Imagine If We Sat at a Global Dinner Table
Claudia Roden is said to have revolutionized Western attitudes about Middle Eastern and North African cuisines with "A Book of Middle Eastern Food," published in 1968.
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty and Teaching Awards
The College of Arts and Sciences will present the faculty and teaching awards for the past year on April 22 from 4:00-5:30 in the WT Young Library Auditorium. A reception will follow.
The recipients of this year's College faculty awards are:
- Beth Guiton, chemisty - Undergraduate Mentoring
- Shaunna Scott, sociology - Distinguished Service or Engagement
- Joseph Straley, physics & astronomy - Distinguished Service or Engagement
- Christia Brown, psychology - Diversity and Inclusion
- Joseph Brill, physics & astronomy - Graduate Mentoring
- Thomas Janoski, sociology - Graduate Mentoring
- Linda Worley, modern & classical languages, literatures & cultures - Graduate Mentoring
The recipeints of this year's College teaching awards are:
- Renee Fatemi, physics & sstronomy - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Moisés Castillo, hispanic studies - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Charley Carlson, psychology - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Anna Voskresensky, modern & classical languages, literatures & cultures - Outstanding Teaching Award
- Michelle Sizemore, English - Teaching in Large Classes
- Ruth Brown, hispanic studies - Innovative Teaching
The First Chapter of Wired with Louis Hahn
Nathan DeWall is a professor in the Psychology Department and has also served as one of the faculty co-directors of Wired since its start in 2011. He sat down with Wired alum Louis Hahn to talk about his experiences in the living learning program and how it has helped shaped his college experience.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
The First Chapter of Wired with Laura Greenfield and Icyana Abner
Nathan DeWall is a professor in the Psychology Department and has also served as one of the faculty co-directors of Wired since its start in 2011. He sat down with Wired alum - Laura Greenfield and Icyana Abner - to talk about their experiences in the living learning program and how it has helped shaped their college experience.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
Misogyny: French and Italian, Medieval and Modern
Writings composed to reveal and denounce the defects and crimes of women was a recognized genre in the Middle Ages, and it generated both amusement and dismay. While the intertextual richness of misogynous writing has long been established, these texts don’t just faithfully parrot each other—they often play on each other to subversive effect. I’ll look at several French and Italian texts that aren’t so well known even in medieval French and Italian studies, and show how they interact in unexpected ways to nuance their misogynous claims. I’ll also spend some time on modern misogynous genres, surprisingly (if unintentionally) faithful to their medieval antecedents.
F. Regina Psaki is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Oregon. She publishes on Boccaccio, Dante, and medieval courtly genres, translating chivalric romances from French and Italian: Il Tristano Riccardiano (2006),Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (1995), and Le Roman de Silence (1991). With Gloria Allaire she co-edited The Arthur of the Italians (2014); with Thomas C. Stillinger she co-edited Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism (2006).
Her current project, The Traffic in Talk About Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in the Middle Ages, explores the lively medieval genres of anti-woman diatribes and defenses of women and shows the range of opinion in medieval writers on the nature and behavior of women (and, in some cases, of men).
Migration, Skill and the Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest
"Been to the Mountain: Appalachian Origins of the Civil Rights Movement", an Appalachian Forum
The UK Appalachian Center is happy to welcome Dr.Bill Turner for an Appalachian Forum as part of our speaker series on Civil Rights, Labor and Environmental Social Movements in Appalachia. Dr. Turner's talk is entitled: Been to the Mountain: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement and will be held in the Whitehall Classroom Building, Room 110 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on Friday, April 24, 2015. This is a free event, and all are welcome to meet with our guest from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the UK Appalachian Center after the talk.
Benham Coal Museum Tour
UK Students, Staff, and Faculty are welcome to join the UK Appalachian Center for a trip to tour the Benham Coal Museum in Benham, KY on Saturday, April 25, 2015. The group will meet at the UK Appalachian Center (624 Maxwelton Court) to leave by bus at 8 a.m. and return to Lexington by about 8 p.m. This tour is an opportunity to learn about the history of coal mining in eastern, KY through exhibits on company towns, viewing a mine portal, and hearing from scholars including Dr. Bill Turner on life in Benham and Lynch, KY throughout time. This is a free event, and we will accommodate as many as we can! Please RSVP by email to erin.norton@uky.edu to reserve a space on the bus by Thursday, April 16, 2015. (Please, send 1 RSVP per email.)