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.