The University of Kentucky's Gaines Center for the Humanities and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences are teaming up with the Office of LGBTQ* Resources, the Martin Luther King Center, the African American and Africana Studies Program and Black Student Union to present three events exploring violence against members of the LGBTQ*
Visiting Vietnamese student, Thanh Thi Hoang, talks about her experience at the University of Kentucky and in the Center for English as a Second Language. She improved her English language skills and fell in love with the city and people of Lexington, Kentucky.
RICARDO PAUL-LLOSA: A BILINGUAL RECITAL
Translations into Cuban by Enrico Mario Santí
Wednesday, November 4
4-6 p.m.
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Ricardo Pau-Llosa is, far and away, the most prestigious Cuban-American poet writing in English today. With seven books to his credit, he has established himself as well as a prominent and sought-after art critic: http://www.pau-llosa.com/
Pau-Llosa, a Professor of English at Miami Dade College, and I have been collaborating on a bilingual anthology of poems translated, not exactly into Spanish, but into… Cuban. Part of the excitement of this event is that it will be the first public together reading of our experimental work.
“Pau-Llosa is a superb poet of memory…. He displays a consummate ability not simply to evoke, but to recreate the lost city of remembrance and to do so with a tragic depth rare in contemporary American poetry.” Eric Ormsby
Reception to follow
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
Since July, the famous Italian muralist, Hitnes, has traveled throughout the nation working on The Image Hunter. This project consists of loosely retracing the route of John James Audubon spending time observing birds in nature and then painting the results in murals across the country. His quest brought him to Lexington this October. Pictures of the workshop to paint a mural at the UK Ecological Research & Education Center are shown above.
Photography (c) Carlos Gutierrez
A film screening of the documentary "Let the Fire Burn" and a poster session analyzing the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. The film will be screened at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at Young Library. The poster session will be held in the adjacent Alumni Gallery and will feature poster presentations of research on recent killings of unarmed black people in the United States by students currently enrolled in Stein’s "GWS 595 - Crime & Punishment: Race & Ferguson in Historical Context."
Sponsored by: The Department of Gender & Women's Studies, African American & Africana Studies Program, and the MLK Center.
University of Kentucky students and faculty are well represented during “Celebrating Isaac Murphy Week,” Oct. 19-24, a city-sponsored schedule of events honoring the legendary 19th century African-American jockey.
Capturing the attention of little minds and chem-enthusiasts across Lexington, the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry will once again host its Chemistry Demonstration Show at 7 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 23.
On October 9, 2015, the College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the accomplishments of distinguished alumni and faculty by inducting five new members into the College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Inductees also got a chance to tour the construction site of the Academic Science Building.
These inductees were:
In this episode of Long Story Short, our host Dara Vance will discuss the often controversial historical figure Christopher Columbus, and the significance of his famous voyage in 1492.
This podcast was produced by Mason Passamonte.
