UK professors and staff are invited to the university's second Teaching and Technology Fiar from 2-5 P.M. Thursday September 1st in teh Lexmark Public Room 209 of the Main Building.

The fair, sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, Division of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), is meant to be a one stop showplace for a variety of contemporary technologies that can be successfully employed in the traditional classroom.

Exhibits include the following:

·       "Creating Online Exhibits with open source web-publishing platform Omeka"

With access archivist Katie Henningsen and Associate Dean for Special Collections Deirdre Scaggs of UK Libraries

·       "Blackboard Tips and Tricks"

              With Blackboard coordinator Claire Carpenter

·       "Radio Call-In Shows"

With Agricultural Economics lecturer Roger Brown

·       "Google Docs and Utilities"

             With Director of Online Education Derek Eggers and the A&S Online Education team

·       "UK Libraries Electronic Resources"

With Carla Cantagallo, Miranda Hines, Jen Bartlet, Library Administration

·       "Better Power Point Presentations"

With CELT instructional consultant Kathryn Cunningham

·       "Beyond Power Point Visual Presentations"

With Chris Rice of UK's IT Enterprise Architecture Group

·       "Film, Images, Open Content Libraries and Repositories

With Director of Online Education Derek Eggers and the A&S Online Education team

·       "Inverted Classroom"

With statistics Professor Bill Rayens

·       "New Media projects"

With history Professor and CELT Director Kathi Kern

·       "Using Laptops in Classes via Adobe Connect"

With Jason Helms, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media

·      "Connect Prof"

With Erskine Clinton of UK's Academic Technology Group

·       "Organizing Research Sources with research tool Zotero"

With CELT instructional consultant David Sacks

·       "ADA Compliance"

With Jacob Karnes and Susan Fogg of the Disability Resource Center

·       "Active-Learning Science with the iPad 2"

With physics Professor and Chair Mike Cavagnero

On Saturday, September 10th, Athletics will honor the Army and Air Force ROTC and families along with their Alumni, firefighters, police and paramedics at Heroes' Day 2011 during the UK football game against Central Michigan.

On Friday, September 9 at 8:46 A.M. the UK Army and Air Force ROTC Pershing Rifles Cadets will conduct a memorial vigil for the fallen at the Flag Pole on Administration Lawn with a swearing-in of newly contracted Cadets. At 9:00 A.M. they will begin reading the name of each victim of the 9/11 attacks. There will be an American flag posted for each victim, as well. The vigil will end with the ceremonial lowering of the state and national flags at 5:00 P.M.

Thursday, September 8

6:00 -- Welcome Reception

7:00 - 8:30 -- Keynote Lecture

Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina

"War and Gender in the Age of the World Wars: Reflections on the History and Memory of German Women's War Service in the Third Reich"

Friday, September 9

9:00 - 10:30 -- Panel I: war and Gender in the Neneteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Research Presentations by Franci Chassen-Lopez (Mexico). Pearl James (US), and Colleen Glenn (US)

10:30 - 11:00 -- Break

11:00 - 12:30 -- Panel II: War and GEnder in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centure

Research Presentations by Diane King (Iraq), Lien-Hang Nguyen (Vietnam) and Karen Petrone (Russia/Soviet Union)

2:00 - 3:30 -- Keynote Lecture

Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame

"Tomorrow's War and Gender Violence in the 21st Century"

3:45 - 5:00 -- Closing discussion led by Karen Hagemann and Carolyn Nordstrom

Thy symposium is coordinated by the Working Group on War and Gender and is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Fund.

This symposium is supported by the Confucius Institute, The College of Arts & Sciences and the UK Department of Art.

Oct. 14 at 5:00pm keynote lecture President’s Room, Singletary Center for the Arts

Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, East Asian Art History Program, Harvard University

After-Shock and After-Image: A Chinese “Neorealist” Painter’s Engagement with the Real in the Postmedium and Post-Earthquake Situation

Additional location - Oct 15, Briggs Theatre, Fine Arts Building.

The Gypsy Poetry Slam, now in its sixth year as part of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, to showcase the works of not only local poets, but also those from across the nation. As part of the event, headlined by noted poet Krista Franklin, the conference will also feature a new award. The Faith A. Smith Poetry Prize, established by Kentucky poet Frank X Walker, will be awarded to the winner of this year's slam to be held 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at the Downtown Arts Center. The slam is free and open to the public.

Downtown Arts Center

141 East Main Street

Lexington, KY 40507

(859) 225 - 0370