Participation at Conferences and Symposia

 

"Delaware's Housing Crisis: Can Human Needs Be Met?," Delaware Humanities Forum, panel member of conference, 1973, Newark, Delaware.
 
"Urban Pleasure Gardens and the Spirit of the Times," The Longwood
Program Seminars, 1975, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
 
"The Scalar Increase of R§ga: Human Implications," Third Conference on Baltic Studies in Scandinavia, Stockholm, 1975.
 
"People and Nature: Conflict or Cooperation?", planner and panel member,Delaware Humanities Forum, 1976, Newark, Delaware.
 
"Teaching Strategies in Cultural Geography," Geographic Education Workshop, panel member, San Francisco, 1976.
 
"Alexander von Humboldt as Humanist:  The Cultural Significance of His Writings,"Artes et Scientia:  American Painting and Science in the Nineteenth Century; a symposium sponsored by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Department of Art History, University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware, 1979.
 
 
Chairperson, Paper Session, "Cultural Geography: Landscape Symbolism and Art," 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 1979.
 
Designer and Leader of Historical Geography Field Trip, 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 1979.
 
"Humboldt and the Hudson River School," 76th Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Louisville, 1980.
 
Chairperson, Paper Session, "Folklore and Mythology," 7th Conference on Baltic Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1980.
 
"City as the Natural Home of Man", Annual Conference/Environmental Design Research Association, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1982.
 
"Method, Method, Where Art Thou?", 78th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, 1982.
 
"Mind and Milieu in the Landscapes of Frederic Church," 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, 1983.
 
Delegate representing Lund University, Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, International Conference on Nature, Culture, Technology (sponsored by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research), Stockholm, 1983.
 
Discussant, Environmental Perception Specialty Group: "Urban Landscape and the Arts," 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, OR, 1987.
 
"In Pursuit of Genius Loci: A Comparative Analysis of Great Plains Literature," Joint Meeting, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division, Association of American Geographers and Prairie Division, Canadian Association of Geographers, Regina, Sask., Canada 1987.
 
"The Micro-Macro Cosmos Archetype and Modern Sense of Place," A Commonplace Conference on the Philosophy of Place, Penn State University, 1987.
 
"Literary-Artistic Humanism in Geography: Universality of Individual Subjectivities," Annual Meeting, Eastern Historical Geographers Association, Worcester, MA, 1989.
 
"Geografija Amerika," (Geography in the United States), The Annual Meeting of Geography Educators, R§ga, 1990.
 
"Zin~tnes un m~kslas apvienošanas probl‘ma geogr~fija," (The Problem of Unifying Science and Art in Geography), Global Congress of Latvian Scientists, R§ga, July, 1991.
 
"Dazi cilvec§gas vides veidosanas aspekti postmodernisma laikmet~ (Some Issues of a Humane Environment During the Postmodern Era), Global Congress of Latvian Scientists, R§ga, July, 1991.
 
"Can Humanism Prevail in the Postmodern Era?" Baltijos Valstybiu Mokslo Ir Technikos Istorijos Konferencija (Baltic Nations Conference on Art, Technology, and History), Vilnius, Lithuania, October, 1991.
 
"Minorities in the Baltic Countries," UNESCO, Kursus Om Balticum (Seminar on the Baltic States), Overnaes, Denmark, April 29, 1992.
 
"Trimda k~ šodienas cilv‘ces visp~r§gs st~voklis un t~s ietekme cilv‘kos un ainav~s (In Latvian: Exile as a general contemporary human condition and its effect on people and landscapes), Applied Science Conference: Ecology, the Human Being, and the Cultural Milieu, Jelgava, Latvia, June 18-19, 1992.
 
"Small Cities in Postmodern Cultural Contexts" (presented in Latvian and English), AGSB Symposium in R§ga (Nordic Council, sponsor), R§ga, 17-18/10/92.
 
"Small Towns in Postindustrial, Postmodern Contexts. Or Significance of the Free Global Market in Landscapes and Places." Development Problems of the Small Towns in the Blatic States, Riga, Latvia. 1992.
 
"Prospects for Ethnic Harmony in the Baltic States." 1993 Fulbright Conference: Pathways to Peace, Washington, DC.
 
"Ethnic Tension, Ethnic Harmony in the Baltic States." AAG 90th Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 1994.
 
"Sense of Place and National Identity in Post-Colonial Latvia." AAG 91st Annual Meetings, Chicago, 1995.
 
"The Postindustrial City: Exile or New Homeland." AAG 92 Annual Meetings, Charlotte, NC. 1996.
 
"Amerikas Malu Pilsetas: Trimda Vai Jauna Dzimtene?" (American Edge Cities: Exile or New Homeland) Latvijas Universitates 55 Zinatniska Konference (The 55th Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia). Riga, Latvia. 1996.
 
"K~d‘l Latviesu Ainavu Est‘tik~ Trãkst Dizehuma Princips?" (Why is the Principle of the Sublime Absent from Latvian Landscape Aesthetics?"). Latvijas Universit~tes 56 Zin~tnisk~ Konference (The 56th Scientific Conference at the University of Latvia). Riga, Latvia