May Colloquium: Michael Uhall

Michael Uhall joins the Society for a colloquium on alien otherness, radical translation, and the limits of intelligibility in contemporary thought. His lecture examines how the figure of “the alien” functions across philosophy, political theory, astrobiology, and cultural discourse, challenging the assumption that radically unknowable forms of intelligence or life can exist wholly outside interpretation.

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Dr. Uhall is a political theorist whose work bridges political theory, political ecology, philosophy of technology, and astropolitics. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Georgia and both his M.A. in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He currently teaches political science at Indiana University East. His research explores ecology, nonhuman intelligence, and the political implications of “the outside,” and he is the author of Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology and the forthcoming Theory of the Alien: Astropolitics, Space Power, and the Outside.

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