"When we think about a skyscraper, cathedral, or monument, we seldom ask: what was there before? Who benefited from its construction? Who lost? What could have been?" UK History professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated author Tracy A. Campbell said.
This November, scholars and activists from around the world will gather at UK to attend the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Arnold Farr, a philosopher and social theorist here at the University of Kentucky, is organizing the conference, which seeks to examine “Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era.”
The University of Kentucky Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) will present a talk titled "The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever" Tuesday, March 19, in the W.T. Young Library auditorium.
Most of us associate mapping with cartography, but that's not always the case.
A&S Associate Dean Ted Schatzki returns from England's University of Essex, having delivered social theory lecture.
With the help of a generous grant from the U.S. State Department, UK has been able to forge a partnership across the Pacific. On March 29th, 2012, three UK scholars will go to deliver lectures for the Inaugural Symposium for the American Studies Center at Shanghai.
The revolutions throughout Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and other nations in the Arab world have inspired earnest debate among experts. UK experts will discuss related topics this Friday.
Students serve as history-detectives, acquiring information from community leaders, local archivists and historians from across the U.S., to accumulate relevant information never analyzed concurrently. They developed and debated historical interpretations of the primary sources they found and engaged in both online and classroom discussions.
The Committee on Social Theory presents the 2010 Lecture Series, "Law, Sex, and Family"
Marianne Noble is a Professor in the Department of Literature at American University. On Friday February 5, 2010, she delivered her lecture, "The Limits of Empathy and The Promise of Sex in Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe".
The Committee on Social Theory presents the 2010 Lecture Series, "Law, Sex, and Family"
Marianne Noble is a Professor in the Department of Literature at American University. On Friday February 5, 2010, she delivered her lecture, "The Limits of Empathy and The Promise of Sex in Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe".
