Keynote Address

“Mobilizing Discord on the US’s Many Borders: Critical Social Science and Geopolitical Complexity”

Dr. Margath Walker
Professor of Geography and Geosciences

University of Louisville

Margath Walker, Ph.D. is a Professor of Geographic and Environmental Sciences at the University of Louisville. Her 2022 book Spatializing Marcuse: Critical Theory for Contemporary Times is with Bristol University Press. In it, she develops the spatial sensibility of the social philosopher, Herbert Marcuse, through an engagement with an array of contemporary issues including securitization, the logics of technology, geopolitics and human liberation. Dr. Walker continues to work on borders and belonging, where she uses Mexico’s two borders as a window on the links between insecurity and securitization. She is also interested in the geographies of Artificial Intelligence and the geographies of knowledge production.

For more information about Dr. Walker, visit her website.