Good Monday morning, geographers…here’s what’s new this week @MizzouGeog!

Some of you may have noticed already, but we are now the proud owners of Carl Sauer’s cartography table (or, to be clear, a cart table that once resided in his lab at University of California-Berkeley). For those of you in my 1550 Humanized Earth class, you know well who Carl Sauer is, but for anyone who doesn’t, he essentially started the subfield of cultural geography we know today. More than that, he was a Native Son, hailing from Warrenton, MO and completing his dissertation on the Ozarks region. We are thankful to Kit and Cathy Salter for this gift to the department. Dr. Salter has provided a little story on the desk itself that tells you when and how it was obtained. Stop by its new home just outside the kitchen area on the second floor of Stewart Hall and take a look.

Tom Vought reports a very successful presence at GIS Day in Jefferson City last week. Most heartening was the number of young elementary and middle-school students who already knew what GIS is, and were asking the astute questions to prove it! Thank you, Tom, for representing our department at this important outreach event.

We are in the midst of celebrating Native American Heritage Month. Today at 3pm, Dr. Elizabeth Rule (Chickasaw) will give a presentation in Parker Auditorium entitled, “Tribal Membership, Marriage, and Mohawk Girls: Indigenous Feminism on the Screen” and tomorrow at 6:30pm in Bush Auditorium in Cornell Hall, Dr. Abadio Green (Gunadule) will present on “Indigenous Education in Colombia: The Pedagogy of Mother Earth.” Have you ever wanted to learn how to make a cornhusk doll? Well, come to Dr. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson’s (Cherokee) cornhusk doll workshop this Wednesday, November 20 at 4pm in the St. Louis and Kansas City Room in the Student Center. We are so fortunate to have these fine Indigenous scholars with us this week – please do take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!

Yours in Geography,
Soren
Professor & Chair
Department of Geography
University of Missouri
Columbia MO 65211-6170
https://geography.missouri.edu/people/larsen