Working Group on War and Gender Symposium

Session 1: 3:30 – 5:15

 

Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University

 

"The Capitalist-Rescue Narrative and the War on Terror"

 

Moderator:  Amy Murrell Taylor, Department of History

Discussant, Francie Chassen-Lopez, Department of History

 

Session 2:  5:30- 7:15

 

Sue Grayzel, Professor of History and Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi

 

 "All are Now in the Line of Fire:" Gender and the Defence of Civilian Bodies in the Interwar British Empire

 

Moderator: Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Department of Hispanic Studies

Discussant: Pearl James, Department of English

 

Date:
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Location:
W.T. Young Library Multipurpose Room B 108C

The Tepaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History

The Tepaske Seminar (named in honor of John J. Tepaske) is a vibrant and collegial gathering of scholars. The seminar is organized in a workshop-fashion, with 9 pre-circulated papers presented over the course of 2 days in Patterson Office Tower room 245. More information can be found at https://lacls.as.uky.edu/tepaske-seminar
Date:
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Location:
245 Patterson Office Tower

Jews & Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

Marni Davis examines American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years of the national prohibition movement’s rise and fall. Davis offers a novel perspective on a previously unstudied area of American Jewish economic activity: the making and selling of liquor, wine, and beer. Alcohol commerce played a crucial role in Jewish immigrant acculturation and the growth of Jewish communities in the United States. But prohibition’s triumph cast a pall on American Jews’ history in the alcohol trade, forcing them to revise, clarify, and defend their communal and civic identities -- both to their fellow Americans and to themselves.

 

 

 

 

Date:
Location:
Boone Center Conference Room

"see blue." #selfie: Kyle Richardson and Nick Ramos

By Rebecca Stratton

(March 16, 2016) — Want to get to know the people behind some of the biggest student leadership positions on campus? We did, too! That's why we're excited to introduce "see blue." #selfie - a brand new series on UKNow that lets student leaders from across campus tell us a little bit more about themselves and their organizations. This week, the 2015-16 Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow and TEAM WILDCAT co-chairs!

Frances Tracy-Student Spotlight

Meet France Tracy!

 

I’m a sophomore in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, and I’m from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, right next to Cincinnati. I love taking adventure runs through Lexington, and visiting the Lexington Humane Society regularly because I miss my pets at home!

I chose the University of Kentucky because of the strong sense of community I felt here. I was invited to Merit Weekend, a weekend where high school seniors can schedule their freshman classes early. I spent the weekend with some friends I had from the Governor’s Scholars Program the previous summer, and we had a blast together, meeting more potential students and running around Lexington!

I work as an Undergraduate Assistant for the Mathematics Department, which includes being a UA for a math lecture as well as a few hours in the MathSkeller, a tutoring service in the basement of Whitehall. I am currently in my second semester of working for the Mathematics Department. I really enjoy it and plan on working there during the rest of my undergrad at UK!

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