Dear Colleagues, The Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with Economic Geography, the journal, and the AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group are co-sponsoring the 2010 Roepke Lecture.
The lecture will be given by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center, and is scheduled on Friday, April 16, 2010, from 4:40 PM - 6:20 PM in Blue Room, Omni Shoreham Title: Crises, Geographical Disruptions and Hegemonic Shifts Abstract: The crisis this time may be deeper and more far-reaching but it fits into an all-too common pattern of capitalist development experienced over the last forty years. What can Marxian theory, with its focus on crisis formation, teach us about this crisis and its likely outcomes, and what can the actual experience of the crisis teach us about Marxian theory? In what ways, furthermore, has the distinctive geography of the crisis - all the way from sub-prime lending in specific locations to global disruptions in financial, commodity, capital and labor flows - contributed either to the deepening of the crisis or to its partial resolution? And are we, finally, in the midst of a global shift in hegemony away from the United State towards East Asia? These are the questions I wish to probe. Discussant: Kevin R. Cox, Professor, Ohio State University ******************************** Yuko Aoyama, Ph.D.<http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/yaoyama/> Associate Professor and Associate Director Graduate School of Geography<http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/> CLARK UNIVERSITY Editor, Economic Geography<http://www.econgeography.org/>
