Geography

Alumni Panel Discussion: What Can You Do with a Geography Degree?
2025-02-14 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | American Geographical Society Library, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Date: February 14, 2025
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: American Geographic Society Library (AGSL), UWM Golda Meir Library, Third Floor East Wing
Cost: FREE
Join us for an engaging alumni panel discussion hosted by the Department of Geography. Discover the diverse career paths you can pursue with a geography degree.
Our distinguished alumni panelists will share their professional journeys and insights with the UWM community.

Tom Bertrand (Milwaukee County Transit System)
Jack Kovnesky (City of West Allis)
Amy Rohan (Data You Can Use)
Elton Rogers (Department of Natural Resources)
Francesca Sanchez (Wisconsin Department of Water Resources)

For more information or to request accommodations, please email yoon3@uwm.edu or mansson@uwm.edu.

Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope
2025-04-11 14:30 - 15:30
Department of Geography’s Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture
Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope
Professor Sarah Elwood (Department of Geography, University of Washington)
April 11, 2025
2:30-3:30pm
AGSL
Digital Geographies & The City: Methodologies of Hope
In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as technocapitalist development processes and the platformization of everyday life produce racialized removal, surveillance, impoverishment, illegalization, even premature death – structural harms for which critical social science research has a well-developed conceptual-epistemological apparatus. Here, I make the case for an intentional turn toward methodologies of hope, a re-orientation toward apprehending creative politics that advance sociospatial relations of emplacement, collectivity, accountability, mutuality and thriving. I explore digital and emplaced tactics of mutual aid, direct action, and insurgent visual politics created by Stop the Sweeps, a horizontal network of local collectivities fighting public eviction of tent encampments of unsheltered people in cities and towns across the US.
Hope is an animating force underlying these digital, material and ideological pathways toward staying put and living well in the city, yet ironically, hope is largely absent from the theoretical-epistemological fabric of ‘critical’ social science research on digital cities. I argue for abundance-oriented analyses of the urban politics being forged by precarious communities and their allies, showing how this shift opens a vital window onto complex networks of solidarity and mutual support that are generating profound challenges to the circuits of harm that define life in the digital city.

Department Meet & Greet
2026-02-06 14:30 - 15:30
Department Meet & Greet
Date: Feb 6th 2026
Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Prof. Jennifer Jordan (Sociology, UWM)
2026-02-11 15:00 - 16:00
AGSAGS Academic Adventurers Series Wednesday at 3:pm Prof. Jennifer Jordan (Sociology, UWM)
A Long Strange Trip: Budapest, Berlin, Baraboo, and Points in Between

AAG presentation practice
2026-03-06 14:30 - 15:30
AAG presentation practice for students who want feedback

Prof. István Tarrósy
2026-03-13 14:30 - 15:30
Prof. István Tarrósy (University of Pecs, Hungary)
Geopolitics in Africa-China Relations
(co-sponsored event organized by AADS)

AAG Week
2026-03-20 14:30 - 15:30

Spring Break
2026-03-27 14:30 - 15:30

Thea Brenner
2026-04-03 14:30 - 15:30
April 3 Thea Brenner, MA presentation
Siting and Funding: Locating Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Ecosystem

Matthias Schilli
2026-04-10 14:30 - 15:30
Matthias Schilli, Dissertation presentation
Effects of Social Vulnerability, Built Environment, and Human Mobility on Violent Crimes in Chicago
followed by GTU GeoBowl at 3:30pm

Yiming Zhang
2026-04-17 14:30 - 15:30
Yiming Zhang, Dissertation presentation
Analyzing the Impacts of COVID-19 using Geo-Big Data and Geo-AI Technique

Prof. Eric Tate
2026-04-24 14:30 - 15:30
Mayer Lecture
Prof. Eric Tate (Princeton School of Public and International Affairs) Title TBA

Lulu Liu
2026-05-01 14:30 - 15:30
Lulu Liu, Dissertation presentation
Assessing Microclimate Variability Across Local Climate Zones: Impacts of Urban Morphology and Vegetation on Temperature Change

GEOG 600 Undergraduate Research Symposium
2026-05-08 14:30 - 15:30
