Free and open to the public. For more information and registration (optional): http://courses.washington.edu/phequity/placeconference.shtml

PLACE, HEALTH AND EQUITY CONFERENCE

Free and open to the public. For more information and registration (optional): http://courses.washington.edu/phequity/placeconference.shtml

May 7-8, 2009

8:30am – 5:00pm
HUB Room 310 (May 7), Room 106B (May 8)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

AM SESSIONS: FREE and OPEN TO ALL
BREAKFAST and REFRESHMENTS will be provided.

TOPICS and INVITED SPEAKERS (partial list):

“Attachment and Dislocation: African American Journeys in the U.S.” – Carol B. Stack, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley

“Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Place” – Linda M. Burton, James B Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke University, and Stephen A. Matthews, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Penn State University

“Place, Historical Trauma, and Health” – Karina Walters, William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington School of Social Work

“Formalizing Place In Geographic Information Systems” – Michael Goodchild, Professor of Geography and Director of spatial@ucsb

OVERVIEW:
The Place, Health and Equity Conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the cutting edge of research and scholarship on the intersections of place, racial and social inequity, and human well-being. Surging interest in place as a social context that is deeply connected to larger patterns of social advantage and disadvantage calls for multifaceted conceptions of place as well as methods that can flexibly encompass geographic location, material form, the meaning-making of diverse groups, and the dynamics of rapidly changing rural and urban environments. The Place, Health and Equity Conference aims to move the study of place forward by focusing lively interdisciplinary attention on new conceptual and methodological directions.

UW SPONSORS:
Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology, College of Built Environments, College of the Environment, Department of Anthropology, Department of American Ethnic Studies, Department of Geography, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Diversity Research Initiative, Division of Social Sciences – College of Arts and Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, School of Social Work, West Coast Poverty Center

For more information, contact Susan P. Kemp 202.543.8352 spk@u.washington.edu or ManChui Leung mleung8@u.washington.eduPlace, Health and Equity