Upcoming Colloquia
Spring 2024
- February 5, 12pm – Dr. Amy Tigner – Professor of English
- “The Creative Practice: Academics and Artists.”
- University Hall 418
- March 18, 12pm – Dr. Kathryn Hamilton Warren – Distinguished Senior Lecturer of English
- “Creative Criticism“
- University Hall 432
- April 15, 12pm – Natalia Trigo – Assistant Professor of Spanish
- “Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Synergy Between Creative and Academic Writing“
- University Hall 432
- April 22, 12pm – Benjamin Terry – Senior Lecturer of Art and Art History
- “The Creative Practice: Academics and Artists”
- University Hall 432
Past Colloquia
Fall 2023
- November 6, 12pm – Dr. Lauren Sperandio Phelps – Lecturer of English
- December 4, 12pm – Dr. Robert Bing – Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Race, Crime, Justice
- University Hall 432
Spring 2023
- February 22, 6pm – Black Feminist and Liberatory Theories
- Location: PKH 102
- Speakers: Dr. Ericka Roland, Dr. Kyrah Brown, Dr. Wideline Seraphin
- April 7, Noon – Dr. Christian Zlolniski
- Location: University Hall 432
- April 26, Noon – Dr. Hannah Lebovits
- Location: University Hall 432
Fall 2022
- November 7, Monday – Dr. Alma Garza, Assistant Professor of Sociology (UTA)Noon – 432 University Hall
- 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”
- Noon – via Teams
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.”
- 1:30pm – via Teams
November 11, Wednesday– Dr. Kenneth Williford – UTA – Chair Department of Philosophy – “Slow Capitalism: The Interregnum, the Four Futures & the Confusion of Tongues”
- 1:30pm – via Teams
Spring 2020
February 12, Wednesday – Patrick Burkart – Texas A&M – Professor of Communication – “Why Hackers Win”
- Noon in UH 10
Fall 2019
September 23, Monday – Dan 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, Monday – Bob Young – Sociology – “Perceiving the Moral and the Immoral”
- Noon in University Hall 418
March 25, Monday – Ken Roemer – English- “The Joys, Frustrations, and Temptations of Self-Creation”
- Noon in University Hall 10
April 17, Wednesday – Tim Richardson – English – “A Haunting Tune: Music, Nostalgia, and Ordinary Psychosis”
- Noon in University Hall 432
Fall 2018
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, Wednesday – Gabe Ignatow – “Social Theory in the Digital Age”
- Noon – COBA 239
November 14 – Sonja Watson – “Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybrid Identity in Panamanian Music: Reggae en Español”
- Noon – COBA 239
Spring 2018 – Dialectic of Digital Culture
February 7, Wednesday – Brian Connor – “Government vs. Corporate Surveillance: Privacy Concerns in the Digital World”
- Noon in COBA 140
February 28, Wednesday – Tim 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, Wednesday – Estee Beck – “Weapons of Mass Surveillance: The Manipulation of Facebook during the Presidential Election”
- Noon in University Hall 432
Fall 2017
October 18, Wednesday – Sarah Shelton – “The Agential Classroom: Tuning to a Posthuman Pedagogy”
- Noon in University Hall 432
November 15, Wednesday – Stephanie Tavera – “Theorizing Her-Story: Dis/ability and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction.”
- Noon in University Hall 432
December 6, Wednesday – Ken Williford – “Kalecki, Right-Wing Populism, and the Specter of Fascism”
- Noon in University Hall 432
Spring 2017
February 8th,Wednesday – Jacqueline Fay – “The Weeds We Are: the Trans-Planted Politics of Eleventh-Century England.”
March 8th, Wednesday – Amy Speier – “From The Wild West to Silicon Valley: Shifting Models of Reproductive Medicine in North America”
April 5th, Wednesday – Mark Worrell – “Putting the Soul Back in Society: The Ontology and Geometry of Objects, Things, and Monsters”
Spring 2015 Colloquia
February 4, Wednesday—Bruce Krajewski, “Business as Usual: Theory at the University”
March 4, Wednesday—Stacy Alaimo, “Your Shell on Acid: Posthuman Vulnerability, Anthropocene Dissolves”
April 8, Wednesday—Penelope Ingram, “Almost (Human), but not quite”: Bioengineering Race Relations in Contemporary Science Fiction
Spring 2014 Colloquia
Heidi Hardt, January 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.”