The Committee on Social Theory Presents: Dr. Peter Temin
"Lessons of the Great Depression" Dr. Peter Temin of MIT discusses market failures, famine, and crisis.
"Lessons of the Great Depression" Dr. Peter Temin of MIT discusses market failures, famine, and crisis.
The Hamlet Doctrine November 14, 2013
By Victoria Dekle and Brian Connors Manke
Rachael Hoy might be a graduate student in English, but right now her brain is more focused on mapping than sentence fragments.
This November, scholars and activists from around the world will gather at UK to attend the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Arnold Farr, a philosopher and social theorist here at the University of Kentucky, is organizing the conference, which seeks to examine “Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era.”
This past April, the University of Kentucky's Jewish Studies Program was lucky enough to host a lecture with renowned scholar and author Catherine Rottenberg. The talk, titled "The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side," concluded a series of special events hosted over the past year by the Jewish Studies Program.
According to recent research, approximately one in five Americans don’t identify with a religion.
Tom Conley, Harvard University Table, Map, and Text: Writing in France circa 1600
Committee on Social Theory Spring Lecture Series Friday, March 8, 2013 - University of Kentucky
Most of us associate mapping with cartography, but that's not always the case.
On April 6th, 2013, the UK Department of Philosophy will host its 16th annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. Organizer Justin Spinks is bringing together scholars and students to ponder and discuss the relationship between Philosophy and Community.