The 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference CFP is up. Conference will be held 21-23 February 2014 in Boulder, CO. Themes this year are, "Gegraphies Otherwise," "Critical Traditions, Revisited," "Decolonizing Methods," and "Diversifying Geography." The two keynote speakers are Richa Nagar and Alvaro Reyes. The conference in...
Four undergraduate students at the University of Washington Department of Geography have started a new journal, Plenum. The current Editorial Board, Sam Novak, Helen Olsen, Jess Wallach, and Jeevon Durkee, have worked tirelessly since last year to put this journal together, and they have put together...
At the researcher's entrance to the National Archives, there are two large statues. The one on the left is of a woman with a large book opened in her lap. In her left hand are several sheets of paper. Is she tearing them out? Is...
I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about race and diversity in the department (and the discipline more widely). They...
Gayatri Spivak gave an impassioned and pointed lecture directed at geographers in just the appropriately theoretically and instructionally poignant ways. She was gently chiding in those moments requiring it, delightfully self-deprecating in others. Her sense of humor peppered the talk, always catching the audience just...