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2018-2019

Friday, Aug 31, 2018

3:00 pm, W.T. Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

Shannon Mattern, "Amending Care: An Archaeology of Maintenance”, Professor of Media Studies, The New School for Social Research. (UK Digital Studies Speaker Series)



Friday, Sept 14, 2018

3:00 pm, W.T. Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

Cyrus Farivar, “Habeas Data: Privacy vs the Rise of Surveillance Tech”, Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica. (UK Digital Studies Speaker Series)



Thursday, Oct 4, 2018

3:00 pm, Lucille Little Library, Niles Gallery

Mathew Coleman, “Rethinking the ‘Gold Standard’ of Racial Profiling: §287(g), Secure Communities and Spatially Discrepant Police Power”, Associate Professor, Ohio State University



Monday, Oct 8, 2018

3:00 pm, West End Room, 18th Floor POT

Gillian Rose “Who lives in the smart city? Digital technologies and social difference after representation”, Professor of Human Geography (UK Digital Studies Speaker Series)



Friday, Oct 12, 2018

3:00 pm, Whitehall Classroom Bldg Room 208

Emily Bergeron “The price of global conservation: indigenous displacement in the name of national parks and conservation areas”, Assistant Professor, UK College of Design



Friday, Oct 19, 2018

2:00pm, WT Young Library, UKAA auditorium

Ann Stoler “Grids of Sensibility: in Governance and the Law”, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and History, The New School for Social Research. UK Committee on Social Theory Invited Speaker



Friday, Oct 19, 2018

3:00 pm, Cameron Williams Lecture Hall, 101 Plant Science Building

Krista Isaacs “Participatory Breeding”, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University. Co-sponsored by the UK Department of Geography.

 

Friday, Nov 2, 2018       

3:00pm William T. Young Library Auditorium Mary Gilmartin “The crisis of belonging in contemporary Europe”, Professor of Geography, Maynooth University, Annual Harrison and Eva Lewis Bailey Alumni Lecture, UK Department of Geography plain text editor. Enter or paste your text here. To download and save it, click on the button below.

Friday, Nov 9, 2018

3:00 pm, W.T. Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

Ed Finn “TBA”, Associate Professor, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University (UK Digital Studies Speaker Series)



Friday, Nov 30, 2018

3:00 pm West End Room, 18th Floor POT

Sid Dobrin "Against Hand Me Down Tech: Digital Literacy, Digital Creativity, and the Trace Innovation Initiative”, Professor, Department of English, University of Florida  (UK Digital Studies Speaker Series)

Friday, January 11, 2018
3:30 pm, Classroom Building, Room 334
Julie Cidell “Spaces of distribution: mobility and place at a North American river confluence.”", Professor, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois.
 
Friday, January 18, 2019
2:00 pm, WT Young Library Auditorium
Chip Berlet "Trumping Democracy: Conspiracy, Propaganda, and Scripted Violence" Freelance Journalist and Senior Analyst with Research for Progess. UK Committee on Social Theory invited speaker.
 
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
3:00 pm, Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, West End Room
Social Theory Spring Forum "30 Years of Social Theory @ UK", UK Committee on Social Theory event
 
Friday, January 25, 2019
3:30 pm, Classroom Building, Room 334
Julia Ravenscroft "Growth as a mirror: environmental contamination, dietary patterns, and health in adolescents from the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne", Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
 
Friday, February 1, 2019
3:30 pm, Classroom Building, Room 334
Louis K Epstein "Should GIS Sing? The Promise and Peril of Mapping Music History" Assistant Professor of Music, St. Olaf College
 
Friday, February 8, 2019
2:00 pm, WT Young Library Auditorium
Paulina Ochoa Espejo "Bounding the demos: Populism, immigration, exclusion", Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College. UK Committee on Social Theory invited speaker.
 
Friday, February 15, 2019
3:30 pm, Classroom Building, Room 334
Boyd Shearer " Weather mapping in HD: a season of Kentucky sunsets", Lecturer in Mapping & GIS. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
 
February 21 - 23, 2019 
 
Friday, March 22, 2019
2:00 pm, Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, West End Room
Maria Pia Lara "'Poplulism': A conceptual Analysis", Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitiana (Mexico) UK Committe on Social Theory invited speaker
 
 
Friday, March 29th, 2019 
3:30 pm, Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, West End Room
Natalie Oswin "Other Geographies: Thinking space, from somewhere", Associate Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University. UK Geography Graduate Student Union invited speaker.
 
Friday, April 12, 2019
3:30 pm Classroom Building, Room 334
Erin Koch "Abjection, 'Heart Sickness', and Displacement in the Republic of Georgia" , Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
 
Friday, April 19, 2019
2:00 pm, Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, West End Room
Kenneth Roberts "Populism and American Democracy in global perspective", Richard J. Schwartz Professor, Department of Government, Conrnell University. UK Committee on Social Theory invited speaker.
 
Friday, April 26, 2019
2:00pm. W.T. Young Library Auditorium
Karl Raitz "An Archipelago of Risk: Making Bourbon, and Heritage, in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky", Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky