You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin
gathering after 3:30 p.m. almost every Friday in 319 Walker for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies, then settle down
to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre
County community are welcome. The Fall 2009 schedule is now available. HTML
| PDF.
View previous coffee hour schedules:
- Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
For more information, please contact Rob Crane or Brian King
In February 1987, The Professional Geographer, (Vol. 39, Number 1), published an article about our department's Coffee Hour. The article is written by Peirce Lewis and Wilbur Zelinsky. View the article, "The Coffee Hour at Penn State".
Working with the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, the Department of Geography recently unveiled the pilot program "Coffee Hour to Go." To better serve people that cannot attend the weekly coffee hour series, Coffee Hour to Go enables interested parties to listen to podcasts of the weekly talk.
NOTE: The links below will launch the iTunes application - if you do not have a copy of iTunes, you may download a free copy from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/. If you encounter problems launching iTunesU, see the iTunesU FAQ.
Fall 2007 Lectures
- Easterling, William - September 7, 2007 - Can EMS Transform Society or is it the Other Way Around?
- Glasmeier, Amy - September 14, 2007 - Reframing Poverty, Geography, Economics, Politics, and Policy
- DiBiase, David - September 28, 2007 - What We've Learned About e-Learning
- Klippel, Alex - October 5, 2007 - Sapient Interfaces
- Taylor, Alan - October 2, 2007 - Top down and bottom up controls on forest fire regimes in the southern Cascades, USA
- Schram, Sanford - October 19, 2007 - Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management
- Brooks, Rob and Rocco, Gianluca - October 26, 2007 - How bog turtles form a nexus among urban development, agriculture, law and conservation (slides)
- Crane, Rob - November 2, 2007 - Future climates for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Millington, Andrew - November 9, 2007 - Chapare (Bolivia): Coca economic, coca policies and land cover change
Spring 2008 Lectures
- Wood, Nathan - January 25, 2008 - Variations in Community Vulnerability to Cascadia-related Tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest (iTunesU)
- Kraak, Menno-Jan - February 8, 2008 - The space-time cube beyond time-geography (MediaSite Live)
- Pantano, Carlo - February 15, 2008 - Nanotechnology: Views from both sides of the valley (MediaSite Live or iTunesU)
- Mitchell, Don - February 29, 2008 - Battle/Fields: Braceros, Agribusiness, and the Violent Transformation of the California Agricultural Landscape During WWII (MediaSite Live)
- Nyamweru, Celia - April 4, 2008 - Ecotourism and Natural Sacred Sites: a Kenya Case Study (MediaSite Live)
- Pickle, Linda - April 11, 2008 - U.S. Cancer Atlases: Pretty Maps or Public Health Tools (MediaSite Live)
- Easterling, David - April 25, 2008 - Drought: Past, Present, and Future (MediaSite Live)
Special Lectures
- Riley, David - April 8, 2008 - Here Comes the Sun: The Business Case for Solar Energy - Reframing the Energy Policy Debate in PA and Beyond (MediaSite Live)
- Conroy, Michael - November 30, 2007 - What the ‘Certification Revolution’ Means for Higher Education at Penn State, and Around the World! (iTunesU) or (.mp3)
