<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all<br class=""><br class="">With great pleasure, we announce that feminist geographer <b class=""><font color="#7b219f" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Prof. Geraldine Pratt</font> </b>from the University of British Columbia, Canada, will be our guest at the Department of Geography in Zurich from November 20st to 28th. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prof. Geraldine Pratt will give a <b class="">public lecture on Tuesday, November 24</b>, 2015 at 16:00 in Y-15-G-91 on <font color="#7b219f" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Filipino m</b></span></font><font color="#7b219f" class="" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">igrant labour, testimonial theatre and transnational public engagement </font><font class="">(see abstract and bio attached).</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll continue the discussion with Prof. Geraldine Pratt in a <b class="">workshop on Wednesday morning, November 25th</b>, from 10:00 to 12:00 (room tba). The aim of this workshop is to engage with Geraldine Pratt's work and discuss methodological innovations and efforts of creating more participatory knowledges and public conversations and to get feedback from her on issues and questions that are relevant in our own ongoing research.</div><div class=""><br class="">While the lecture is open to all interested, the workshop is limited to 20 participants. Please register for the workshop via e-mail to <a href="mailto:karin.schwiter@geo.uzh.ch" class="">karin.schwiter@geo.uzh.ch</a>.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’re looking forward to your participation!</div><div class="">Karin </div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="border-style: dotted none none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 1pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="border: none; padding: 0cm;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><b class=""><span lang="DE" class="" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">University of Zurich - Department of Geography<br class=""></span></b><span lang="DE" class="" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland</span><b class=""><span lang="DE" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p></div><div class="" style="border-style: none none dotted; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="DE" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Karin Schwiter Ph.D.<br class="">Lecturer / Research Group Leader<br class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b>Office +41 44 635 52 14<br class="">Mobile +41 76 442 32 76<br class=""><a href="http://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/economic-geography/about-us/staff/schwiter-karin/#c1455" class="">Website</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">New publication: <br class=""></span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Schwiter, Karin et al. (2015) Neoliberal austerity and the marketisation of elderly care. In: Social and Cultural Geography. Online first.</span></p></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>