Paris Attacks Topic of Public Forum
Today, a unique group of University of Kentucky professors and Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Joel Pett are leading a discussion of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
Covering All The Aspects: New A&S Internship
Despite differences in subject matter and methods, students in disciplines like Biology and English have some common ground: they are part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Recently, this common ground connected two UK alumni who graduated over thirty years apart.
Regional Poster Competition
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Faculty Host: Dr. Chad Risko
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CP-114
'Green Talks' on WRFL Features Student Sustainability Efforts
"Green Talks," a new weekly talk show on WRFL 88.1, is focusing on student-funded sustainability efforts at the University of Kentucky.
French Studies Forum on Paris Attacks
We invite you to a forum discussion organized by French and Francophone Studies at UK on the Paris attacks of January 7-9, 2015.
UK faculty from the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Department of History, and the Department of Geography will discuss the recent deadly attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher market, as well as provide some context for the social and political debates that continue to emerge in the wake of the attacks.
Discussion participants:
Dr. Ihsan Bagby, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MCLLC)
Dr. Jeffrey Peters, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Joel Pett, political cartoonist, Lexington Herald-Leader
Dr. Jeremy Popkin, Department of History
Dr. Suzanne Pucci, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Dr. Leon Sachs, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Dr. Michael Samers, Department of Geography
Dr. Sadia Zoubir-Shaw, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
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New Student Center, Room 211
Mothers as Activists: Power, Protests, and the Media in Mexico
Mexico is in a historic moment right now in which change appears to be in the hands of citizens who are demanding an end to the corrupt governance that has resulted in decades of human rights abuses. This lecture will explore violence and activism in Juárez, Mexico focusing on how activists and human rights defenders work to counter a state controlled media monopoly that blames victims for their own deaths.
Bio: Alice Driver is the author of "More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico" (University of Arizona Press 2015). She recently translated "Abecedario de Juárez," a collaboration between journalist Julián Cardona and artist Alice Leora Briggs that explores and maps the new language of violence in Mexico.
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Young Library Alumni Gallery (Rm 1-65)
Jennifer D. Jones: Looking for Lorraine and Langston: Queering African-American Archives and Histories
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Great Hall King Library, 2nd floor
African American LGBTQ History Panel Discussion
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Center Theater, Student Center
Defining Borders: Social Theory Graduate Course
Every spring the Committee on Social Theory offers the team-taught seminar—always with four professors. Previous course themes/names for the seminar have included “Law, Sex, and Family” “Autobiography,” and “Security.” But previous seminars may not have spoken so directly to the professors’ personal backgrounds as “Transnational Lives” does with this team of four.
Lectures Focus on How Appalachia Is Portrayed in Film
A series of lectures about Appalachians on film, begins January 27, with “Genre and Jessica Lynch” at 2 p.m. in William T. Young Library Auditorium.