Carl O. Sauer was a Professor of Geography at the University of California from 1923 to 1957 and a Professor Emeritus from 1957 until his death at the age of 85. He served for 31 years as chairman of the department. Under his leadership, the scholarly stature of the geography faculty grew immensely. As a student of the interrelatedness of land and life and of people and places throughout the full course of human history, he especially urged a responsible, conservative stewardship of the earth. Both through his teaching and his published works, he left an indelible mark not only on geography but on several of the social, historical, and biological sciences. In 1976, a group of faculty colleagues, students, and friends of Professor Sauer established a fund in his memory to support the Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lectures. Eminent geographer Ian G. Simmons, a Fellow of the British Academy, delivered the most recent Sauer Memorial Lecture in 1998.
| Title | Lecturer | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Diffusion, Deflection and Diversity: A Geographic Perspective on Contemporary Immigration |
Price Marie D. | 2011 |
| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere |
Morris Jan | 2000 |
| 'to civility and man's use': History, Geography, and Nature |
Simmons Ian G. | 1998 |
| Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture |
Tuan Yi-Fu | 1996 |
| A Servant of Two Masters |
Donkin Robin | 1995 |
| Prehistoric Riverine Settlement in Amazonia: A Revisionist Perspective with Contemporary Implications |
Denevan William M. | 1994 |
| Sauer's Origins and Dispersals: Its Implications for the Geography of Disease |
Haggert Peter | 1992 |
| Landscapes Without Llamas: Celebrating a Sauerian Tradition |
Lowenthal David | 1990 |
| The Bajio Mexico's Earliest Colonial Frontier |
Butzer Karl | 1989 |
| Identifying the Killers: Old World Diseases in 16th-Century Meso-America and the Caribbean |
Borah Woodrow | 1988 |
| A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley |
Parsons James J. | 1986 |
| To Claim the High Ground: Geography For the End of the Century |
Stoddart David R. | 1986 |
| Domesday Book and Domesday Geography |
Darby Clifford | 1985 |
| The Landscape as Overlapphing Neighborhoods: Some Reflections on the Struggle for Existence |
Hagerstrand Torsten | 1984 |
| An Atlantic World Perspectives on the Making of Colonial America |
Meinig Donald | 1982 |
| Early Man in America |
Carter George F. | 1981 |
| The Story of an Oceanic Mountain Range: The Evolution of Life on an 'Idealized' Pacific Archipelago |
Fosberg F. Raymond | 1980 |
| Landscape as Theatre |
Jackson John B. | 1978 |
| Scholar and Colleague: Homage to Carl Sauer |
Leighly John | 1976 |