What's New @MizzouGeog? 3.30.20

Good Monday morning everyone, and welcome “back” from Spring Break!

As the great country music sage Kenney Chesney once crooned, We’re all here ‘cause we’re not all there! Where is “here” now that we’re not all “there”? Ah, Kenny, what a koan! But I think we’ve got an answer…

…we are going online! Classes, yes, but also the community of geographers here at Mizzou:

 

  • Geography Club on Discord. Griffin Johnson and Hesston Bridgeman have set up a Discord server for Geography Club. Here is the link: https://discord.gg/Husdam5. If you want to reconnect with your friends from Geography, please join in. You do not have to be a member of Geography Club—anyone is welcome.

 

  • Monday Music and Musings. Drop into Soren’s basement studio Mondays at 3pm for some music, musings, and maybe, just maybe, a spotting of one of the rare Urban Coyotes who roam these parts. These “rhubarbs” (to use Dr. Salter’s phrase) will be held on zoom: https://mizzou.zoom.us/j/3270027736

 

  • Netflix Party? If there is anyone out there who would like to host a Netflix Party, please let me know. I am about halfway through Tiger King, and wow…just wow

 

  • Do you have another idea for bringing our community into virtual space? Send me an email and let’s make it happen!

 

Also, be on the lookout for a little gift from all of us “here” at Mizzou Geography. It will be coming to you in the mail—yes, the actual “snail” mail—to your home address. (It might be a couple weeks before it reaches you.)

Look, we know this is not normal or much fun, but we are still “here” for each other—that is the important thing—and there is no lockdown on learning, discovery, or exploration…it’s just new routes and methods of travel. Let’s go. (Oh, and here’s a little Chesney for the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKQ3oBbk7I)

 

Soren

Professor & Chair

Department of Geography

University of Missouri

Columbia MO 65211-6170

https://geography.missouri.edu/people/larsen