Year of China Lecture Series
Eugene Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor
East Asia Art History Program
Harvard University
Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Bale Boone Symposium to Explore Religion
Gaines Center for the Humanities will present a symposium exploring the connections between religion and such topics as history, science and politics.
Social Theory First Working Paper
Fall 2011 Working Papers
All the working paper will be in the Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room.
1. Arnold Farr (Philosophy): In Search of Radical Subjectivity: Re-reading Marcuse After Honneth
Thursdsay, October 6th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
2. Akiko Takenaka (History): Postmemorial Conservatism: Mobilizing the Memories of the War
Dead in Contemporary Japan.
Thursday, Oct. 27th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
3. Jacqueline Couti (French-MCL): Colonial Democracy and Fin de Siècle: The Third Republic andWhite Creoles' Dissent in Martinique.
Thursday, Nov. 17th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
A discussion by two respondents: Jeremy Popkin (History) and Joe O'Neil (German) and a general discussion with all present will take place.
These discussions are always stimulating and we welcome your participation, so try to make it. Wine and light snacks.
Date:
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Location:
The Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room
Navigating Mandarin's Maze: Learning Chinese in Shanghai with Kelly Schumm
Kelly Schumm is an Economics and Finance senior who recently traveled to Shanghai to study Mandarin. Kelly briefly discusses her expriences learning Chinese with UK Professor Matt Wells.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
Ned Stuckey-French to give lecture "Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future"
THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
PRESENTS
NED STUCKEY-FRENCH
"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"
Thursday, October 6, 2011
4 pm
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program
Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
UK Prof Lectures on Meanings of Doudou
UK French and Italian Studies professor will be discussing the concept of "doudou" and the effects it has on national identity towards black females in the Martinique and Guadeloupe colonies.
The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture and Nation in the French Caribbean.
Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.
Date:
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Location:
New Student Center, Room 249
Immersed in Language: Laura Garrison
Laura Garrison was one of a group of students that went to Shanghai University with professor Matt Wells over the summer. She told us about the skill of her Chinese language teacher during the immersion-style classes, and the adventures she had during her free time in China.
Meet Francis Bailey: New Faculty 2011
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests.
A&S Selects New Chairs
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences has appointed new chairs to many of its departments for the 2011-2012 year.