My department at #UofT is sending announcements to grad students and faculty members who are going to the #AAG in Detroit in a couple of weeks to ask us to register with the safety abroad office, because the USA is a dangerous hostile zone now.

If I end up going, this will likely be the very last time I go to the US in the foreseeable future.

@academicchatter

I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of #geography as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.

It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.

I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x

#AAG #academia

It is super weird how the #AAG conference is always held at a different time per year. In the past six years it has varied between January to April. As a Finn who likes orderly things and schedules, it baffles me, and I wonder what the reason is.

I wager it's something fairly ordinary, such as better rates or availability for the venues, but it might also be a peculiarity of American culture that I am not aware of. I have my hopes up for the latter.

Kindly informed by #AAG when will be our #AAG2025 panel/paper in #Detroit #Conference:

The Illusion of the #Web3 #Decentralization:
Distributing Power or Creating a New Tech-Savvy Elite?"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5008910
@ssrn

3/28/2025
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22715 @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics @publicpolicy @publicpolicyprocess @anthropology