Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Schedule, Spring 2006

All lectures presented in Science Hall Room 180, 3:30 pm

Spring 2006 Lecture History

January 27, 2006 - Dr. Frances Westley
Biography

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interdisciplinary Excellence: A Competency Based Approach

February 3, 2006 - Mara Goldman and Brenda Parker

Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Parker: Sex and the City: Gendering Neoliberalism

Goldman: The Whereabouts of Wildlife and the Politics of Knowledge: Maasai and Conservation Science in Northern Tanzania

February 10, 2006 - Dr. Paul Nadasdy
Biography

Department of Anthropology, American Indian Studies Program, Univ of Wisconsin -- Madison

Boundaries Among Kin: Kluane and White River First Nations and the Problem of 'Overlap' in Yukon First Nation Final Agreements

February 17, 2006 - Dr. Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Biography

Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison

*This lecture by Dr. Guerin-Gonzales is the second in a special series highlighting work in Feminist Geography during the 2005-2006 year. The series is entitled "Geographies of Feminism and Difference: Evolving Sites and Scales of Citizenship, Identity, and Politics". Please contact lharris@geography.wisc.edu for details.

The Space of Difference: Public Spectacles in Appalachia, South Wales and the American Southwest

"The Space of Difference: Public Spectacles in Appalachia, South Wales, and the American Southwest" examines the contested racial terrain of public space by focusing on public celebrations, public protests, and public amusements in three coal mining regions, the Sangre de Cristos in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado; the Appalachian mountains in the American South; and the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales. This work is part of a larger binational comparative study of miners and their families in the coalfields of Colorado-New Mexico, Appalachia, and South Wales that addresses questions of identity and citizenship during a period of extensive international migration, from 1890 to 1947.

February 24, 2006 - Dr. Feng Sheng Hu
Biography

Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Ice-Age Refugia and Holocene Development of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: From DNA Input to Solar Output

March 3, 2006 - Dr. Diane Rocheleau
Biography

Department of Geography, Clark University

Outlasting Empire(s): The Invisible Ecologies of Machakos

April 6, 2006 - Dr. Laura Pulido - Hilldale Lecture
(Thursday 7pm, WHS)
Biography

Department of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity, Univ of Southern California

Race, Regions and the Black/White Binary: Latinos in the New South

April 14, 2006 - Dr. Jennifer Hyndman
Biography

Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University

Feminist Meets Political: Geographies of Rapprochement

April 21, 2006 - Dr. Pat Bartlein - Glenn Trewartha Honorary Lecture
Biography

Department of Geography, University of Oregon

A Hierarchical View of the Climatic Controls of Wildfire in the Western United States

April 28, 2006 - Dr. Martin Doyle - Treacy Lecture
Biography

Department of Geography, University of North Carolina

Studying River Environments: Integration Through Disciplinary Juxtaposition

May 5, 2006 Dr. Susan Hanson
Biography

Department of Geography, Clark University

Entrepreneurship, Gender and Citizenship

Abstract:

How and why do gender and place matter to entrepreneurship? I consider this question from a theoretical stance and in light of data collected in two U.S. metropolitan areas, Worcester, Massachusetts and Colorado Springs, Colorado, urban areas of similar size but extremely different levels of rootedness among their populations. The analysis examines how gender and place together shape (1) entrepreneurs' location decisions, (2) entrepreneurs' rootedness to place, and (3) various consequences of that rootedness, including business culture, access to resources, and the mentoring of nascent entrepreneurs. These processes hold important implications for meanings of gender, for meanings of entrepreneurship, and for the impacts of entrepreneurs on the places in which their businesses are located.