Two undergraduate Modern and Classical Language, Literatures, and Cultures majors, Andrew Chan and Grace Yi, will be presenting at the annual meeting for the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, which UK is hosting this year. Their presentations will be in the morning of Sunday, January 26, 10:45am-12:15pm at the Gatton Student Center (room TBD), in a panel titled “Conflict and Resistance in Global Asias".

Global Asias Program is sponsoring two panels (eight students) for this annual meeting. Each student is being mentored by a faculty member. All students will also receive a group mentoring session led by Emily Mokros and Joannah Peterson (MCLLC) to familiarize themselves with academic conference presentations.

Global Asias and Asian Film (Sunday, January 26, 9:00-10:30am)

Chair: Akiko Takenaka
Discussant: Michelle Sizemore

• Nate Barker, "Discomforting Realities: The Case of Fan Lixin's Last Train Home" (mentor: Miyabi Goto)
• Maire Birdwell, "Capturing Reality: Ashes to Honey and the Influence of Documentaries on Environmentalist Movements in Japan and Beyond" (mentor: Miyabi Goto)
• Charlotte Lawson, “Whispers of Grief: An Analysis of the Environments in The Murmuring (1995)” (mentor: Miyabi Goto)Jessica Khoury, “Sympathy and Scorn, The Complexity of Close-Ups” (mentor: Miyabi Goto)

Conflict and Resistance in Global Asias (Sunday, January 26, 10:45am-12:15pm)

Chair: Akiko Takenaka
Discussant: Emily Mokros

• Grace Yi, “This Man is Your Friend: The Role of the American Home Front in Redefining Chinese Stereotypes During WWII” (mentor: Akiko Takenaka)
• Andrew Chan, “The Red Guard Party of San Francisco and Its Diverging Doctrine: 1969 Asian American Identity Defined by Difference” (mentor: Akiko Takenaka)
• Malissa Bouakham, “Clustered Legacy: The Developmental Consequences of UXO in Laos” (mentor: Marro Inoue)
• Jeff Edwards, “Dressing for a Gendered Reality: Androgynous Dress as Resistance in Contemporary Japan” (mentor: Joannah Peterson)

Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the UK School of Music present An Evening of PIano and Poetry

Piano ensemble compositions and Russian poetry performed by UK students | Free and open to the public

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 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 14, in the Singletary Center for the Arts, Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

Twenty-one 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.

Professor Voro encourages her piano students to reach beyond the limitations of sheet music and inspires them to tell a story through the sounds they create.  Professor Voskresensky actively integrates music into the curriculum in classes such as Russian Singing and Russian Radio to develop in students an appreciation of the music of the language. The concert aims to unite the audience through the poetry of music and the music of poetry.