2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV Online Program

Paper Session: 5255 Media Geography XIII: Landscape, History & the Media is scheduled on Thursday, 3/26/09, from 10:10 AM - 11:50 AM in North Hall N116, Las Vegas Convention Center Sponsorship(s): Communication Geography Specialty Group Historical Geography Specialty Group Cultural Geography Specialty Group Organizer(s): Giorgio Hadi Curti - San Diego State University Christina Dando - University of Nebraska-Omaha Chair(s): Eric D. Olmanson - University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract(s):   10:10 AM   Author(s): *Christina E. Dando - University of Nebraska-Omaha  Abstract Title: Landscape, History & the Media: Straying Across the Field of Possibilities 10:30 AM   Author(s): *Steven Hoelscher - University Of Texas  Abstract Title: Dresden, a Camera Accuses 10:50 AM   Author(s): *Eric D. Olmanson - University of Wisconsin-Madison  Abstract Title: The "Burma Surgeon" and Images of Burma in the Media, 1941-1969 11:10 AM   Author(s): *Leah Elizabeth Jones, Second Year PhD Student - Swansea University  Abstract Title: 'William Eugene Smith and LIFE Magazine: The Haunting Landscapes of South Wales, 1950' 11:30 AM   Author(s): *Brenda A Kayzar - University of Minnesota  Abstract Title: Imagining a Community as an Outcome of Philanthropic Intervention Session Description: Geography has long had a relationship with the media, from Friedrich Ratzel's training as a journalist to our complicated relationship with National Geographic.  Geographers have used, for many years, newspaper and other media to explore both past and present constructions of places and peoples.  This session seeks to expand work at the nexus of history and the media as they pertain to landscapes.

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