...David Harvey visits DePaul Geography

During Winter Term 2006 the Department of Geography was very proud to welcome David Harvey, an internationally recognized scholar and critical geographer of the first rank, who has changed the ways that we can conceive our discipline and geographical inquiry.  Over the past several decades Professor Harvey has collected numerous awards and honors – he has also garnered his share of criticism as one would expect.  Through all of this he has answered his critics with the answer of a scholar – that is with stronger and more clearly articulated scholarship.   A simple listing of his major books published since 1973 (original works and collections) provide some sense of the scope of his work and the trajectory of his project:

·        The Limits to Capital (1982)

·        The Urbanization of Capital (1985)

·        Consciousness and the Urban Experience (1985)

·        The Urban Experience (1989)

·        The Condition of Postmodernity (1989)

·        Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (1996)

·        Spaces of Hope (2000)

·        The New Imperialism (2003)

·        A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)

Professor Harvey was invited by the Department to visit the University in support of the landmark series Confronting Empire, which was held during the winter term and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.  This outstanding and intellectually robust series was organized by a number of contributing faculty representing several units of the College, including Geography, Political Science, Sociology, and Religious Studies.  His public lecture, given on the evening of February 6 and titled Neoliberal Imperialism and the City, was attended by over 200 students and faculty.  He also conducted a seminar for a smaller group of faculty the next day.  The visit of Professor Harvey and our support for the Confronting Empire series are another example of the commitment of DePaul Geography to the nurturing and sustenance of critical inquiry and intellectual discourse both inside and outside the classroom at DePaul.

This program was supported by the Betty Leahy Fund for Geography.

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