The Graduate School of Geography is proud to co-host, with the journal Human Geography, the 18th Annual Critical Geography Conference at Clark.

The keynote address by Neil Smith, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4 in Jefferson 320.

On Saturday, Nov. 5, the plenary session will include panelist discussions on the theme of the conference by: Vinay Gidwani, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, with expertise in post-socialism and justice, labor geographies, Marxism, identity politics and subaltern social movements, geographies of work, agroecological transformations, social theory, and India; Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D., Clark University, with expertise in environment and development, political ecology, forestry, agriculture and landscape change, with an emphasis on the role of gender, class and “popular” vs. “formal” science in resource allocation and land use; Joel Wainwright, Ph.D., Ohio State University, with expertise in political economy of development, environmental and agrarian change, and social theory; and Melissa Wright, Ph.D., Penn State University, with expertise in political economy, Mexico and Mexico-U.S. border, social justice, political and urban geography, and feminist studies.

Also speaking on Saturday will be social and political activist (and politician) Tom Hayden.

Sunday, November 6, will include additional sessions.

The events of the conference are free and open to the public.