Anti-Human Trafficking Panel
Please join the United Nations Association Blue Grass Chapter in collaboration with the Amnesty International the UK branch for a panel on the theme of Human Trafficking April 28th 2016 from 7-9pm in room 200 Funkhouser Building.
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200 Funkhouser Building
Gonzales' First Novel Reviewed by New York Times
Manuel Gonzales stepped away from the restraints of traditional literary genre to create a story that twists not only the plot, but the characters as well. In so doing, “The Regional Office Is Under Attack!”, the first novel published by the University of Kentucky assistant professor of English and creative writing, has sparked the imagination of one reviewer after another.
Acclaimed Writer-in-Residence, Helen Oyeyemi Reads From Latest Work
By Gail Hairston
(April 18, 2016) — In an NPR interview two years ago — a conversation occasioned by the release of her fifth novel, “Boy, Snow, Bird” — Helen Oyeyemi explained why she had lived in half a dozen European cities before the age of 30.
“I feel a need to choose a city or have a feeling that it chooses me," Oyeyemi said.
Language Talk - Episode 11
Episode 11 of Language Talk features a round-table discussion with Prof. Stayc Dubravac, Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching World Languages at the University of Kentucky, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, and Thomas Sauer, an Independent Consultant specializing in language education. The guests discuss three broad topics: challenges in the world language profession today; the role of language and global competence in the curriculum; and professional development for teachers.
UK STEM Faculty: Enhance Teaching Skills, Undergrad Collaborative Research Projects at Workshop
By Whitney Harder
(April 15, 2016) — A STEM-focused teaching enhancement workshop and scholarly forum will allow faculty members across the University of Kentucky campus to network, develop collaborations and augment STEM teaching skills. The workshop and forum will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Hilary J. Boone Center.
Becoming Farmer, Becoming Workers: Agriculture and Industrial Gold Mining in Papua New Guinea.
Comparing ethnographic and agricultural data collected from two neighboring Biangai villages (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea), one engaged in a small-scale conservation effort and the other stakeholders in a large industrial gold mine, this paper analyzes the linkages between alternative development regimes, agricultural transformation and human-environmental relations. Working the land is not simply about production, but also about knowing the landscape and its products as nodes in human social relations. Mining regimes disentangle the multi-species networks experienced in the garden, and reassemble them into other spaces. Thus, in the mining inspired transformations of agricultural practices, Biangai are also transforming how they experience their own multi-species community – its past, present and future.
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.
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Rm. 102, Whitehall Classroom Bldg.
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Colloquium: The Materiality of Vacuum
The old idea of a luminiferous ether got a bad reputation, but in modern physics we've discovered that it is very fruitful to regard empty space, or vacuum, as a material. Vacuum can be polarized, or act as a catalyst, for example, and it is a superconductor. Conversely, materials can be viewed "from the inside" as the vacua of alternative worlds, which often have exotic, mind-expanding properties. These ideas suggest new possibilities for cosmology, and bring to life a profound question: What is a Universe?
Refreshments will be served in Chemistry-Physics Building Room 179 at 3:15 PM
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CP155
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Black Women's Conference: #SAYHERNAME
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
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Lyric Theater and Cultural Arts Center
Black Women's Conference: #SAYHERNAME
Free and open to the public. No registration needed.
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Location:
Lyric Theater and Cultural Arts Center