PSU | Department of Geography | Spring 2006 Coffee Hour

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coffee mug Coffee Hour

Students, staff, faculty, and
invited guests enjoy geography-
related lectures and discussions
at the Department of Geography
Coffee Hour every Friday
afternoon in 22 Deike Building.

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, then settle down to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 22 Deike Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre County community are welcome.

Spring 2006 Coffee Hour Schedule:

	January 13 James C. Finley School of Forest Resources, Penn State "Sustaining forests: International dialogue for implementation in Pennsylvania"
	January 20 No Coffee Hour
	January 27 Melissa Wright Department of Geography, Penn State "Profit, Prostitutes and Protest: Reflections from the Mexico-US border"
	February 3 Boyan Brodaric Geological Survey of Canada "Representing the semantic and pragmatic aspects of geoscience ontologies"
	February 10 Deryck Holdsworth Department of Geography, Penn State "Counting-house geographies: commercial dictionaries and merchant knowledge in the age of sail"
	February 17 BARAKA (104 minutes) - Film and discussion, facilitated by Denice Wardrop Location: Carnegie Cinema, Room 113, Carnegie Building Time: 3:30-5:30 p.m.
	February 24 Brent Yarnal, Department of Geography, Penn State "Interested in buying beachfront property? Impacts of sea-level rise on coastal storm surge"
	March 3 No Coffee Hour - Friday before Spring Break
	March 10 No Coffee Hour - 2006 AAG Annual Meeting / Spring Break
	March 17 Petra Tschakert Department of Geography, Penn State "The Day after Tomorrow: Perceptions of Climate Change and Other Risks in the Sahel"
	March 24 Ben Dixon Department of Geography, SUNY Oneonta "The Remaking of the Gettysburg Battlefield Five Times Over!: A Study in Landscape and Memory"
	March 31 Mark Harrower Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison "3D Animation and Fly-Over Maps: Mostly Hype or Useful Tools?"
	April 7 Anu Sabhlok Department of Geography, Penn State "Women in Service: the political economy of relief in Gujarat, India"
	April 14 Reuben Rose-Redwood Department of Geography, Penn State "The Making of a Geo-Coded World: Knowledge, Power, and the History of House Numbering in the United States"
	April 21 Alistair Geddes Department of Geography, Penn State "Statistically modified farming: investigating the spatial politics of Scottish agricultural censuses" On April 21, Coffee Hour will meet in 112 Walker Building. The reception will take place in 101 or 103 Walker Building.
	April 28 No Coffee Hour - Last day of classes

For more information, please contact faculty organizers Robert Brooks or Donna Peuquet.

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".