| Geography Colloquia meet on Fridays at 2:30 in Communications 228. |
| The usual format is a brief introduction, a 40-minute presentation, and 15 minutes for questions. At 3:30, the formal session is followed by informal discussion over refreshments. Please join us! |
| 7 January | Voting with Feet: Population Mobility and China's Future | Kam Wing Chan, UW Department of Geography [Harrington; set] |
| 14 January | The Culture Wars and Urban Electoral Politics: Sexuality, Class,
and Race in Tacoma, Washington
(See article here, by going to Political Geography "articles in press") |
Michael Brown and Richard Morrill, UW Department of Geography, and Larry Knopp, University of Minnesota-Duluth [Harrington; set] |
| 21 January | HIV/AIDS in Texas | Joseph Oppong, University of North Texas [Mayer; set] |
| 28 January | Capital is the Landlord: Housing Finance and the Transformation
of American Neighborhoods
(see draft; see related article "Market Failures and Predatory Lending") |
Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia [Corva & Mitchell; set; needs PP setup] |
| 4 February | HIDDEN PATTERNs in the LANDSCAPE
Formal Methods for Understanding Past Landscapes |
Marcos Llobera, UW Department of Anthropology [JWH; set] |
| 11 February | Neoliberal Governmentality in the EU: Education, Training and Technologies of Citizenship | Katharyne Mitchell, UW Department of Geography [set] |
| 18 February | Migration and the Politics of Re-bordering North America | Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Political Science,University of Alberta [KE; set] |
| 25 February | Learning Lessons from Vietnam's Localized Poverty Reduction Program | Truong thi Kim Chuyen, Geography, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City [Hannah; set] |
| 4 March | Opportunity for sustainable development lost? Kazak Herders in Northern Xinjiang | Astrid Cerny, UW Department of Geography [Harrington; set] |
| 11 March | National Politics and Indigenous Vestiges in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan:
an Anthropological
Inquiry |
Saulesh Yessenova, UBC Dept. of Anthro and Sociology [Cerny; set] |