Monday, October 18, 2004

Sewage don't get no respect, but modern cities cannot function without clean water and efficient waste disposal. Arn Keeling, SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, will speak on "Engineering Water: Pollution and Sanitation in Twentieth-Century Vancouver and Saskatoon" on Friday, October 22, 2004 at 2:00 P.M. in Rm. 256 Arts. The paper examines the ongoing struggle to control water pollution in the cities in question, and illustrates the physical and discursive constructions of nature implicated in the modernization and rationalization of space in the city through technological networks. Everyone welcome. Coffee courtesy of the Department of Geography. Bathroom on the right.