Presentations & Lectures
Urbanization in the US and Tucson Arizona
Playlist of 38 lectures and selected videos
The Mapping of 500 Days of Summer: A processual approach to cinematic cartography. NECSUS an International Journal of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. Autumn.
Presented: San Diego 2021; New York NY 2022; Tucson 2022
“On Location” Filming in San Diego County from 1985—2005: How a Cinematic Landscape is Formed Through Incorporative Tasks and Represented through Mapped Inscriptions. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(1): 171-190, 2012.
The Architectonics of a Cinematic City: “On Location” Filming in San Diego. Knowlton School of Architecture (co-sponsored with the Film Studies Program) Colloquium, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2010
Also presented at Bloomington 2017; Long Beach 2016; Karlstad Sweden 2016, Mainz Germany 2015; Denver 2012; Chapel Hill 2008
Performing America’s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio’s Old West. Geojournal (6)20: 881-892, 2015.
Presented AAG Chicago 2015; Boulder 2014; APCG Tucson 2014; Mainz, Germany 2012
Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy. In, Places Through the Body. pp. 356-380. Edited by Heidi Nast and Steve Pile. New York: Routledge. Stuart Aitken second author.
Disassociated Masculinities and Geographies of the Road. In, The Road Movies Book. pp. 349-370. Edited by Ina Hark and Steve Cohan. New York: Routledge. Stuart Aitken lead author.
Mental Mapping Lecture
1. Introduction to Mental Mapping (6min)
2. Designative Images (17 min)
Guest lectures to large introduction course about the Tucson Metro Area (2013-2016 University of Arizona)
Primitivism and Nanook of the North Lecture
The Sonoran Landscapes of Hombre and Westerns as Topographical Events. Johnston Center for Integrative Studies Invited Lecture University of Redlands, 2020.
Unpublished, do not quote, for future use in a book.