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Sponsored by a Gaines Center for the Humanities mini grant, the 2026 Social Theory Symposium, featuring author Peter Linebaugh, will take place on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 April, 2026. 

Date

Time

Event

Location

April 2nd 9:30–11 AM Graduate student presentations Bingham Davis House
12:30–1:30 PM Lunch (Sponsored by Geography) Bingham Davis House
1:30–3:30 PM Reading group meeting with Peter  Linebaugh (The London Hanged) Bingham Davis House

April 3rd

9-10:15 AM

Faculty panel on higher ed administration in current times (Carol Mason, Peter Kalliney, Sharon Yam)

Bingham Davis House

10:30–noon

Roundtable with Peter Linebaugh (Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Judah Schept, Katrina Ward, and Garrett Freas) 

Bingham Davis House

Noon–1:30 PM

Lunch (Sponsored by History)

Bingham Davis House 

2–3:30 PM

Peter Linebaugh Keynote

Gatton B&E 127

Graduate Presentation Titles 

 

  • “Readjusting the Battle Lines: Black Independent Militias in Reconstruction-era Central Kentucky” (Micah Lynn) 
  • “(Midnight) Notes on Class Struggle in the Long 1980s” (Garrett Freas) 
  • “From Ana Livia Cordero to Bad Bunny: Dreams of a Diasporic and Independent Puerto Rico” (Ariane Ribeiro Santana) 
  • “Notes on a Marxist Theory of Technology” (Calvin Horning)