Geography & Environmental Systems Distinguished Lecture
Friday, February 24, 2023
2:00 pmVirtual
Katherine McKittrick
Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (UMP, 2006) and edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (DUP, 2015). Her most recent monograph, Dear Science and Other Stories (DUP, 2021) is an exploration of black methodologies.
Black Methodologies, Still
This presentation is divided into two parts. In the first part, Dr. McKittrick offers a confession and a reflection about geography, geographic knowledge, and race, considering how alternative spatial practices and black geographies are obscured by prevailing knowledge systems. The second part of the presentation focuses on Dr. McKittrick’s ongoing preoccupation with methodology and how radical methodologies are connected to practices of liberation, highlighting what black studies teaches us about sharing and creating ideas. This presentation draws on Dear Science and Other Stories.
Organized by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Photo provided by K. McKittrick.
This lecture was not recorded.
Distinguished Lecture in Psychology
Monday, March 6, 2023
4:00 pmAOK Library Gallery
Fathali Moghaddam
Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government
Georgetown University
How Psychologists Failed
We psychologists neglected the poor and minorities, favored the rich and privileged, and got science wrong and now this is what we have to do to get things right.
Organized by the Department of Psychology and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Photo by Adam Wagner.
Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
4:00 pmAOK Library, 7th floor
Eric Wright
Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Public Health
Chair, Department of Sociology
Georgia State University
Adverse Childhood Events, Trafficking,
and the Health of Runaway and Homeless YouthOver the past decade, global interest in trafficking has grown significantly. Wright will provide an overview of his 2018 Atlanta Youth Count, a community-engaged study of runaway and homeless youth (RHY), that was designed to estimate the size of the RHY population in metro-Atlanta and the nature and extent of these vulnerable people’s involvement of sex and labor trafficking. His work highlights the special significance of early adverse childhood events in shaping both their health and well-being as well as their risk of being trafficked.
Organized by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health. Cosponsored by the departments of Psychology and Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Photo provided by E. Wright.
Low Lecture
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
4:00 pmAOK Library, 7th floor
Michelle R. Scott
Professor, UMBC Department of History
Affiliate Faculty in the GWST, LLC, and Africana Studies Departments
T.O.B.A. Time: Black Show Business and the
Theater Owners Booking Association in 1920s AmericaThis talk centers on Michelle Scott’s new monograph, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America. T.O.B.A. Time is an intriguing account of black entertainment and black business during the 1920 and 30s. It details origins of artists and entrepreneurs like S.H. Dudley, Bessie Smith, Butterbeans & Susie, and Cab Calloway, and the theater circuit that made them famous in segregated America.
Organized by the Department of History and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Photo provided by M. Scott
This lecture was not recorded.
Human Context of Science and Technology Program Lecture
Thursday, April 20, 2023
4:00 PMAOK Library Gallery
Alison Wylie
Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier I), Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences, Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
Collaborative Practice in Archaeology:
Why Human Context MattersArchaeology may seem an unlikely place for community-based collaborative research to take root but, in fact, it has a rich tradition of public engagement, and in settler-colonial contexts it is being transformed by powerful and insistent demands to decolonize its practice. Bearing in mind the challenge posed by Tuck and Yang – that “decolonization is not a metaphor” – Dr. Wylie explores the question of what’s required to do archaeological research in the context of ethical and respectful, community-led partnerships with Indigenous descent communities.
Organized by the Human Context of Science and Technology program. Cosponsored by the departments of American Studies; Ancient Studies; Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies; Philosophy; Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; and the Center for Social Science Scholarship.
Photo provided by A. Wylie.
