Double Displacement: Unlikely Intersection of Americans

Mission Palms Conference Room: Covetto 60 E 5th St., Arizona

Overview During WWII, President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 resulted in approximately 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry to be forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast, then incarcerated in […]

The “Space Time Continuum”: GeoHistoGram Style

Mission Palms Conference Room: San Pedro 60 E 5th St., Tempe, Arizona

Overview Timelines provide students with a look at chronology. Maps allow students to observe spatial information. The GeoHistoGram provides educators with a resource that puts spatial information and chronological information […]

GeoCircle: Projects through Geographic Inquiry

Webinar

Summary: Explore ideas for projects in on-level World Geography and AP Human Geography. Join the discussion of how the Geographic Inquiry process can help create projects for students. Using the […]

Displacement and Belonging

Webinar

Overview This webinar explores the lived realities of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a particular focus on their senses of belonging to different places. By focusing on Jordan, […]

Spaceship in the Desert

Webinar

Overview In 2006, Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first “zero-carbon” city: Masdar City. This talk investigates the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures […]

Toxic Supply Chains of War in Iraq

Webinar

Overview Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq -- one of the most heavily bombarded cities in Iraq. Based on […]

The Cost of Borders

Webinar

Overview Borders, rather than markers of sovereign territory, are marketplaces comprised of always costly, and often deadly transactions. Moving from Lesbos, to Gaza, to Tijuana, the project shows how the […]

Redlining is Only Part of the Story

Webinar

Overview Redlining, some scholars contend, has become a “narrative crutch” that obscures a much longer history of housing discrimination. Redlining didn’t create systemic racism in American housing patterns – it […]