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 for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies in 319 Walker Building, then settle down
to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre
County community are welcome.
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September 7
Bill Easterling
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography and Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
"Can EMS Transform Society or is it the Other Way Around?"
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September 14
Amy Glasmeier
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography,
"Reframing Poverty: Geography, Economics, Politics and Policy" |
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September 21
Amy Trauger
The Pennsylvania State University, Women's Agricultural Network in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
"Our Market is Our Community": Women Farmers and Civic Agriculture in Pennsylvania" |
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September 28
David DiBiase
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography and Dutton e-Education Institute
"What We've Learned About e-Learning"
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October 5
Alex Klippel
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography
"Sapient Interfaces"
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October 12
Alan Taylor
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography
"Top down and bottom up controls on forest fire regimes in the southern Cascades, USA"
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October 19
Sanford Schram
Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
"Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in Poverty Management"
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October 26
Robert P. Brooks and Gianluca Rocco
The Pennsylvania State University, Cooperative Wetlands Center
"How bog turtles form a nexus among urban development, agriculture, law and conservation"
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November 2
Rob Crane
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography and AESEDA
"Future Climates for Sub-Saharan Africa"
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November 9
Andrew Millington
Texas A&M University, Department of Geography and Environmental Programs
"Chapare (Bolivia): Coca economic, Coca Policies and Land Cover Change"
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November 16
Nina Jablonski
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology
"The Evolution of Human Skin Color, Meeting Place of Geography and Physiology" |
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November 23
No Coffee Hour - Thanksgiving Holiday
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November 30
Anthony Kaye
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of History
"Towards a Human Geography of Slave Rebellion: Reinterpreting Nat Turner's Revolt"
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December 7
Pete Shirlow
Queen's University Belfast, Department of Geography
"Beyond Ideology ? The Cessation of Conflict in Northern Ireland and the role of Former Paramilitary Prisoners"
***CANCELLED***
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