Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture Series
- Joseph Stoll
Begun in 2013, the Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture honors the pivotal geographical work of the late Professor Emeritus Donald W. Meinig, a member of the Syracuse University Department of Geography from 1959 until his retirement in 2005.
History of speakers
2025: Emily Yeh, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, "Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change"
2024: Cynthia Brewer, Department of Geography, Penn State University, "Making Beautiful Maps Using GIS Tools"
2023: Amy Hessl, Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, “No Analogue: What Can Tree Rings Tell Us in a Changed Climate?”
2022: Memorial panel honoring the 2020 passing of Donald Meinig, “A Celebration of the Life and Work of Donald Meinig” with Bill Wyckoff (Montana State University), Craig Colten (Louisiana State University), Jamie Winders (Syracuse University), Anne Knowles (University of Maine), Richard Schein (University of Kentucky) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64fyBjLzX8
2020-2021: not held due to Covid-19 disruptions
2019: Nik Heynen, Department of Geography, University of Georgia “‘The Sea-Canes Were the Seraph Lances of My Faith’: Re-Earthing the Plantation and the Struggle for the Abolitionist Commons”
2018: Anne Knowles, Department of History, University of Maine, “Seeing like a Geographer”
2017: Richard Schein, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, “Racialized Landscapes and the Sediment of Historical Geography” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-RMeu3pu8&t=1s
2016: John Western, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, “Places of Value, Trains of Thought”
2015: Sallie Marston, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, “Imagine the Impossible: Transversality and the Creation of Subjectivities”
2014: Craig Colten, Development of Geography, Louisiana State University, “The End of Abundance: Uncivil Water Wars in the American South”
2013: David Harvey, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center, “The Contradictions of Capital”