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Spring 2018

Date	Time	Location	Event
1/23	4:00 p.m.	Woodward Hall, Gatton College of Business	UK professor Carey Cavanaugh will speak on "Diplomatic Disarray: The Impasse in US-Russian Relations." See here for flyer.
1/31	12:00 p.m.	Lucille Little Fine Arts Library Ground Floor (Confucius Institute)	“A Taste of China at UKCI”: Students will get to taste different styles of Chinese food, with a brief introduction to the cuisine and how to prepare it. Registration required. See here for flyer.
1/31	1:30 p.m.	235 Gatton College of Business	Linguistics Department’s 2nd annual MLK Jr. symposium: Barbra Meek from the departments of Anthropology & Linguistics at the University of Michigan will speak on "Linguistics and the Fierce Urgency of Now." See flyer.
2/1	7:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	James W. Pardew, former ambassador to Bulgaria, will discuss the Balkan War for the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce 2018 Vince Davis Distinguished Lecture. See article.
2/2	3:00 p.m.	Theater at Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	International Village Friday Film Series: *Ida* (Polish, 2013), introduction by Karen Petrone (History).
2/6, 2/7	7:30 p.m.	EKU Center for the Arts, 1 Hall Drive, Richmond KY	Shen Yun: 5,000 Years of Civilization Reborn. See here for more info, including trailer and tickets.
2/7	4:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, professor of history at University of California, Irvine, will speak on “Patsy for President: Cold War Racial Liberalism and the Viet Nam War.” See flyer for "Remembering Vietnam" Lecture Series.
2/10	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall	Jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will perform, accompanied by the Osland/Dailey Jazztet. Ticketing and more info.
2/13	3:30 p.m.	Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library	Thomas D. Clark Lecture: Leonard Smith, professor of history at Oberlin College, will present “Rites of Passage in French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War.” See flyer for more info.
2/13	5:00 p.m.	Hilary J. Boone Center	Chinese New Year Celebration: The Year of the Dog. See here for more info, including how to RSVP (required).
2/13	5:00 p.m.	Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library	Stacey Schlau of Westchester University will present "Spelling Life: Colonial Latin American Women Accused of Witchcraft." See flyer for more info.
2/15-2/25	7:30 p.m. / 2:00 p.m.	Guignol Theatre, Fine Arts Building	UK's Department of Theatre & Dance presents Henry V by William Shakespeare, directed by Christina Ritter. See link for performance dates and times and ticket information.
2/19	3:30 p.m.	Taylor Education Auditorium, 158	"Ain’t I a person?: Tout moun sé moun!" Identity, Self, and Personhood in the Americas. This mini-symposium deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how “diasporic” communities in the Americas see others and envision themselves. Speakers include Germina N. Veldwachter (Purdue University), Jacqueline Couti (UK), Gladys M. Francis ( Georgia State University), and choreographer Léna Blou (LBA Dance School & Center of Dance, Guadeloupe) See here for more info.

2/15-2/25	7:30 p.m. / 2:00 p.m.	Guignol Theatre, Fine Arts Building	UK's Department of Theatre & Dance presents Henry V by William Shakespeare, directed by Christina Ritter. See link for performance dates and times and ticket information.
2/22	7:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of international affairs & history at Harvard University, will speak on “The Meaning of the Vietnam War.” See flyer for "Remembering Vietnam" Lecture Series.
2/23	3:00 p.m.	Theater at Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	International Village Friday Film Series: *Victoria* (German, 2015), introduction by Jeff Rogers (MCLLC).
2/27	4:30 p.m.	Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library	Juliette Cherbuliez, professor of French and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota will present "In the Wake of Medea: Theater and the Arts of Destruction." See flyer for more info.
3/1	7:30 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	Sethuraman Suresh (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) will speak on "West Meets East: Commerce between Ancient Rome and South Asia." See here for more info.
3/2	3:00 p.m.	Theater at Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	International Village Friday Film Series: Dangal (Hindi, 2016), introduction by Srimati Basu (GWS).
3/2	4:00 p.m.	Whitehall Classroom Building, 106	Heather Worne of UK's Department of Anthropology will present "Do Races Exist? Insights from Biological Anthropology for Understanding Contemporary Debates on 'Race' and Racism." See flyer for more info.

3/22	3:30 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Alumni Gallery	Mhoze Chikowero, a professor at U of California Santa Barbara will lecture on “Sonic Engineering of Colonial Subjecthood: New Radical African History Through Music.”
3/23	Various	Various	Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez will give a free public lecture 3 p.m. Friday, March 23, in the Briggs Theater, in the Fine Arts Building. A reception follows in Lafferty Hall. Hafez will also hold an open forum for faculty and students at 11 a.m. Friday, in Niles Gallery of the Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center. Hafez flyer.
3/23, 3/24	Various	Fine Arts Building 102, Black Box Theatre	The University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance Studio Season presents a stage adaptation Antoine de Saint-Exupery's *The Little Prince*. The Little Prince flyer.
3/23	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center for the Arts	The UK Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Nardolillo, will perform a concert featuring Igor Stravinsky’s legendary ballet score, “The Rite of Spring," and other pieces by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Messiaen. UK Symphony Orchestra flyer.
3/29	7:30 p.m.	Hardymon Theater at Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	Matthew Rojansky, Director of the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, will give a lecture titled "US-Russia Conflict: The New Normal?" Rojansky flyer.
3/30	2:00 p.m.	Gatton Kincaid Auditorium	Iñaki Sagarzazu, professor at Texas Tech U, will speak on "The Slow Demise of Venuzuela's Democracy." Sagarzazu flyer.
3/31	7:30 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St.)	Join the Russian Club for a screening of The Death of Stalin (Death of Stalin trailer on YouTube).
4/4	5:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, professor of history at Columbia University, will speak on “Tet 1968 Revisited.” "Remembering Vietnam" Lecture Series flyer.
4/6	3:00 p.m	Hardymn Theater, Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	International Village Friday Film Series: *Kaaka Muttai* (Tamil, 2014).
4/7-5/19	Various	Louisville area	Shakespeare in the Parks presents A Midsummer Night's Dream in various parks around Louisville. Shakespeare in the Parks webpage.
4/8	3:00 p.m.	Alliance française de Louisville, 1313 Lyndon LN, Ste 111, Louisville, 40222	Brett Corbin, former New York Times correspondent in Paris, will speak on his experiences living as an expat in France. Corbin announcement website.
4/10	7:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	A&S Distinguished Professor Lecture will be given by 2017-2018 recipient, Karen Petrone (History): “Remembering and Forgetting the Soviet Union’s ‘Great Patriotic War’: Politics and Memory in Putin’s Russia”. Petrone flyer.
4/10	7:30 p.m.	Kentucky Theatre (214 E. Main St.)	Russian Folk Music Ensemble Zolotoj Plyos will perform A Musical Journey Though Russia. Free and open to the public. Zolotoj Plyos flyer.
4/12	12:30 p.m.	Hardymon Theater, Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	Sangay Mishra, professor of political science and international relations at Drew U, will speak on “Political Lives of South Asian Americans: Beyond Ethnoracial Solidarity.” Mishra flyer.
4/13	3:00 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	International Village Friday Film Series (and Russian Week): *The Student* (Russian, 2016), introduction by Molly Blasing (MCLLC).
4/13, 4/14	Various	The Farish Theatre, 140 E. Main St (Lexington Public Library)	UKShakes presents Titus Andronicus. UKShakes flyer.
4/15	TBD	Whitney Hall, The Kentucky Center (Louisville)	UK Student Activities Board is organizing a trip to Louisville to see *Les Misérables*. Tickets are $25 for students ($50 for faculty/staff), and include transportation to Louisville and lunch. They can be purchased at the Student Involvement Ticket Center at Bowman's Den.
4/16	2:00 p.m.	Gatton Kincaid Auditorium	Songying Fang, professor of political science at Rice U, will speak on US-China Relations and game theory. Fang flyer.
4/16	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center Recital Hall	UK Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works by Schubert, Wagner, Verdi, Beethoven, and Mozart during the spring concert. Free admission. UK Philharmonic flyer.
4/19-4/21	Various	Various	UK will host KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, during which over 700 scholars in 15 disciplines will be on campus. For more info, see the KFLC program.
4/19	4:30 p.m.	W.T. Young Library Auditorium	Christian Appy, professor of history at U of Massachussetts, will speak on "The American Legacies of the Vietnam War." "Remembering Vietnam" Lecture Series flyer.
4/20	3:00 p.m.	Theater at Marksbury Building (329 Rose St.)	International Village Friday Film Series: *Hate* (French, 1995), introduction by Jeff Peters (MCLLC).
4/26	4:00 p.m.	Whitehall Classroom Building 106	Debra Castillo, professor of comparative literature at Cornell U, will present on New Frontiers for Mexican American Literature See Castillo flyer for more info.

Fall 2018

Date	Time	Location	Event
8/31-9/3	Various	Louisville	WorldFest. WorldFest runs through Labor Day weekend. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. except Monday, which runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Belvedere, at Fifth and Main Streets. Admission is free with international food, spirits, beer and crafts available for purchase.
9/6	7:00 p.m.	Hilary J. Boone Center	The Immigrant Roots of American Whiskey, Noah Rothbaum, editor of The Daily Beast's Half Full section.
9/8	11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.	Downtown Courthouse Plaza	Japan Festival.
9/8	7:00 p.m.	Singletary Recital Hall	Crossing Boundaries: An Evening of American and Chinese Dance. Free and open to the public.
9/12	4:00 p.m.	Young Library Auditorium	Immigration Today, Deborah Boehm, Jenna Loyd, Alison Mountz.
9/14	3:00 p.m.	Main Building Lexmark Room	Unaccompanied Child Migrants in Cincinnati, OH, and the Politics of Integration, Leila Rodriguez, University of Cincinnati.
9/14-9/16	Various	Various	Festival Latino de Lexington.
9/17-10/26	M-F 8:00-5:00 p.m.	King Library Special Collections Research Center	Los Códices: An exhibit of illustrated books from indigenous Mesoamerica.
9/17	4:00 p.m.	Patterson Hall 218	The Universal Language: Latin, Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg
9/19	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	The Codex Mexicanus: Religion, History, and Medicine in an Aztec Codex, Lori Diel, Texas Christian University.
9/19	4:00 p.m.	Patterson Hall 218	Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei's Great Community, Ban Wang, Stanford University.
9/19	7:00 p.m.	Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: Human Flow, 2017. Introduction by Diane Loeffer.
9/20-9/25	Various	Various	Staged reading of Aristophones' *Women at Thesmophoria*, rated R.
9/24	4:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Early 20th Century Perceptions of American Dancer Isadora Duncan in Russia, Elena Yushkov
9/26	4:00 p.m.	Young Library Alumni Gallery	Culture and Credibility in 21st Century Economics, John Cirigliano, CEO of Clearbrook Companies.
9/26	4:00 p.m.	Young Library Auditorium	80 Minutes around the World: Immigration Stories Storytelling Show, Nestor Gomez.
9/26	7:30 p.m.	Transylvania University Carrick Auditorium	Did Greek and Roman Writers take the Jews Seriously, Erich Gruen, University of California Berkeley, free public lecture. Carrick Auditorium is at the corner of Transy's campus near the intersection of Fourth and Upper Street. Parking available in lot next to Carrick.
9/27	7:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Songwriters with St. Lenox, Andrew Choi.
9/28	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Lecture-Demonstration with St. Lenox: Issues of Immigration in the Visual Album Ten Hymns from My American Gothic.
9/28	7:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Acoustic Performance with St. Lenox and band.
10/2	7:00 p.m.	Singletary Recital Hall	Zhou Family Band.
10/3	7:00 p.m.	Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film Screening: Un Padre No Tan Padre, 2016.
10/4	3:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Rethinking the ‘Gold Standard’ of Racial Profiling: §287(g), Secure Communities and Spatially Discrepant Police Power, Mathew Coleman, The Ohio State University.
10/4	7:00 p.m.	Young Library Auditorium	The Lesson from Afghanistan: Government By and For the People is Essential to Security, Sarah Chayes.
10/8	4:00 p.m.	Patterson Hall 218	Lecture on K-pop, Roald Malianglay, Australian National University.
10/10	11:00 a.m.	Student Center Executive Boardroom (A375)	Heritage Sites in Contemporary China, Luca Zan, University of Bologna.
10/11	4:00 p.m.	Student Center 330E	Fear of a Queer Planet: Activism, Culture Wars, and LGBT Human Rights, Ian Lekus, consultant for Amnesty International and host of Radio Free Qtopia.
10/16	4:30 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 145	Jordan, Land of Wonders by Fulbright TA Abeer Khlaifat.
10/15	12:00 p.m.	TBD	Cook-Talk and Lecture, Pati Jinich, chef. Check link for location.
10/18	Various	Little Library Niles Gallery	Medieval Studies Symposium in honor of Anibal A. Biglieri. (Attending any lecture or performance duing the symposium will count).
10/19	2:00 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 1745	Careers in History: A Conversation with John Bell, '85, About International Affairs. Bell spent 20 years with the Central Intelligence Agency, working and living in England, Germany, Ethiopia, and now works in corporate security in Washington D.C.
10/23	5:00 p.m.	Student Center Theater	From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami, Robert Lang
11/2	3:00 p.m.	Young Library UKAA Auditorium	The crisis of belonging in contemporary Europe, Mary Gilmartin, Maynooth University.
11/2	3:30 p.m.	Main Building Lexmark Room	Sexuality, Gender, Migration and the Latin Community, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University.
11/5	5:00 p.m.	The Food Connection in the 90	Make your own pizza with Italian professors Ioana Larco and Matteo Benassi.
11/6	4:00 p.m.	Marksbury Building Hardymon Theater	Tableware Restrictions and Hospitality: The Case of Siberian Old Believers, Danila Rygovskiy.
11/7	5:00 p.m.	Patterson Hall (PAHA) 119	Artistes en Normandie, Dealla Samadi.
11/7	7:00 p.m.	Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: Zwei Leben, 2012. Introduction by Jeff Rogers, MCLLC.
11/9	2:00 p.m.	Gatton Business Auditorium	Breaking up is Hard to Do: The UK and the European Union, Matt Gabel, Washington University in St. Louis.
11/9	6:30 p.m.	The Food Connection	Memorias con Sabor: Immigration stories through food, Alexis Meza, Montzerrat Centeno, & Luis Martinez.
11/9-11/11	Various	Singletary Concert Hall	UK Opera Theatre presents Silent Night.
11/12-11/14	7:00 p.m.	Newman Center (320 Rose Lane)	Jacques Phillipe, French priest and author, will be speaking on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. each day.
11/13	7:00 p.m.	Hilary J. Boone Center	The Rhetoric of the Hebrew Psalms: How Judaic Prayer Got Fixed and Lost its Kairos, Davida Charney, University of Texas, Austin.
11/26	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Regarding Violence: The Enduring Legacy of Past Trauma in the Work of Francesc Torres, Ofelia Ferrán, University of Minnesota

Spring 2019

Date	Time	Location	Event
1/22	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center Recital Hall	Cellist Colin Carr performs Johann Sebastian Bach
1/23	1:00 p.m.	Young Library UKAA Auditorium	Human rights, indigenous rights, and the current crisis at the border, Rusty Barrett
1/24	4:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Ballroom C	International Fashion Show featuring Soreyda Benedit-Begley
1/29	5:00 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 113	Music in Islamic and Arabic Contexts, Katie Mollette
1/30	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	“Indigènes entre deux rives”: Adopted and Diasporic Maghrebi Voices Queering Coloniality, Normativities and Nation-state in Literature and Film, Salim Ayoub
1/31	5:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Issam Rafea Oud Performance
2/1	2:00 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 18th Floor West End Board Room	Victimhood Nationalism: A Transnational History, Jie-Hyun Lim
2/2	7:30	Singletary Center Concert Hall	Canadian Brass performance with the UK Wind Symphony
2/4	7:00 p.m.	Hilary J. Boone Center	Diversity & Democracy: Teaching Life Writing to Jewish and Palestinian Israelis, Ilana Blumberg
2/7	4:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Intimate Publics: Remigration, Transculturality, and Culinary Coexistence in Chinese Latinx Restaurants, Lok Siu
2/8	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Drum and Banjo: African Roots/American Branches, Joan Brannon & Randy Wilson
2/8	5:30 p.m.	Transylvania University Campus, Cowgill Hall 102	Virgil, Wordsworth and the anxieties of translation: literalism, lake poetry and lyric revision, Stephen Hinds
2/13	4:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Cinema	Film screening: Veteran (Drama/Crime, 2015, in Korean with English subtitles), followed by panel discussion with the director, Ryoo Seung-wan.
2/19-2/20	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center (Recital and Concert Hall)	Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. See link for info on each of the two performances.
2/26	3:30 p.m.	Gatton College of Business & Economics Woodward Hall	Bridging the Employment Gap, Michael Rodenburg, President and CEO of Murakami (USA)
3/1-3/3	Various	Singletary Center Concert Hall	University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
3/20	4:00 p.m.	Whitehall Classroom Building 208	Pythia Poetrix? Pythian authorship between poetical autonomy and oracular politics, Markus Hafner
3/22	1:00 p.m.	Gatton College of Business & Economics 127	Coded Messages: Political and Religious Language about the Lozhok Holy Spring, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
3/22	4:00 p.m.	Main Building Lexmark Room	Wrathful Goddess or Tutelary Deity? Juno and Roman Imperialism, Lisa Mignone
3/25	4:00 p.m.	Davis Marksbury Building Hardymon Theatre	Betrayal With Integrity: Conformance and Estrangement in Translating Chinese SF, Ken Liu
3/25	5:00 p.m.	Food Connection	Bumbay Bibingka: Crosscurrents in the Making of a Philippine Dessert [Talk and Bebinca Sampling], Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy
3/26	12:00 p.m.	Breckinridge Hall 107	Researching Sexuality Transnationally: A Conversation with Gayatri Reddy
3/27	2:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	The place of Asian-Latin American self-representations in Latin American and World Literature, Ignacio López-Calvo
3/27	4:00 p.m.	Blazer Hall 3rd floor	Food, Memory and Writing: A Conversation with Anna Guevarra, International Village
3/28	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Naturalizing Rape in the Enlightenment: A Bitter Legacy, Mary McAlpin
4/2	2:00 p.m.	Young Library Auditorium	Forced Migration & the Limits of Citizenship: Puerto Ricans Crossing Diasporas, Lisa Ortiz, Yasmin Hernández, Jennifer Hinojosa
4/2	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Catel and Benoîte Groult: Simultaneous Life Narratives in Women's Comics, Jeorg Sauer
4/3	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Great, Greater, Greatest: Louis XIV and the Logic of Royal Glory, Hall Bjørnstad
4/4	5:30 p.m.	Jacobs Science Building 121	Fear of Immigrant Women: What can ancient Athens tell us about the current debates?, Rebecca Futo Kennedy
4/5	12:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center 330 E	Tracing Gender in the Personal, Familial, and Socio-Political History of Nelson Mandela, Kammila Naidoo
4/8	7:00 p.m.	Young Library Alumni Auditorium	The Messages We Send When We Send Messages with Clothes, John Ferrari
4/8-4/9	Various	Gatton Student Center 330 A & B	International Symposium: Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo (Free but required registration deadline: March 15).
4/11	7:00 p.m.	Young Library UK Athletic Association Auditorium	Sexual Ethics in the Early Church and in Contemporary Politics, David Wheeler-Reed
4/11-4/13	Various	Various	Attend any panel, keynote, or performance during KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference.
4/12	2:00 p.m.	Taylor Education Building 158 (Auditorium)	Suzanne Savoy performs Je Christine: A Medieval Woman in Her Own Words
4/15	3:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Welcoming Refugees into the Commonwealth: A Discussion with Practitioners, Scholars, and Refugees, Mary Beth Diener McGavran, Elisha Cito Mutayongwa, Diane Sumney, and Emily Jones
4/17	1:00 p.m.	Gatton College of Business & Economics 330	The Development of the Perfect in Gothic, Moses Katz
4/18	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Martin Luther King Center	On the Road with the Migrant Caravan: A conversation with Dr. Alice Driver and the Latino Student Union
4/25	3:30 p.m.	Main Building Lexmark Room	From Africa to Bluegrass and Beyond: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Post-colonial World, Chikondi Medson; discussants Erika Krause and Anthony Parenti
4/26 & 4/27	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center Concert Hall	UK Symphony Orchestra and the UK Chorale present Amadeus Live

Fall 2019

Date	Time	Location	Event
9/11	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Cinema	Screening of Shoplifters (Japanese), director Hirokazu Kore-eda
9/11	7:00 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St.)	Screening of La Pointe Courte (French), director Agnès Varda. $5.
9/25	12:00 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 05 (basement)	"Traveling with the Portuguese explorers: Multiculturalism in the 16th Century and the Global Digital project on Maffei's Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI," Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espíto Santo, Vitória
9/26	2:00 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 18th floor	"Minorities and Their Contested Narratives in Brazil: Teaching for Inclusion," Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espíto Santo, Vitória
9/26	7:00 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St.)	Screening of Women of the Gulag (Russian), followed by conversation with the director, Marianna Yarovskaya.
10/1	3:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	"The Uses of Blackness in Yugoslavia: Dimensions and Legacies of an Idea," Sunnie Rucker-Chang, University of Cincinnati
10/2	4:00 p.m.	153 Performance Studio Holmes Library	"Artistry of India: Storytelling through Traditional Dance and Painting," Lakshmi Sriraman
10/4	10:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.	Young Library Auditorium	"Racial Politics in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx Communities," Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies Symposium. (Choose one talk for the certificate essay).
10/10	4:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	"Dario Fo and the Science of Theatrical Improvisation," Antonio Scuderi, Truman State University
10/10	7:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	"Understandings around 'race', religion, and ethnicity in foreign policy: Ecuador's geopolitics against the Jewish community during World War II," Maria Amelia Viteri, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
10/11	1:00 p.m.	Business and Economics (B&E) 435UV conference room	"Raciolinguistic Ideologies in German Language Education: A Corpus-Analytic Approach," Lindsay Preseau, University of Cincinnati
10/11	3:30 p.m.	Davis Marksbury Building Hardymon Theater	Chindon Bentenya Performance (Japanese Street Musicians)
10/11- 10/13	Various	Singletary Center for the Arts	Puccini Double-Bill: Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica
10/17	6:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	"Lost Souls: A Graphic Novel Presentation and Book Signing," Mariusz Soltysik, co-author of Lost Souls, a graphic novel that deals with the history of the Holocaust in Poland
10/25	3:00 p.m.	Young Library Alumni Gallery	"One of Us?: Performing Identity Post-WWII in Ruth Klüger’s Still Alive, Hans Massaquoi's Destined to Witness, and Anonyma/Marta Hillers’ A Woman in Berlin," Vanessa Plumly, Lawrence University.
10/28	7:30 p.m.	Singletary Center Recital Hall	Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Grand Sonata performed by Elena Dorozhkina
11/4	7:00 p.m.	Singletary Center	“Indigenous Wisdom for the 21st Century: Food Systems, Kinship, and Musicology," Lyla June Johnston, of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages
11/5	12:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	“Sodizin: Healing through Diné Musicology," Lyla June Johnston, of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages
11/5	3:30 p.m.	Main Building Lexmark Room	“'Small People' on the Borders: Buriat-Mongols, Soviet Russia and Imperial Japan," Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University
11/7	6:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Reading by Japanese poet ARAI Takako from her most recent English volume Factory Girls
11/11	7:00 p.m.	Boone Center	“Citizens of Memory: Suffering and Girlhood in Holocaust Commemoration,” Jodi Eichler Levine, Lehigh University
12/11	6:00 p.m.	Lafferty Hall 108	"Gender (Ideology) and Politics in Latin America," Maria Amelia Viteri, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)
12/13	2:30 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	Music, Dance and Diplomacy Symposium

Spring 2020

Date	Time	Location	Event
1/22	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: Dying to Survive and dinner (Chinese New Year)
1/26	1:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: La Bohème
1/29	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: What Will People Say (Urdu/Norwegian)
1/31	2:00 p.m.	William T. Young Library Auditorium	“’The Cow is a Mother, Not An Animal’: Innocence and Animality in Indian Bovine Politics,” Radhika Govindrajan, University of Washington
2/2	2:30 p.m.	Central Library Farish Theater (140 E. Main St., Lexington)	Dance to Chinese New Year: Chinese Folk and Classical Dance
2/4	5:30 p.m.	William T. Young Library Auditorium	Lexington and International Events Panel, featuring Mayor Linda Gorton, a former ambassador, and experts on diplomacy and international commerce
2/11	5:30 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Lecture by Darcy Paquet, translator of the English subtitles for Parasite
2/11	7:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: House of Humming Bird (Korean), with filmmaker Kim Bora
2/13	7:00 p.m.	Hilary J. Boone Center	Helene Sinnreich, University of Tennessee), "Gendered Martyrdom: Orthodox Jewish Hagiographies of Holocaust Victims"
2/13	7:00 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St., Lexington)	Film screening: The Babushkas of Chernobyl (English/Russian/Ukrainian)
2/14	12:00 p.m.	TBD	Lecture by Xioa Ma, a leading expert on health care in China
2/15	10:00 a.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St., Lexington)	Film screening: The Eagle Huntress (English/Kazakh)
2/20	7:00 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St., Lexington)	Film screening: Shoplifters (Japanese)
2/23	12:55 p.m.	Cinemark Fayette Mall (3800 Mall Rd., Lexington)	Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema: Swan Lake. Purchase tickets online.
2/28	3:30 p.m.	Transylvania University Cowgill 102	"Anatomy, Analogy, and Claims to Medical Knowledge in Greek and Roman Medicine," Luis Salas, Washington University
2/29	10:00 a.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St., Lexington)	Film screening: Impulso (Spanish)
3/4	4:00 p.m.	Little Library Niles Gallery	"Saints and Stories in Tajikistan," Ben Gatling, George Mason University
3/4	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: Women at War (Icelandic/Ukraine)
3/5	3:30 p.m.	Patterson Office Tower 318	"Styling Hirohito: Menswear, Monarchy and Modernity in the Roaring Twenties," Gavin Campbell, Doshisha University (Osaka)
3/5	7:00 p.m.	Kentucky Theater (214 E. Main St., Lexington)	Film screening: Shelter (English/Hebrew/German/Arabic)
3/6	5:00 p.m.	Jacobs Science Building 321	"Antiquity and Cultural Memory in the Maghreb (Morocco & Tunisia)"
3/11	5:00 p.m.	Whitehall Classroom Building 110	"Stories of May Fourth," Michel Hockx, University of Notre Dame, former director of the China Institute at SOAS at University of London
3/29	12:55 p.m.	Cinemark Fayette Mall (3800 Mall Rd., Lexington)	Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema: Romeo and Juliet. Purchase tickets online.
4/8	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema: Romeo and Juliet.
4/15	6:00 p.m.	Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema	Film screening: Photograph (Hindi)
4/19	12:55 p.m.	Cinemark Fayette Mall (3800 Mall Rd., Lexington)	Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema: Jewels. Purchase tickets online.

Fall 2020

Date	Time	Location	Event
8/13	12:30 p.m.	Online; register here	“Humanities and the Social Sciences in an Age of Crisis”
8/27	7:00 p.m.	Online; register here	"Leadership in a Time of Crisis"
Various	8:30 p.m.	Online; register here	"The Impact of Korean Popular Culture on North America," webinar series organized by the Institute for Korean Studies at Indiana U
10/14	12:00 p.m.	Online; register here	Latin American and Latinx Student Perspectives on Race and Equity: A Student-Centered Dialogue
10/23	4:00 p.m.	Online; register here	Becoming Guanyin: A Book Event with Author Yuhang Li at George Washington U
10/27	12:30 p.m.	Online	"African Voices from the Global South: Nollywood in the Black Atlantic," Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series, Kamahra Ewing
11/5	12:00 p.m.	Online; register here	“What does race look like in Greek epic?: Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica," Jackie Murray
11/10	4:30 p.m.	Online; register here	"Unconscious Bias: Anti Asian Bashing in the Age of COVID-19," Juju Chang, anchor of Nightline
11/13	3:00 p.m.	Online	“The Use and Recontextualization of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Images and Jargon in the Palestinian Context," Dana Shalash
11/13	7:00 p.m.	Online; register here	Film screening: Panic in the Streets (Kazan, 1950)
11/20	11:00 a.m.	Online	"Translating the Global Women's Poetry Movement: A Reading and Craft Lecture," Rebecca Gayle Howell

Each semester, the calendar of international events will be archived here in case someone needs to access it (for example, to complete an essay for the CGS). The events are grouped by semester, each one accessible above.