Wing Young Huie And Getting In The (k)now: A Blog Launch Party Featuring Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Blog love.

To celebrate the launch of Wing Young Huie’s blog (k)now, Wing will be dialoging with sociologist Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D. about their respective online projects and a new collaboration where Wing and Doug will react to each other’s past and current projects, exploring the nexus of photography and sociology. This partnership grows out of a profile of Wing’s landmark images that Doug published for the final Minnesota issue of Contexts called “Up Close and Communal.” Wine, beer and light refreshments will be served.

Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath and co-author of Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. Hartmann just completed a term as Editor (with Christopher Uggen) of Contexts, the award-winning American Sociological Association magazine that brings sociology to broader public attention, and is currently finishing a book called Midnight Basketball: Race, Risk, and the Ironies of Sport-Based Crime Prevention in Neoliberal America. Professor Hartmann was the recipient of the Midwest Sociological Society’s inaugural Early Career Scholarship Award in 2008, and his work and comments on sport, race, popular culture, religion, and multiculturalism have been featured media around the world. His newest venture is TheSocietyPages.org, an online hub designed to make social science accessible and relevant for the public, including reporters, pundits, policy makers, educators and students.

Wing Young Huie is an award-winning photographer whose work focuses on diverse urban environments, especially those in his home state of Minnesota. He is best known for large-scale public installations of his photos, most recently The University Avenue Project (2010) in Saint Paul, which was produced by Public Art Saint Paul. Wing has authored five books and recently opened The Third Place, a gallery/community gathering space in South Minneapolis. He is launching (k)now, his first blog, which will present new work centering around a serialized photographic novel as well as work from Wing’s extensive archive of images.

Address: The Third Place
3730 Chicago Avenue S, Studio B, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: January 20, 2012
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm (7:00pm until 12:30am)
Presentation starts at 7pm, followed by discussion, followed by ping pong and karaoke (8:30ish).

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