The WUN Horizons in Human Geography Seminar Series is a coherent collection of virtual seminars presented on a weekly basis by leading figures to a live international audience of faculty and graduate students. It uses innovative intellectual approaches and new technologies to explore recent debates and developments in human geography. It brings together geographers from a core group of universities (Bristol, Leeds and UW-Madison) as speakers, with others joining the live event. The archived recordings and associated powerpoint presentations are also available to members of the WUN partnership - and others by agreement. This year's series, the fifth annual running of the event, takes as its theme 'Geographies of Crisis'.

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2008/09 program: Geographies of Crisis

Climate change, war, pandemics, the 'credit crunch', food prices, genomics, exploding cities, obesity.... From global processes to bodily functions, crisis talk now surrounds us. In 2008/09 the WUN Horizons in Human Geography seminar series will profile the contributions of geographers (and others) analysing the discourses, processes, and effects of contemporary crises.

Convenor: Robert M. Vanderbeck (University of Leeds)

Local start times: US 10am, UK 4pm

The End of the World as We Know It?' (Wendy Larner)

Deterritorializing academic freedom: universities in 'dangerous times'? (Kristopher Olds)

Crisis in the worldwide Anglican Communion? Sexuality, Christianity, and global networks

Eventful geographies: the case of Estonia’s ‘Bronze Night’

Gun violence and the crisis of masculinity

The Necessity of Crisis?: The Case of Cuba's Organoponicos and our Urban Present

The ambiguous crisis of global economic inequality: contradictory national and inter-national trends

CANCELLED
Crisis discourse and the neoliberal relations of power and resistance: water, rights, and markets

Geographical crisis in cyberspace? A brief history of the "digital divide

Migrants in crisis? Precarity and migrant labourers in the UK

Risk in Crisis? NGO Campaigns and Banks

last revised 11/26/2008