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Black Geographies: Insurgent Knowledge, Spatial Poetics, and the Politics of Blackness A symposium hosted by the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley Organizers: Dr. Jovan Lewis, Dr. Sharad Chari, Camilla Hawthorne, Kaily Heitz October 11-13, 2017 UC Berkeley CFP Deadline: June 16, 2017 Black liberation movements around the world, from the streets ofContinue reading “Black Geographies: Insurgent Knowledge, Spatial Poetics, and the Politics of Blackness (CFP)”

During the AAG in Boston, we elected our inaugural slate of officers. Presenting the leadership team:  Chair (2017-2020) – LaToya Eaves Vice Chair (2017-2019) – Jovan Lewis Secretary-Treasurer (2017-2019) – Camilla Hawthorne Communication Directors (2017-2019) – Willie Jamaal Wright, Brian Williams, Matthew Cook Student Representatives – Pavithra Vasudevan (2017-2018), Sophonie Bazile and Mae Miller (2017-2019)Continue reading “Black Geographies Specialty Group Officers”

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM  5129 Filmmaker meets critics: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Room 309, Hynes, Third Level 5119 Looking at High- and Low-Level Crime, Criminality, and Criminalization in a Geographic Context. Room 210, Hynes, Second Level 5181 Food, Retail, Land Use, and Environment Interactive Short Papers Clarendon, Marriott, Third Floor 5128 Health andContinue reading “Sunday, April 9”

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM 4105 Planning the (White) City: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Rise of the Homogenous City, Session I Room 105, Hynes, Plaza Level 4182 Urban Metaphors and Social Inequalities in the Americas Dartmouth, Marriott, Third Floor 4183 Geographies of Slow Violence 1: Gendered Violence Exeter, Marriott, Third Floor 4158 Political Geographies ofContinue reading “Saturday, April 8”

8:00 AM – 9:40 AM 3120,3220 Human Geography Poster Session II Hall C, Hynes, Second Floor *** Poster #075: Defining and Understanding Street Art as it Relates to the    Black Lives Matter Movement in Baltimore 3168 Racial Capitalism: Mobilizing a Theoretical Framework for Thinking and Acting the world St. Botolph, Marriott, Second Floor 3133 PietyContinue reading “AAG 2017 – Friday, April 7”