Newsletters: [AAG 2013] Audrey Kobayashi's Past President's Address on Race in Geography

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Race: An idea past its time in the discipline of geography?

AAG Posts Preliminary Program

New Field Trips Added to Program

Audrey Kobayashi's Past President's Address on "Race: An idea past its time in the discipline of geography?"

Kobayashi

In her upcoming Past President's Address at the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, Audrey Kobayashi will focus on race in the discipline of geography, tracing the concept of race through American geography. She will also focus on addresses from AAG past presidents Ellsworth Huntington and Harold Rose. "Both reflect currents of thought and controversy that guided the discipline at specific times, and both are part of the larger social and intellectual context," she writes.
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View Preliminary Program Online

A searchable preliminary program with an agenda of sessions, plenary speakers, and specialty group meetings has been posted to the AAG Annual Meeting website. The program can be browsed by presenter, keyword, title, or specialty group. Attendees and participants may also view sessions by day using the calendar of events.

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Exhibit Hall Outreach Opportunities

Promote your organization at the AAG Annual Meeting to reach more than 8,000 geographers, environmental scientists, and GIS specialists. The AAG Exhibit Hall has over 70 booths and exhibits showcasing recent publications and new geographic technologies. Review the full details of our exhibits program at www.aag.org/annualmeeting or email aagexhibits@conferencemanagers.com for additional information.

New Field Trips Added to Annual Meeting Program

The AAG has added more, expert-led field trips to its Los Angeles conference. The new offerings will cover transit-oriented development with an emphasis on L.A.'s rail transit lines, activist geographies of the Los Angeles port and goods movement complex, and Temecula's viticulture. Veteran attendees know that field trips are a fun and informative way to explore the rich physical and cultural geography of Los Angeles and the surrounding region. Other field trips include visits to locations such as Mt. Hollywood, Chinatown and the Arroyo Seco.

Add a field trip to your itinerary before it's too late. See a full list at www.aag.org/annualmeeting/fieldtrips.

Important Dates

Feb. 28 - Complete edits to abstracts and sessions
March 15 - Early registration discount ends
April 9-13 - AAG Annual Meeting

About the AAG Annual Meeting

The weeklong conference is expected to host more than 8,000 geographers from around the world and feature over 4,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars and researchers.

The AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines. All scholars, researchers, and students are welcome to attend.

Learn more.

We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!

Sincerely,

Oscar Larson
AAG Conference Director
meeting@aag.org

David Coronado
AAG Communications Director
geography@aag.org

AAG 2013

LOS ANGELES

April 9-13, 2013