Geographers’ Views: Local Environmental Struggles, Global Context
This week the Geography Department welcomes four distinguished alumni to present their research and participate in a panel discussion on Thursday, February 17th in the Gallery Theatre (ELC). Research talks will be held from 4-6pm with a panel discussion to follow from 6:30-7pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
Brian King
Bucknell Class of 1995
Assistant Professor of Geography,
Pennsylvania State University
“‘No One Dies of AIDS’: Political Ecologies of Health”
Sonja Pieck
Bucknell Class of 1999
Assistant Professor of
Environmental Studies,
Bates College
“The NGO, the Forest, and the ‘Hyperreal Indian’:
Notes on Transnational Amazonian Politics”
Jacqueline Vadjunec
Bucknell Class of 1997
Assistant Professor of Geography,
Oklahoma State University
“Tapping into ‘Florestania’: New Amazonian Geographies, Changing Land-Use and Emerging Identities in Acre, Brazil”
Joel Wainwright
Bucknell Class of 1995
Assistant Professor of Geography,
Ohio State University
“Climate Leviathan”