Wednesday, May 3 at 4:00pm in the W. T. Young Library Auditorium 2nd annual Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Lecture. Speaker Amina Wadud, Professor and International Consultant on Islam, Gender and Justice and visiting scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA. Amina Wadud is one of the most internationally recognized Islamic Feminists in the past few decades.
By Jennifer T. Allen
Growing up in a small Appalachian town, Blake Dilynn Donithan dreamt of exploring the world. Looking at the mountains out of her bedroom window in Pikeville, Kentucky, she envisioned traveling first to Russia. She never thought that a few years later she would be in a small village near the Russian-Mongolian border in the Sayan Mountains.
Korean Film "You Call It Passion" 2015, 106 min. starring Park Bo-young
By Gail Hairston
Molly T. Blasing, assistant professor of Russian studies in the University of Kentucky Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has been awarded a 2017 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend, one of only two conferred this year in Kentucky.
By Gail Hairston
The Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) recently named Brenna Reinhart Byrd Teacher of the Year. Byrd is a University of Kentucky assistant professor of German studies. As the southern regional representative chosen by SCOLT, she will compete for Teacher of the Year at the national level at the annual conference of the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages.
By Gail Hairston
