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Background and Aims: The Place, Health and Equity Conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the cutting edge of research and scholarship on the intersections of place, racial and social inequity, and human well-being. Surging interest in place as a social context that is deeply connected to larger patterns of social advantage and disadvantage calls for multifaceted conceptions of place as well as methods that can flexibly encompass geographic location, material form, the meaning-making of diverse groups, and the dynamics of rapidly changing rural and urban environments. The conference aims to move the study of place forward by focusing lively interdisciplinary attention on new conceptual and methodological directions.

The conference will feature two distinct activities. The morning of each day will feature speakers who will highlight some key themes around the issue of place. This part of the conference will be open to the public. The afternoon of each day will be a closed meeting that will include a discussion among the invited scholars around the issues presented in the morning.

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Conference Agenda Abstracts Biographies Resources Project Workspace (login) Contact SPONSORS Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology College of Built Environments College of the Environment Department of Anthropology Department of American Ethnic Studies Department of Geography Department of Political Science Department of Sociology Diversity Research Institute Division of Social Sciences - College of Arts and Sciences School of Nursing School of Public Health School of Social Work West Coast Poverty Center FUNDERS National Cancer Institute National Institute on Drug Abuse	Place, Health and Equity Conference and Book Project May 7 - 8, 2009 UPDATED WITH PRESENTATIONS and RESOURCES Husky Union Building (HUB) University of Washington Seattle, WA Background and Aims: The Place, Health and Equity Conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the cutting edge of research and scholarship on the intersections of place, racial and social inequity, and human well-being. Surging interest in place as a social context that is deeply connected to larger patterns of social advantage and disadvantage calls for multifaceted conceptions of place as well as methods that can flexibly encompass geographic location, material form, the meaning-making of diverse groups, and the dynamics of rapidly changing rural and urban environments. The conference aims to move the study of place forward by focusing lively interdisciplinary attention on new conceptual and methodological directions. The conference will feature two distinct activities. The morning of each day will feature speakers who will highlight some key themes around the issue of place. This part of the conference will be open to the public. The afternoon of each day will be a closed meeting that will include a discussion among the invited scholars around the issues presented in the morning. Download conference flyer
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