Spring 2025 Public Lecture Series

Our geography public lectures feature a variety of local, national, and international speakers presenting topics from a diverse range of disciplines.

• Thursdays at Noon (unless noted)
• Location: Saunders Hall 443 (maximum capacity of 40)
• Contact: Orhon Myadar, orhon@hawaii.edu

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Assembling Conservation Territories at Sea

• January 23
• Noella Gray, Associate Professor, Geography, Environment & Geomatics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

The Role of Indigenous-Designed Campus Buildings in Decolonizing University Campuses

• February 6
• Serge Marek, Associate Professor of Geography, Department of History, Humanities, and International Studies, Hawaii Pacific University

We exist because we resist: Megaprojects, Displacement and Dispossession in southern Mexico

• February 20
• Debbie Samaniego, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa

Data Work as Care Work?

• March 11 (TUESDAY)
• Kalindi Vora, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
• Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies

The Hawaii Cesspool Prioritization Tool

• April 3
• Christopher Shuler, Water Resources Research Center, UH Mānoa