Undergraduate Research Abroad Scholarship Recipients Announced
By Andrea Gils Monzon, Gail Hairston
Carlson to Deliver A&S Distinguished Professor Lecture
Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences for 2015-16 Charles R. Carlson, will present the honorary lecture on March 28, titled “Breathing Entrainment for Self Regulatory Gain: Using Programmatic Research to Improve the Management of Motion Sickness and Chronic Orofacial Pain.”
Linguistics Professor Launches New Phonetics Lab
By Tasha Ramsey
Speech is an integral part of our development as children and one that continues to develop throughout our lives. Because of this, we don't often spend much time thinking about speech and what it reveals about our identities. However, one professor in the Linguistics Program at the University of Kentucky spends much of his time researching the aspects of speech and social identity.
MCLLC Grad Student Awarded Classics Association Scholarship
The Classical Association has awarded Laura Manning, a master's student studying classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, a scholarship to participate in a panel presentation at the association’s 2016 annual conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Working Group on War and Gender Symposium
Session 3: 9:00 – 10:45
Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"Gendered Vulnerability and Forced Conscription in the War in Syria"
Moderator: Anahid Matossian, Department of Anthropology
Discussants: Diane King and Kristin Monroe, Department of Anthropology
Session 4: 11:00 – 12:30
Concluding Forum and Discussion
Moderator: Srimati Basu, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Working Group on War and Gender Symposium
Session 1: 3:30 – 5:15
Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University
"The Capitalist-Rescue Narrative and the War on Terror"
Moderator: Amy Murrell Taylor, Department of History
Discussant, Francie Chassen-Lopez, Department of History
Session 2: 5:30- 7:15
Sue Grayzel, Professor of History and Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi
"All are Now in the Line of Fire:" Gender and the Defence of Civilian Bodies in the Interwar British Empire
Moderator: Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Department of Hispanic Studies
Discussant: Pearl James, Department of English