Summer listening with Human Geography

So we made it through our first year of the Human Geography reading group with vastly fluctuating numbers and several early recesses to the pub. Next year we’ve got bigger and brighter plans including the launch of the first postgraduate geography conference in November. But until we kick off again in late January here are some audio files by famous geographers that you can listen to on the web.

Sophie Watson on the "Hidden spaces and urban life - geodemography" (Real Audio)
Ed Soja on the "Impact of location on culture, economics and sexuality" (Real Player Video file)
Doreen Massey on "Is The World Really Shrinking?" (Real Audio)
David Harvey "On a brief history on neo-liberalism" (mp3 download)

Friday 24th November: On Cosmopolitanism (again)

With the end of semester being a fairly frantic time of year, last months readings group was postponed. The details for the final reading group for 2006 are as follows:
Friday 24th November, 4pm (USyd, Madsen Conference Room)

Reading 1: Young et al., 2006. 'Living with difference? The 'Cosmopolitan Cty' and urban reimaging in Manchester, UK', Urban Studies, 43(10), 1687-1714.
Discussant: Therese Kenna

Reading 2: Hage, G., 2003. 'The class aesthetics of global multiculturalism', in Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society, Pluto Press: Annandale, pp.108-119.
Discussant: Adrian Emilsen

We hope to see you there.

October 27: On the Cosmopolitan City

Friday 27th October, 4pm
The University of Sydney (Madsen Conference Room)
Reading: Young et al., 2006. 'Living with difference? The 'Cosmopolitan Cty'
and urban reimaging in Manchester, UK', Urban Studies, 43(10), 1687-1714.
Discussant: Therese Kenna

Meeting Notice: Friday 29 September: The Moralities of Land

Date: Friday 29th August Time: 4pm Location: The University of Sydney (Madsen Conference Room)
Reading: Bromley, Nicholas (2004) 'The Moralities of Land' Chapter 3 in Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property, Routledge: New York.
Discussant: Rebecca Lawrence - Stockholm University
If you have any problems getting a copy of the reading please contact one of the reading group convenors.

-- Human Geography Reading Group Convenors
Therese Kenna (UNSW): t.kenna(at)student.unsw.edu.au
Adrian Emilisen (Macq): aemilsen(at)els.mq.edu.au
Sarah James (UWS): sarah.w.james(at)gmail.com

Meeting Notice: Friday 25th August: On mapping the moral contours of heterosexuality

Date: Friday 25th August
Time: 4pm
Location: The University of Sydney (Madsen Conference Room)
Reading: Hubbard, P., 2000. 'Desire/disgust: mapping the moral contours of
heterosexuality', Progress in Human Geography, 24(2), 191-217.
Discussant: Karina Luzia (Macquarie University)
We hope to see as many of you there as possible.
Cheers,
Therese.

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Human Geography Reading Group Convenors
Therese Kenna (UNSW): t.kenna(at)student.unsw.edu.au
Adrian Emilisen (Macq): aemilsen(at)els.mq.edu.au
Sarah James (UWS): sarah.w.james(at)gmail.com

Meeting Notice: Friday 28th July, On Ordinary Cities

Thanks to those who attended the reading group meeting at the end of may.
The details for this months reading group meeting are as follows:
Date: Friday 28th July
Time: 4pm
Location: The University of Sydney (Madsen Conference Room)
Reading: Robinson, J., 2005. "Ordinary Cities: between modernity and
development", Chapter 1 - Dislocating modernity.
Discussant: Kurt Iveson
Copies of the book chapter are with Kurt, Adrian and myself. Please contact
one of us if you need a copy.
We hope to see as many of you there as possible.
Cheers,
Therese.
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Urban Geography Reading Group Convenors
Therese Kenna (UNSW): t.kenna(at)student.unsw.edu.au
Adrian Emilisen (Macq): aemilsen(at)els.mq.edu.au
Sarah James (UWS): sarah.w.james(at)gmail.com