final program - Canadian Association of Geographers

Meetings, Lunches, Workshops and Social Events
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Daily Activities:
-Crossroads Challenge Scavenger Hunt and Walking Tours
(Information at CAG Table)
-ESRI Display Arts 2E5
-Art Installation Arts 2E1
-Poster Sessions Arts 2E5, 30 minute sessions (10:00, 12:45 and 3:00)
-Concurrent Sessions T1-A through T4-J
Lunch Study Group Meetings
Graduate Student Lunch
Jodi Axelson
Arts 2C16
Study Group #1
CWAG
Arts 3E8
Study Group #13
Education
Arts 2E7
Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture and Reception
Dr. Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University
"Coming to the intersection: Impossible conversations on race and gender along the road"
Date: Tuesday, May 29
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Lecture Location: Lecture Arts 1E1, WLU (public lecture)
Reception Location: Turret Night Club, Student Union Building, WLU (CAG attendees only)
Sponsored by the Canadian Women and Geography Study Group (CWAG)
Description:
Recent geographical scholarship has adopted intersectional analysis as a dominant paradigm. But the journey
to intersectionality has been politically fraught and methodologically challenging. This presentations recounts
some of the conversations that took place along this road.
Biography: Dr. Audrey Kobayashi
A native of British Columbia, Dr. Kobayashi completed a B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) at the University of British
Columbia, and a PhD (1983) at UCLA. She taught in Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University from
1983 to 1994, when she went to Queen's University, initially as Director of the Institute of Women's Studies (1994
to 1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography. Dr. Kobayashi has also spent time as a visiting professor at the
University of British Columbia, University College London and, most recently, Canterbury University, Christchurch,
New Zealand. In 1994, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Insitute in Washington, DC. Other
positions include President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1999-2001), and Editor, People Place
and Region, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Kobayashi is currently the president of the
Association of American Geographers.