4th Annual Linguistics Homecoming
Lindley Winchester, class of 2014, will join us for our 4th Annual Linguistics Homecoming event.
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Linguistics Colloquium Series
“A world beyond this one”: Sustaining afro-brasilidade through language, ritual, and culture teaching in northeastern Brazil
Adrienne Ronee Washington (she/her/hers)
Theories on the intersections of language and race (raciolinguistics, Alim et al., 2016; Flores & Rosa, 2015) and on the semiotics of race (raciosemiotics, Smalls, 2015, 2020) are positioned well to understand how multiple identities co-craft personhood, that is, how language informs race, ethnoracial formations, and racism, and also how they recursively shape language. Yet such theories have not been regularly applied in exploring the place of religion (along with language and race) in identity co-construction, including intersectional hierarchies and the contestations of such hegemonic power formations by members of multiply marginalized groups.
Building upon language and religion scholarship and raciolinguistics (including principally raciosemiotics), this research advances racioreligious linguistic ideologies as a concept to examine the discursive processes through which language, race, and spirituality become entangled within cultural lenses. I begin by exploring racialization of Yoruba-inspired (Nagô in Bahia) spiritualities and linguistic/semiotic practices under colonialism and racial slavery and then continue into the modern context, where Nagô/Yoruba has come to epitomize Blackness. I present an extended example of racioreligious linguistic ideologies in the Brazilian city of Salvador within a school where educators teach Nagô/Yoruba as part of an effort to inform students about African-matrix histories and cultures and develop positive identities.
Qualitative analyses of interview, participant observation, and photographic data highlight how interlocutors in this community, working within affirmative racioreligious linguistic ideologies and the values they assign to personhood, ritual knowledge, and language practices, engage in education as racioreligious identity work to resist systemic racial, religious, and linguistic prejudices, sustain traditional knowledge, and affirm Blackness. This work is instructive for other contexts where religious thinking has inspired ideas of essentialized differences, and it opens space for an explicit interrogation of how religious supremacy, in cooperation with systemic racial and linguistic privileges, has participated in subordination and has necessitated counterdiscursive strategies.
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Esports Theater
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Recent Sociology Doctoral Recipient Named a Leading Edge Fellow
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kevin Alejandrez, who recently earned his doctorate in sociology from the University in Kentucky, is one of 18 American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellows for 2023.
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Resources
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K-Week: College of Arts & Sciences Meeting
Kick off your semester with a welcome from the dean in Barker Plaza outside the Gatton Student Center. Then meet faculty, students, and staff from your major inside the Gatton Student Center. Explore student clubs and find resources and other opportunities available to you. Don’t forget to pick up your College of Arts and Sciences t-shirt while you are there.
More details can be found at kweek.uky.edu
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Gatton Student Center Barker Plaza
Adding RICOH Secure Print to Macs
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Click on the Apple logo at the top left of your screen. Select "System Settings".
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Scroll down to "Printers and Scanners". Select "Add Printer, Scanner, or Fax...".
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Right click in the top section of the "Add Printer" window and select "Customize toolbar".
Inside Higher Ed: UK's Leon Sachs pens op-ed on campus speech climate
Leon Sachs, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies in The University of Kentucky's College of Arts & Sciences, has written an opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed titled "What If the Campus Speech Crisis Is a Hoax …and we create a better university for nothing? Leon Sachs argues there’s no harm — and much benefit — in taking concerns about the campus speech climate seriously."