Coffee Hour

Minnesota Geographer

Fridays, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Blegen Hall 445 (cookie/coffee reception begins at 3:15pm)

For a half century, the Department of Geography has hosted Coffee Hour, the longest-running speaker series at the University of Minnesota and among Geography Departments in the United States.

On Friday afternoons, geography students and faculty, other colleagues from throughout the University, and visitors gather to hear the speaker, exchange ideas, and enjoy a snack with colleagues.

FALL 2009 Coffee Hour schedule

Setp 18: Jason Read, University of Southern Maine,Lecture: Figures of the common: species being, transindividuality, virtual action
Sept 25: Tiziana Terranova, Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Lecture: The becoming immaterial of the global common
Oct 2: Cesare Casarino, University of Minnesota, Lecture: Universalism of the Common
Oct 9: Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley, Lecture: The anger of the poor can go in many directions
Oct 16: Steve Kurtz, University of Buffalo, Lecture: Expression management and the cultural commons
Oct 30: Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario, Lecture: Species-beings, commons and biocommunism
Nov 6: Nate Holdren, University of Minnesota, Lecture: Back to the future: of commons past
Nov-13 Kathi Weeks, Duke University, Lecture: Reproducing the common
Nov-20 Ron Greene, University of Minnesota, Lecture: I am everyday people: notes on becoming a communicative commoner

Address: 414 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-6080
Fax: 612-624-1044
Email: geog@umn.edu

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Last modified on August 19, 2009