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Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Spring 2025   The Department of Geography welcomed Dr. Sarah Elwood, professor of geography at the University of Washington, for this year’s Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture on April 11, 2025. In her talk, “Digital Geographies & The City: …

Spring 2025: Department News

Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Fall 2024   Dr. Steven Manson (University of Minnesota) presented a lecture, “Happy Cows: Human-Environment Networks in Agriculture” on November 8, 2024, at American Geographical Society Library (AGSL). Dr. Manson also had lunch with our graduate …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.