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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