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Asian Geography Specialty Group: 2006-2007 Annual Report
1. Mission Statement:
To promote geographic research and to facilitate teaching the geography of Asia through professional
meetings, publications and establishing contacts with Asian geographers, and developing an agenda for
research and teaching grants.
2. Year 2006 AGSG Dues: $5 (Student 0)
3. AGSG Officers (2006-2007)
Chair
Dennis Yehua Wei
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
email: weiy@uwm.edu
voice: 414- 229- 3941
fax: 414-229-3981
Secretary-Treasurer
James A. Tyner
Department of Geography
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242 USA
email: jtyner@kent.edu
voice: 330-672-7863
fax: 330-672-4304
AGSG Newsletter Editor
Todd Stradford
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Plattville, WI 53818 USA
email: stradfot@uwplatt.edu
voice: 608-342-1674
fax: 608-342-1427
Director for the East Asia Area (2005-2007)
Todd Stradford
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Plattville, WI 53818 USA
email: stradfot@uwplatt.edu
voice: 608-342-1674
fax: 608-342-1427
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Director for the South Asia Area (2005-2007)
Daanish Mustafa
College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Florida
Davis 209, 140 7th Ave. S.
St. Petersburg, FL, 33701 USA
email: mustafa@stpt.usf.edu
voice: 727-553-4075
Director for the Southeast Asia Area (2005-2007)
Philip F. Kelly
Department of Geography
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Canada
email: pfkelly@yorku.ca
voice: 1-416-736-2100 ext.22499
fax: 1-416-736-5988
Southwest Asia Area Director (2006-2008)
Samer Alatout
Department of Rural Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706 USA
email: snalatout@wisc.edu
voice: 608-263-0970
fax: 608-262-6022
4. Activities, April 2006-February 2007:
1) Election:
Chair: Yehua Dennis Wei
Secretary-Treasurer: James A. Tyner
Southwest Asia Area Director: Samer Alatout
2) Distinguished Service Award 2006, granted to Professor Ashok Dutt and David Edington;
3) Student Paper Competition:
The best paper award goes to Rapia Raj, Dept of Geography, McGill University, “Come be a part of
the best…”- New Delhi call centres and their impacts upon young employees’ identifies.
The Travel Awards:
Orga, Monica, Dept of Geography, University of Colorado, Addressing human-wildlife conflict
(HWC) in protected area borderlands: Gendered perspectives from a village in Uttaranchal, India.
Baoling Wang, Dept of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canadian SMEs in China:
challenges and opportunities.
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Three other AGSG student members won Chakravarti Student Paper Award jointly run with Regional
Development & Planning SG, and another student member won China GSG Student Paper Award.
5) Twenty paper panels organized by AGSG members at the AAG Annual Meeting, Denver.
6) Publication of two editions of `Bulletin of Asian Geography,’ and continuous update of the AGSG
Web page: http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/AGSG/
7) AGSG members successfully organized the efforts to rescue Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah,
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Akron, who was held prisoner in Israel under
suspicious of illegal espionage.
8) AGSG members expressed deepest condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those who
lost their lives in the helicopter crash in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal, and assisted the
preparation of tributes published in varied places including AAG Newsletter.
9) 2007 Annual Meeting: AGSG have been working closely with other AAG SGs especially China,
Regional Development & Planning, and Economic Geography SGs to organize annual meeting panels.
10) Activities Scheduled: AGSG members are the major organizers and participants of Second Global
Conference on Economic Geography June 25-28, 2007 Beijing, China, and the 9th Asian Urbanization
Conference in South Korea, August 18-23, 2007.
5. Membership levels: 296 members as at 12th March, 2007.
6. Financial Report (issued by AAG HQ on 12th March 2007):
Association of American Geographers
Specialty Groups Financial Report
Association of American Geographers
January 31, 2007
Asian Specialty Group
Date
Description
8/31/05
9/30/05
10/31/05
11/30/05
12/31/05
1/31/06
2/28/06
3/3/06
3/21/06
3/22/06
3/22/06
3/22/06
Balance forward
Dues collected for September 2005
Dues collected for October 2005
Dues collected for November 2005
Dues collected for December 2005
Dues collected for January 2006
Dues collected for February 2006
Fatamura - Web page work
Amery - Reimburse expenses
Raj - Best student paper
Ogra - Travel award
Wang - Travel award
Receipts
Disbursements
120.00
105.00
90.00
45.00
60.00
25.00
(232.50)
(199.00)
(250.00)
(150.00)
(150.00)
Balance
$ 5,317.24
5,437.24
5,542.24
5,632.24
5,677.24
5,737.24
5,762.24
5,529.74
5,330.74
5,080.74
4,930.74
4,780.74
4
3/22/06
3/31/06
4/30/06
5/31/06
6/30/06
7/31/06
8/31/06
8/31/06
9/30/06
10/31/06
11/30/06
12/31/06
1/31/07
1/31/07
Buryn - Chakravarti award
Dues collected for March 2006
Dues collected for April 2006
Dues collected for May 2006
Dues collected for June 2006
Dues collected for July 2006
Dues collected for August 2006
55.00
35.00
25.00
50.00
55.00
45.00
4,630.74
4,685.74
4,720.74
4,745.74
4,795.74
4,850.74
4,895.74
Balance forward
Dues collected for September 2006
Dues collected for October 2006
Dues collected for November 2006
Dues collected for December 2006
Dues collected for January 2007
80.00
95.00
77.00
38.00
59.00
$ 4,895.74
4,975.74
5,070.74
5,147.74
5,185.74
5,244.74
Balance
(150.00)
$ 5,244.74