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Apr 29, 2013 ... Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City. University of New York Graduate Center, will discuss ...
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will discuss “The Contradictions of Capital” at the Inaugural Professor Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture Monday, April 29, 2013, 5:15 P.M. in Maxwell Auditorium. Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called "one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century," earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His reflections on the importance of space and place (and more recently "nature") have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include Rebel Cities; The Enigma of Capital; A Companion to Marx’s Capital; The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Urbanization of Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference; Spaces of Hope; and Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. His numerous awards include the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers and the 2002 Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his "outstanding contribution to the field of geographical enquiry and to anthropology." He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University. The Professor Donald W. Meinig Lecture honors the pivotal geographical work of Maxwell Professor Emeritus Donald W. Meinig, a member of the Syracuse University Department of Geography from 1959 until his retirement in 2005. Meinig was the author of many pathbreaking books in historical geography – including The Great Columbian Plain (1968), Imperial Texas (1969) and Southwest: Three People’s in Geographical Change, 1600-1970 (1971) – but is most well known for his magisterial four-volume The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History (1986-2004). The speaker for the Professor Donald W. Meinig Lecture was chosen (and will be chosen in the future) by undergraduate Geography majors. Following the lecture the Department of Geography will host a banquet for its graduating majors where they will be able to meet and exchange ideas with Donald Meinig and David Harvey. At the banquet the Department will also bestow its awards for outstanding graduating seniors: the National Council for Geographic Education Outstanding Student Award; the Preston E. James Awards for Excellence; and the George F. Cressey Awards.