Yi-Fu Tuan was a towering intellectual figure and Professor Emeritus of Geography at UW-Madison. Tuan was a prolific writer and deep thinker who was known as the father of humanistic geography. See: UW–Madison mourns influential, beloved geography professor Yi-Fu Tuan.
The Yi-Fu Lecture Series features a wide variety of U.S. and international guest lecturers from all geographic disciplines. Lecturers at these Friday seminars also often speak at brown-bag lunches, one-on-one student sessions, and breakfast meetings with student interest groups as part of their visit. Doctoral students are invited to present their final research. The lecture series was initiated by Dr. Tuan (pictured at left) and receives enthusiastic support as a department and campus tradition.
All lectures are presented in room 180 of Science Hall every Friday at 3:30 PM. For those unable to attend in person, the meeting can be joined via Livestream https://go.wisc.edu/l880yf except when otherwise indicated. Alumni, friends and the public are always invited to attend.
This talk will examine three contemporary challenges to public space and national parks, including conversations and conflicts over memorial removal, the privatization of our public lands and the consequences of disinvestment in the public realm. Lisa Benton-Short is Professor of Geography at George Washington University. She is an urban geographer with an interest in […]
Geographic information science (GIScience) and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) traditionally have placed an emphasis on locations in physical space without paying sufficient attention to humans. This presentation begins with the question of “What does ‘geo’ mean in GIScience and GeoAI?” and proposes a human-centered space-place framework for future development of GIScience and GeoAI. Humans are […]
Eaves, LaToya – Geography and Sustainability Department
Child labor. Orphanages. One-room schoolhouses. Childhood diseases and infant mortality. Crowded cities and remote rural spaces. Children’s spaces of the early 20th century can illuminate broader social trends of a place and time through examining the cultural and material production of spaces, as well as children’s experiences of such spaces. The project shared here explores […]