2024-2025 Schedule

    Fall 2024 Schedule

    September 5: Introductions and organization (Katherine Curtis and Clay Adamson)

    September 12: Spatial methods (quant, qual, key concepts) (Danielle Schmidt, Clay Adamson, and friends)

    September 19: Discussion about spatial methods (Danielle Schmidt, Clay Adamson, and Sara Ronnkvist)

    September 26: To Lose One’s Place: Confronting environmental and community change on the Northern Great Plains (Danielle Schmidt)

    October 3: Knowledge Networks (Liz Pollack)

    October 10: Climate Nihilism (Jane Ahn)

    October 17: Article Review (Liz Pollack)

    October 24: Book Discussion: “How Places Make Us” (Ch 1 & 2) (Meghann Norden-Bright)

    October 31: Spooky spaces: Spatial problems (Clayton Adamson)

    November 7: Geographies of Environmental Inequality: Studying the Impacts of Climate, Environmental, Racial, Health, and Socioeconomic Injustices in the U.S. (Rachel Rosenfeld)

    November 14: Place, class, and political community (Meghann Norden-Bright)

    November 21: Conservation Networks in the Northern Great Plains (John Canfield)

    November 28: Thanksgiving Holiday – No Seminar

    December 5: Book Discussion: “How Places Make Us” (Ch 3+) (Kaina Martinez)

    Fall 2024 Schedule

    January 23: Intros and Planning (Sara P., Meghann, Katherine)

    January 30: Causal Meets Spatial Methods (Clayton Adamson, Emma Dewil, and Andrea Cristina Ruiz)

    February 6: Navigating Academia as a Spatial Thinker (Heather O’Connell–LSU)

    February 13: Dissertation: Geographies of Environmental Inequality: Studying the Impacts of Climate, Environmental, Health, and Socioeconomic Injustices in the U.S. (Rachel Rosenfeld)

    February 20: Climate Fatalism (Jane Ahn)

    February 27: (Prelim Practice) Spatial Influence on Design Practice (Liz Pollack)
    The Influence of Local Amenities on County Migration Patterns (Mckenzie Boyce)

    March 6: Redlining + Prosociality (Sara Peters)
    System shocks inform transportation access (flexibility/choice) (Sara Peters, Andrea Cristina Ruiz)

    March 13: (AAG Oral Presentation) The Spatial Diffusion of Rural Livability Across the Urban-Rural Interface (Danielle Schmidt (& Mckenzie Boyce))

    March 20: Place and Health (Michael Topping, Heriberto Martir-Vargas)

    March 27: Spring Recess – No Seminar

    April 3: PAA Practice Talks (Michael Topping (oral), Meghann (oral), Sara Peters (poster), Emma Dewil (poster))

    April 10: Spatial/Platial Problems (Danielle Schmidt–facilitator)

    April 17: Stratifying role of local tech-sector growth on intergenational mobility (Clayton Adamson)

    April 24: Discussion of Gee et al. (2004) Environmental Health Disparities. A Framework Integrating and Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts (Malia Jones)

    May 1: TBD (Elisa Avila)