Poster for SouthWestern Association American Geographers (SWAAG) session on Fair Park

The Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers is having their convention in Fort Worth, Texas.  I am going to have a poster session there.

So I finished making up my poster. The convention is in Oct. 2019.
CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO SEE IT FULL SIZE.

Petition campaign for the City of Dallas to take appropriate action regarding Fair Park is restarted.

The petition campaign to get the City of Dallas to take appropriate action regarding Fair Park has been restarted.

We have 41 signatures so far, but we had stopped gathering signatures to get the write up about Fair Park done and the video produced. Now we are back at signature gathering.

We are writing professors and cultural leaders who were also the co-signers of the petition to take down the Confederate monuments.

Our letter was published in the Dallas Morning News. The link is below.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/04/dallas-confederate-memorials-scream-white-supremacy

We brought up Fair Park in our letter, but this seems to have been deprioritized and it seems that whatever response the city will take is going to be fairly trivial.

Also, since the letter I have discovered that the Confederate symbols are only a small part of a larger theme of Fair Park being an Expire Exhibit under Six Flags. The 1936 Texas Centennial is a triumphalist vision of white supremacy.

Besides our letter to the City of  Dallas we have a video and a paper on Fair Park which is available online at http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park.html

We will be steadily writing so many individuals per week and I think as we progress some of the co-signers will in turn help us get additional signatures.

Singed up for a poster session at the 2109 Meeting of the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers

I have registered to go to the 2019 Southwesten Division of the American Association of Geographers meeting, Oct. 10-12, 2019 in Fort Worth and signed up to do a poster session.

http://www.sw-aag.org/2019-swaag-meeting.html

I have submitted my abstract.

I have to design the posters which are 3 feet by 4 feet to have there. I am allowed up to 20 posters, but I think 3 or 4 is all I need.

What you do is stand around your poster and talk to passers by at the convention who are interested. You can have links, and other information about further online resources. I am going to learn QR code so people can just use their smartphones to pull in a link and look stuff up online.

I plan to invite media to drop by and send out a press release.

I am learning that these poster dimensions are way too large for word, so you create a large template as a PowerPoint and then put  your presentation in that. You can also generate things in WORD and do a screen capture and just put your text in as an image.

For the national convention you get one 4 feet by 8 feet template. You can't do that in PowerPoint, but have to do it in Publisher instead, but you can just generate your stuff in WORD and screen capture and drop it in as an image.

I have some time to learn this before they are due and so I can have a gradual learning curve on this, but I don't think it is that difficult.

UPDATE: Version of paper with over 100 images available. Go to this link and follow the link to the page with the paper.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/fair-park.html