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Sauer LECTURE SERIES

Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture

Yi-Fu Tuan, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 04, 1996

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About Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-American geographer famous for pioneering the field of human geography and merging it with philosophy, art, psychology, and religion. Human geography focuses on the study of the social science patterns surrounding human activity. Tuan previously served as Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota (1966-1983) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983-1998). Even after his retirement from teaching in 1998, Tuan has remained a prominent figure in geography.