Session One: 10:00-11:45am

10:00-10:05: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Mark Pendras

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

10:05-10:30: A new Quantitative Revolution

Elvin Wyly

Geography and Urban Studies

University of British Columbia

10:30-10:55: (Im)possible Obamas: Conservative America, historical crisis, and future geographies of progress

Yonn Direwechter

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

10:55-11:20: "A sorry state: apology excepted"

Marv Waterstone

University of Arizona

Sarah de Leeuw

University of Northern British Columbia

11:20-11:45: Critical geography and the right to the city

Mark Purcell

Department of Urban Design and Planning

University of Washington Seattle

LUNCH: 11:45-1:00pm

Session Two: 1:00-2:40pm

1:00-1:25: (En)count(er)ing cougars in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Rosemary-Clair Collard

Department of Geography

University of British Columbia

1:25-1:50: The regional landscape as socio-natural nexus

David A. Rossiter

Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley College

Western Washington University

1:50-2:15: Urban recreation, place attachment, and political voice: sport as liberation ecology?

Anne Taufen Wessels

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

2:15-2:40: Title TBA

Rowan Suzanne Ellis

Department of Geography/South Asian Studies

University of Washington Seattle

BREAK: 2:40-3:00

Session Three: 3:00-4:30pm

3:00-3:25: Subprime state of race

Elvin Wyly

Geography and Urban Studies

University of British Columbia

3:25-3:50: Household benefits from the housing boom: expanding gains and re-concentrating wealth in the United States, 1995-2005

Jonathan Glick

Department of Geography

University of Washington Seattle

3:50-4:15: Short film: Down Town Dream

Mattew Kelly

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

Aaron Matthews

4:15-4:40: Labor and urban politics: urban industrial policy reconsidered

Mark Pendras

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

BREAK: 4:40-5:00pm

Session Four: 5:00-6:00pm

5:00-5:25: Re-framing the governance of city-regions: learning from East-South comparative in post-authoritarian times

Yonn Dierwechter

Urban Studies

University of Washington Tacoma

5:25-5:50: "Armoring NAFTA": the geo-politics of the Merida Initiative

Dominic Corva

Department of Geography

University of Washington Seattle