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Lightning Talks (2020)

Date and Time
Location
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB)
Lightning Talks audience

The UCSB Center for Spatial Studies presents the 2020 Spatial Lightning Talks on Tuesday, February 11 at 12:00 p.m. This annual series of 3-minute lightning talks brings together speakers from across the UCSB campus as well as the local community to enlighten the crowd on a broad range of spatial topics. This fast-paced, interdisciplinary event is a great opportunity to hear speakers from across campus and in the local community share their work and special interests.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Keith Clarke: “Why Map Rozel Point?”
  • Dr. Clayton Nall: “Why Partisans Don’t Sort”
  • Joel Salzman: “The Best Places to Vote in California”
  • Nick Triozzi: “Drones and Thermal Imagery for Archaeological Survey”
  • Margaret Fisher: “Taking Up Space: Large(st) Animals and the Collective Literary Unconscious”
  • Paul Wilson: “Where Do We Live?”
  • Eduardo Romero: “High Frequency Radar in the Santa Barbara Channel”
  • Louis Graup: “Fire and Water: A Spatial Connection”
  • Dr. Wendy Meiring: “Collaborations Through Time and Space”
  • Thomas Crimmel: “Ancient Real Estate at the Maya Center of El Pilar”
  • Pratik Raghu: “Spaces of Hope Under State Terrorism”
  • Zoe Hinck: “Mapping Professional Networks”

Intended to inspire, the Lightning Talks are a series of rapid-fire talks on spatially flavored topics. Each presenter is allotted three minutes to develop a topic.

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