Once Upon a Campus: A UK Love Story
In 1956, Elvis Presley released "Love Me Tender," a ballad that would become a Valentine's Day classic. That same year, Lou and Ella Marie "Ree" Karibo were married.
"The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side"
Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program of Ben Gurion University
Lecture: "The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side"
Monday April 22, 2013, 7 pm, Alumni Auditorium, W.T. Young Library
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Location:
Alumni Auditorium, W.T. Young Library
Event Series:
"The New Antisemitism and Multidirectional Memory"
Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Associate Professor of French at the University of Minnesota
Lecture: "The New Antisemitism and Multidirectional Memory"
Friday April 19, 12 Noon, location TBA
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Event Series:
Rosie Moosnick, book signing and lecture
Lexington, KY native Nora Rose "Rosie" Moosnick is a sociologist by training and has just published her second book, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity. Book signing
Lecture: Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity
Reception to follow
Sponsored in part by Univerisity Press of Kentucky
Date:
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Location:
Boone Center
Event Series:
The Moosnick Lecture Series
Rabbi Michael J. Cook, PhD.
Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures, and the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor in Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“Judaism, Christianity, and the Crucifixion: Coexistence versus Anti-Semitism on Parchment”
With reception following sponsored by the Moosnick family
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Location:
Ohavay Zion Synagogue
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'I Sing Beijing' to Introduce KY to Mandarin as Lyric Language
The first-ever Western singers trained in modern Mandarin lyric diction will debut a special evening of music from the East and West on a Bluegrass stage courtesy of the University of Kentucky Confucius Institute.
UK Graduate Student Blogs "Guest Entry: 2013 Inauguration"
Sarah Geegan, UK graduate student and information specialist in UK Public Relations and Marketing, blogs about her recent experience at our nation’s capital for the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony in the first installment of President Capiluto's Blogs.
Jeremy Popkin Named the Christian Wolff Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther University in Germany
Popkin will be in residence in Halle in June 2013 and will deliver lectures on his research on the press during the French Revolution and on the French Revolution’s debates about slavery.
"Environmental Health Concerns in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy"
Environmental Justice Speaker Series
The American Studies Program and the Sociology Department Present
Dr. Gregory Button
Anthropology Department
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Date:
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Location:
Student Center (Room 357)
“The TVA Coal Waste Disaster”
Environmental Justice Speaker Series
The American Studies Program and the Sociology Department Present
Dr. Gregory Button
Anthropology Department
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classrom Building Room 231