Clare Batty is a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Batty's research focuses on olfactory perception, an area under the broader category of the philosophy of mind. In this podcast, Professor Batty explains her research and why philosophy is an important discipline.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
Gender & Women's Studies Spring 2012 Lecture Series presents Queens:
Rusty Barrett, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UK, will present "Sickening Queens: Ethnic and Class Differences in Drag".
Lecture begins at 4:00pm with a reception to follow.
The Provost invites all faculty members and their guests to join the President and the deans in acknowledging the recipients of many university-wide awards. Please help us congratulate our colleagues on their achievements. Academic regalia required for processional. A reception will follow in the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center in the UK Student Center. For more information vist http://www.uky.edu/Provost/Events .
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What's cookin' in the Chemistry Department? UK Chemistry Professor Allan Butterfield speaks about the various patents that chemistry research at UK has developed. Butterfield's research deals with the detection of Alzheimer's syndrome in chemical brain functions.
I went to London, England; as some of you may already know.
I’m speaking in past tense, since I was not able to create blogs in London when I was actually there. This is because they are behind America when it comes to most technologies by 2 years approximately, as said from experience of using their Wi-Fi and being told by their advertising agencies.
Anyhow, I studied in the UK so that I could expand my knowledge in global advertising, and purely just to use my passport, finally for the first time in my life. London was the perfect place to go, to be immersed into the world of advertising and business; being home to many award winning advertising agencies such as DDB (having clients such as Volkswagen, Harvey Nichols, Marmite; also claimed to be the start of creative advertising), and McCann Erickson (whom are creating all work for the upcoming Olympics campaign). However, London was not the best place to travel for a first experience of being out of the country, only because it’s really not that different or shocking, aside from the accents and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Symposium - Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Day 2 - February 3, 2012 - Consuming Haiti: Its Haunting Past and Sustainable Future
Time: 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Place: 103 Main Building
"A Marshall Plan for Haiti?: To End or Continue the Legacy of Revolution by Myriam Chancy, University of Cincinnati
"Haiti Then and Now: The Terror of Equality" by Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
Sponsors: College of Arts & Sciences, African American and Africana Studies Program, LSA, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Division of French and Italian, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women Studies.
Generally speaking, when people think about the Caribbean, they may have the motto Sun, Sea and Sex in mind. They may visualize tropical and hedonistic islands where they could go on vacation to have fun and relax. The Caribbean often remains a tourist destination until tragedy strikes, like 2 years ago with the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
What do we know really about the Caribbean, its people and its cultures? Could this space be anything else but a place to go on vacation and have cheap alcohol and sex or on a rescue mission, if not on community service?
Simplistic and stereotypical views prevent us from seeing histories of survival, of self-determination and resilience against all odds. What really happened to displaced populations from the African continent, put into bondage for centuries and then supposedly liberated and left to fare for themselves under the tight influence of external forces? Was the end of slavery, the end of the plantation system the end of their sorrows and struggles? What about the effects of western imperialism, colonialism or any other -ism one can think of?
To answer some of these questions, Valerie Loichot and Jacqueline Couti will examine the socio-political implication of sexuality, gender and violence in French Caribbean literature. Two years after the earthquake, Myriam Chancy and Nick Nesbitt will explore the controversial representations of Haiti in the media and discuss the future of Haiti's sovereign sustainability.
Symposium: Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Day 1: February 2, 2012 - "Politics of Food and Sexuality in French Caribbean Literature"
Time: 4:45p.m. - 6:30p.m.
Place: Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little Library
"Savoureux Piment: The Fake Pornography of Gisèle Pineau and Dany Laferrière" by Valerie Loichot, Emory University
"Bon appétit: A Masculine Tale of Desire, Resistance, and Fear in Raphael Confiant's Mamzelle Dragonfly" by Jacqueline Couti, University of Kentucky
Sponsors: College of Arts & Sciences, African American and Africana Studies Program, LSA, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Division of French and Italian, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women Studies.
Generally speaking, when people think about the Caribbean, they may have the motto Sun, Sea and Sex in mind. They may visualize tropical and hedonistic islands where they could go on vacation to have fun and relax. The Caribbean often remains a tourist destination until tragedy strikes, like 2 years ago with the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
What do we know really about the Caribbean, its people and its cultures? Could this space be anything else but a place to go on vacation and have cheap alcohol and sex or on a rescue mission, if not on community service?
Simplistic and stereotypical views prevent us from seeing histories of survival, of self-determination and resilience against all odds. What really happened to displaced populations from the African continent, put into bondage for centuries and then supposedly liberated and left to fare for themselves under the tight influence of external forces? Was the end of slavery, the end of the plantation system the end of their sorrows and struggles? What about the effects of western imperialism, colonialism or any other -ism one can think of?
To answer some of these questions, Valerie Loichot and Jacqueline Couti will examine the socio-political implication of sexuality, gender and violence in French Caribbean literature. Two years after the earthquake, Myriam Chancy and Nick Nesbitt will explore the controversial representations of Haiti in the media and discuss the future of Haiti's sovereign sustainability.
Dr. Sholeh Sharokhi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University, will give a talk entitled "Engendering the Protester: Body Politics and Sexual Representation of the Iranian Political Protest".
