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MA Geography Thesis Defence - Richard Lagani - June 15 2012

A Master of Arts Thesis defence for Richard Lagani, Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, will be held on Friday, June 15, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., in MC C407.  The title of his thesis is: "Door Locks and Domestic Space: Unlocking Key Knowledge of the Home".

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Mike Ripmeester; External Examiner: Dr. Deryck Holdsworth, Penn State; Committee Members: Dr. Phil Mackintosh; Dr. David Butz; Chair: TBA.

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The following Brock MA Geography students and faculty are presenting their research at the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Meetings in Waterloo:

Jeff Boggs.  “Can Cultural Industry Policies Be Understood as Ethical Consumption Policies?”

Nancy Cook and David Butz. “Creating Visual Spatial Knowledge: A Case for Auto-photography”  

Daryl F. Dagesse. “The Use of Game Cameras for the Time Lapse Recording of Temporally Dependent Phenomena in Physical and Human Geography” 

Christopher Fullerton. "A Longitudinal Study of Brock University's Highly Successful U-Pass Program"

Marilyne Jollineau. “Understanding vineyard variability using spatial analysis” 

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh. “The Farm-like City: The Globe, Historiography, and Toronto, 1860-1900” 

Michael Ripmeester. “Making space for intangibility: exploring the historical geographies of intangible heritage” 

Dragos Simandan. "Distance, Society, and Space" 

Tomasz Wierzba. “Producing Cultural Space: Exploring the Relationship between discourse and cultural policy in St. Catharines, Ontario” 

 

 

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We are accepting applications from qualified domestic students for September 2012 admission to the MA in Geography.

 

For information, or to arrange a visit, please contact Dr. David Butz at dbutz@brocku.ca or by phone at (905) 688-5550 ext 3205.

 

 

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