Dear Colleagues: Please note this year's Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography will be followed by a reception sponsored by Economic Geography to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the journal. Everyone is welcome.
The 2014 Roepke Lecture is given by Linda McDowell, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford. Friday, 4/11/2014, from 4:40 PM - 6:20 PM in Ballroom D, TCC, First Floor (followed by a reception in the same room, 6:20-8:00 PM) Lecture Title: The Lives of Others: Gendering Labour Geography Abstract: My aim in this lecture is to explore the ways in which taking gender relations seriously might challenge, change or complement the theoretical and empirical agenda of labour geographers. I want to explore the consequences of turning the focus on women workers and on gender relations instead of on trends in male employment for arguments about economic restructuring and labour market change. I shall argue that the identification of epochal changes by economic geographers and others (the end of work, the end of Fordism, the rise of the new economy for example) ignores key economic shifts, including women's more permanent attachment to the labour market, the commodification of servicing work and the changing connections between class and gender relations. I shall illustrate my argument by an historical analysis of the changing nature of the UK economy since 1945, drawing on oral narratives of migrant women workers who entered the UK at different periods between 1945 and 2007. Discussant: Professor Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College The Roepke Lecture is co-sponsored by Economic Geography, the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group. Please plan on joining us. Yuko ******************************** Yuko Aoyama, Ph.D. Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow Graduate School of Geography CLARK UNIVERSITY Editor, Economic Geography
