By Tasha Ramsey
Speech is an integral part of our development as children and one that continues to develop throughout our lives. Because of this, we don't often spend much time thinking about speech and what it reveals about our identities. However, one professor in the Linguistics Program at the University of Kentucky spends much of his time researching the aspects of speech and social identity.
The Classical Association has awarded Laura Manning, a master's student studying classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, a scholarship to participate in a panel presentation at the association’s 2016 annual conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Session 3: 9:00 – 10:45
Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"Gendered Vulnerability and Forced Conscription in the War in Syria"
Moderator: Anahid Matossian, Department of Anthropology
Discussants: Diane King and Kristin Monroe, Department of Anthropology
Session 4: 11:00 – 12:30
Concluding Forum and Discussion
Moderator: Srimati Basu, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
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
By Gail Hairston
(March 21, 2016) — The extraordinary photography of Ethelee Davidson Baxter will be on exhibit in the first floor atrium of the University of Kentucky William T. Young Library from March 21 through April 22. The theme of Baxter’s exhibit is “Diversity of Lifestyles: Women Around the World.”
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.
Watch why Gurney Norman, a renowned writer, is thrilled to be named a 2016 Great Teacher and why he loves working one-on-one with the young writers his classes within UK's College of Arts and Sciences.
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!
