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Archive for February 2011

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February 28, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Teaching

Human-Environment Interactions in the Great Plains - A Lecture

I was asked last week to give a lecture through Compressed Video, a technology used to teach non-online distance education classes. The reason? A preliminary job interview with a university in Wisconsin. It was about as nervous and awkward of an experience as you could expect. I don't really give myself much chance of making it to the next stage. We'll see, I guess. Read more
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February 21, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Academic, Blog, Featured, Geography, Research

Now that was some bad-ass DOPE

My thoughts on the 2011 Dimensions of Political Ecology conference. Read more
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February 12, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Academic, Blog, Geography, Research

My Talk for Dimensions of Political Ecology in Kentucky

The full (unedited) presentation I prepared for the 2011 DOPE Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. The actual presentation I gave was quite a bit shorter, but these were my notes from which I culled my talk. Read more
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February 9, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Featured, Geography-ish, Incomplete Thoughts, Kinda-Academic, Philosophical Crap

Detroit, Eminem and Chrysler's Geographic Imagination

Exploring the geographic imagination expressed in the Chrysler advertisement featuring Eminem and the city of Detroit, Michigan, as debuted during the Super Bowl XLV broadcast. Read more
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February 6, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Pop Culture, Sports, Uncategorized, Variegated

The Super Bowl without a Super Bowl....

This year marks the first time that I haven't sat and watched the Super Bowl in memory. The earliest one I remember is, of course, the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX. Now, 25 years later, I'm skipping one. Why? Read more
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