AAG 2006

These images are from a panel at the 2006 Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago. It was named, "Postmodern Geographies of Experience." The session description looks a bit like this:

This panel session invites scholars to discuss the current state of geographic research addressing the problem of experience. In Geography's attempt to understand the variety of ways humans inhabit the earth, the place of individual experience has been alternately lauded and demonized. The session aims to uncover the ways in which the critiques of such geographic inquiry have been assimilated, understood, rejected, and synthesized. Specifically, the session will take up the challenge of a diversity of experience evident in postmodernity. Is it possible to speak of a human experience? Or, is experience necessarily limited to the scale of the individual?

Key points around which the discussion will focus include:

• Methodology: how do we access experience in a social context?

• Scale: how many people can we talk about in terms of experience?

• Notions of evidence: what indicates the experience of one or of many?

• Individual agency: is experience other than a social construction?

• Representation: in what ways do our means of communication shape our experiences?

The pictures were taken by the wonderful Melanie McCalmont of the University of Wisconsin.

The panelists are from left to right:

J.Nicholas Entrikin, Michael Curry, Jamie L. Winders, Paul C. Adams, Robert D. Sack, Nicholas Bauch, and myself (Christopher Limburg) pictured in the last photo.

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