The Department of Geography faculty calls for the removal of Silent Sam from McCorkle Place. As geographers we challenge our students to consider the importance of cultural landscapes and built environments in reflecting and shaping our identities, social relations, and … Read more
Mark Ortiz is in Bonn at COP 23. He and other UNC students are blogging from the event, and their reports are being published by the DTH. Please check it out! http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/11/summit-entry-one-1106
Hosted by the National Humanities Center, this NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute explores modern Vietnam in order to situate the American War in broader spatial settings and longer historical contexts. “Contested Territory: America’s Role in Southeast Asia, … Read more
Andrew Curley is the first speaker at Miami University’s Geographies of Indigenous Peoples lecture series. The talk of his talk is “T’aa hwo aji’t’eego: sovereignty, livelihood, and challenging coal in the Navajo Nation.” http://miamioh.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D235142439
Andrew Curley recently received a research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for the project “The End of Navajo Coal,” which builds on his dissertation work on the social nature of coal in the Navajo Nation (2013-2014). Andrew’s follow up project … Read more
Dr. Elizabeth Olson (UNC Geography and Global Studies), with Mr. Martin Hunicutt (Duke Clinical Research Institute), has been approved for a $25,000 funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a project on Bookend Caregiving, or intergenerational … Read more
The Center for the Study of the American South is hosting a discussion at 3:00 pm at the Love House & Hutchins Forum(410 E. Franklin Street) specifically for graduate students, with two of the panelists (Grace Hale and Sheffield Hale), … Read more
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This summer Javier Arce-Nazario presented geo/visual/island at the Casa Blanca exhibition hall of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. More than a thousand visitors visited the exhibit from Puerto Rico and around the world, many of which were students from … Read more
Professor Mike Emch has been awarded a US$4.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program with colleagues from Public Policy and Sociology. The grant titled “Confronting Energy Poverty: Building an Interdisciplinary Evidence … Read more
