Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.
Sessions all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday in the UK Student Center with scholars and students from around the world.
TITLE: Square roots of divergence form operators on L^p spaces
ABSTRACT: An abstract is available online at
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~kott/PDEseminarf13/Haller-Dintelmann.pdf
Invisible War (2011), an Academy Award-nominated documentary, will be shown for free this Saturday morning, April 20, 2013, at 10 AM at the Kentucky Theater. This film documents the lives of women and men who have been sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. Several of the survivors have roots in Kentucky, and some of them will be at the screening to answer questions. Come out, see the film, hear their stories.
Sponsored by UK Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, English, History, WRD (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media), American Studies and the Center for research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW)
A celebration of Kate Black's contributions as an Appalachian Studies Archivist and Scholar
Everyone is invited to the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Conference!
8:00am - 8:45am Coffee & Pastry Welcome
8:45am - 10:00am Session 1: "Reading the Dickensian City"
10:15am - 11:30am Session 2A. "Examining Trauma: Representations in Film, Poetry, and Visual Literature"
Session 2B. “Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem”
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch at the Boone Center
1:00pm - 2:00pm Keynote, Dr. Leah Bayens - "The Consilience of Ecological Agrarianism" - Niles Gallery
2:15pm - 3:30pm Session 3: "Minds, Memories, and Publics, Medieval and Early Modern"
3:45pm - 5:00pm Session 4: "Stardom"
Post-conference pizza and drinks will be held at Pazzo's -- all are welcome!
Set in a fictional hill-domain resembling our own Appalachia, Ancient Creekfollows the struggles of native hill folk against colonialist invaders. The hero Jack, familiar from the Jack tale tradition, is the fugitive leader of the people's revolt and the nemesis of the King. Wounded survivors of the revolution find solace and healing on Ancient Creek where old Aunt Haze is the guiding spirit. This edition also includes essays about the story by Jim Wayne Miller, Kevin I. Eyster, Annalucia Accardo, and Dee Davis, founder of the Center for Rural Strategies, who will be joining Gurney at the event.
Location:
882 E High St
Lexington , Kentucky 40502
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructurein a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012 forthcoming). Her current work includes a new book project, "Nature's Infrastructure," dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Tom Conley is Lowell Professor in the Departments of Romance Languages and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Conley studies relations of space and writing in literature, cartography, and cinema. His work moves to and from early modern France and issues in theory and interpretation in visual media. In 2003, Dr. Conley won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in topography and literature in Renaissance France.
Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia: “Gabriel's War: Cartography and the Changing Art of War"
January 25, 2pm
Lexmark Room, Main Building
Dr. Derek Gregory is a member of the Department of Geography and one of two Peter Wall Distinguished Professors at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Gregory trained as an historical geographer at the University of Cambridge. His research focused on the historical geography of industrialization and on the relations between social theory and human geography and explored a range of critical theories that showed how place, space, and landscape have been involved in the operation and outcome of social processes. His 1982 book, Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution, was staged on the classic ground of E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class. Following a move to Vancouver in 1989, Gregory’s work was reinforced by postcolonial critique, outlined in his 1989 book Geographical Imaginations. This new phase of work owed much to Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism, but it was much more concerned with the corporeality and physicality of travel – with embodied subjects moving through material landscapes – and with the constantly changing (often mislaid) cultural baggage of the travelers. And it paid attention what travelers mapped, sketched, and photographed – and to the consequences these representations had for their encounters.
This work on travel and travel writing was interrupted by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, and the focus of his research shifted to the present. Drawing on his training as an historical geographer and his sense of the renewed power of Orientalism, Dr. Gregory traced the long history of British and American involvements in the “Middle East,” and showed how these affected the cultural, political, and military responses to 9/11. The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (2004) showed how war quite literally takes place, and described in detail the violent ‘taking of places’ not only in Afghanistan and Iraq but in occupied Palestine. The study showed how the conduct of war connects the abstractions of geopolitics – the pronouncements of politicians, the strategies of generals – to the lives and deaths of countless ordinary men and women.
His forthcoming book, The Everywhere War, shows how the conduct of war is shaped by the spaces through which it is conducted; ranging from the global war prison at Guantanamo Bay through counterinsurgency in Baghdad and the drone wars in Afghanistan/Pakistan. His new research project, Killing space, is a critical study of the techno-cultural and political dimensions of air war. It focuses on three major campaigns: the combined bombing offensive against Germany in the Second World War, America’s air wars over Indochina, and the present use of UAVs in Afghanistan/Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere. It pays particular attention to the changing ways in which cities (and eventually people) have been visualized as targets within what is now called the ‘kill-chain,’ and to the different ways in which the media have represented and reported bombing to different publics.
The University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group is hosting the third annual Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society.
Now in its third year, the 2013 Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference will provide opportunities to engage with contemporary scholarship on the political-economic causes and effects of environmental degradation and ecological change. With an interdisciplinary and international group of presenters, panelists, and keynote speakers, this year's conference will offer considerable insight into pressing contemporary questions relating to sustainability, global climate change, and local environmental conflicts. This year, we have over 200 scheduled presenters, representing a wide variety of geographic and disciplinary affiliations.
The final program can be view here.
Listen to a podcast about the Political Ecology Group below.
The dates for the event are 2/28 (5:30 PM) until 3/2 (10:00 PM).
The final program link is here.
The conference website can be found here.
And we also have a podcast.
