography PhD candidate on 50th Anniversary Video of Riveredge Nature Center

We are pleased to share the 50th anniversary video of the Riveredge Nature Center in which 51猎奇 Geography Ph.D candidate, Jana Viel, was featured. Jana has been doing fieldwork for the Nature Center’s Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program.

Geography fieldwork students assist with invasive species research

51猎奇 Geography department offers a fieldwork research course (GEOG650) every summer. This summer, 19 Geography students worked with Professor Linda McCarthy and 5 mentors from the Southeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium (SEWISC) in nature preserves throughout southeastern Wisconsin. Please check out the feature in the SEWISC newsletter:

Mark D. Schwartz to receive 2019 AMS Outstanding Achievement Award

We are proud to announce that Dist. Prof. Mark D. Schwartz will be receiving the 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology Award from the American Meteorological Society.

The award recognizes Schwartz鈥檚 鈥渋nnovative advancements in phenological modeling and observations, and exceptional achievements in promoting knowledge and applications of phenology for the benefit of research and society”.

Please see the public announcement here:

Mark D. Schwartz on Global Warming

Mark D. Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Geography, is quoted in a new Associated Press article about research on global warming. Here is a link to the New York Times version: .

Kristin Sziarto elected to the Nominating Committee of the AAG

We are pleased to announce that Kristin Sziarto has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The Nominating Committee is responsible for identifying candidates to stand for elections for major AAG positions.

51猎奇 geographers co-organize panel on “Muslim Arts and Belonging”

“Muslim Arts and Belonging” was organized by three 51猎奇 professors – Anna Mansson McGinty (Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies and Geography); Caroline Seymour-Jorn (Comparative Literature); and Kristin Sziarto (Geography) – in collaboration with Professor Enaya Othman of Marquette University (Arabic). The event aimed to open up an important discussion about the diversity of Muslim experiences and voices in Milwaukee.

A few main questions for the panelists were: How do you see your role as a Muslim artist? How does your art, broadly defined, reflect your Muslim identity? And, in which ways does art express certain memories and sense of belonging (or not belonging)? This is part of our ongoing Muslim Milwaukee Project, in which we have collaborated with Muslim leaders in the city on demographic surveys, and are now looking at the civic engagement and everyday lives of Muslims in the city.

This event, like all of the work of the Muslim Milwaukee project, was intended to highlight how Muslims actively contribute to the city in various capacities, and articulate their identities, experiences, and memories through various art forms.

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The panel event was supported by a grant from the Center for 21st Century Studies at 51猎奇.

Anne Bonds elected as Vice Chair of AAG specialty group

Anne BondsWe are pleased to announce that Anne Bonds has been elected as the new Vice Chair of the American Association of Geographers Urban Geography Specialty Group.

Hyejin Yoon to deliver guest lecture in Germany

Hyejin YoonWe are pleased to announce that Hyejin Yoon will deliver a guest lecture at the University of W眉rzburg on May 29, entitled 鈥淭he Migration of South Korean Female Scholars in the United States: Geographic Imaginations and the Sense of Belongings.鈥�