Coffee Hour Lecture Series

Join us for the next Coffee Hour

Coffee Hour is a Friday lecture hosted every other week by the Department of Geography celebrating interdisciplinary scholarship and collegiality. Topics range from innovations in GIScience, to food security, to land use and justice issues, among others. Anyone with an interest in the topic is invited to attend.

Spring 2026 Coffee Hour Schedule

• Jan. 23
Christelle Wauthier – Penn State Geosciences
Location: 401 Steidle | Time: Noon
Watch Recording

• Jan. 30

Heidi Biggs – Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

Watch Recording

• Feb. 6

Pavithra Vasudevan – UT Austin Women’s and Gender Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

No Recording Available

• Feb. 20

Graduate student presentations

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

Watch Recording

• Feb. 27

Greg Jenkins – Penn State Geography and Meteorology

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s4ADQyGcTDyepsn0A8FvSQ

• March 27 (Miller Lecture)

Shannon Speed – UCLA Anthropology

Location: 401 Steidle | Time: Noon

Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bqSOcjJYT_OczPibADRcDQ

• April 10

Robert Roth – UW-Madison, professor and director of the UW Cartography Lab

Location: 401 Steidle | Time: Noon

Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Pm8UUH1Q9yAzsJGwqgWMA

• April 17

Lise Nelson – University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pZwpGAVURCO5TNr3rWwkGg

• April 24

UROC presentations

Location: 112 Walker | Time: 3:30 p.m.

Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fy2Cn-fFRgiEjenpeCIVqQ

Read about the history of Coffee Hour.

For Speakers

Thank you for agreeing to be a Coffee Hour speaker. We are looking forward to your talk, and want you to have an enjoyable experience. Please review the speaker information, and let us know if you have any needs we have not addressed, questions, or concerns.

Department Head Brian King poses with a Coffee Hour speaker whom the department gifted a mug they are holding together.