Just a final reminder that the LCCS and the EGRG are co-sponsoring a
session at Canada House on next Wednesday. Registration on the day (which
covers lunch and refreshments) costs 10 pounds postgrads/ unwaged and 20
pounds for the rest.
The programme is:
'Mapping the political economy of contemporary Canada'
Canada House, Trafalgar Square
17 November 1999
10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.30 Opening Remarks
10.45 Professor Trevor Barnes (UBC) "Too old to work, too bloody young to
retire": Industrial and community restructuring at Port Alberni, BC
11.30 Professor Jamie Peck (Manchester) Political dreams/ administrative
nightmares: Ontario's new workfare regime.
12.15 Dr Andrew Lincoln (Southampton) title to be announced
1.00 Lunch
2.15 Professor Meric Gertler (Toronto) No place like home? The embededness
of innovation in a regional economy
3.00 Dr Joe Leibovitz (Southampton) Regional inventions? The social
construction of Silicon Valley North and Cananda's Technology Triangle
3.45 Professor Alan Hallsworth (Staffordshire) WalMart in Canada - some
reflections
4.30 Plenary discussion
5.30 Adjourn to pub!
Adam Tickell
Department of Geography
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
voice +44 (0) 23 8059 5496
fax +44 (0) 23 8059 3295
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by
strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
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