CGF members,
the following critical geography talks may be of interest to folks
living near, or travelling through the Okanagan in mid-February.
Anyone who wishes to attend is more than welcome to stay at our house
in Vernon... graduate students are especially welcome! other
upcoming seminars in March and early April include talks by Robin
Kearns (Auckland, NZ), Rob Kitchin (Maynooth, Ireland) and Kirsten
Simonsen (Roskilde, Denmark).
Peace,
Lawrence
Critical Studies of Culture, Society & Space:
An International Seminar Series at OUC
February Presentations:
Dr. Neil Smith
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography
Center for Place, Culture and Politics
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"New York Nightmares:
Scale, Terror and the
War for U.S. Globalism"
7.00-8.30 p.m.
Monday February 18
Kalamalka Lecture Theatre
and
3.30 - 5.00 p.m.
Tuesday February 19
Arts 103, North Kelowna Campus
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he
also directs the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He works on
the broad connections between space, social theory and history, and
his books include New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the
Revanchist City (1996) and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and
the Production of Space (1991). He is author of more than 100
articles and book chapters, sits on 10 editorial boards, and has
recently completed a large study of Mapping the American Century:
Isaiah Bowman and the Geography of Empire. He has been awarded
Honors for Distinguished Scholarship by the Association of American
Geographers and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and is an
organizer of the International Critical Geography group.
...and...
Dr. Cindi Katz
Professor of Geography
in Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Social Reproduction
and the Residues of Globalism:
Some ties that bind New York City and rural Sudan"
1.00 - 2.30 p.m.
Tuesday February 19
Arts 103, North Kelowna Campus
Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and
Women's Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of
space, place and nature; children and the environment, and the
consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. She
has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and
the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such
as Society and Space, Social Text, Signs, Feminist Studies, Annals of
the Association of American Geographers, and Antipode.. She is the
editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over
the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and recently completed
Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring and
Children's Everyday Lives which should be out by late 2002. She is
currently working on a project called Retheorizing Childhood and
completing a text on fieldwork.
--
Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
& Research Liaison Coordinator, Office of Research Services
Okanagan University College, Vernon, B.C., Canada V1B 2N5
Voice: +1 250 545-7291 ext. 2264
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