Event category: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought
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Dr. Willa Hammitt Brown – “Second Growth Memory: Capitalism and the Forgetting of Fires in the Northwoods”
Dr. Brown will speak about her new book Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2025). Now recalled as heroes of wilderness and masculinity, lumberjacks in their own time were despised as amoral transients. Willa Hammitt Brown shows that nineteenth-century jacks defined their communities of itinerant workers by […]
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ASPECT Spring 2025 Graduate Conference: On Violence: Domination, Control, and Resistance
The 2025 ASPECT Graduate Conference will take place Thursday, March 27, and Friday, March 28 The 2025 ASPECT Graduate Conference, On Violence: Domination, Control, and Resistance, will feature Keynote addresses by Dr. Thomas Stanley, George Mason University and Dr. Nick Estes, University of Minnesota Online (3/27, 1:30-5:00 p.m.), Moss Arts Center Atrium (3/27, 5:30 p.m.), […]
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Stories of Migration
Stories of Migration is a multimedia art performance with electronic music, harp, dance and visual art. It tells stories of migration from people who shared their experiences, memories and feelings of (un)belonging. Free and open to the public March 4th and 5th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Q&A after March 5th show
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“Local Memories, National Narratives” Workshop (Vjeran Pavlakovic, University of Rijeka)
In this in-class workshop, we will be exploring the local, national, and international implications of local memory sites. However, you have a little homework in order to participate: explore and take pictures of a local memory site. You can focus on one in Blacksburg, the place you call home, and/or anywhere you are travelling in […]
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The Muralization of War: A Comparitive Approach to Graffiti, Murals, and Memory Politics (Vjeran Pavlakovic, University of Rijeka)
Dr. Pavlakovic will explore how murals fit into the larger mosaic of mnemonic (i.e. collective memory) production in Croatia and the other Yugoslav successor states: who finances them, who creates them, what is the legal framework for political murals in public space, and what are the cultural policies that determine their content? Furthermore, what is […]
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Graduate Student Mentoring Luncheon with Vjeran Pavlakovic (University of Rijeka)
Dr. Pavlakovic will focus on grant funding and career advice, including applied experiences. A full lunch will be provided but an RSVP is required and space is limited.
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Association for Political Theory Conference
The 22nd Annual Association for Political Theory (APT) Conference will be held this week at Virginia Tech. For the last two decades, APT has been a home for cultivating multiple approaches to the study of political theory. In addition to promoting scholarly interaction, collaboration, and debate among political theorists, APT’s mission is to support teaching, […]
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ASPECT presents: Keywords
Join us for a critical and interactive space without hierarchies, assignments, or formal expectations. Plan for a dialogue that is loose(ish), generative, obliterative, and expansive, and one on which participants can reflect afterward, both individually and in conversation with others. This semester’s keyword is RESISTANCE. Featuring comments from Erin Hammond (ASPECT), Dr. Brandy Faulker (ASPECT/AFST/PSCI), […]
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State Violence, Divine Abuse – Keynote address for the ASPECT 2024 Graduate Conference
Vincent Lloyd, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Political Theology at Villanova University, will present State Violence, Divine Abuse, the 2024 ASPECT Graduate Conference Keynote address.
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Spring 2024 ASPECT Graduate Conference: Reimagining Relationality
The 2024 ASPECT Graduate Conference, Reimagining Relationality, will take place Thursday, March 21 through Friday, March 22. Thursday’s events, except for the Keynote address, will be online. Events on Friday will be in Squires Student Center. The Keynote address with Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Director of the Center […]