EPISODE FORTY SIX Puentes

With EPISODE FORTY SIX  we start a series of episodes made while conducting fieldwork in Cuba in Spring 2018.  In Puentes we sit down with don Jose Poveda–poet, philosopher, man of letters and of faith–in this wide ranging discussion of his poetry, travel from Cuba to Russia, and his work as interpreter to Russian technical advisers working in Cuban industry.  This episode is in Spanish.

EPISODE FORTY FOUR Geographies of Everything

In Geographies of Everything we have the great pleasure of sitting down with world renowned academic geographer Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan.  In the first part of this two-episode series we explore space, place, offices, Madison (Wisconsin), film, deserts and much more with this intellectual pioneer of humanist geography.  Tuan is noted for bringing together philosophy and geography and his work blazed the trail for our show.

EPISODE FORTY THREE Terrae Incognitae II

In EPISODE FORTY THREE we continue with our two-part Summer Reading Series and finish our review of  John Kirtland Wright’s  1946 Presidential Address Association of American Geographers.  In this canonical text, Wright outlines his ideas for  geosophy . How was this address received by his colleagues? What would the study of geosophy look like? Professor John L. Allen joins us to explore these questions- and others -It’s our first major exploration of this key text.

EPISODE FORTY TWO Terrae Incognitae I

In EPISODE FORTY TWO we start our two-episode Summer Reading Series with a reading and discussion of John Kirtland Wright’s 1946 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Presidential Address where he outlines his ideas for geosophy.  The word is a compound of ‘geo’ (Greek for earth) and ‘sophia’ (Greek for wisdom).  It is the study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view.  Joining us is Dr. Geoffrey Martin, leading Geography historian and AAG Archivist to help put this canonical text in context.