Year of the Middle East Continues Program
University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Year of the Middle East has scheduled three events this week. They are:
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Gaines Fellowship Awarded to 12 UK Scholars
The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has chosen 12 outstanding undergraduates as new scholars for the university's Gaines Fellowship Program for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years.
UK Confucius Institute Presents Symposium on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
A symposium this week at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish Refugees in China, who fled east to escape Nazi persecution before and during World War II.
UK Confucius Institute Brings Exhibit, Symposium With Focus on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
An exhibition and symposium at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish refugees in China.
French Studies Forum on the Paris Attacks
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).
Paris Attacks Topic of Public Forum
Today, a unique group of University of Kentucky professors and Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Joel Pett are leading a discussion of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
French Studies Forum on Paris Attacks
We invite you to a forum discussion organized by French and Francophone Studies at UK on the Paris attacks of January 7-9, 2015.
UK faculty from the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Department of History, and the Department of Geography will discuss the recent deadly attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher market, as well as provide some context for the social and political debates that continue to emerge in the wake of the attacks.
Discussion participants:
Dr. Ihsan Bagby, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MCLLC)
Dr. Jeffrey Peters, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Joel Pett, political cartoonist, Lexington Herald-Leader
Dr. Jeremy Popkin, Department of History
Dr. Suzanne Pucci, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Dr. Leon Sachs, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Dr. Michael Samers, Department of Geography
Dr. Sadia Zoubir-Shaw, French and Francophone Studies (MCLLC)
Date:
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Location:
New Student Center, Room 211
Defining Borders: Social Theory Graduate Course
Every spring the Committee on Social Theory offers the team-taught seminar—always with four professors. Previous course themes/names for the seminar have included “Law, Sex, and Family” “Autobiography,” and “Security.” But previous seminars may not have spoken so directly to the professors’ personal backgrounds as “Transnational Lives” does with this team of four.
Former UK Professor Appointed to NCAA Board of Directors
George C. Wright, who began his career in higher education as a faculty member in the history department at the University of Kentucky, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Board of Directors.
A Day in the Life of a UK Student: Jan. 16 & 18, 1911
In celebration of the University of Kentucky sesquicentennial, UK Special Collections Research Center is releasing the diary entries of former student Virginia Clay McClure.
