BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Eastern Standard Time
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20251102T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11
TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20250301T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3
TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION:The Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture honors the pivotal g
 eographical work of Maxwell Professor Emeritus Donald W. Meinig\, a member
  of the Syracuse University Department of Geography from 1959 until his re
 tirement in 2005. John Western\, Professor of Geography at Syracuse Univer
 sity\, will be the featured speaker and will discuss Places of Value\, Tra
 ins of Thought.&nbsp\; \n\nProfessor Western notes that Professor Meinig\,
  in his last year\nof undergraduate teaching\, complimented a young studen
 t that she “had the mind\nof an explorer” and advised her that “life is an
  adventure and a journey.”&nbsp\; This address will encourage our graduati
 ng\ngeography majors to be explorers with Professor Meinig\, and will look
  at some\nof his loves: the landscapes of the borders of England and Wales
 \, mapping the\ntraces of culture and history enmeshed therein\, and his d
 elight in literature\nand trains.From January 2004 until July\n2011\, Prof
 essor Western pursued fieldwork in Strasbourg\, France. Two full-length ar
 ticles\, in\nthe Annals AAG and\nin The Geographical Review\, appeared fro
 m this research. After\ncompleting 162 semi-structured\, open-ended interv
 iews there\, Cosmopolitan Europe: A\nStrasbourg Self-Portrait\, was publis
 hed by Ashgate in the UK and\nthe USA in summer 2012.Professional travels 
 have taken Professor Western\nthroughout Europe and also to South Africa. 
 Having lived in the latter country\nin the mid to late 1970s\, he returned
  in the summer of 1996\, after a 16-year\nabsence\, in order to update his
  1981 book\, Outcast Cape\nTown\, which documented apartheid's effect upon
  that\ncity. Professor Western is a Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellen
 ce as well as the recipient of the University-wide Meredith Teaching Profe
 ssorship. 
DTEND:20160421T223000Z
DTSTAMP:20260518T104026Z
DTSTART:20160421T211500Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Geography Department presents: the Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate L
 ecture
UID:RFCALITEM639146832265274147
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p>The Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate L
 ecture honors the pivotal geographical work of Maxwell Professor Emeritus 
 Donald W. Meinig\, a member of the Syracuse University Department of Geogr
 aphy from 1959 until his retirement in 2005. John Western\, Professor of G
 eography at Syracuse University\, will be the featured speaker and will di
 scuss Places of Value\, Trains of Thought.&nbsp\;</p><p><br></p><p> \n\n</
 p>Professor Western notes that Professor Meinig\, in his last year\nof und
 ergraduate teaching\, complimented a young student that she “had the mind\
 nof an explorer” and advised her that “life is an adventure and a journey.
 ”&nbsp\; This address will encourage our graduating\ngeography majors to b
 e explorers with Professor Meinig\, and will look at some\nof his loves: t
 he landscapes of the borders of England and Wales\, mapping the\ntraces of
  culture and history enmeshed therein\, and his delight in literature\nand
  trains.<p><br></p><p>From January 2004 until July\n2011\, Professor Weste
 rn pursued fieldwork in Strasbourg\, France. Two full-length articles\, in
 \nthe <em>Annals AAG</em> and\nin <em>The Geographical Review</em>\, appea
 red from this research. After\ncompleting 162 semi-structured\, open-ended
  interviews there\, <u><a title="&amp\;quot\;Cosmopolitan">Cosmopolitan Eu
 rope: A\nStrasbourg Self-Portrait</a></u>\, was published by Ashgate in th
 e UK and\nthe USA in summer 2012.</p><p><br></p><p>Professional travels ha
 ve taken Professor Western\nthroughout Europe and also to South Africa. Ha
 ving lived in the latter country\nin the mid to late 1970s\, he returned i
 n the summer of 1996\, after a 16-year\nabsence\, in order to update his 1
 981 book\, <em>Outcast Cape\nTown</em>\, which documented apartheid's effe
 ct upon that\ncity. </p><p><br></p><p>Professor Western is a Maxwell Profe
 ssor of Teaching Excellence as well as the recipient of the University-wid
 e Meredith Teaching Professorship. </p><p></p>
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR