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LOCATION: 4274 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:Place\; It's complicated: Nagas in the Himalaya\, Chaos & Comp
 lex Systems Seminar\, Chris Limburg\, UW Department of Geography
DESCRIPTION:Place is more complex than we think it is.  Places--so oft
 en taken for granted--shape our environment\, society\, and imaginatio
 n.  This talk will elaborate the ways that we think about places.  It 
 will address questions like: what is a place\, exactly?  How does thin
 king about places help us understand our world?  And: isn't place just
  a location in inert space?  In answering these questions\, I will arg
 ue for the importance of using place as a lens as well as a site.  Exa
 mining place epistemologically and ontologically\, this talk will demo
 nstrate the usefulness of thinking geographically about our fragmented
  relationship with the environment.  With a deeper sense of place we c
 an engage environment\, society\, and self as emergent despite their s
 eeming fixity.  The talk will first outline the debates concerning the
  nature of place in geography.  Then it will use the example of naga n
 ature spirits in the Kathmandu valley to illustrate the complexity of 
 place.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1456
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