Friday, June 2, 2005 - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: Room 145, ENR, Cook Campus
Thesis Defense - Tanya Rohrbach
"Spatial Analysis of Human-Black Bear Conflicts in
Northwestern New Jersey"
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Friday, June 2, 2005 - 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Lucy Stone Hall, B120, Livingston Campus
PhD Defense - Seongin Kim
"Rethinking Environmental Justice: Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in Urban And Suburban Areas in New Jersey"
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Friday, June 3, 2005 - 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Lucy Stone Hall, B120, Livingston Campus
PhD Defense - Julie Silva
"Neoliberalization and Inequality: Examining Regional Patterns,
Household Dynamics, and Lived Experiences in Mozambique"
All are welcome
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Discussing Global Change on the Ground Series
Tuesday, April 26th at 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B231, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Bradley Wilson, Department of Geography
'Where is Fair Trade Today?'
Bradley will be presenting recent fieldwork on the Fair Trade Coffee Movement in the United States and Nicaragua and will facilitate a discussion on the developments in the DR-CAFTA agreement which aims to extend the North American Free Trade Agreement further south to include Central America and the Dominican Republic.
For further reading see Oxfam America's recent reports.
Sponsored by the Graduate Geographers Project
RUTGERS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY SPEAKER SERIES
Thursday, April 28 2005, 3:30 pm
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B120, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Laura C. Schneider, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
'Land change science, biogeography, Latin America, remote sensing and GIS'
Sponsored by the Graduate Geographers Project
RUTGERS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY SPEAKER SERIES
Friday, April 15th 2005, 11:00 am
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B120, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Dr. J Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
'Cities Representing the Nation: Planning and Nation-Building in Brazil in a Comparative Perspective'
Sponsored by the Graduate Geographers Project
RUTGERS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY SPEAKER SERIES
Thursday, April 14 2005, 3:30 pm
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B120, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Neil Smith, CUNY
'The Endgame of Globalization'
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Civic Square Building Rm 556
Dissertation Defense - Hong Ling Wee
Title of Dissertation: "No Neighborhood is an Island: Public Participation as Dialogue in Community Redevelopment"
Committee Chair: Michael Greenberg
April 5-9 2005
LOCATION - DENVER, COLORADO
The 2005 Annual Meeting of the AAG
The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers is a Professional and Scholarly meeting of over 4000 attendees. Nearly 3000 attendees present their research in over 700 sessions scheduled throughout the meeting.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 8:30pm-10:30pm
LOCATION - Wynkoop Brewing Company1634 18th Street, Denver, CO
Approximately 1 mile from the Adams Mark Hotel, Located across from the Union
A Night at the Pub
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The Graduate Geographers Project cordially invites students, faculty, alumni, prospective students, and friends to join us for a reception in the Brown Room at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, Denver, CO. If you are interested in learning more about the friendly faces of Rutgers Geography and their current work, please stop by, have some food and fun, and get to know us. If you already know us, be sure to catch up with friends and enjoy the party. We look forward to seeing you there!!!
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RUTGERS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY SPEAKER SERIES
Monday, March 28th 2005, 11:00 am
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B120, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Dr. Noel Castree, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, UK
"Neoliberalizing Nature: Problems of Analysis and Evaluation."
The seminar emerges from his 2003 essay in Progress in Human Geography:
"Commodifying What Nature?".
Links to papers:
- "The geographical lives of commodities: problems of analysis and critique" Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004
- "Economy and culture are dead! Long live economy and culture!" Progress in Human Geography 28,2 (2004) pp. 204–226
- Castree, Noel. 2004. Differential Geographies: Place, Indigenous Rights and ‘Local’ Resources. Political Geography. 23. pp. 133-167.
- "Commodifying what nature?" Castree, Noel. Progress in Human Geography; Jun2003, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p273, 25p
Monday, March 28th 2005, 4:30 am
LOCATION - COLLEGE HALL, LIVINSTON STUDENT CENTER
Livingston Global Symposia Series
Noel Castree, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, UK
Differential Geographies: Boundaries and Connections in an Interdependent World
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Sponsored by the Graduate Geographers Project
RUTGERS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY SPEAKER SERIES
Thursday, March 24 2005, 3:30 pm
LOCATION - LUCY STONE HALL B120, LIVINGSTON CAMPUS
Robin M. Leichenko, Rutgers University
"Global Environmental Change and Globalization: Exploring the Linkages"
BROWN BAG LUNCH TALKS - SPRING 2005
Speaker: Gennadi Poberezny
Orange Revolution in Ukraine (based on his trip and observation at the end
of December, 2004)
Thursday., Feb. 24 at noon, Grad Lounge, Lucy Stone Hall, Rm B-231, Livingston Campus
Thursday, November 18th, 2004
3:00 PM
B120 Lucy Stone Hall
Livingston Campus
Mary Curran
Eastern Connecticut State University
ARTICLES:
- Rural De-reterritorialization: Constructing haunted landscapes
- Discourses of pacification: gender and sexualization as anti-environmental strategies
- Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: a review of recent works
Foucault and Feminists on the Farm: Explorations in Discourse Analysis"
Dr. Curran studies feminist theory, environmentalism and the various discourses mobilized by political actors
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involved in battles over the expansion of industrial hog farming in Kentucky. She received her PhD in Geography from the
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University of Kentucky, and her publications include: "Rural De-reterritorialization: Constructing haunted landscapes,"
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"Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality: A Review of Recent Works," and "Discourses of pacification:
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gender and sexualization as anti-environmental strategies." Her talk will use the case study of hog farming as a way to show
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how discourse analysis can be done, and its utility for understanding social struggles and geospatial change.
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
3:00 PM
B120 Lucy Stone Hall
Livingston Campus
Dan Leathers
Department of Geography
University of Delaware
Global climate variations, snow fall and snow cover, atmospheric dynamics
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
3:00-4:30 PM
B120 Lucy Stone Hall
Livingston Campus
Ming Xu
Department of Ecology, Evolution,
Natural Resources at Rutgers University
Climate Change in China During the Past Half Century
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
3:00 PM
James DeFilippis
Department of Hispanic Studies
Baruch College, NYC
Unmasking Goliath: Community Control in the Black & Face of Global Capital
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
3:00 PM
Ling Bian
Department of Geography
SUNY, Buffalo
Integration of GIS with environmental modeling and natural resources management
Friday, November 22, 2002
Retirement Celebration Honoring Peter O. Wacker
Department of Geography, Rutgers University
