Schedule of Sponsored Sessions, Boston, 2008
Wednesday Thursday Friday
1450 Herbert Marcuse and Geography
12:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Organizers: Arun Saldanha - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis and Keith Woodward - University of Exeter
Panelists:
Keith Woodward - University of Exeter
Arun Saldanha - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
Thomas Ponniah - Harvard University
Ken Hillis - University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Introducer:
Arun Saldanha - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
Session Description: An emerging series of panel discussions at the AAG attempts to stage encounters between our discipline and less frequently cited, but nonetheless important figures in the history of critical thought. Friedrich Nietzsche and Luce Irigaray have thus far been fruitful interlocutors; in 2008 it will be the turn of Herbert Marcuse.
The idea is not that participants necessarily "work on" Marcuse, only that they manage to find a quote (and hence, a bundle of inspirations) somewhere in his work that can further their geographical thinking. Possible points of contact:
- Marcuse as thinker of multiple scales: unconscious, sexuality, civilization
- Marcuse as trans-Atlantic thinker
- Marcuse's collapse of social topology into one dimension
- Marcuse in Cold War geopolitics
- Marcuse, the American university, and urban protest movements
- Marcuse and the diffusions of popular culture
- Marcuse, Hegel, and world history
Sat Nav offers technologically sophisticated spatial data models of the world, but the technology quickly sinks into taken-for-granted everyday driving practices, such that its social and political significance is hard to assess. The gadgets themselves take space on the dashboard and windscreens, but also make new senses of space for the driver, well beyond the car. The session will present a range of theoretically informed analyses questioning the social effects, cultural meanings and political economy of in-car satellite navigation.
2:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Organizers: Chris Perkins
- 2:10 PM , Amy Propen - University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric, The Use of Sat Nav Systems: An Empowering Cultural Practice or Portentous of a Lost Geographical Imagination?
- 2:30 PM , Donald Cooke - Tele Atlas North America, The TomTom Effect: Industry Point of View
- 2:50 PM , A J. Brimicombe, - University of East London and Chao Li - University College London, Sat Nav: Rising theft of a geo-engineered must-have
- 3:10 PM , Tristan Thielmann - University of Siegen, FK615, Project "Media Geography", Navigation becomes travel scouting: The augmented space of car navigation systems
- 3:30 PM , Caren Kaplan - University of California, Davis, Precision Targets: Consumer Subjects, Militarization, and the Politics of Location
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Organizers: Chris Perkins
- 4:20 PM , Georg Gartner - TU Vienna, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Restrictions in mental representations of the world as a result of relying upon navigation systems
- 4:40 PM , Alexander Klippel - GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State, Can we afford to provide cognitively inadequate wayfinding assistance?
- 5:00 PM , Fabien Girardin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Josep Blat - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, The co-evolution of taxi drivers and their in-car navigation systems
- 5:20 PM , Jonathan F Raper, Professor - City University, The Mistakes That Satnavs Make (And What They Don't Know)
- 5:40 PM Discussant: David M. Mark - University at Buffalo
The Geographies of Media sessions incorporate a wide range of topics and contexts but are united through inquiry into the geographical implications - social, political, cultural, and economic - that are often contained within the spaces and places of different forms of media. Media extend beyond their original form and so these papers envision these geographies as part of a broader industrial and political complex in which culture is an economic commodity set within the broader frame of a global and postmodern era, and with the links between these realms and our daily lived experiences, from our cities to streets to living rooms to imaginations.
2141 Geographies of Media I: Producing Media, Producing
Place
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
- 8:00 AM Thomas A. Wikle - Oklahoma State and Jonathan C. Comer - Oklahoma State The Fight for Low Powered FM Radio in the U.S.
- 8:20 AM Elena dell'Agnese - Università di Milano-Bicocca, A Tale of Two Cities: the Geography of Media Production in Contemporary Italy
- 8:40 AM Brent J. Piepergerdes - University of Kansas, To Laugh or Cry?: Commedia all'italiana and the Critique of Cultural Change brought on by the Italian Economic Miracle.
- 9:00 AM Ann M Fletchall - Arizona State University, "The 'Real' Orange County": The Creation of a Popular Image
- 9:20 AM Stefan Zimmermann - University of Mainz, Germany, Hollywood's Orient - Geographic film-readings as entrance to another world
2241 Geographies of Media II: Musicscapes
10:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and James Craine - California State University Northridge
- 10:10 AM , Ola Johansson - University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Thomas L Bell - University of Tennessee, Touring Circuits and the Uneven Geography of Rock Music Performance
- 10:30 AM , Giorgio Hadi Curti - San Diego State University and James Craine - California State University, Northridge, Lark's Tongue in Aspect: Progressing the Scapes
- 10:50 AM , John Finn - Arizona State University, The Streets Have Rhythm: Touring Havana's Musicalized Places
- 11:10 AM , Tamara M Johnson - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Transgressing the Territories of Dance: the Construction of a Salsa Scene in North Carolina's Triangle
- 11:30 AM , Michael W. Pesses - California State University, Northridge, The city she loves me: The Los Angeles of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
2441 Geographies of Media III: Advertising
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University
- 1:00 PM , Kim McNamara - University of Western Sydney, From Pap Shot to High Street: Celebrities, Paparazzi and Fashion Branding
- 1:20 PM , Bobby M. Wilson - University Of Alabama, Advertising, Race, and American Capitalism
- 1:40 PM , M Marian Mustoe - Eastern Oregon University, Point Of Purchase Perceptions: Selling Products With Place
- 2:00 PM , Tina Mangieri - Texas A&M, "Dubai is our everything": consumption, production, and Africa-Asia imaginaries
- 2:20 PM Author(s): Ute Lehrer - York University and Michelle Szabo - York University, Constructing the City from the 40th Floor: Discourses of Toronto Condominium Advertising
2541 Geographies of Media IV: Geopolitics in Print and Cinema
3:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and James Craine - California State University Northridge
- 3:10 PM , Michael Heffernan - University of Nottingham, Mapping the Fourth Estate: Geography, Empire and the Newspaper Press in Britain and France from the 1870s to the 1930s
- 3:30 PM , Subhadra Roy - Queen Mary, University of London, Apocalypse Soon? : India in the political cartoons of English-Canadian newspapers, January-August, 1947.
- 3:50 PM , Jason Dittmer - University College London, Retconning America: Captain America in the wake of WWII and the McCarthy hearings
- 4:10 PM , Sean Carter, Dr - University of Exeter, Towards a Visual Economy of Cinematic Geopolitics
3323 Communication Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM
Geographies of Media Sessions (continued)
3141 Geographies of Media V: Visuality, Affect, and the Everyday
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University
- 8:00 AM , Sirpa Tani - Univeristy of Helsinki, Emotions, Memories and the Everyday: Possibilities of Visual Methodology in Geography
- 8:20 AM , Anna- Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen - University of Tampere, Khora of everyday life: journeying and existential places in travel diaries
- 8:40 AM , Jenny Duncan - California State University Northridge, Genocide of Affect
- 9:00 AM , Sebastien Caquard - Université De Montréal, Mapping Cinematic Cartography
- 9:20 AM , Chris Lukinbeal, PhD - Arizona State University, Cinematic Cartographies: The Challenges, Paradoxes and Perils
3241 Geographies of Media VI: Cinemascapes
10:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and Chris Lukinbeal
- Arizona State University
- 10:10 AM , Nicolas Poppe - The University of Texas at Austin, Placing Cinema, Soccer, and Tango in the Early Argentine Sound Film Los tres berretines
- 10:30 AM , Joseph Palis - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Diasporic Filmmaking and the Politics of Dislocation
- 10:50 AM , Sharon E. Wilcox - University of Texas Austin and Leo Zonn - University of Texas at Austin, Of Bears and Men: Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man"
- 11:10 AM , Kevin E. McHugh - Arizona State University, Memory and the Road to Oblivion
- 11:30 AM , Ken Hillis - University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, To Be Home Alone In Cinematic Space
3541 Geographies of Media VII: Journalism
3:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and James Craine - California State University Northridge
- 3:10 PM , Peter D Howe - Penn State, The spatial distribution of news coverage within a metropolitan area: correlations with income and population
- 3:30 PM , Sharon J Leahy, BA, MA - National University of Ireland, Galway, 'The Other' in Televisual Space: An investigation of ethnic minority group discourse on Irish current affairs television.
- 3:50 PM , Kirsten A. Jones - Rice University, The Publics of the Blogosphere
- 4:10 PM , Minelle Mahtani - University of Toronto, Diasporic Subjects and Mediating Images of Home: (Dis)Membering the Homeland Through Canadian Media Representations
- 4:30 PM , Mike Gasher - Concordia University, Interrogating the News Value of Proximity
3641 Geographies of Media VIII: Nature, Gender, and the Virtual
5:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Organizers: Jason Dittmer - University College London and James Craine
- California State University Northridge
- 5:20 PM , Jessica R Barnes, MA Student - The Ohio State University, Representing the River: A Mediated Journey Through Central Ohio's Waterways
- 5:40 PM , Nazanin Naraghi , "The Day I Became A Woman": Hejab and Iranian New Wave Cinema
- 6:00 PM , Monica M Degen, Dr. - Brunel University and Emma Wainwright, Dr. - Brunel University, Wallpaper* City Guides and gendering the urban aesthetic
- 6:20 PM , Phillipa Mitchell - The University of Auckland, Local Electronic Content: The evolving role of local government websites in New Zealand's largest metropolitan centre Auckland
- 6:40 PM , Leigh Schwartz - University of Texas at Austin, Memory and Marginalization in the Virtual Landscape
4124 The Geography of Graffiti and Inscription
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizers:terri moreau and Derek H. Alderman - East Carolina University
- 8:00 AM , Derek H. Alderman - Department of Geography, East Carolina University and Heather Ward - Coastal Resources Management Program, East Carolina University, Writing on Plywood: Toward an Analysis of Hurricane Graffiti
- 8:20 AM , terri moreau - East Carolina University, "Graffiti Hurts" and the Politics of Public Space: A Discourse Analysis
- 8:40 AM , Kevon Christopher Rhiney - University of the West Indies, Mona, Rivke Jaffe, Dr. - University of the West Indies, Mona, and Cavell Francis - University of the West Indies, Mona, Contested Spaces, Contesting Identities? Graffiti, Space and Power in Kingston, Jamaica.
- 9:00 AM , Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, Ph.D. - Texas A&M University, "Sixth Avenue is Now a Memory": Street Numbering, Spatial Inscription, and the Limits of the Official City-Text
- 9:20 AM , Suzanne McArdle - East Carolina University, The Inscription of Lesbian Identities into Cyberspace: Place-Making on MySpace.com
Session Description: Studying landscapes as 'texts' is a long-standing approach in human and cultural geography. Despite this interest in the writing and reading of place, there has not been a wealth of research that examines the actual scripting and marking of landscapes, whether these are physical or digital locations—such as in the form of graffiti, signscapes, banners, memorial narratives, public art, cyber narratives, or advertising. The session assembles papers that examine landscape inscription and marking from a variety of perspectives—whether for the purposes of political protest, commodification, government control, coping with disasters, making territorial claims, or identity expression. Cultural marking and its relationship to place occurs at a variety of scales. Spatial inscription can (and should) be defined beyond traditional notions of landscape.
4429 The Infosphere: can it be managed?
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Organizers: Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
Panelists:
Robert Kitchin - National University Of Ireland
Daniel Z. Sui - Texas A&M
Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
Discussants:
Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University
Session Description: According to Managing the Infosphere, the mobile space of information overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. International organizations, corporations and individual users strive to manage this contradictory situation. Phil Steinberg, a co-author of this new text, will respond to critiques and commentaries about his book.