Thirty-five students from Lafayette, Scott County, Atherton and Eastern high schools visit the University of Kentucky campus on Saturday to immerse themselves in the Japanese culture and to compete in the Kentucky Japan Bowl®.
True Songs is a record of a series of performances by a group of Japanese artists during the years since the triple disasters of March 11, 2011. Taking inspiration from the classic work by Miyazawa Kenji Night on the Milky Way Train, the event combines song, oral narrative, and spoken word performance. The group has taken the show throughout Japan, from Fukushima to a railroad car in Kyoto. One of the artists, Suga Keijiro, will be in attendance.
A panel discussion about Cuba and U.S. relations will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the UK Athletics Association Auditorium in Young Library.
The University of Kentucky Muslim Student Association, an organization with a sustained 43-year history on campus
The event is a screening of a documentary 『ほんとうの歌」( "One True Song.") It will be screened at the Kentucky Theater (in hopes of getting a bigger than campus audience). We will also have participants of the film in Lexington to lead discussions in the community.
The film follows a dramatic reading of Miyazawa Kenji's Milky Way Railroad. But this is all centered on the triple disasters of 3.11, and the tour largely goes through the areas affected by the events of 3.11. It is timely, powerful, and should have wide appeal. It is not politically charged, it is not intended to raise funds. It is a compelling artistic interaction with the disasters.
One of the principal actor/readers/artists, SUGA Keijirō, will be in Lexington, will participate in the screening, and present to the film audience. Suga is an award-winning writer, poet, translator, and intellectual force. This will give us a forum to discuss with the audience, and perhaps some wider campus/community audiences, the issues of fiction and film in Japan in the wake of 3.11.
For more information visits Japanese language websites http://milkyway-railway.com/movie/ or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gngmov
An exhibition and symposium at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish refugees in China.
Still looking for an opportunity to travel this summer? Tune in to this week's Office Hours as we speak with Matt Giancarlo, from the Department of English, and Susan Roberts, from the Department of Geography, about the education abroad trips that they will be leading this summer.
The University of Kentucky recently hosted a French Studies Forum on the Paris Attacks, organized by French and Francophone Studies within the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
The participants in the forum address the cultural and political context of, as well as the emerging and continuing fallout surrounding, the recent deadly attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher market (January 7-9, 2015).
***THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS. WE WILL RESCHEDULE AND POST UPDATES WHEN PLANS ARE FINALIZED*** The University of Kentucky Graduate Appalachian Research Community presents the 6th Annual UK Appalachian Research Community Symposium and Arts Showcase on Saturday, March 7, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William T. Young Library. This year's keynote speaker is Lisa Conley, Ph.D. Her research interests focus on foodways, environmental sustainability, and local food politics in motivating the self-provisioning practices of people in rural and urban Kentucky. Please, find more information about registration or proposal submition here: https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/annual-research-symposium. The deadline to submit abstracts is February 15, 2015. Registration for presenters and non-presenters is free. Undergraduate and Graduate students are welcome to register.
