Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard are spending the spring semester in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development at the University of Amsterdam, as part of a long-running faculty exchange program between the University of Minnesota and the University of Amsterdam.
Settling in has been a bit challenging for our professors: personal contacts were vital, as the local administrators seemed puzzled by their presence. While in Amsterdam, Helga and Eric will be participating in the teaching of an undergraduate course on questions of globalization, and graduate courses in development theory, territories, identities and conflict, migration, segregation and immigration and advanced GIS. They will also be giving research talks in the Globe Lecture series, and at the Department of Sociology. They are also consulting with faculty and students as they continue ongoing research into geographical political economy, immigrant rights, citizenship, and provincializing global urbanism.
More information available at
http://www.fmg.uva.nl/gpio
http://www.iamsterdam.com/
