When Galaxies Collide
Stars within galaxies hardly ever collide at random, they are just too far apart compared to their sizes. But galaxy collisions are occurring all over the universe! A galaxy collision may take hundreds of millions of years to play out. But the results can be spectacular - new stars forming, black holes merging, and quasars erupting. And look out! Our own Milky Way Galaxy may be on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy. Fireworks ahead!
The University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to welcome the public to our astronomical observatory. Part of our program of public outreach is a presentation on an interesting topic in astronomy followed by a visit to the observatory. The Kentucky SkyTalk is held on the second Thursday of every month. A 45 minute program on astronomy will begin at 8:00 PM in Room 155 of the Chemistry-Physics Building. After the presentation, you are invited to view the sky through our 20-inch telescope, weather permitting.
Free parking is available on the top floor of parking structure #2, next to the observatory. With the exception of paid parking, without a valid parking permit, leaving your vehicle somewhere other than next to the observatory will result in a parking citation.
All are welcome and there is no charge. Tell your neighbors. Bring your kids.
A flyer in pdf format and a link to a campus map are available here: https://pa.as.uky.edu/observatory
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CP155
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"Heart Sickness, Protracted Displacement, and Uncertainty in Georgia"
Our presenter is Anthropology's own Associate Professor Erin Koch, Co-Director of the new Health, Society & Populations Program. Erin's essay is described below and will be distributed online by September 22nd. Karen Petrone (History) and Mark Whitaker (Anthropology) will serve as her respondents.
"Heart Sickness, Protracted Displacement, and Uncertainty in Georgia"
Georgia’s population of 4.5 million includes approximately 258,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Around 220,000 of them fled their homes in 1993 amid civil war between Georgia and Abkhazia. This paper draws on ethnographic research with Georgians displaced from Abkhazia in the early 1990s that remain unable to return, and who live in conditions of extreme poverty and marginalization. The project investigated the health effects of displacement, and the role of NGOs in improving IDPs’ access to insurance and medical services. Ethnographic research (summers 2010 and 2011) produced important insights about how extended displacement dramatically redefines meanings of wellbeing and care within families and communities. International aid organizations and local NGOs play an increasing role in monitoring IDP health status, facilitating access to medical services, and mobilizing IDPs to design community-based health education programs. Experiences of long-term displacement in Georgia intertwine with unreliable circuits of aid to recast the body as a zone of struggle for social and political value that many IDPs articulate in terms of “heart sickness” and “heart pains.” I examine the murky distinction between physiological (cardiological) disease and affective dis-ease that IDPs articulate to critique their marginalization. Their insights raise also important questions about how medical anthropologists identify and theorize notions of health in relation to “the social” and “the biological.”
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Bingham-Davis House, Gaines Center
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A discussion with Professor Emeritus Stan Brunn
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Hilary J. Boone Center 500 Rose Street "The Library"
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Marcia England (Miami University)
Fast and Furious Feminism
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Classroom Building Room 238
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“The Lebanese Community of Mexico and the Development of Mexican Film"
Dr. Carlos Martínez Assad, Professor Emeritus, National Autonomous University of Mexico and 2013 Winner of Mexico’s National Prize for Arts and Sciences, is the author of numerous books and articles on Mexican history, politics, culture, and film, and two books and a novel on the Middle East. He has been a columnist for various Mexican newspapers, presently he is writing for El Universal.
The documentary, La historia en la mirada (The Gaze of History) on the Mexican Revolution, for which he did the historical research and screenplay, won the Ariel (Mexican Oscar) for best documentary in 2010. At UK, he will be presenting his documentary on the Lebanese community in Mexico. (The Lebanese in Mexican film – with English subtitles.) Discussion to follow.
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Hardymon Theater @ the Marksbury Building
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Gov. Steve Beshear proclaims September as Kentucky Archaeology Month
The proclamation credits the Kentucky Office of State Archaeology, located within UK's Department of Anthropology, and the Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office for maintaining an extensive and growing database of thousands of archaeological sites across the state.
Stars with Accents
Stars with Accents: readings by Leatha Kendrick, Paulette Livers, and Lisa Williams, hosted byKaterina Stoykova-Klemer of Accents: A radio show for literature, art, and culture. Find out about this and other upcoming KWWC events: http://bit.ly/1AvdUtk
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Carnegie Center
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Wild Women of Poetry
Wild Women of Poetry Slam, Ellen Hagan as headliner and celebrity judge, with emcee Bianca Spriggs. Find out about this and other upcoming KWWC events: http://bit.ly/1AvdUtk
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Carrick Theatre, Transylvania University
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