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You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin gathering after 3:30 PM almost every Friday in 301 Steidle Building for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies, then settle down to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00pm. All members of the Penn State and Centre County community are welcome.
September 5
Larry Knopp Professor of Geography,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, Department of Geography
"Ontologies of Place, Placelessness, and Movement: Queer Quests for Identity and Their Impacts on Comtemporary Geographic Thought"
September 12
Donald Kunze, Associate Professor,
Penn State Department of Architecture and Integrative Arts
"The Topology of Boundaries"
September 19
Henry Taylor, Director for the Center of Urban Studies,
University of Buffalo, Center for Urban Studies
"Reinventing Cuba: Linking Tourism and Community Development"
September 26
Ghazi Falah, Associate Professor of Geography,
University of Akron, Department of Geography
"How Israel Envisions a Palestinian State for the Palestinians"
October 3
Carol Liebler, Chair,
Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Communications
"When Missing Women Are(n't) News"
October 10
No Coffee Hour: Study Day
October 17
Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography
University of Wisconsin, Department of Geography
"Neoliberalism on the Loose"
October 24
Art Lembo, Lecturer,
Cornell University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
"Lessons Learned From the World Trade Center Disaster About Critical Utility Systems"
October 31
George Lovell, Professor,
Queens University, Department of Geography
"A Reading From A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala"
November 7
Anna Secor, Assistant Professor,
University of Kentucky, Department of Geography
"Belaboring Gender: the Spatial Practice of Work and the Politics of Everyday Life in Istanbul"
November 14
CANCELLED: Lisa L. Miller, Assistant Professor,
Penn State, Crime, Law, and Justice Program
"Constituency Size and Interest Representation: The Politics of Crime in a Federal Political System"
INSTEAD: Dr. Amy Glasmeier will present "How to Get Your Research Funded" for graduate students at 3:30pm in 319 Walker on Friday, November 14, 2003
November 21
Linda Burton, Director,
Penn State, Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts
"Ethnography and Geography: A Match Made in Heaven"
November 28
No Coffee Hour: Thanksgiving Break
December 5
Wilbur Zelinsky, Emeritus Professor,
Penn State, Department of Geography
"Globalization Reconsidered: The Historical Geography of Modern Western Men's Clothing"
December 12
Amy Griffin, Instructor,
Penn State, Department of Geography
"Interactive Visual Computing and Hypothesis Generation"
All Coffee Hours are in 301 Steidle at 4:00 on Friday afternoons unless otherwise noted (by *)
*This series is sponsored by: the EMS Diversity Fund, the EMS Globalization Fund, the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, the Rock Ethics Institute, Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG), and the Women's Studies Program.