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Lunchtime Lectures

Previous Lectures Archive

Monthly lunchtime lectures at the Center for Environmental Research are open to the public and cover topics related to Austin's ecology.

DateTitlePresentation
March 2025Riparia: Life at the River EdgeDownload
February 2025Fluvial Process: Hydrology of RiversDownload
January 2025Fluvial Ecology: Life in Flowing WaterDownload
December 2025Marginal Nature: Urban Wastelands and the Geography of NatureDownload
November 2025Design with Nature: Urban Management and the Ecological CityDownload
October 2025Nature Out of Place: Biological Slumming and Urban EcologyDownload
September 2025The Pastoral City: Urban Domesticated AnimalsDownload
August 2025The Aerial City: Urban Birds, Bats, and Denizens of the SkyDownload
July 2025The Terrestrial City: Greenspace and the Urban ForestDownload
June 2025The Aquatic City: The Nature of Urban WaterwaysDownload
May 2025The Nonhuman City: Urban Habitats and Unnatural HistoryDownload
April 2025The Elemental City: Cycles, Services, and Urban EcologyDownload
March 2025The Urban Pastoral: Parkland and the Garden CityDownload
February 2025The Urban Wilderness: Wildness and the American CityDownload
January 2025Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the CityDownload
December 2024The End of Nature Prospective Ecology Gaia and the AnthropoceneDownload
November 2024The Ecological City: Sustainability, Ecology, and Urban MetabolismDownload
October 2024Farming with Nature: Sustainable Agriculture 
and the Pastoral Ideal		Download
September 2024Saving American Nature: Preservation, Conservation, and the WildDownload
August 2024American Environmental Science: Carson and the Politics of NatureDownload
July 2024American Ecology: Stability, Integrity, and Leopold’s LegacyDownload
June 2024American Biology: Natives, Immigrants, and Humboldt's ProgenyDownload
May 2024American Natural History: Thoreau and New World NatureDownload
April 2024New Nature: Discordant Harmony and Ecological ResilienceDownload
March 2024Urban Nature: Perspectives on Nature and the CityDownload
February 2024Pastoral Nature: Agrarianism and Rural AmericaDownload
January 2024Wild Nature: The New World and WildernessDownload
December 2023The Urban Stream: Life on Waller CreekDownload
November 2023Another Colorado: Austin and the RiverDownload
October 2023Waters the Land: Rivers and Water in TexasDownload
September 2023Rivers of Empire: American Environmental History and WaterwaysDownload
August 2023Strong Brown God: The Poetry of Flowing WaterDownload
July 2023Water Music: American Music and RiversDownload
June 2023Riverrun: Language, Art, and WaterwaysDownload
May 2023The Round River: Myth, Meaning, and Flowing WaterDownload
April 2023Bottomland: Life on the FloodplainDownload
March 2023Riparia: Life at the EdgeDownload
February 2023Fluvial Life: Ecology of Flowing WaterDownload
January 2023Fluvial Process: Waterways and HydrologyDownload
December 2022The Anthropocene: Gaia and the Science of NatureDownload
October 2022The Great Disruptors- Physical Geography as Modified by Human ActionDownload
September 2022The Economy of Nature Ecology, Culture, and CosmosDownload
August 2022The Evolution of Nature- Humboldt, Darwin, and BiogeographyDownload
July 2022Invention of Modern Nature- The Earth, a Natural WholeDownload
June 2022Romance of Nature Science- Imagination and the Poets of NatureDownload
May 2022The Science of Nature- Humbolt and the Empirical EarthDownload
April 2022Physical Geography and the Science of NatureDownload
March 2022Ecological Imperialism and the Geography of NatureDownload
February 2022Natural History and the Taxonomy of NatureDownload
January 2022Natural Philosophy and the Study of NatureDownload