We hope that you'll make plans to come to San Antonio for the annual meeting October 19-22:
We have submitted proposals for two topical sessions sponsored by the history of geology division. Both relate to the "Geology without Borders" annual meeting theme. The first is devoted to geoheritage (see our discussion post from yesterday), and the second is designed to provide a complementary place for papers that don't fit into geoheritage. Below are titles and descriptions. Descriptions were limited to 40 words.
58620, Crossing Boundaries: Histories of Geoheritage
Description: Presentations explore the range of meanings of geoheritage from a variety of perspectives that cross boundaries, whether historical, disciplinary, geographical, national, political, institutional, or philosophical in nature. Papers may address geo-sites and geo-collections which are contested, marginalized, or unjustly forgotten.
58622, Crossing Borders in the History and Philosophy of the Geosciences
Description: Presentations explore how the geosciences cross borders, whether disciplinary, geographical, national, political, institutional, social or philosophical in nature, including women and minorities in geology, international and interdisciplinary collaborations, connecting the field and lab, colonialism, social aspects of geological maps, etc.
We hope many of you will be interested in presenting a paper in one or other of these sessions, so make plans now to come to the meeting. If these sessions are approved, we hope to see lots of great abstract submissions for them!
Kerry Magruder
for the HPG Division Board