17 Nov Cascadia Critical Geography Mini-Conference

Our department is hosting the 6th Annual Cascadia Critical Geography Mini-Conference. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. The conference opens Friday evening with a plenary panel of Jamie Peck (UBC), Eugene McCann (SFU), and Kim England (UW) on Neoliberalism and it’s discontents at 5:30. Matt Sparke (UW) will be moderating.

So far, it’s mostly graduate students presenting – which is rather exciting as it really  helps, i think, to keep things low key. The University of Washington graduate students, under the guidance of Matt Sparke, have been working furiously to make this conference come off with as few hitches as possible.

So far we have participants from as far away

as CUNY and the UC systems, along with our Canadian neighbors and one visiting scholar from Belfast at Oregon. The conference is free!