We invite all World Languages and Cultures alumni to join us for our World Languages and Cultures Alumni Weekend, October 8-10, 2026 featuring an Alumni Career Day, Alumni Keynote and a Faculty-Alumni Reception plus Keeneland Big Blue Day and Homecoming festivities including the LSU vs. UK game and tailgate.

Please come to reconnect with old friends, meet current students and celebrate our community.

Please RSVP by Sept. 21, 2026.

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Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 8

Alumni Career Day

2-4 p.m. | Gatton Student Center 

Engage with current language and culture majors through one-on-one conversations and breakout sessions organized by fields such as business, government, non-profits and law/medicine/education.

Alumni Keynote Presentation

4:45-5:45 p.m. | Gatton Student Center

Keynote presentation featuring Robin Michler, B.A. German, B.A. Geography, minor in Judaic Studies '08, owner of Michler's Greenhouses and Kentucky Native Cafe & Beer Garden in Lexington.

Alumni and Faculty Reception 

6-8 p.m. | location TBD

Enjoy dinner and drinks. Mingle with fellow alumni, current and former faculty.

Friday, Oct. 9

Keeneland Big Blue Day

Saturday, Oct. 10

LSU vs. KY Homecoming Game and Tailgate 

More details on Homecoming events are available at homecoming.uky.edu/schedule

Please RSVP by Sept. 21, 2026.

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Visitor Parking

Visitor parking for Gatton Student Center is available nearby. Rates are $2/hour unless noted.

Garage: Cornerstone Garage (PS #5) has entrances on South Limestone and Upper Street. Cost is $2/hour with a $30/exit maximum.

Surface Lots (pay at the meter):

• W.T. Young Library Visitor Lot off Hilltop Avenue.
• Prall Street Lot off South Limestone/Upper Street (note: pay at the meter in front of your space only).

For more visitor parking information, visit transportation.uky.edu/visitoroptions.

The Russian Singing Concert will showcase the talents of these students of the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences' Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department: Luke Brown, Lukas Spohn, Aphelion Delong-Grant, Lukas Spohn, Nate Barker, Neo Green, Reese Gurley, Hannah Herrmann, Eliza Hoffer and Sarah Smith. The group will be accompanied by pianist Juelin Zhao, a graduate student at UK School of Music.

The program will be presented at 6 p.m. Monday, Apr. 27, in the Niles Gallery of the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library. This event is free and open to the public. The class was created by Anna Voskresensky, senior lecturer in Russian studies in the UK Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, who was looking for an idea to enhance classroom activities and skills broadly as well as introduce students to culture. In collaboration with UK School of Music in the College of Fine Arts, Voskresensky created a Russian singing class in Spring 2014.

“The Russian Singing Concert is an opportunity to hear the rich culture of Russian music and offer an appreciation for the students’ hard work over the course of the semester,” Voskresensky said. “In addition, the concert will engage the audience and spark awareness about Russia as well as in the beauty of the Russian language."

About Javier Muñoz-Basols

You're invited to a Piano Ensemble and Poetry Concert organized by professor Irina Voro of the School of Music in the College of Fine Arts and senior lecturer Anna Voskresensky of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program will be presented 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19, in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

Twenty students from the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures will recite poetry in Russian and English followed by 20 students from the School of Music performing piano ensemble compositions. This event features a diverse range of authors and composers and combines music and language to engage the audience in the experience of beauty through works of literature and music.

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating poetry and music performed by talented university students. Experience the beauty of spoken verse intertwined with live music, where words and melodies come together to create powerful emotion and meaning. Discover how poetry truly comes alive when it is heard alongside music.

From tiny kidney stones to the hydraulic fountains of Italian gardens, from the fortification of castles against fire-powered war to the Heracletian flux of being that renders all attempts at security ultimately vain: An elemental interplay of stonelike fixity and watery fluidity composes the crux of Montaigne’s corpus from his objects of fascination to his ailing body to the still-ongoing, unfinished form of his thought. Focusing on accounts of travel, illness, fortification, diplomacy and home invasion in Montaigne’s writings, this talk brings forth the materialist duet of stone and flow and ponders its untimely eco-ethico-political significance. Rather than indulge in the fantasy of sovereign immunity, these texts promote a hospitality that risks everything to foster community or communication with others. The gesture could not be more precarious, or more contemporary. 

Join us to hear about professor Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby’s scholarship throughout the years. Reception will follow.

Join us for the annual Sheikh Lecture with Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, associate professor and Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University as she discusses the displacements of Shia Ismaili Muslim communities in the twentieth century and women's critical role in remaking their communities.

The Sheikh Lecture Series is open to the campus community and the public. The Sheikh Lecture series promotes cultural awareness, tolerance, and understanding while countering Islamophobia. It honors the late Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh (1920–1989), a devout woman committed to higher education and respecting all cultures, creeds, and religions.

For questions, please contact: nslitine@uky.edu

About Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Professor Khoja-Moolji is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar of gender, religion, and migration whose work has shaped debates in Islamic studies, gender studies, and comparative and international education. Her most recent book is Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press, 2023).