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American Sign Language
Why study ASL?
American Sign Language is a complete visual language with its own grammar and structure, used to communicate ideas and everyday experiences. ASL developed from influences including French Sign Language, Indigenous sign language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. By studying ASL, students gain access to Deaf culture, history and community.
Officers of the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures are:
World Languages & Cultures Alumni Weekend
The University of Kentucky’s Departments of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Hispanic Studies, and International Studies invites you to reconnect, reflect and celebrate at the World Languages and Cultures Alumni Reunion 2026.
RSVP & SCHEDULE HERE: https://forms.as.uky.edu/world-language-rsvp
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World Languages & Cultures Alumni
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.
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.
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.
Location:
Gatton Student Center
Russian Singing Concert
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."
Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) 2026
Founded in 1948, the KFLC is one of the country's longest-running literary, linguistics, pedagogy, and technology conferences. Our event takes place each April at the University of Kentucky campus, in Lexington, Kentucky. We are delighted to welcome Javier Muñoz-Basols as our keynote speaker. He is an outstanding scholar, and his keynote address, “The Accent of the Algorithm: Language, Identity, and the Humanization of AI,” will address one of the most timely and interdisciplinary topics in the humanities today.
Venue information, parking and more can be found here.
About Javier Muñoz-Basols
Javier Muñoz-Basols is currently Executive Director at the Instituto Cervantes in Los Angeles and an Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and at the University of Seville. His research interests focus on the connections between language contact and multilingualism, the integration of technology and AI in language learning, and the impact of institutional contexts on language teaching. He has delivered keynote addresses at international conferences and events in more than 20 countries and has an extensive publication portfolio that includes 19 books and edited volumes and has published in top academic journals such as Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Modern Language Journal or International Journal of Multilingualism. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge) and Dr. Muñoz-Basols’ societal contributions include serving as President of the Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language), Trustee of the Instituto Cervantes, and corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) (North American Academy of the Spanish Language).
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Gatton Student Center, Grand Ballroom C (212C)
An Evening of Piano and Poetry
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.
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Recital Hall, Singletary Center for the Arts
The (De)Fortification of Life: Montaigne and the Elements of Ethics and Politics
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.
Chad Córdova is assistant professor of Romance studies at Cornell University. His first book. Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life, was published in 2025 with Northwestern University Press. His writings on Montaigne have appeared in such venues as Exemplaria, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes and in the forthcoming new edition of the Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. He is now working on two books: one dealing with Descartes and environmental thought, and another, which this talk is from, that re-reads Montaigne in the context of recent discourses in theory and vice versa.
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Niles Gallery (Little Fine Arts Library)
My Life in Siberia: Professor Jeanmarie Rouhier Willoughby's Scholarship Throughout the Years
Join us to hear about professor Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby’s scholarship throughout the years. Reception will follow.
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Multipurpose Room, William T. Young Library Basement; Reception in Alumni Gallery