GWS Breckinridge Bash
Please join us for the GWS Breckinridge Bash!
A social hour for faculty and students.
Feb 21 at 3:30-4:30pm.
Date:
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Location:
107 Breckinridge Hall
UK Queer Reading Group
This semester we are reading Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward. “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012. Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book. It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:
3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15: Chapters 1-7
3:30pm, Thurs, March 22: Chapters 8-14
3:30pm, Wed, April 25: Chapters 15-21
Meeting Place: The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.
This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.
Date:
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Location:
Commonwealth House
UK Queer Reading Group
This semester we are reading Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward. “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012. Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book. It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:
3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15: Chapters 1-7
3:30pm, Thurs, March 22: Chapters 8-14
3:30pm, Wed, April 25: Chapters 15-21
Meeting Place: The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.
This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.
Date:
-
Location:
Commonwealth House
UK Queer Reading Group
This semester we are reading Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward. “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012. Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book. It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:
3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15: Chapters 1-7
3:30pm, Thurs, March 22: Chapters 8-14
3:30pm, Wed, April 25: Chapters 15-21
Meeting Place: The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.
This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.
Date:
-
Location:
Commonwealth House
See What's New in Science
A&S is proud to launch What’s New in Science, a new series designed for science teachers interested in learning more about the most recent discoveries, events, and advances in science today. The series is held in a casual round table format, with professors from different scientific disciplines and science teachers from Kentucky schools talking among themselves, asking questions, and getting answers about new and emerging knowledge. Each session focuses on a new topic in one of the sciences – there will be four different sessions this spring.
The series kicks off on February 2 with physics and astronomy and a discussion about the Big Bang event, dark energy, and dark matter. Panelists for the first talk include Randal Voss (Department of Biology), Ganpathy Murthy (Department of Physics & Astronomy), Karen Young, (Dunbar High School), John Anthony (Department of Chemistry), Susan Barron (Department of Psychology), and Gene Toth (Lafayette High School). Video of the sessions will also be recorded and uploaded to the A&S website, allowing science teachers across the state to view the discussions and incorporate them into their classes.
It’s More Than a Month - A Part of Community Cinema Project
“It’s More Than a Month,” A Part of Community Cinema Project
Sponsored by: African American & Africana Studies and KET
Date: Feb. 16
Time: Screening at 6 p.m., followed by reception
Location: ArtsPlace, 161 N. Mill Street in downtown Lexington
Description: Community Cinema is an outreach project that shows Independent Lens documentaries in the community and has a panel discussion following each film. It shows a film every third Thursday of the month at Arts Place in downtown Lexington. The film for Feb. 16 is titled “More Than a Month” and it follows Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, on a cross-country tongue-in-cheek campaign to end Black History Month. You can see the trailer here http://www.itvs.org/films/more-than-a-month.
Contact: Frank X Walker, fxw2@uky.edu, 859-257-1035
Date:
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Location:
ArtsPlace, 161 N. Mill Street in downtown Lexington
Dramatic Nanofluidic Properties of Carbon Nanotube Membranes as a Platform for Protein Channel Mimetics - Chemistry Seminar
The Materials Research Society, UK Chapter, presents Dr Bruce Hinds of the UK Chemistry Department.
Find more details on the provided flyer.
Date:
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Location:
CP-111
"Empire and Domestic Economy: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Landscape" by Dr. Jean-Luc Houle of Western Kentucky University
Dear Colleagues and Students,
In celebration of its inaugural semester, the Chinese Studies program will hold a series of lectures during Spring term. The first lecture, entitled "Empire and Domestic Economy: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Landscape" by Dr. Jean-Luc Houle of Western Kentucky University, will be held Friday, February 17, 1-2pm in 420 Patterson Office Tower. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Russian Studies program.
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Empire and Domestic Economy: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Landscape
Professor Jean-Luc Houle, Western Kentucky University
The apex of political complexity among Inner Asian pastoralists was Chinggis Khan’s mighty empire of the 13th and 14th centuries, along with the earlier Xiongnu confederation (200 BCE to 200 CE). The Mongol Empire was the largest continuous land empire of all time, while the Xiongnu was extremely long-lived, dominating the entire eastern Eurasian steppe from the end of the third century BCE through the middle of the first century CE, and surviving as a minor power into the fourth century. What was it that led to the success of these great polities? Are there lessons to be learned?
Archaeology as a discipline is uniquely suited to examining social change over time from varying perspectives. However, the diachronic study of prehistoric mobile pastoralist societies in the Eurasian Steppes and the development of societal complexity among such groups have been mostly limited to documenting change at the macro-level. This presentation will discuss how social change manifests itself at different scales. As a window into the past, I will explore this through the transformation of the archaeological landscape in central Mongolia from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age period when the first state-like nomadic polity, the Xiongnu, appeared on the Eurasian steppes.
In doing so, this presentation will address an important question in the anthropological literature on nomadic pastoralism, that is, the impact of major economic and social changes on nomadic society and pastoral subsistence—a question still very pertinent today in various world regions.
Date:
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Location:
420 Patterson Office Tower
UK Perspectives: Frank X Walker
Oxford American Magazine recently recognized Frank X Walker as one of the most creative teachers in the south. Walker discussed the award and a forthcoming book with host Tom Godell on WUKY's series, "UK Perspectives."
The interview was originally posted on WUKY's website.
The Hive: Writing for A&S with Guy Spriggs
The Hive is the College of Arts & Sciences' newly unified team of both creative and technical services. This provides A&S with support for web and print media projects, public relations, and computing and informational services. This interview features Guy Spriggs a writer for A&S.