Regular events

Biweekly lab meeting: Our lab meets every other week in Hunt 158 with a virtual join option through Zoom. Meetings are designed to be useful to lab members and to foster a consistent place for discussion, collaboration, and feedback on political ecology work. Graduate students usually present a “work-in-progress” (grant application, data collection tool, qualifying exam materials, paper outlines or drafts etc.) and receive feedback; or graduate students propose a topic of discussion related to political ecology. Topics have included: critical discard studies; feminist and queer political ecology; agricultural and food ecologies; fire ecologies; and more. 

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Upcoming Events

Field trips and writing retreats... stay tuned!

Past events 

2022 Sagehen Natural Reserve - Spring Writing Retreat May 20-22nd

Abolition and Sovereignty Speaker Series Spring 2021

Critical Perspectives on Feeding the World Symposium April 24th 2021, 10am-4pm

2019 Spring retreat
May 5-7th 2019 UC Davis’ Political Ecology Lab held its first ever research and writing retreat at Bodega Marine Lab. The aim of the retreat was to continue cementing our intercampus network by bringing together graduate students and faculty from across campus to think, write, organize and develop new projects around intersecting topics in political ecology. The retreat featured a facilitated discussion on our converging and diverging definitions of political ecology, a panel on interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to political ecology and graduate student breakouts on topics of shared interest as well as individual writing time and planning for next year.