Matt Wray, a sociologist from Temple University, has been researching suicide across the United States. He will visit UK to give a talk called "Early Mortality, Stigma, & Social Suffering in Appalachia" March 27 in the UK Student Center Small Ballroom.
A&S Associate Dean Ted Schatzki returns from England's University of Essex, having delivered social theory lecture.
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.
Next lecture in "Place Matters" series to take place this Friday. The talk is entitled "Somewheres on the Track: Place, Art, and Music in Eastern Kentucky"
Students are encouraged to submit abstracts of their work related to Appalachia for presentation at the third annual Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase. The deadline for the call for papers is Dec. 15.
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".
23rd Annual Public Lecture Series: Social Theory
Title: "America’s Exhibit A: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History and the Genres of Authenticity"
Feb. 25, 2011: Professor Roy Baumeister, Frances Eppes Eminent Scholar, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
23rd Annual Public Lecture Series: Social Theory
Title: "America’s Exhibit A: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History and the Genres of Authenticity"
Feb. 25, 2011: Professor Roy Baumeister, Frances Eppes Eminent Scholar, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
