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The Pennsylvania Geographical Society has over 200 members and institutions from 18 states who:
• Promote the use of geographical skills and information to support the application of geographical techniques in a broad spectrum of public and private employers;
• Encourage research in geography, applied geography and geographic education;
• Represent the discipline of geography to educational institutions and related professional organizations;
• Facilitate the exchange of ideas, methods, and materials among geographers in a college/university
setting, geographers in the public/private setting, and teachers of geography;
• Provide and partake in activities to foster geographical literacy; and
• Promote effective teaching of geography at all levels and in all settings.
| Upcoming Events: 2021 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society 5 November 2021 The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society will be held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in York, Pennsylvania. The meeting is being sponsored York College of Pennsylvania.
Registration for the meeting will begin on 7 September 2021. All registrants receive lunch as part of the registration fee. Participants who register by 22 October 2021 will receive a $10 discount on the registration fees.
This year’s luncheon guest speaker is Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, Chief of Geography Division, United States Census Bureau, the 2021 Distinguished Geographer Award recipient.
Paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes; abstracts of a maximum of 200 words should be submitted with registration. Posters and maps will be on display all day on Friday. Please visit the PGS website for poster size restrictions, and posters must be mounted in such a way that they may be displayed on an easel (i.e. cardboard). Abstract submissions for papers and posters will not be accepted after October 22d! No exceptions! You will be required to submit your abstract information on-line through the PGS web site. Suggestions for workshops, organized paper sessions and thematic discussion panels are also welcomed. Please contact the meeting co-chairs, Frank Galgano (francis.galgano@villanova.edu) or Jennifer Pomeroy (jpomeroy@ycp.edu) if you are interested in running a workshop or special session.
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