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" 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/
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.
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.
By Whitney Hale
Ashley Judd delivers the UK College of Social Work Irma Sarett Rosenstein Lecture on campus Dec. 1. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
Watch a video above with "the silence breakers" created by Time magazine.
By Amaya DeVicente
Last year, 18 percent of the University of Kentucky graduating class graduated with global experience. The university’s International Center has taken steps to increase that percentage.
The UK International Center’s Education Abroad and Exchanges program (UK EA) recently announced a new 2018-19 scholarship and program fee reduction initiative for selected UK exchange partners around the world, ranging from $1,000-$5,000.
Alumni from Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures and from Hispanic Studies discuss their career paths in education, business and state government and the role language study has played in their professional and personal lives. Three current UK students talk about their research, their study abroad experience and their community service.
On Oct. 16, 2017, the Department of Greek & Roman Classics at Temple University hosted a discussion panel featuring representatives from the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Studies and Anthony Parenti, a Temple University alumnus ’14, former middle-school Latin teacher, and current graduate student in classics in the UK Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The panel spoke about literacy and social justice in the context of teaching Latin.
By Gail Hairston
World Languages Day and more than 250 Kentucky high school students return to the University of Kentucky campus Nov. 1.
MCLLC Alumni talking about how studying language has helped them in their career path. For more information visit: mcl.as.uky.edu
