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Featured Session Tracks
Geography & Human Rights
The AAG and the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are jointly sponsoring a special track of sessions addressing Geography and Human Rights. As wide variety of geographers produce methods and analysis of interest to human rights work around the world, the implications and importance of spatial relationships continue to move toward the foreground of debate. This session will review a cross-section of geography with applications to ongoing human rights work. Attendees with relevant experience are encouraged to attend and contribute their knowledge to a developing database on geography and human rights.
Discrimination in the City
Thursday, March 26, 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Capri 101, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Organizer(s): Program Committee
Chair(s): Ben Marsh, Bucknell University
8:00 *Aretina R. Hamilton, University of Kentucky, Everything Must Change: The Evolution and Eradication of Minority Neighborhoods in American Cities
8:20 *Jordan Kemp, University of Western Ontario; Godwin Arku, University of Western Ontario; Jason Gilliland, University of Western Ontario, Landscape Literacy: Reading into the Role of Local Actors, Media, and Public Policy in Directing Urban Growth Patterns in London, Ontario
8:40 *Ben Marsh, Bucknell University
Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Discriminatory political geographies institutionalized through abuse of municipal annexation processes
9:00 *Jennifer Hinojosa, Binghamton University, A Comparative Analysis of Vietnamese and Salvadoran Refugee Groups in Washington D.C. and Virginia, 1980-2000
The Geographies of Fear, Danger, and Violence
Thursday, March 26, 10:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Capri 101, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Organizer(s): Program Committee
Chair(s): Paul Richards
10:10 *Steve McClure, George Mason University, Sexual Violence, Safe and Scary Spaces: Geography of Fear
10:30 *Linda Sandberg, Vulnerable women and protective men Women's and men's responses to threatening situations in Umeå, Sweden
10:50 *Melissa Stepney, University of Reading, Young women and alcohol: a cross cultural study of psycho-social and spatial practices in the night-time economy
11:10 *C. Debra M Furr-Holden, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Philip Leaf , PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Daniel Webster, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Adam J Milam, BA, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Evaluating the Impact of Alcohol Outlet Proximity to Schools on Children's Exposure to Violence, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Implications for Alcohol Policy and Zoning Enforcement
11:30 *Paul Richards, University College London; Paul Longley, Professor, University College London, New ways of analysing the fear of crime in London
Human Rights and Geographic Research
Thursday, March 26, 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Capri 101, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Organizer(s): Program Committee
Chair(s): Douglas Richardson, Association of American Geographers
1:00 Douglas Richardson, Association of American Geographers, Geography and the Science and Human Rights Coalition
1:20 Alberto Giordano, Texas State University, A Spatial-Analytical Perspective of the Holocaust in Italy
1:40 Vidyamali Samarasinghe, American University, Caught in the middle, women, prostitution and cross-border anti-trafficking policy initiatives
2:00 Benson Funk Wilder: Humanitarian Information Unit, The Making of Humanitarian Space in Eastern DR Congo
2:20 Susan Wolfinbarger, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geovisualization of Human Rights
2:40 Lars Bromley, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Engaging Human Rights Organizations
Session Description: The Association of American Geographers and the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are jointly sponsoring this session on Geography and Human Rights. A wide variety of geographers produce methods and analysis of interest to human rights work around the world. This session will review a cross-section of geography with applications to ongoing human rights work. Geographers and others with relevant experience are encouraged to attend and contribute their knowledge to a developing database on geography and human rights.
Spatial Autocorrelation in Environmental Justice Research: Problems, Prospects, and Future Directions (Sponsored by the Hazards Specialty Group; Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group; Urban Geography Specialty Group)
Thursday, March 26, 3:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Capri 101, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Organizer(s): Jayajit Chakraborty, University of South Florida; Timothy W. Collins, University of Texas, El Paso
Chair(s): Sara Grineski, University of Texas at El Paso
3:10 *Jayajit Chakraborty, University of South Florida, Spatial Autocorrelation and the Selection of Regression Models for Environmental Justice Analysis
3:30 *K Animashaun Ducre, Syracuse University, Racialized Spaces: Exploratory Space as a Variable in Environmental Justice Analysis
3:50 *Marilyn M Williams, University of Denver, The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Pollution in Houston: Analyzing Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Inequities
4:10 *Timothy W. Collins, Ph.D., University of Texas - El Paso; *Sara E Grineski, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso, Environmental Injustices in Transnational Context: Predictors of proximity to industrial hazards in El Paso/Ciudad Juárez
4:30 *Jeremy Mennis, Temple University, Spatial Analysis and Explanations of Environmental Justice
Refugee and Human Rights Issues
Thursday, March 26, 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Capri 101, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Organizer(s): Program Committee
Chair(s): Chris Ulack, University of Texas at Austin
5:20 *L Joe Morgan, PhD, University of North Carolina At Greensboro, Potential Privacy Concerns: Issues of human rights and change in the newly emerging democracy of Bhutan
5:40 *Jonathan Roux, Concordia University, Personal Narratives of Place and Belonging after a Trauma: Life Stories of Haitian Refugees in Montreal
6:00 *Syed Samad Uddin-Ahmed, Project Leader & MPPIA candidate, William Paterson University, "Projects Abroad Human Rights: The Case of The Youngsfield Military Base Refugees in Cape Town, South Africa."
6:20 *Chris Ulack, University of Texas at Austin, The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: American Resettlement Policy and Practice
6:40 Lars Bromley, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Closing remarks
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