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UPCOMING EVENTS
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
The Southern Andes: Returning to the Land of Fire & Ice
By John Kirchner, PhD
Emeriti Professor of Geography & Transportation, CSU Los Angeles
February 3, 2012, 8 p.m.
Science & Technology Building,
Los Angeles City College,
855 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90029
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On February 3, Dr. John Kirchner will present The Southern Andes: Returning to the Land of Fire and Ice. Dr. Kirchner is Emeriti Professor of Geography and Transportation at California State University, Los Angeles. For this program he worked with a PBS crew filming the “Old Patagonian Express,” the 750mm narrow gauge train behind Paul Theroux’s best selling book of the same name. Expect spectacular photography, including aerials shot over the Andes. The lecture includes southern Patagonia, in both Argentina and Chile, a bit of Tierra del Fuego, the massive 1960 and 2010 Chilean earthquakes (9.5 and 8.8 magnitude respectively), and a brief look at some recent volcanic activity. A veteran of 36 years in the classroom, he earned a PhD from the University of Chicago and has research interests in historical geography, transportation, tropical and plantation agriculture, and Latin America. In recent years he has also been an invited lecturer at various Chinese universities, and this current program was previously presented at Guangzhou University, South China Normal University, and Fujian Normal University.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED UP FROM MARCH 2.
DR. GRAVE'S LECTURE ON ROCK, RAP & REGGAE IS NOW MOVED TO MARCH 2.
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