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Geosciences Seminar Series

The School of Geosciences hosts three regular seminar series:

The TGIF series comprises of weekly informal presentations of research and other activities by staff and students within the School. Talks are held at 12pm in the Madsen Conference Room (Rm 449, Madsen Building), and are nominally 30 minutes in length. Postgraduate and honours students are particularly encouraged to present at least once in the year as preparations for formal thesis presentations. The series frequently has guest speakers from other institutions.

The Australian Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC) Southeast Asian seminar series, is run in conjunction with the Chair of Southeast Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. It is held fortnightly at 1:00pm on Fridays in the Madsen Conference Room (Rm 449, Madsen Building), with speakers from the AMRC and the wider community and is designed to bring together those with interests in Mekong Region environment and development issues. If you would like to be on the mailing list for this seminar series, please email

TGIF

  • 2009 series: TBA

Southeast Asian Seminar Series

  • Semester One
  • 8 April 2009: Dr Milton Osborne, Australian National University/Lowy Institute, 'Writing the Mekong'
  • 22 April 2009: Professor Heather Sutherland, Free University, Amsterdam 'Contextualising Community: ethnic identity in Makassar, 17th to 21st century'
  • 27 May 2009: Dr John McCarthy, Australian National University 'Oil palm, Agricultural Policy and the Agrarian Transition in Indonesia'
  • Semester Two
  • 7 August 2009: Professor Ben Kiernan, Yale University, 'Aspects of the Prehistory of Viet Nam'
  • 28 August 2009: Dr Tira Foran, Chiang Mai University, 'Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance/ Save Mekong campaign'
  • 25 September 2009: Hongyan Gu, University of Sydney, 'Ecological Nationalism in China: The Nu (Salween) River Controversy'
  • 19 October 2009: Phan Le Ha, Monash University, 'Fighting for the role of the nation state in knowledge mobilisation and educational research: An auto-ethnography of a mobile transnational Vietnamese scholar'
  • 30 October 2009: Dr Bob Fisher, University of Sydney, 'Livelihoods and landscapes in Doi Mae Salong: “Doing it differently” in a Thai protected area'