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Tuesday Talks – The GT Library Faculty Speaker Series

Research for all of us! The Georgia Tech Library sponsors a lecture series featuring research by Georgia Tech faculty presented for the rest of us.

Lecturers will discuss their research in laymen’s terms. The aim of the series is to make research understandable to all of us in the Georgia Tech community.

October 7, 2008
Neely Lobby (GT Library – 1 West)
2 – 3:30 pm

Speakers: Hugh Crawford and Ron Broglio
School of Literature, Communication & Culture
Poster

Title: Dwelling Studies

Abstract: Hugh Crawford and Ron Broglio will discuss dwelling studies as a set of disciplinary and pedagogical practices around growing cultural issues such as home and food. Dwelling studies examines how we engage with the earth so as to fashion a world and worldview. As a methodology, dwelling studies uses phenomenology to examine a variety of ecologies and economies of human comportment in order to further living well. The presentation will introduce the audience to this field of study and provide examples of scholarship and student work at Georgia Tech.

This presentation is free and open to all! No pre-registration is needed.

Questions? Contact: Lori Critz, Information Services Department
lori.critz@library.gatech.edu
404-385-4392

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