Geography Colloquium Speaker Schedule Fall 2017

[Matt Wade]

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From: Robert Ewing <rew...@berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:07 PM
Subject: Geography Colloquium Speaker for Wed, Sept 13: Iain Boal
To: Matt Wade <matt...@berkeley.edu>

Hi Matt,

I am following up with the Geography Colloquium Schedule for the Fall 2017 semester. Please see below.

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From: Geography at Berkeley <geog...@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Geography Colloquium Speaker for Wed, Sept 13: Iain Boal
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Geography Colloquium Wednesday, September 13, 3:30 - 5:00pm ((575 McCone Hall, UC Berkeley The Geography of Sacrifice (Episode 2): Alice Stewart, the Cold War Injuriat, and Thinking Like a State Iain Boal In the mid 1950s the bohemian epidemiologist Alice Stewart discovered unexpectedly that single, low-level exposures to ionizing radiation were the cause of a spike in childhood leukemias across the British Isles, especially in the wealthier postcodes. This finding challenged the post-Hiroshima orthodoxy concerning safe dose thresholds, and Dr Stewart found herself the target of a patriarchal and dismissive establishment (especially in the person of her colleague, the communist physician Sir Richard Doll), the nascent nuclear power industry, and the US and UK as manufacturers of atomic weapons. The case of Alice Stewart will be revealed as a classic study in agnotology, the burgeoning science of organized ignorance, and exemplary of the cold war culture of secrecy, the lethal contamination of workers at Windscale and Hanford, and more broadly the benefits and harms of 'population thinking'.   Upcoming Colloquia September 20 Anna Michalak, Stanford & Carnegie Institute Moving from water quantity to quality: Exploring climate impacts on eutrophication September 27 Bettina Ng'weno, University of California, Davis Growing Old in a New City: Time, the Post-Colony and Making Nairobi Home October 4 TBD October 12 (Thursday) Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, Hearst Field Annex Katherine McKittrick, Queen's University, Ontario This talk is in conjunction with the Black Geographies Symposium October 18 TBD October 25 Rob Rhew and Jeff Brown, University of California, Berkeley An Overview of the UC Reserve System October 26 (Thursday, 12:00-1:30pm) Igiaba Scego Igiaba Scego, Italian writer, journalist, and activist of Somali origin, presents the English translation of her postcolonial novel, Adua November 1 Marcus Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life November 8 William Boos, University of California, Berkeley Understanding the causes of extreme rainfall over tropical land November 15 Noelle Stout, New York University Bound by Default: Homeowners, Lenders, and the Enduring Debts of the American Foreclosure Crisis November 29 Marc Matera, University of California, Santa Cruz TBD Support the Geography Colloquium Fund

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