From place names to the naming of places (people & things) in Chickasaw language revitalization
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Niles Gallery
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UK Hosts National Conference Bringing 4,000 Student Researchers Here
The University of Kentucky will host the 2014 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, or NCUR, next semester, which will bring nearly 4,000 additional students from across the country to the UK campus.
The Japan/America Society of Kentucky Annual Summer Festival
The Japan-America Society of Kentucky (aka JASK, a non-profit organization promoting business and cultural interactions between Kentucky and Japan over the past 25 years or so) will host an annual summer festival -- please see http://www.jask.org/festival -- on this coming Saturday, September 7, from 11 am to 7 pm at Downtown Courthouse Plaza. The UK Japan studies program will collaborate with Lafayette High School to run a booth, with the help of volunteer students from both schools. We hope you will be able to come and enjoy a day of Japanese cultural activities, foods, etc.
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Downtown Courthouse Plaza
Annual Summer Festival - Japan-America Society of Kentucky
The Japan-America Society of Kentucky (aka JASK, a non-profit organization promoting business and cultural interactions between Kentucky and Japan over the past 25 years or so) will host an annual summer festival -- please see http://www.jask.org/festival -- on this coming Saturday, September 7, from 11 am to 7 pm at Downtown Courthouse Plaza. The UK Japan studies program will collaborate with Lafayette High School to run a booth, with the help of volunteer students from both schools. We hope you will be able to come and enjoy a day of Japanese cultural activities, foods, etc.
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Monica Diaz "Indias no tan nobles." Native Petitions and the Rhetoric of Purity in Colonial Mexico
A&S Viva Mexico, Gender & Women's Studies, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies presents Monica Diaz.
Monica Diaz will give a talk titled "'Indias no tan nobles.' Native Petitions and the Rhetoric of Purity in Colonial Mexico".
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Alumni Gallery, Young Library
UK Prepares Students with 'China Literacy' for 21st Century World
As the University of Kentucky prepares its students to compete in a globalized world, it's crucial to provide students with what associate provost for international programs Susan Carvalho calls "China literacy."
Passport to the World: ¡Viva Mexico!
In it's fourth year Passport to the World will be focusing on Mexico.
From UK to the UK: Student to Study at Fulbright Summer Institute
Mary Kate Elliott, from Elizabethtown, Ky., has been selected for a place at a Fulbright Summer Institute to study at Nottingham-Trent University in Nottinghamshire, England.
UK Faculty Named Fulbright Recipients
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program, which provides funding to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching.