Language Talk - Episode 9

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.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Safety:

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)

Bodies of Evidence: "Policing Fat Bodies" Panel

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. 

Date:
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Location:
Young Library Auditorium

Bodies of Evidence: "Marriage and its Troubles"

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. 

Date:
-
Location:
Young Library Auditorium
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