Upcoming Events
Past Events
May 2021
Congratulations to our incoming SWIG Officers: Tim, Vivian, and Casey
April 2021
Spring 2021 Activism and Academia Series
April 2019
Congratulations to our incoming SWIG Officers: Elise, Bradley, Izzy, and Jacklyn
April 10, 2019
Staff Appreciation Lunch in 319 Walker
April 5th, 2019
AAG Panel on Navigating the Field, 3:05 – 4:45 PM
Wilson A, Marriott, Mezzanine Level
Jennifer Fluri and Amy Tauger 2019 Student Essay and Creative Works Competition
Winners announced April 5th!
March 21st, 2019
SYWIG Day, Supporting Young Women in Geography!
9am-1pm in Deike and Walker Buildings.
February 22nd, 2019
Brunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Sarah Gergel
11am-noon in 337 Walker
Her talk: Synergies between food production and nature protection – what are some ways forward for sustaining landscapes?
February 1st, 2019
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Prof. Elizabeth Wentz
Her talk: Empowering community resilience through a university-community knowledge exchange
January 26th, 2019
“Seeing Like A Satellite” Workshop at ENVISION: STEM Career Day for Young Women!
December, 2018
Holiday Sponsorship Program – Thank you for all your support!
Supporting the Centre County Women’s Resource Center
State College, PA
November 5-12th, 2018
Thanksgiving Basket Drive
SWIG sponsored a Thanksgiving basket for Students Engaging Students that was delivered along with hundreds of others to multiple sites across Centre County.
November 11th, 2018
GWIS’ Girl Scouts Workshop
Interactive tabletop: Learning about Landsat
November 9th, 2018
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Lindsay Naylor
337 Walker, noon-1pm
Her talk: “Whose baby is it anyway?” Conflicting Regimes of Care and Feeding in NICU Spaces in the US
This will be an opportunity to engage informally with Dr. Naylor about her research, which investigates the multi-sited ‘geo’ of geopolitics and, using food and agriculture as a lens, examines how it is written across space, place, and bodies. Dr. Naylor draws from frameworks in critical and feminist geopolitics, political ecology, decolonial philosophy, and diverse economies. Her recent scholarship centers on knowledge production around fair trade and food sovereignty and new work is focused on the material geopolitics of human milk access.
November 9th, 2018
Friday, noon-3pm. 529 Walker, University Park Campus
This is a free, three-part workshop with lunch. Everyone is invited no matter your discipline, knowledge level, or university affiliation (e.g. students, faculty, staff).
The goal of the workshop is to give attendees a crash course on the science of climate change and how humans are influencing this natural variability. This will be followed by an informal Q&A catered lunch with guest speakers, including distinguished faculty members Dr. Michael Mann and Dr. Richard Alley. For the third and final part of the workshop, we will practice talking to a climate change denier (or just someone interested in bettering their understanding of climate change). This will be set-up as a “speed dating”/”role-play” situation so we can all practice communicating the science and get comfortable doing so.
November 1st, 2018
Graduate School Round-table with Undergrads: Things to know about Grad School
Thursday, 5:30-7pm. 319 Walker, University Park Campus
Co-Sponsored by The Geography Grad Reps.
October 30th, 2018
Yoga with Ruchi
October 26th, 2018
Professional Headshots
SWIG is sponsoring a free photo shoot for professional headshots with Patty Craig, the EMS Director of Marketing and Communications.
October 25th, 2018
AAG Panel Participation Deadline
Navigating the Field: Supporting Women in Geography across Sub-disciplines, 7th Annual Panel
The field, feminist geographers remind us, is a messy site of emotions, difference, and power relations (Faria & Mollett 2014; Kobayashi 1994; Nast 1994). This panel will bring together faculty and students with varying amounts of fieldwork experience to discuss how we navigate “the field,” considering the field as either (1) a space that is entered to conduct research (e.g. a country, environment, mindset), or (2) the field of geography more broadly (e.g. a culture, network, department, knowledge center). Discussion topics may include, but are not limited to: overcoming challenges in the field; preparing for, experiencing, negotiating, or reflecting on fieldwork experiences; bringing feminist geographic methods into the field; bringing fieldwork back home, or bringing the home into the field.
October 20th, 2018
Exploration-U : Haunted University
Interactive tabletop: Augmented and Virtual Reality
October 19th, 2018
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Mariana Mora
337 Walker Building, noon to 1:30pm
Her talk: (Un)eathing cartographies, racial necro-economics and politics of absence
October 9th, 2018
All member meeting!
Tuesday, 3pm in 319 Walker
We will be discussing important upcoming events, outreach opportunities, and general goings on (including AAG funding!). Come get involved!
All new and returning members are welcome.
April 13th, 2018
Reflecting on the past and future of Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG)
6th Annual Panel at the Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
New Orleans, LA
March 23rd, 2018
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Kendra McSweeney
Her talk: Drug Policy and Environmental Change: Lessons from Central America
March 22nd, 2018
SYWIG Day – Supporting Young Women in Geography
An annual activity-based event; teaching local middle school girls about Geography.
Lead by current PSU graduate students.
University Park, PA
February 23rd, 2018
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speakers, Dr. Lorraine Dowler and Jenna Christian
Their talk: Landscapes of Impunity and the Deaths of LaVena Johnson and Sandra Bland
February 19th, 2018
Easterly Park Elementary Science and Technology Fair
Virtual and Augmented Reality interactive tabletop
State College, PA
January 17th, 2018
ENVISION – Learning about Landsat
An annual career day aimed to inspire young women to pursue STEM careers through interactive activities and experiments.
University Park, PA
December 5th, 2017
Exploration-U Bald Eagle
Interactive tabletop: Cartography
December, 2017
Holiday Sponsorship Program
Supporting the Centre County Women’s Resource Center
State College, PA
November 14th, 2017
Exploration-U Bellfonte
Interactive tabletop: Tree rings and virtual reality
November 4th, 2017
STEM Girl Scout Workshop, sponsored by Graduate Women in Science
Interactive workshop/activities: PA Biogeography – learning about tree seed dispersal
October 3rd, 2017
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Amy Glasmeier, MIT
Her talk: How Recessions, Job Loss, Permanent Unemployment and Social Stigma Brought Us Contemporary Populism
September 15th, 2017
Lunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Hari Osofsky, Dean of PSU Law School
Her talk: The Geography and Regulatory Role of Climate Change Litigation
September 8th, 2017
Brunch with Coffee Hour Speaker Dr. Erica Smithwick, Associate Professor, PSU
Her talk: Transformative Learning Spaces for an Uncertain World