The fellowship is a one-time scholarship awarded to graduating seniors who are continuing their post-baccalaureate education at UK. Paralleling the growth of the classics program, awards such as these contribute to the continued success in attracting some of the best students from around the world, and especially in keeping the ones who already call the classics program home.
Latin is not dead, at least not at the University of Kentucky. "Latin is spoken as a living language here" says Jonathan Meyer, a graduate student in the Latin Studies program. Jonathan was recently nominated in the Masters Category for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. In this podcast, Guy Spriggs interviews Jonathan about his nomination as well as the unique aspects of the Latin Studies program.
WHAT: History Guest Speaker - "Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
WHO: Andrew Preston, Senior Lecturer in American History, Clare College, Cambridge University
WHERE: Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
WHEN: Monday, March 26, 3:30p.m.
The Division of Russian and Eastern Studies is pleased to announce the following movie presentations this semester. All events are free and start from 5 pm. We will provide sample cuisines from various parts of Asia (supplies are limited). Please mark your calendar and join our film showings.
Monday, March 19: Chinese Studies Program presents "Baishe Chuanshuo (The Sorcerer and the White Snake)" in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
Tuesday, March 20: Russian Studies Program presents "Urga" in Classroom Building 242.
Wednesday, March 21: Arabic and Islamic Studies Program presents "The Dupes" in Classroom Building 331.
Monday, March 26: Japanese Studies Program presents "Always 3-Chome no Yuuhi (Always: Sunset on the 3rd Street) in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
The Division of Russian and Eastern Studies is pleased to announce the following movie presentations this semester. All events are free and start from 5 pm. We will provide sample cuisines from various parts of Asia (supplies are limited). Please mark your calendar and join our film showings.
Monday, March 19: Chinese Studies Program presents "Baishe Chuanshuo (The Sorcerer and the White Snake)" in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
Tuesday, March 20: Russian Studies Program presents "Urga" in Classroom Building 242.
Wednesday, March 21: Arabic and Islamic Studies Program presents "The Dupes" in Classroom Building 331.
Monday, March 26: Japanese Studies Program presents "Always 3-Chome no Yuuhi (Always: Sunset on the 3rd Street) in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
The Division of Russian and Eastern Studies is pleased to announce the following movie presentations this semester. All events are free and start from 5 pm. We will provide sample cuisines from various parts of Asia (supplies are limited). Please mark your calendar and join our film showings.
Monday, March 19: Chinese Studies Program presents "Baishe Chuanshuo (The Sorcerer and the White Snake)" in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
Tuesday, March 20: Russian Studies Program presents "Urga" in Classroom Building 242.
Wednesday, March 21: Arabic and Islamic Studies Program presents "The Dupes" in Classroom Building 331.
Monday, March 26: Japanese Studies Program presents "Always 3-Chome no Yuuhi (Always: Sunset on the 3rd Street) in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
The Division of Russian and Eastern Studies is pleased to announce the following movie presentations this semester. All events are free and start from 5 pm. We will provide sample cuisines from various parts of Asia (supplies are limited). Please mark your calendar and join our film showings.
Monday, March 19: Chinese Studies Program presents "Baishe Chuanshuo (The Sorcerer and the White Snake)" in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
Tuesday, March 20: Russian Studies Program presents "Urga" in Classroom Building 242.
Wednesday, March 21: Arabic and Islamic Studies Program presents "The Dupes" in Classroom Building 331.
Monday, March 26: Japanese Studies Program presents "Always 3-Chome no Yuuhi (Always: Sunset on the 3rd Street) in Gallery of W.T. Young Library.
Classics Masters' program has seen immense growth, attracting renowned scholars.
Speaker: Sascha Seiler, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Lecture title: Closing the Transatlantic Gap: American Popular Music and German Culture since the 1960’s
Date, time, place: Monday, March 5, 4:00 pm, Student Center 249
Abstract of the talk:
Today, American popular culture can be found everywhere in Germany, but this was not always the case. Especially German literature, and with it every other form of cultural articulation commonly regarded as ‘high art’, had its problems in accepting these new forms of music, film or writing that came from the USA. In fact, until the end of the 1960s there was such a strict division between what was considered highbrow and lowbrow that it took a major cultural scandal to open German culture up to the aesthetic possibilities that lay in American popular culture. For German intellectuals it was a long and hard way to realize that popular culture in general must be seen as an important aesthetic phenomenon that not only has a big influence on everyday life but also is a basic factor when we consider transatlantic cultural relations between Germany and the USA.
The talk analyzes the great influence that American popular culture had on German literature until the present day, starting with the problematic beginnings in the 1960s and ending with the ironic ‘Popliteratur’-movement that began to surface in the late 1990s.
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby is the Chair of the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, and Karen Petrone is the Chair of the Department of History. They proposed the next stop on the Passport to the World.
