Our ninth Language Talk: KWLA podcast, Program Review Revisited, features hosts Laura Roché Youngworth discussing updates and particulars of the new Global Competency & World Languages Program Review (PR) with Jamee Barton, Kelly Clark, and Alfosno De Nunez Torres of the Kentucky Department of Education. Topics include: changes to the PR, triangulation and evidence, global competency, and discussion of specific Demonstrators/Characteristics.
The University of Kentucky Honors Program recognized 10 first-year students as recipients of the T.W. Lewis Scholarship beginning fall 2015.
Answers to ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Safety photo:
1. Unattended fire – never leave a fire unattended
2. Stockings near the fire – keep combustible material away from fires
3. Sharp hooks – don’t use sharp items to decorate if small children will be near them or attracted to them
4. Missing fireplace screen – no grate or screen to shield from ashes, embers, and heat
5. Dry Christmas tree – dry trees are fire hazards
6. Broken lights – malfunctioning lights pose a fire and electrical hazard
7. Obstructed doorway – large items (rocking horse) is blocking a fire escape pathway
8. Frayed cord – electrical hazard (note: no more than 3 strands of standard size lights on each surge protector)
This Friday, the University of Kentucky bestowed its greatest honor — the awarding of an honorary degree — to UK alumnus Matt Cutts.
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees accepted a contribution of $1.7 million from Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) to establish a Model Confucius Institute.
Susan Bordo, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and author of the feminist classic, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen, will moderate the presentations and discussion.
Presentations by three PhD students in Gender and Women’s Studies:
Analyzing the selfie: Exploring gender identity through nude photography, Darby Gieringer, M.A.
People love to see beautiful women get old or fat: Policing (Fat) Southern Femininity in Designing Women, Shawna Felkins, M.A.
You Are Not What You Eat: Eating and Weight in US Popular Culture, MaryAnn Kozlowski, M.A.
Reception to follow panel in the Alumni Gallery.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
Emily Burrill is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali. She is co-editor of Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Dr. Burrill’s research focuses on the history of marriage and marriage-related practices, and women and citizenship rights in post-colonial Africa.
Anastasia Curwood is Assistant Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She was a Visiting Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University, from 2012-2014. She is the author of Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages Between the Two World Wars.
Srimati Basu is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is also a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia Center Affiliates. Her latest book is The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India.
This panel will present research on the institution of marriage in transnational contexts and the sites of legal and domestic violence within marriage.
Reception to follow in the Alumni Gallery.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She is internationally known for her many publications in body studies and history of culture. Her most recent book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2013.
Ellen Rosenman is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the co-editor of Other Mothers: Beyond the Victorian Maternal Ideal and author of Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience. Dr. Rosenman is interested in the novel and its relationship to other kinds of narratives such as journalism, professional discourses, and conduct books as ways in which cultural values are articulated, challenged, and re-made.
Cristina Alcalde is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is also Director of Graduate Studies for Gender and Women's Studies and from 2011-2015 served as Faculty Co-Director of A&S Wired Residential College. Her 2010 book, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru, was recently translated into a Spanish edition.
The editors and authors from the book will discuss how interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis foregrounds feminist inquiry into social movements and political discourses as they migrate from the local to the global and back again.
Please join us for a reception following the panel discussion in the Alumni Gallery.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
Dr. Renzetti is Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, and currently serves as the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women. She is also the editor of Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, the Oxford University Press Series on Interpersonal Violence, and the University of California Press Series on Gender and Justice.
Dr. Follingstad is the Women’s Circle Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women and a Professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky (with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology). She is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Research on Violence Against Women at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Renzetti and Dr. Follingstad will present findings from the latest Campus Attitudes Toward Safety (CATS) study and discuss what can be learned from the study and the importance of improving safety on campus for all students.
A reception will follow in the Alumni Gallery adjacent to the auditorium.
