Moline to Deliver Two Lectures at ISU

Date: 10/23/06
Contact: Kathy Beal

Illinois State University will host educator Norman Moline for two lectures, "The Mississippi River: Catalyst for Ecological Actions in a Bi-State Metropolitan Area" on Thursday, Oct. 26, at 3:30 p.m. and "Cultures and Landscapes in China's Border Regions" on Friday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m. as the Douglas Clay Ridgley Lecture. Both presentations will be held in 209 Felmley Hall and are free and open to the public.

Moline is the Hamming Professor of Geography at Augustana College. He was the first chair of the Geography department at Illinois State University and was an early leader in the development of geography nationwide.

Moline started teaching at Augustana College in 1968 after he received his M.A. at the University of Chicago. He went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1970. Moline's areas of interest include cultural geography, planning, historic preservation and East Asia.

"Dr. Moline has been to East Asia dozens of times, said Michael Sublett, professor of Geography. "He will be able to share insights about China's rim lands that few other Americans possess."