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.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.

Gender & Women's Studies Spring 2012 Lecture Series presents Queens:

Rusty Barrett, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UK, will present "Sickening Queens:  Ethnic and Class Differences in Drag".

Lecture begins at 4:00pm with a reception to follow.