Psychology Faculty Contribute to Open-source Textbook Project
Seven members of the UK Department of Psychology contributed to the innovative Noba Project, offering free texts on psychology to students and instructors.
Exhibit Features Prominent African Americans in UK History
UK Libraries will be celebrating Black History Month with an exhibit featuring prominent African-Americans from UK's history.
Breathitt Lecture 2014: Evan Sweet, Slum or Settlement?
Breathitt Lecture 2014 Evan Sweet Slum or Settlement? Rewriting the Narrative of Urban Poverty with a Focus on Community Organizing and Autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Problems with Marx…and Some Solutions
The sociology department is presenting this talk by Dr. Paul Paolucci. Light refreshments will be provided.
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Student Center Rm. 230
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Political Ecology and the End(s) of Critique
Saturday Keynote DOPE 2014
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Memorial Hall
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Environmental Racism as a Form of State-Sanctioned Racial Violence
DOPE 2014 - Friday Keynote
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Memorial Hall
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DOPE 2014 Scholar/Activist Panel: Working Across Borders: US/Latin America Collaborations for Social and Environmental Justice
Featuring: Simón Sedillo (organizer and filmmaker); Geoff Boyce (Doctoral Candidate, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona); Aviva Chomsky (Department of History, Salem State University); Vanessa Hall (Kentuckians for the Commonwealth); and Ann Kingsolver, (Department of Anthropology and Appalachian Studies Center, University of Kentucky)
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Student Center Room 230
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DOPE 2014 Plenary Panel: Engaging Difference: Displacing the Subject in Political Ecology
Featuring: Dianne Rocheleau (Clark University); Laura Ogden (Florida International University);Carolyn Finney (University of California Berkeley); Melanie DuPuis (University of California Santa Cruz); Sharlene Mollett (University of Toronto at Scarsborough); and Rebecca Lave (Indiana University)
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Student Center, Worsham Theatre
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The emotion management of social edges: exploring attachments to market and state
This will be the second of Dr. Hochschild's lectures, and is more appropriate for an academic audience. There will be a reception afterward, with refreshments, in the same room.
Arlie Hocschild is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of such notable books as The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, and So How's the Family and Other Essays?. Through her work, Dr. Hochschild has contributed to our understanding of emotional relationships in relation to changing social contexts and cultural definitions. Her work is significant in and of particular interest to those working the fields of sociology, psychology, gender and women's studies, social work, and family studies.
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Student Center Rm. 249
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