By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Priscilla McCutcheon, assistant professor of geography in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, has been named a 2023 Fellow in the American Association of Geographers.
Our alumni and friends are also invited back to Lexington for a reunion on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
Itinerary for Lexington in November
The University of Kentucky Department of Geography invites you to our 10th Annual Harrison and Eva Lewis Bailey Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Harrison and Eva graduated from UK; Eva from Psychology in 1948 and Harrison from Geography in 1949. Read more about the fund here, established by Harrison in memory of Eva.
For more information on our speaker, the event, and more, please visit the official Bailey Alumni Lecture webpage.
Baker A. Rogers is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Baker is the author of King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South (Rutgers University), Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights (Rutgers University Press) and Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men.
The talk explores the convergence of the de-generation of film celluloid and videotape as highly-unstable visual materials that inevitably break down and the concept of gay male generation, where the important political gains of previous generations are taken for granted, rejected, or entirely forgotten. My case studies range from an anti-Vietnam War porn film from 1973, award-winning “safe sex” VHS porn videos from the 1990s, and social distancing digital porn during the Covid-19 pandemic. I argue that it is through recording and re-dubbing old images anew that will enable and ensure the preservation of sexual memory and the expansion of sexual possibilities for future queer generations to come. The talk will be supplemented by a screening of short experimental videos.
Nguyen Tan Hoang is an experimental videomaker and writer based in San Jose, California, USA. Nguyen’s videos include Forever Bottom! (1999), PIRATED! (2000), K.I.P. (2002), look_im_azn (2011), I Remember Dancing (2019), and Sad Porn (2024). Their research interests include Asian American visual culture, Southeast Asian cinema, queer cinema, experimental film, race and pornography, and videographic criticism. Nguyen’s experimental videos have screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. They have programmed film, video, and performance for MIX NYC: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Nguyen is a member of the working group International Videoessay Research Network (IVERN). Nguyen teaches film, media, and cultural studies in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego.
