Feb. 23 University of Kentucky Geography Professor Stanley Brunn will deliver the 2000 Distinguished Geography Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Founders Suite of Bone Student Center.
Admission is free.
Brunn, a graduate of Ohio State University, was chair of the Geography department at Kentucky from 1980 to 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he served as State Geographer at the appointment of the Kentucky governor. His teaching and research interests are in political, social, and urban geography, the human geographies of the 21st century, and the geographies of knowledge. Brunn's research record includes numerous books and articles in geography and interdisciplinary journals and presentations at research conferences throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, Finland, Mexico, Canada and the former Soviet Union. He was the University of Kentucky Distinguished Research professor in 1989-90 and is a former editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.