Past Speakers

ALUMNI RETURN SPEAKER SERIES 2006-2007

SCOTT KIRSCH '89
"A Geographer at Work in the Fields of Bomb"
November 8, 2006

VINCENT DELCASINO '90
"Health/Sexuality/Geography"
February 7, 2007

JOEL WAINWRIGHT '95
"Agriculture, Liberalization and the World Trade Organization"
March 1, 2007


SOCIAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM 2004-05
"Thinking Space: New Directions in Human Geography" 

           Sallie Marston, University of Arizona
           "Court-Ordered Revisions of Public and Private Space"
            October 13, 2004
           
            Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama
            "Why 'Separate But Equal' in Commodity Exchange 
            and Consumption?"
            November 8, 2004

             Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College
             "A Feminine City? Women, Shopping Spaces, and 
             the Creation of the late 19th Century Downtown"
             February 3, 2005

             Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
             "The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, 
             and the Buffer Zones, New Geography of Privacy"
             March 10, 2005

Heather Merrill ,
Dickinson College
"Race, Politics & Protest in Turin, Italy"
April 14 , 2004

Yi-Fu Tuan ,
University of Wisconsin--Madison
"Sense of Place: Its Relationship to Self and Time"
April 10 , 2003

Mark Blumler,
College Miseracordia at SUNY-Binghamton
"Introgression as a Spatial Phenomenon"
September 21 , 2001 

Robyn Longhurst,
University of Waikato (New Zealand)
"Geography & the Body: Exploring Fluid Boundaries"
February 26, 2001 

Lakshman Yapa,
Penn State University
"Philadelphia Field Project: Rethinking Urban Poverty"
November 9, 2000 

Cindi Katz,
City University of New York
"War, Poverty, and Deforestation in Sudan: A Politicized Ecology"
March 21, 2000 

Duane A. Griffin,
Bucknell University
"Complex Systems, Spatial Structures, Cruel Fate & Dumb Luck"
November 18, 1999 

Vincent Del Casino, Jr.,
University of Kentucky
"Organizing Geographies: HIV/AIDS and NGO Outreach in Chiang Mai, Thailaind"
October 22, 1999 

Deryck Holdsworth,
Penn State University
"From Coffee Houses to Skyscrapers - Some Historical
Geographies of Office Buildings and Office Districts, 1750-1914"
February 27, 1998 

April Veness,
University of Delaware
"Language Loaded & Ready: Exclusionary Discourse in Georgetown, Delaware"
November 21, 1997 

Phil Steinberg,
Visiting Assistant Professor
"Surfing the net, Riding the Kondratieff Waves; Applying a Social History of the World-Ocean to the Social Future of the Internet"
March 11, 1997