Please join the Center for Theory for a colloquium on October 20 at 12pm in 432 University Hall. Dr. Kelly Bergstrand, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Andrea Jenkins, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies PhD student, will present their paper “Environmental Acts and Religious Consequences.” How do people view environmental acts in the context of religious…Continue Reading Bergstrand and Jenkins Colloquium – October 20 at 12pm
Year: 2025
What can the library do for you?
On Monday, September 22, at 3pm, the UTA Libraries will host a session for graduate students in the Ben Agger Theory Library (University Hall 203). The event entitled “What can the library do for you?” will be led by subject librarians, Elizabeth Bittner and Samantha Streeter. This is speicifically for social science and humanties graduate…Continue Reading What can the library do for you?
Amy Speier Colloquium – September 22, 2025
Our first colloquium of the 2025-26 academic year will be held on Monday, September 22, 2025 at 12pm in UH 432. Dr. Amy Speier will present her newly published book, Mobility in North American Surrogacy: A Fertile Global Industry. In it, she examines the multiple players involved in global surrogacy contracts between international intended parents…Continue Reading Amy Speier Colloquium – September 22, 2025
Dr. Doug Stark Colloquium – 4/28/25
The final colloquium of the semester will be held April 28 at 12pm in University Hall 432. Dr. Doug Stark, Assistant Professor of English, will present “Protective Play: On Farocki’s Operational Games.” Abstract: Traditionally, scholars have considered play a means of expanding our horizons, but as education, labor, and daily life are increasingly “gamified,” Dr….Continue Reading Dr. Doug Stark Colloquium – 4/28/25
This is the New Normal
Timothy W. Luke section editor Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special section about the changing dynamics of US politics during the current Trump administration. The goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries in time to present careful critical studies of the changing political realities in the…Continue Reading This is the New Normal