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Works-in-Progress Interest Form

The Committee on Social Theory (ST) is hosting work-in-progress workshops this upcoming academic year for faculty and grad students to share and receive friendly and productive feedback. We welcome scholarship--journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, proceedings--that is fully or mostly drafted. Each workshop will begin with a short presentation from the author, followed by discussions from the respondents.

Graduate Student Travel Award Showcase October 18, 2023

Please join the Committee on Social Theory on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 from 12-1 pm ET in the Bingham Davis House at the Gaines Center for the 1st Annual Graduate Student Travel Award Showcase! 

This past spring, CST welcomed applications for research awards by University of Kentucky graduate students with interests in social theory (broadly defined). Awards were designed to assist graduate students with travel, lodging, meals, and other research-related expenses.

Necropolitics, Border Walls, and the Murder of Jim and Juan Crows: Geographic Justice Struggles in the Americas

Please join the Committee on Social Theory for the second speaker in our Spring 2023 Speaker Series on the theme of Debility and After/ Alterlives happening on Friday, February 24 at 2 pm ET in the UK Athletics Association Auditorium in the William T. Young Library with Dr. Melissa W. Wright

The "After/Life" of Immigration: State Violence at/as the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Disability

Date: 04/14/2023 - 02:00 pm

Location: Zoom (https://tinyurl.com/springspeaker4)

Speaker(s) / Presenter(s): Christina V. Cedillo

This is the fourth speaker for the Committee on Social Theory's Spring 2023 Speaker Series on the theme of Debility and After/ Alterlives:

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Christina V. Cedillo is associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the Department of Communication at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. They are the lead editor of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and their work on race, gender, and disability has appeared in College Composition & Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, Composition Forum, and various other journals and edited collections. This talk shares Dr. Cedillo's current work on spatial tropes to examine the eugenicist trajectories informing US immigration policy and procedures and their enduring effects on migrants' lives. For more on Dr. Cedillo's work, please visit http://christinavcedillo.com/

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Namelessness and Posthumous Care

This is the third speaker for the Committee on Social Theory's Spring 2023 Speaker Series on the theme of Debility and After/ Alterlives: 

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Eunjung Kim is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. She is an author of Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea (Duke University Press, 2017) a co-editor of Crip Genealogies (Duke University Press 2023). Her work appeared in journals such as Catalyst: Feminism, Theory and TechnoscienceGLQSocial Politics and in several edited collections. She is a member of WDE, a disabled women's organization based in Seoul. Presenting from her current book project entitled Dignity Archives, Eunjung Kim's talk will explore the discourses surrounding the 2016 massacre of 19 people with disabilities by Uematsu Satoshi in a state-funded institution in Sagamihara, Japan. The motive for attacking forty three people was based on explicit eugenic and ableist beliefs about people who do not use verbal language to communicate. The names of the victims were not released to the public, and disability activists worldwide argued that anonymity doesn’t allow proper mourning and continues to deny the victims’ dignity after death. Thinking through this namelessness and transnational mourning, Kim explores the consequences of dignity conditioned by the presence of speech, name, family, and belongings. Kim turns dignity’s absence as a place where dignity presents itself.

For more on Dr. Kim, please visit https://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/kim--eunjung/

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