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2017-2018

Friday, Sept 29th, 2017
Anna Secor, Jess Linz, Robby Hardesty, “Walter Benja-memes: Affective Politics in the Age of Viral Reproduction”, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky

Friday, October 6, 2017
No departmental colloquium scheduled

Friday, October 13, 2017
Ishan Ashutosh, "The Death of Diaspora, and the Geographies of Revitilization", Department of Geography, Indiana University.
3:30 - 4: 30, Rm 204 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Friday, October 20, 2017
Ted Schatzki, “On Practice Theory, or What’s Practices got to do [got to do] with it?”, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky

Friday, October 27, 2017
Rein Ahas, "How Can We Measure Social Segregation Outside of Residential Areas?", Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia
3:30 - 4: 30, Rm 204 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Friday, November 3, 2017
Political Ecology Workshop - No departmental colloquium scheduled

Friday, November 10, 2017
Ed Carr, "Everything All the Time: Agrarian Resilience and Development in the Anthropocene", Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and Environment Department; Director, Humanitarian Response and Development Lab (HURDL), George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University (Annual Harrison and Eva Lewis Bailey Alumni Lecture)
3:00 - 4:30 W.T. Young Auditorium - Main Library

Friday, November 17, 2017
Jeremy Van Cleve, "Social evolution within and between groups: reciprocity, relatedness, and synergy", Department of Biology, University of Kentucky
3:30 - 4: 30, Rm 204 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Friday, December 1, 2017
BIlly Hawkins, "“Critical Race Theory: A Revolutionary Theory for Social Activism and Sport”, Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston (UK Social Theory Distinguished Speaker)
3:30 - 4:30 106 Whitehall Classroom Building

Friday, December 8, 2017
Whitney Walker, Lafayette High School AP Human Geography Instructor
Boyd Shearer, Cartographic Designer
3:30 - 4: 30, Rm 204 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Friday, January 19, 2018
Ellen Hahn, "Environmental Risk Reduction Research in Rural Communities: Tobacco and Radon Exposure", Professor & Director of BREATHE, Deputy Director of UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences, UK College of Nursing
3:30 - 4:00 Rm 334 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Monday, January 22, 2018
Jennifer Mokos, "Restoration as Removal: Homelessness, Ecology, and the Struggle for Change", Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University, Department of Geology & Geography
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower

Thursday, January 25, 2018
Carly Nichols, "1000 Days is Forever? Bodily Practices and Nutritional Health Politics in Rural India". School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower

Monday, Jan 29, 2018
Nari Senanayake, "Cultivating Health in Landscapes of Uncertainty: Mystery Kidney Disease, Environmental Risk, and Agrarian Transformation in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone".  Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University.
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower

Friday, Feburary 9, 2018
Charlie Yi Zhang, "Love in the Eyes of Competitors: China's Mass-Mediated Loveland in the Neoliberal Universe".   Assistant Professor, UK Department of Gender and Women's Studies
4:45 - 5:45, Rm 334 Whitehall Classroom Bldg

Monday, March 26, 2018
Nazgol Bagheri, "Mapping Women in Tehran’s Public Spaces: From the Meidan to the Mall". Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Geography, University of Texas-San Antonio
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower

Thursday, March 29, 2018
Carolyn Fish, "Cartography for Social and Environmental Challenges", Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower

Monday, April 2, 2018:
Nick Lally, "Mapping Imaginaries", Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:30 - 4:30 106 Whitehall Classroom Building

Thursday, April 5, 2018
Jen Jack Gieseking, "What the Map Cuts Across: the Stories, Maps, and Data of LGBTQ Lives",  Assistant Professor of Public Humanities in American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
3:30 - 4:30 West End Room, 18th Floor, Patterson Office Tower