Year of China Lecture Series: The Increasing Role of China in Global Food Security
Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
Monday, March 26, 2012
6:00 - 7:30pm
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Lecture Series: When is the Postcolonial Imperial? Chinese Intellectuals and the Tibet Question
Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures & Asian American Studies, UCLA
6:00 - 7:40pm, Thursday March 22
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Frank X Walker, noted author, poet, and Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, shares the history of the term "Affrilachia," his thoughts on identity and place, and ways in which Affrilachian poetry continues to reach individuals all over the region.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
Autumn Gem (秋瑾)http://autumn-gem.com/ Autumn Gem is a documentary about China’s first feminist, Qiujin. Qiujin (1875-1907) defied tradition to become the leader of a revolutionary army. She was the first woman to lead an armed uprising against the Qing dynasty government, for which she was arrested and executed. Autumn Gem was released in 2009.
Students succeed in new Psychology Honors Program
Connie Jennings, M.D.
Chinese Acupuncture
Internal Medicine Group
University of Kentucky
Tuesday, April 10, 3pm
William T. Young Library Auditorium
Sponsored by: UK Libraries, UK Healthcare
Year of China Lecture Series, featuring:
Ernie Yanarella - Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science
Richard Levine - Emeritus Professor, Architecture
A Tale of Two Projects: Hangbaiyu and SUCCESS
April 5, 2012
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
6:00-7:40pm
Free and open to the public
Demolition(拆迁 ) & discussion with the director
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009mayjun/sniadecki.html
Demolition explores the impacts of migrant labor and the urban experience by focusing on the city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Director J.P. Sniadecki examines the interactions between the members of China’s floating population of migrant workers and the residents of Chengdu as well as the booming construction industry in China.
Modeling the Cirrus Clouds
Abstract:
The cirrus clouds are mainly diffuse or translucent clouds, with typically
a very low visual extinction. But such clouds may have dense molecular cores.
These cores could be precursors to star formation and are very good candidates
to study early phases of stellar evolution. Despite of the apparent simplicity of
these regions, the observations of the dense gas tracers contradict with the
models and hence suggesting a gap in our understanding of these regions.
Polaris Flare is a high latitude cirrus cloud, with several star-less cores. A
translucent molecular cloud MCLD 123.5+24.9 is one of the denser regions of
the Polaris cirrus complex, located in the direction near the celestial North Pole.
I am going to discuss the models of this region using Cloudy with the help of
CO transition line observations and recent Herschel observations from the
continuum dust emission.
Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions and the Effects of Intervening Clouds
Abstract:
The nature of the Broad Line Region (BLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is an area of
vigorous debate. The geometry of the BLR clouds is also uncertain. I will first present
the current model of AGNs and BLR. Then I will review recent work on the X-ray time
variability of Mrk 766, a Seyfert 1 galaxy. I will then introduce a new geometry for
the BLR clouds. This new geometry, which we call the intervening BLR clouds model,
has BLR clouds along our line of sight. These intervening clouds generate a depression
at ~900Å to ~1200Å. Observations of Mrk 766 and other AGNs suggest that intervening
clouds may exist in most AGNs. The real SED of the AGNs in that wavelength range may
be higher than we now suppose due to the depression made by intervening clouds.
