Hallmark Events and Impacts on Housing: A Lecture by Dr. Kris Olds
Monday, January 21, 7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings), Fletcher-Challenge Theatre Admission to public lecture is free. Reservations are not required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Kris Olds is Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kris' research focuses on urban and regional change, as well as the globalization of the services industries. He has been conducting research on the housing impacts of mega-events since 1986 and wrote a landmark report in 2007: Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights.
In Paris Kris is currently conducting research on two projects related to the global geopolitics and geoeconomics of higher education restructuring. His publications "Globalization and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories (Routledge, 1999); The Globalization of Chinese Business Firms (Macmillan/St.Martin's Press, 2000); and Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects
He also recently founded a new research-based blog called GlobalHigherEd blog (available at http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/).
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