Apologies if I sent this successfully before but I got a message I could
not undertand about mailstore and failure to deliver etc.
I would live to invite anyone who might be interested to the seminars below
at Cambridge UK January-March 2007
best wishes Gerry Kearns
Occasional discussions in historical and cultural geography
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Wednesday 24 January, David Lambert, Department of Geography, Royal
Holloway University of London, 'Captive knowledge and the spatial politics
of slavery.' David is Lecturer in Human Geography at RHUL and works on,
among other things, race and colonialism in the Caribbean. He is the author
of White creole culture, politics and identity during the Age of Abolition
(Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Colonial lives across
the British Empire: Imperial careering in the long nineteenth century
(Cambridge University Press, 2006). [log in to unmask]
Wednesday 7 February. Sharad Chari, Department of Geography, London School
of Economics, 'Remnants of Apartheid: Race, corporate waste and other
material deposits next to Durban's refineries.' Sharad is Lecturer in Human
Geography at LSE, and Honorary Research Fellow in Development Studies at
the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has written an agrarian historical
ethnography of an industrial town, in a book called Fraternal Capital:
peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalization in provincial India
(Stanford University Presd, 2004). He is working on a narrative geography
of race, space and activism next to oil refineries in Durban, South Africa,
in a book project called Apartheid Remains. [log in to unmask]
Wednesday 21 February. Rory Gallagher, Department of Geography, University
of Cambridge, 'Geographies of the body and sex tourism in South-East Asia'
Rory is a graduate student working on trans-gender sex-work in Thailand and
Indonesia. He is interested in the ways place may be deployed in HIV
prevention and in how sex-tourism shapes and responds to the geographies of
sex-work within resorts. [log in to unmask]
Wednesday 7 March. Steve Legg, Department of Geography, University of
Nottingham, 'Scales of prostitution: the tolerated brothels debate in 20th
century colonial India' Steve is Lecturer at the University of Nottingham.
He works on sex-work, nationalism, gender, protest and urban planning in
India. He is the author of Spaces of colonialism: Delhi's urban
governmentalities (Blackwell, in press). [log in to unmask]
Everyone is welcome to come along. Seminars start at 4.15 and are in the
Seminar Room of the Department of Geography; see for street map see
http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v4/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1900;yy=1040 Geography
is at the SE corner of Downing Site, accessible from Downing Place. For the
location on the Downing Site see
http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v4/drawmap.cgi?mp=down;xx=355;yy=258;mt=c;
[Building no.8]
Gerry Kearns, 20 December 2006
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