Cosgrove Lecture Series
The Denis Cosgrove Lecture series was established in 2016 by Royal Holloway’s Centre for the GeoHumanities. The series provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research by distinguished speakers in geography, the humanities and the creative arts.
The series honours the work of Denis E. Cosgrove, who was a Professor at Royal Holloway from 1994 to 2000, before his appointment to the Alexander Von Humboldt Chair at UCLA. Denis was one of the main forces in shaping the ‘new’ cultural geography of the 1990s and, more broadly, in bringing the humanities into geography and geography into the humanities. His lifelong commitment to interdisciplinarity and to creativity continues to inspire our work in the Centre.
The following is a list of all the lectures since 2016. Recordings are available via this webpage for most of these: click on the titles for audio or video.
Cosgrove Lectures since 2016
7. Judith Carney (UCLA)
Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 28 May 2024
6. Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham)
Landscapes in the Making: John Linnell (1792-1882) and the Environs of London
Royal Holloway 2023
5. Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham)
Black Online Geographies: Tales of Creativity and In/security
Online 2022
4. Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Shakespearean Landscapes
British Academy 2019
3. Joan Schwartz (Queens University, Ontario)
Lives and Afterlives: The Photographic Lens and Legacy of Frederick Dally
Royal Holloway 2018
2. Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow)
Walking Aesthetics and Performing Landscape
Tate Modern 2017
1. Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London)
This Orient Isle: The Cultural Geography of Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Royal Geographical Society 2016
