Edmunds Bunkse (Bunksha)   Emeritus Professor of Humanistic Cultural Geography Department of Geography University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19716 Visiting Professor Cultural - Humanities Geography University of Latvia

Specializations:

• Humanistic cultural Geography
• History of nature-culture ideas
• Geosophy
• The Baltic Sea Region and the Baltic states.
• Urban cultural, historical geography
• The historical geography of the American West

PhD., Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
M.A., Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
A.B., Geography, Syracuse University, 1962
University of Illinois, Architecture, 1954-1958

• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award [research] for Western Europe (University of Lund, Sweden; University College London, U. K.),1983‑1984.
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award [teaching], University of Latvia, 1990.
• Honorary Doctor (Dr.honoris causa) of Geography, University of Latvia, 1991.
• Foreign Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Inducted 1993.
• President of Latvia Medal of Merit for Honourable Service Abroad, 2007.
• Appointed to head scientific organizing committee for the meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of Rural Landscapes (PECSRL) to be held in Latvia in 2010.
• Presidential concert and awards ceremony at the opera in Riga for participants in the TV documentary series: “Latvia Can Do.”

• Succeeded to have the above mentioned conference votes to be held in Latvia in 2010.  The Netherlands and Sweden were also in competition, 2008
• Elected to head organizing committee for the Permanent European Conference for the Study of Rural Landscapes, to be held in Latvia in 2010, 2007
• Week of seminars at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science at Trondheim, to focus geography research there, 2006
• Review of Ardens Historic District, New Castle County, DE –application to be placed on the National Registry of Historic Places, 2001
• National Representative (Latvia) to the Permanent European Conference Study of Rural Landscapes, 19980 to the present
• Invitation from Gen. Wesley Clark, Commander U.S. Forces Europe and Supreme Commander N.A.T.O., to represent the U.S. at The Second International Geo-Political Research Colloquium On Euro-Atlantic Security, at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany, 1998
• Member Doctoral Habilitation Committee, Latvian Ministry of Education and University of Latvia, 1996-200
 
• Area Advisory Committee for Central Eurasia, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (final selection committee for Fulbright Awards), 1992-1995
• Director, University of Delaware London Program, Spring 1991

PUBLICATIONS: Most Recent to 1990

Books, Chapters in Books and Monographs, Edited Journal:

• Geograafia ja elamise kunst  [In Estonian: Geography and The Art of Life]. (Tallinn: Kirjastus Varrak 2012)

• “The ineffable, ethereal, and evanescent as landscape values of local, national, and European identities,” pp.? In Claval, Paul, Agnew, John, Rocca, Zoran, eds. Landscapes, Identities and Development (London: Ashgate, 2011).

• “Beyond Images: The Phenomenology of Travel versus Tourism and Implications for Rural Landscapes,” Roca, Zoran, et al., European Landscapes and Lifestyles. The Mediterranean and Beyond. (Lisbon: Edicoes Universitaerias Lusofonas, 2007). 385-395

• “Softly Heaves the Glassy Sea. Nature’s Rhythms in an Era of Displacement,” pp. 71 - 86 in Tom Mels, ed., Rhythms of Nature, Place and Landscape (Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004).

• “Of Oaks, Erratic Boulders and Milkmaids. The Poet Imants Ziedonis and Art as Mediator Between Discourses About Rural Landscapes,” pp. 137 - 150 in Hannes Palang, Helen Soovali, Marc Antorp, Gunhild Setten, eds., European Rural Landscapes: Persistence and Change in a Globalising Envrionment (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishing,  2004).

• “The Reality of Rural Landscape Symbolism in the Formation of Post-Soviet, Post-Modern Latvian Identity,” in Stetten, Gunhild and Semb, Terje, eds., Shaping the Land. Proceedings of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1999), 410-439.

• “God, Thine Earth is Burning: Nature Attitudes in the Latvian Drive for Independence,” in Buttimer, A. and Wallin, L., eds., Nature, Culture, Identity (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), 175-187. [Reprinted from GeoJournal, Vol. 26:2, 1992].

• Sirenu balsis: Geografija ka cilveciga erudicija. Berklijas ainavu skola (In Latvian: Siren’s Voices: Geography as Humane Erudition. The Berkeley Landscape School). With special essay by Anne Buttimer. (Riga: Apgads Norden, 1998), 204pp..

• -----------------, Second printing with minor revisions (Riga: Apgads “Norden,” AB, 2000)

• "Humanism:  Wisdom of the Heart and Mind." in Carville Earle, et.al., eds. Concepts in Human Geography.  (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 355-381. (invited essay; published in hard cover and paperback).

• "The Emerging Postindustrial Landscape as Exile and Its Possible Consequences for Sense of Place." in Ranah B. Singh, ed., The Spirit and Power of Place: Human Environment and Sacrality. Essays in Honor of Yi-Fu Tuan. (Varanasi, India:  The National Geographic Society of India, 1994), 63-74 (invited essay). Note: author never received a copy, but essay is identical to journal essay documented in the next section.

• Special (invited) editor: GeoJournal: Baltic Peoples, Baltic Culture and Europe. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 33:1 (1994). (Involved travel to the three Baltic states and screening of potential authors).

Refereed Articles and Essays

• “Vel joprojam auga berzu birstalas.” Latvijas ainavas man. (In Latvian: “Birch groves were still growing.” The meaning of Latvian landscapes for me.) Pp.3-8 in Akademiska Dzive, 46, 2009. (Refereed journal).

• “Feeling is Believing, or Landscape as a Way of Being in the World,” Geografiska Annaler (Sweden), (2007),vol.89 B (3), 219—231.

• “Commentary on the Lowenthal Papers: Environment, Humanities, and Landscape,” in Annals of  the Association of American Geographers (Dec.2003).

• “The Case of the Missing Sublime in Latvian Aesthetics and Ethics,” in Ethics, Place and Environment (U.K.), 2001, 4:3, (2001) 235-246.

• “The Reality of Rural landscape Symbolism in the Formation of Post-Soviet, Post-Modern Latvian Identity,” in Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 53: 2-3, (2000),121-138

• I. Mezs, E. V. Bunkse, K. Rasa.  "The Ethno-demographic Status of the Baltic States," in GeoJournal, Vol. 33-1, (1994), 9-26.

• "Introduction:The Place of Baltic Peoples on the World Stage," in GeoJournal, Vol. 33-1 (1994), 1-5.

• “The Emerging Postindustrial Landscape as Exile and Its Possible Consequences for Sense of Place,” in The National Geographic Journal of India, vol. 40 (1994), pp. ? (invited essay).

• "God, Thine Earth is Burning:  Nature Attitudes and the Latvian Drive for Independence," GeoJournal: History of Geographical Thought, A. Buttimer, ed., (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, Boston, London) Vol. 26:2 (1992), 203-209 (invited essay).

• "Landscape Symbolism in the Latvian Drive for Independence," Geografiska Notiser (Sweden), Vol. 4 (1990), cover illustration and 170-178  (invited essay).

• "Commentary on Michael Pacione's 'Urban Liveability: A Review,'" Urban Geography, Vol. 1, (1990), 36-41 (invited essay).

• "A New Look at Luminist Landscapes of F. E. Church," Landscape, Vol. 30:3 (1990) 20-28.

• "Saint-Exupery's Geography Lesson: Art and Science in the Creation and Cultivation of Landscape Values," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 80:1, (1990), 96-108.

1986 "Lost Homelands":  Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (New York and London:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978); Siegfried Lenz, The Heritage (New York:  Hill and Wang, 1981), Review Essay, Landscape, Vol. 29:1 , 19-2

 
1981 "Humboldt and an Aesthetic Tradition in Geography," Geographical Review,  71:2, 379-394. (Environmental perception and geography as art.)

1979 "Latvian Folkloristics," Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 92:364, 196 214.

 
1979 "The Role of a Humane Environment in Soviet Urban Planning," Geographical Review, 69:4, 379-394. (A philosophic analysis, with Riga as principal case study.)

1978 "Commoner Attitudes Toward Landscape and Nature," Annals of the Association ofAmericanGeographers,  68:4, 551-566. (Includes women's attitudes and how to access them through folklore.)

1975 "Urban Pleasure Gardens and the Spirit of the Times," The Longwood Program Seminars, Longwood Gardens, Pa., 7, 10-13.

2002     BBC Film for TV (presenter, with Sir David Attenborough & others), Great Natural Travellers: An Audience With Alexander von Humboldt”(BBC 1, London, one hour).

Teaching Repertoire Since 1980:

University of Delaware, Department of Geography

• Introduction to Cultural Geography (large lecture/sections)
• Advanced Cultural Geography
• Urban Cultural Geography (second writing course)
• Western Landscapes of America (honors and regular session)
• Honors Colloquium: Landscape and Literature (with B. Gates, English)
• Honors Colloquium: Nature, Human Nature, and Culture (with B. Gates, English, Don Mayer, History, Conrad Hammerman, Landscape Architect)
• Seminar: Geographic Thought (600 level)
• Seminar: Human Place in the Biosphere (800 level)
• Seminar: Landscape Aesthetics (600 level)
• Seminar: The Baltic Sea Region (600 level)

Other teaching:

Fall 2011: three hour seminar for doctoral candidates in Cultural Studies, University of Latvia

January 23-27, 2012: Winter School:” Gaze and Glance: Ways of Seeing Culture,” Tallinn University (Estonia) , GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CULTURE STUDIES AND ARTS AND THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL THEORY
(member of an international faculty from U. of Chicago, Toronto, Universities of London, Queens, Manchester, Dortmund, and Scandinavian ones). Students from as far as Australia, the States).

Participation at Conferences and Symposia

Keynote Addresses