DUNBAR WINTER 2019 LECTURE SERIES
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

All speakers are instructors at Langara College • Thursdays 7:30pm-9pm
$5/session, $50/all 11 sessions
Student Rate: $2.50/session, $25/all 11 sessions

The modern real estate mantra “location, location, location” names an idea that has long dictated where  we choose to settle: as individuals, as communities, and as nations. These lectures will explore the important role our surroundings have on the way we interact with and understand the world around us.

Register for all sessions here: Lecture Series: Location – All 11 sessions- 196874

January 10
A Volcano in the Backyard Affects Resale Value: Pompeii & Herculaneum • Jen Knapp
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January 17
Camelot: A Cautionary Tale of Unreal Estate • Jessica Hemming
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January 24
Istanbul, not Constantinople: Why Did Constantinople Get the Works? • Niall Christie
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January 31
Rooms for Rent: Unpacking the Houses of Edgar Allan Poe • Erin Robb
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February 7
From a ‘city in crisis’ to the City of Light: Urban Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Paris • Paisley Mann
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February 14
Utopia in the Big Apple: Is it Possible? (Two Novels Set in NYC) • Stefan Haag
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February 21
Ottoman Athens and Mussolini’s Rome: Using Historic Monuments to Promote Nationalist Ideologies
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February 28
No Better Place: Utopias from More to the Internet • Lealle Ruhl
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March 7
The Frontier: On the Edge of Utopia and Dystopia in the Cold War • Craig Keating
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March 14
The Dying of the Light: Geographies of Nordic Noir • Kina Cavicchioli
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March 21
Community, Society and the Individual: Where To From Here? • Colin Mills
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