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Black Geographies Specialty Group Calendar Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers New Orleans, LA April 9-April 14, 2018 (*** denotes BGSG-organized events)   Monday, April 9 Black Geographies Past and Present: A Visit to the Whitney Plantation and the Black Geographies City Tour (BGSG Field Trip)*** Monday, April 9 9:00 AM-5:00 PM RegisterContinue reading “Black Geographies at the New Orleans AAG 2018”

Dear BGSG community, The executive committee is pleased to announce two graduate student awards in advance of the 2018 AAG Annual Meeting: Clyde Woods Black Geographies Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Award The Clyde Woods Black Geographies Graduate Student Paper Award is given to the best paper on a Black geographies topic written by an MA or PhD student, who is a BGSG member.Continue reading “2018 BGSG Travel and Paper Awards”

From Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon (University of Louisville) and Dr. Ellen Kohl (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) We are looking for a few more graduate students to participate in our upcoming Antipode Foundation funded conference: “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters:” The role of spirituality in African American Environmental Activism.  We will host the conference from MarchContinue reading “Call for Graduate Student Participants: Race, Environment and Spirituality Mini-Workshop”

Title: Unknowable: Geography and Black Feminisms   Editor: LaToya E. Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University   Expressions of interest are invited to contribute to an edited book on Black Feminist Geographies.   Unknowable: Geography and Black Feminisms articulates the empirical and philosophical work of Black women and Black feminisms in geography. The edited volume engendersContinue reading “Call for Chapter Proposals–Unknowable: Geography and Black Feminisms”