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Upcoming Colloquia

Grace Brannon Colloquium, November 11 at 12pm in University Hall 432Fall 2024


Past Colloquia

Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Fall 2022

 

  • November 28, Monday – Dr. Eli Shupe, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Co-director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program (UTA) “Unclaimed Bodies and Medical Teaching”
    • Noon – 432 University Hall

Spring 2022

February 21, Monday – Dr. Erin Murrah-Mandril – UTA – Associate Professor of English – “Transnational Parteria: The Feminist Genealogy of Borderlands Midwifery

March 23, Wednesday– Dr. Frederick Engram, Jr. – UTA – Assistant Professor of Instruction Center for African American Studies and CRCJ – “Our Liberation Does Not Require Your Permission

CANCELED May 2, Monday – Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry – University of Texas – Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies – “Cite Black Women: The Politics of Citation and Call to Action

  • 4pm – Architecture 204 or online here

Fall 2020

October 7, Wednesday – Dr. Jacqueline Fay – UTA – Associate Professor of English – “Sinuous Histories: How Worms Have Animated Us.”

November 11, Wednesday– Dr. Kenneth Williford – UTA – Chair Department of Philosophy – “Slow Capitalism: The Interregnum, the Four Futures & the Confusion of Tongues

Spring 2020

February 12, WednesdayPatrick Burkart – Texas A&M – Professor of Communication – “Why Hackers Win

  • Noon in UH 10

Fall 2019

September 23, MondayDan Levine – UTA Psychology – “Healing the Reason-Emotion Split: Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard

  • Noon in UH 432

October 28, Monday – Dustin Harp – UTA Communications – “Theoretical Intersections: feminist, cultural and media inquiries

  • Noon in UH 432

November 20, Wednesday Digital Culture: Promises, Progress and Power” a Roundtable – 11/20 at

  • 6pm (Architecture 204)

Spring 2019

February 18, MondayBob Young – Sociology  – “Perceiving the Moral and the Immoral

  • Noon in University Hall 418

March 25, MondayKen Roemer – English-  “The Joys, Frustrations, and Temptations of Self-Creation

  • Noon in University Hall 10

April 17, WednesdayTim Richardson – English – “A Haunting Tune: Music, Nostalgia, and Ordinary Psychosis

  • Noon in University Hall 432


Fall 2018

Colloquium Crowd

September 19, Wednesday – Lonny Harrison – “Reaping the Storm: Responses to Soviet Authoritarianism in Russian Literature and Mass Culture

  • Noon in University Hall 432

October 17, Wednesday – Miriam (Mimi) Rowntree – “(Dis)Composed Dwelling: Writing Ruins of Disaster

  • Noon in University Hall 432

October 31, WednesdayGabe Ignatow – “Social Theory in the Digital Age

  • Noon – ‎COBA ‎239

November 14Sonja Watson – “Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybrid Identity in Panamanian Music: Reggae en Español

  • Noon – ‎COBA ‎239

 

Tim Morris

Spring 2018 – Dialectic of Digital Culture

February 7, WednesdayBrian Connor – “Government vs. Corporate Surveillance: Privacy Concerns in the Digital World

  • Noon in COBA 140

February 28, WednesdayTim Morris – “Photography, Bibliography, Digitality, Paradox

  • Noon in University Hall 432

April 18, Wednesday – Michael Palm – “The New Old:Vinyl Records and Digital Media

  • Noon in COBA 140

May 2, WednesdayEstee Beck – “Weapons of Mass Surveillance: The Manipulation of Facebook during the Presidential Election

  • Noon in University Hall 432

Fall 2017

October 18, WednesdaySarah Shelton – “The Agential Classroom: Tuning to a Posthuman Pedagogy”

  • Noon in University Hall 432

November 15, WednesdayStephanie Tavera – “Theorizing Her-Story: Dis/ability and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction.”

  • Noon in University Hall 432

December 6, WednesdayKen Williford – “Kalecki, Right-Wing Populism, and the Specter of Fascism”

  • Noon in University Hall 432

Spring 2017

February 8th,WednesdayJacqueline Fay – “The Weeds We Are: the Trans-Planted Politics of Eleventh-Century England.”

March 8th, WednesdayAmy Speier – “From The Wild West to Silicon Valley: Shifting Models of Reproductive Medicine in North America”

April 5th, WednesdayMark Worrell – “Putting the Soul Back in Society: The Ontology and Geometry of Objects, Things, and Monsters”


Spring 2015 Colloquia

February 4, WednesdayBruce Krajewski, “Business as Usual: Theory at the University”

March 4, WednesdayStacy Alaimo, “Your Shell on Acid:  Posthuman Vulnerability, Anthropocene Dissolves”

April 8, WednesdayPenelope Ingram, “Almost (Human), but not quite”: Bioengineering Race Relations in Contemporary Science Fiction


Spring 2014 Colloquia

Heidi HardtJanuary 29, Wednesday, noon, “Time to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response”

Waquar Ahmed, March 5, Wednesday, noon, “Foreign Direct Investments and Power”

Ann Foss, April 10, Thursday, 12:30pm, “The Impact of Politics and Discourse on Environmental Planning and Public Participation: Use of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants in Dallas-Fort Worth”


Spring 2013 Colloquia

February 13, noon, Jacqueline Stodnick, “Virgin Agents in Anglo-Saxon England.”

March 20, noon, David Arditi, “Would Adorno Download Music?  Piracy, the Recording Industry and Reproduction Reconsidered.”

April 18, 12:30pm, Robert LaRue, “The Revolutionary Body:  A Look at the Occupy Movement.”