Dr. David Ruccio, Professor of Economics at Notre Dame is giving the talk at the UK Appalachian enter SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) meeting on Tuesday, April 18, 2014. This talk will be held at the UK Appalachian Center from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
In proclaiming September as Kentucky Archaeology Month, Gov. Steve Beshear recognized the success of Living Archaeology Weekend, Kentucky's oldest and largest public archaeology event.
A new program at the University of Kentucky will provide up to $100,000 in internal funding for sustainability projects on campus.
University of Kentucky Education Abroad will hold its annual fall fair today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.
This week's topic for the Soup & Substance: Real Talk, Real Issues and Real People series is a discussion of police injustice, brutality and discrimination. The topic — "When Did My Skin Color Become a Threat?: A Discussion on Police Brutality and Discrimination" — was chosen from a student's Twitter suggestion.
2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Speaker Series
Dr. Helen Blau is the 2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer. Dr. Blau has been the recipient of many honors and awards over the course of her career, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (1995-2005). She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Speaker Series
Dr. Helen Blau is the 2014 Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer. Dr. Blau has been the recipient of many honors and awards over the course of her career, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (1995-2005). She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Please join the UK Appalachian Center at an Appalachian Forum with Dr. Fran Ansley, Professor Emeritus of law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville on Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Dr. Ansley will give a talk entitled Telescoping Movements, Telescoping Time: Five Decades of Looking for the Labor Movement through an Appalachian Lens in the Niles Gallery from 3:30 to 5 p.m. This is a part of the Appalachian Forum Speaker Series on Civil Rights, Labor and Environmental Movements in Appalachia. The event is free and open to the public.
As we get ready to kick off the 2014 United Way campaign at UK, I would like to share with you information about upcoming opportunities to participate either by monetary or community service gifts.
First of all, on Tuesday, September 23, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., in Conference Room 318 in POT, we will kick off our Brown Bag sessions for the Fall. The first topic will be United Way and we are raising awareness and funds by hosting a Chili/Soup Cook Off. To participate, please plan to donate $2 to get samplings of soups, chili and deserts prepared by your co-workers. If you are interested in participating, please RSVP here and let us know if you will be bringing your special recipes for chili, soup or a desert. It should be a fun and informative session.
Ching Kwan Lee graduated from the University of California-Berkeley Sociology Department, and is the author of the award winning Against the Law. Her talk analyzes the peculiarity of outbound Chinese state capital by comparing it with global private capital in copper and construction in Zambia. Refuting the dominant narratives of "Chinese colonialism" and "south-south cooperation," comparative ethnographic data collected over a 5-year period chronicle the multi-faceted struggles that confront and differentiate these two varieties of capital entailing uneven potentials for post-colonial African development.
There will also be a small workshop on doing ethnography in China at 10AM on the same day. (Please contact Thomas Janoski at tjanos@uky.edu for details)
