Fall 2025 Colloquium Lecture Series
The Colloquium Committee of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP) announced its speaker lineup for the Fall 2025 semester. ASU students, staff, faculty and alumni are invited to join us in Coor Hall (Room 5536) from 11AM-12:30PM MT on the following dates:
- Friday, Oct. 10 - Kaelin Groom, SGSUP Instructor
- Lecture Title: Stepping Through Time: Repeat Photography in Petra, Jordan
- This lecture explores the use of repeat photography as a methodological tool to document and analyze long-term environmental and cultural change in the archaeological landscape of Petra, Jordan. Drawing on over a century of archival and field-based imagery, the project reconstructs original photographic vantage points to capture direct visual evidence of change across time. Through this comparative approach, the work reveals patterns of geomorphological erosion, infrastructural development, tourism impact, vegetation shifts, and ongoing conservation interventions. Framing repeat photography within a geographic and heritage science framework, this talk will engage with themes of landscape memory, spatial transformation, and the role of visual archives in understanding the co-evolution of human and environmental systems. This research highlights the value of visual methods not only for historical reconstruction, but for advancing interdisciplinary conversations around cultural resilience, stewardship, and the lived experience of heritage sites. The lecture will include striking before-and-after image pairs, insights from fieldwork and archival reconstruction, and discussion of the ethical and practical implications of visualizing change in contested or dynamic landscapes.
- Friday, Nov. 21 - Peter Howe, Professor of Geography at Utah State University
- Lecture Title: Mapping American Public Opinion on Climate and Heat Risk
Friday, Sept. 12 - SGSUP Faculty Lightning TalksDebayan Mandal- Lecture Title: Strengthening Resilience in 4D: Geospatial Digital Twins for Navigating Urban Flood DynamicsSalma Elmallah- Lecture Title: Knowing, Mapping and doing Energy Transitions: A Research Overview and a Look AheadHeather Baier- Lecture Title: Spatially Adaptive Networks: Deep Learning for Socioeconomic Prediction from Satellite Imagery
Any ASU student, faculty, or staff member can join online via Zoom. Please email [email protected] for more information.
2025 Malcolm L. Comeaux Lecture
- Join us for the 2025 Malcolm L. Comeaux Lecture with this year's speaker Rachel Franklin, Executive Director, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, for a lecture titled: The Tortured Geographers Department (Red Herrings, Spatial Data, Data Science, and AI).
- Friday, November 7, 2025
- Reception: 4:30PM. Lecture: 5:00–6:30PM
- Memorial Union, Alumni Lounge 202, Arizona State University
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