Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.
Sessions all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday in the UK Student Center with scholars and students from around the world.
TITLE: Square roots of divergence form operators on L^p spaces
ABSTRACT: An abstract is available online at
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~kott/PDEseminarf13/Haller-Dintelmann.pdf
The University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group is hosting the third annual Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society.
Now in its third year, the 2013 Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference will provide opportunities to engage with contemporary scholarship on the political-economic causes and effects of environmental degradation and ecological change. With an interdisciplinary and international group of presenters, panelists, and keynote speakers, this year's conference will offer considerable insight into pressing contemporary questions relating to sustainability, global climate change, and local environmental conflicts. This year, we have over 200 scheduled presenters, representing a wide variety of geographic and disciplinary affiliations.
The final program can be view here.
Listen to a podcast about the Political Ecology Group below.
The dates for the event are 2/28 (5:30 PM) until 3/2 (10:00 PM).
The final program link is here.
The conference website can be found here.
And we also have a podcast.
Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University
A Digital Humanities Symposium
February 15-16, 2013
The University of Kentucky
Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program
Keynote Speakers:
Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas
Malcolm McCullough, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan
Of all the topics of interest to the digital humanities, the network has received little attention among digital humanities proponents. Yet, we live in a networked society: texts, sound, ideas, people, movements, consumerism, protest movements, politics, entertainment, academia, and other items circulate in networks that come together and break apart at various moments. While there exist networked spaces of interaction for digital humanities work – such as HASTAC or specific university centers - we still must consider how networks affect traditional and future goals of humanities work. Have the humanities sufficiently addressed the ways their work, as networks, affect other networks, within and outside of the humanities? What might be a networked digital humanities or what is it currently if it does, indeed, exist? Can an understanding of the humanities as a series of networks affect – positively or negatively - the ways the public perceive its research, pedagogy, and mission?
The University of Kentucky’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program invites proposals for a two day symposium devoted to discussion of the implications of a networked digital humanities. The symposium will bring together academic and professional audiences in order to rethink the taxonomy of humanities so that we emerge with a network of people and ideas beyond the traditional taxonomy of “humanities” work. Thus, talks will not be limited to traditional humanities areas of study.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
· Public humanities work
· Networks among disciplines
· Ecologies
· Animal and human networks
· Online spaces
· Mapping/Geography
· Economics and the humanities
· Labor and the humanities
· Digital production of texts
· Community work
· Workplace organization
· The university as network
· Archives and Obsolescence
February 15-16, 2013
Panels, roundtables, performative pieces, and alternative forms of delivery are welcome and encouraged.
No registration fee to attend or present. Please send 250 word proposals to Jeff Rice j.rice@uky.edu by September 1, 2012.
A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.
