February Critical Geography Seminars -
OUC
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
Fax: +1 250 545-3277
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Geographies
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