Call for Papers:
Dear listserv members, I had a last minute cancellation and have a spot
open for a special session on Dr. M.L. King's legacy for geography I am
organizing for the Race Ethnicity and Place III Conference to be held in
Miami, FL this year. Paper abstracts are due June 30. If interested
please let me know soon as this has the potential to be a very good
session and space is limited. The conference is from November 6-8 and
you will find a description of the special session below.
Cheers and thanks,
Josh Inwood
I would like to invite you to join a special session taking place at
this year's "Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference" to be
held in Miami, Florida. As you may be aware, 2008 marks the 40th
anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis
Tennessee. With this in mind this session is organized around Dr.
King's life, legacy and meaning for geography. While the topic is
broad and I encourage you to take as much liberty as you like in
addressing the subject I envision papers which speak to the struggles
over King's political/social meaning, struggles over how Dr. King is
remembered and memorialized in the landscape, Dr. King's meaning and
legacy for geography, and to what extent Dr. King's writings and
speeches offer an alternative to our current political, social and
economic realities. The session is titled: "After the Love has Gone:
Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life, Legacy and Meaning for Geography."
Abstracts are due June 30 2008. More information on the conference
can be found at:
http://rep-conference.binghamton.edu/
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to
contact
me.
Dr. Joshua Inwood
Department of Geology and Geography
Auburn University
210 Petrie Hall
Auburn, AL 36849-5305
Telephone: 334-844-4229
"To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system;
thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Noncooperation
with evil is as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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