WHO: Krisen Monroe, University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology
WHAT: "Labor, Traffice and the State: Meanings of Mobility in Beirut, Lebanon"
WHEN: Friday October 28, 2011 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whitehall Classroom Building Room 114
WHO: Sandra Zupan, University of Kentucky Department of Geography
WHAT: "Enacting an Equitable Community Agenda: Exploring Community Strategies in Miwaukee's Inner-City Redevelopment"
WHEN: Friday October 21, 2011 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whitehall Classroom Building Room 114
Ten students will have the opportunity for a 10-week, real-life, undergraduate research experience beginning next summer at UK, thanks to a recent NSF grant awarded to David Westneat in UK's Department of Biology.
On Friday September 30, 2011 Elisabeth Camp of the University of Pennsylvania will give a guest lecture sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. The talk will begin at 4:00 p.m. and will take place in Room 231 of the Student Center.
“Why Metaphors Make Good Insults”
ABSTRACT:
Metaphors are powerful communicative instruments partly because they produce 'framing effects' that go beyond any specific content the speaker claims. These effects are especially obvious, and especially damaging, when the metaphor is an insult, intended to denigrate the hearer or someone associated with him. In this case, merely comprehending the metaphor produces a kind of 'cognitive complicity' that cannot be undone simply by denying the speaker's claim. I explain why metaphors produce these effects, offer suggestions for how to effectively insult your enemies, and suggest how hearers can fight back.
Marcia Inhorn, a specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health issues will discuss Reproductive "Tourism" in the Middle East in the Department of Anthropology's Annual Colloquium Series this Friday.
WHO: Pavel Samonil, Mendel University and Department of Forest Ecology Vukoz, Czech Republic
WHAT: "Dynamics and disturbance history of natural forests in the Central Europe: forests, research questions, data and results"
WHEN: Friday October 7, 2011 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whitehall Classroom Building room 114
WHO: Rebecca Lave, Department of Geography, University of Indiana
WHAT: "Neoliberalism and the Production of Environmental Knowledge"
WHEN: Friday September 30, 2011 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whitehall Classroom Building Room 1114
UK President Capilouto signed a memorandum of understanding with University of Haifa Rector (Provost) David Faraggi, which bodes well for increased campus collaboration in the future.
Dean Mark Kornbluh continues his Dean's Channel series, sitting down with professor Gang Cao from the Department of Physics & Astronomy and Director of UK's Center for Advanced Materials. They discuss the great benefit of UK housing its own helium liquefier as well as a number of other advances with materials research.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Doo Young Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. Young’s area of focus is carbon materials and energy related research, such as fuel cells, supercapacitors and batteries. In addition to this research, he also has an interest in neuroscience and electrochemistry.
