Student-led Radio Show Bridges People With Russia, Their Homeland
By Sarah Wood
When University of Kentucky students signed up for the MCL 591: Russian Radio class, they didn’t realize they would be reaching people 5,000 miles away.
AIN’T I A PERSON?/TOUT’ MOUN SÉ MOUN: IDENTITY, SELF, AND PERSONHOOD IN THE AMERICAS
Ain’t I a person? : Tout moun sé moun!“ is a mini-symposium that deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how “diasporic” communities in the Americas see others and envision themselves. This symposium considers theories associated with construction of self, personhood, and resistance as ways of conceiving and analyzing the construction of intercultural and diverse communities.
Why This UK Professor's Students Call Her a "Rock Star"
Meet 2018 Great Teacher Milena Minkova, who teaches in the Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department of the UK College of Arts and Sciences.
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UK French Professor Hopes to Transform the Lives of His Students
Meet 2018 Great Teacher, Leon Sachs II, who teaches in the Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures department of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Two A&S Faculty Receive UK's 2018 Great Teacher Award
By Gail Hairston, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser
Six University of Kentucky educators have been officially named recipients of the UK Alumni Association 2018 Great Teacher Award. They received their public recognition, award and reward last night.
The recipients are:
"Ain't I a person? - Tout moun sé moun: Identity, Self, and Personhood in the Americas."
"Ain't I a person? : Tout moun sé moun" is a mini-symposium that deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how communities see others and envision themselves. This symposium considers theories associated with construction of self, personhood, and resistance as ways of conceiving and analyzing the construction of intercultural and diverse communities.
Session 1- 3:30-4:30: This panel examines the question of performance and construction of identity, outside of the performing arts, in the US and in Haiti. The first paper will examine the relationship between Irish and African-American people living in New-York during the antebellum period. The second paper will concentrate on the relationship between the Haitian government and Jewish refugees during WWII.
Session 2- (Diasporic Dance) 4:45-6:45 :The second panel focuses on gwo ka and bèlè (dance and music) central to the traditional repertoire of the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique (mini dance workshop offered with drummer ). One paper and one dance workshop/discussion.
Learn more here:
https://mysymposia.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/aint-i-a-person-tout-moun-se-moun-identity-self-and-personhood-in-theamericas/ and https://mysymposia.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/abstracts-and-bios/
Date:
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Location:
Taylor Education Building Auditorium, room 158
A&S Senior Believes Education Abroad Heals World's Divisions
By Amaya DeVicente
While on a University of Kentucky Education Abroad and Exchanges (UK EA) program, UK student, Natalie St.Clair, immersed herself in her new community in Mexico, and giving back any way that she could.
St.Clair, a senior from Louisville, Kentucky, is a foreign language and international economics major and political science minor who studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Winners of Oswald Research, Creativity Competition Named
By Gail Hairston
The University of Kentucky recently announced the 16 undergraduate winners of the 53rd annual Oswald Research and Creativity Competition.
Established in 1964 by former UK President John Oswald, the Oswald Research and Creativity Program encourages research and creative activities by undergraduate students at UK. The objectives of the program are to stimulate creative work by undergraduate students and to recognize individuals who demonstrate outstanding achievement.