Events
Colloquia
Space, Nature and Society research colloquium (Forschungskolloquium FoKo)
Date & Day |
Time & Room |
Event, Name & Title |
16.09.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25H79 |
*ZHGK: Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester: Humble dreams: how young people imagine their relational housing, work and family futures across austerity Europe. |
17.09.25 Wed |
09:00-13:00 25L40 |
Workshop with Sarah Marie Hall; register with karin.schwiter@geo.uzh.ch by 15 September. |
23.09.25 Tue |
15:00-16:00 25L40 |
Staff meeting; please note that we meet an hour earlier than usual. |
30.09.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
Reading club: Lawhon, M. and T. McCreary, 2023. Enough!: A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future. Agenda Publishing, (p. 1-67; chapters 1-2). |
07.10.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
*Master concept presentation by Amelina Wernli: Forest restoration projects in Madagaskar: Expectations, perceived benefits and challenges |
14.10.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25H79 |
*ZHGK: Ariadne Yolanda Collins, University of St. Andrews: Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield. |
15.10.25 Wed |
09:00-13:00 25L40 |
Workshop with Ariadne Collins: ‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers; register with sierra.deutsch@geo.uzh.ch by 12. October. |
21.10.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
°Rafael Zinnenlauf on preliminary research results and writing plans (Relational Values with Nature). |
28.10.25 |
16:00-17:00 25H79 |
*ZHGK: Seth Schindler, University of Manchester: Geopolitical rivalry and the renegotiation of globalization. |
29.10.25 Wed |
09:00-13:00 25L40 |
Workshop with Seth Schindler; register with xavier.balaguerrasillo@geo.uzh.ch by 27 October. |
04.11.25 Wed |
09:00-12:00 25L40 |
Reading club: Lawhon, M. and T. McCreary, 2023. Enough!: A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future. Agenda Publishing, p. 68-115; chapters 3-4). |
11.11.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
Joint reading session with Economic Geography: It Was Always Blood and Soil: Ecofascism and the Racial Capitalocene. Antipode, 57: 1126-1147. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13134. |
18.11.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
°Irmtraud Huber on Gaslight and the Urban Experience from a Literary Perspective. |
25.11.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
*Evtl. Master concept presentation by Simon Perlmutter |
02.12.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
Reading club: Lawhon, M. and T. McCreary, 2023. Enough!: A Modest Political Ecology for an Uncertain Future. Agenda Publishing, p. 116-151; chapters 5-6). |
09.12.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
°Nitin Bathla: Exploring the more-than-human nighttime city through walking (Spotlight project). |
16.12.25 Tue |
16:00-17:00 25L40 |
Staff meeting |
All interested people are welcome to join!
*compulsory for Master students
°recommended for Master students
Contact: norman.backhaus@geo.uzh.ch
Zurich Human Geography Colloquium (Zürcher Humangeographisches Kolloquium ZHGK)
Upcoming events
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16.9.2025, 16:00: Humble dreams: how young people imagine their relational housing, work and family futures across austerity Europe
Prof Sarah Marie Hall, The University of Manchester, UK; Ort: Y25, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich; Raum: H 79
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14.10.2025, 16:00: Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield
Dr Y. Ariadne Collins, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Ort: Y25, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich; Raum: H79
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28.10.2025, 16:00: Geopolitical rivalry and the renegotiation of globalization
Prof Seth Schindler, The University of Manchester, UK; Ort: Y25, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich; Raum: H79