Air Travels!
Hi everyone! My blog continues with all of the things I can think to tell you to make your travels on planes easier and more enjoyable!
Allan Butterfield Ph.D Talks Patents, Department of Chemistry
What's cookin' in the Chemistry Department? UK Chemistry Professor Allan Butterfield speaks about the various patents that chemistry research at UK has developed. Butterfield's research deals with the detection of Alzheimer's syndrome in chemical brain functions.
Alright. Okay.
I went to London, England; as some of you may already know.
I’m speaking in past tense, since I was not able to create blogs in London when I was actually there. This is because they are behind America when it comes to most technologies by 2 years approximately, as said from experience of using their Wi-Fi and being told by their advertising agencies.
Anyhow, I studied in the UK so that I could expand my knowledge in global advertising, and purely just to use my passport, finally for the first time in my life. London was the perfect place to go, to be immersed into the world of advertising and business; being home to many award winning advertising agencies such as DDB (having clients such as Volkswagen, Harvey Nichols, Marmite; also claimed to be the start of creative advertising), and McCann Erickson (whom are creating all work for the upcoming Olympics campaign). However, London was not the best place to travel for a first experience of being out of the country, only because it’s really not that different or shocking, aside from the accents and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Symposium - Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Symposium - Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Day 2 - February 3, 2012 - Consuming Haiti: Its Haunting Past and Sustainable Future
Time: 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Place: 103 Main Building
"A Marshall Plan for Haiti?: To End or Continue the Legacy of Revolution by Myriam Chancy, University of Cincinnati
"Haiti Then and Now: The Terror of Equality" by Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
Sponsors: College of Arts & Sciences, African American and Africana Studies Program, LSA, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Division of French and Italian, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women Studies.
Generally speaking, when people think about the Caribbean, they may have the motto Sun, Sea and Sex in mind. They may visualize tropical and hedonistic islands where they could go on vacation to have fun and relax. The Caribbean often remains a tourist destination until tragedy strikes, like 2 years ago with the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
What do we know really about the Caribbean, its people and its cultures? Could this space be anything else but a place to go on vacation and have cheap alcohol and sex or on a rescue mission, if not on community service?
Simplistic and stereotypical views prevent us from seeing histories of survival, of self-determination and resilience against all odds. What really happened to displaced populations from the African continent, put into bondage for centuries and then supposedly liberated and left to fare for themselves under the tight influence of external forces? Was the end of slavery, the end of the plantation system the end of their sorrows and struggles? What about the effects of western imperialism, colonialism or any other -ism one can think of?
To answer some of these questions, Valerie Loichot and Jacqueline Couti will examine the socio-political implication of sexuality, gender and violence in French Caribbean literature. Two years after the earthquake, Myriam Chancy and Nick Nesbitt will explore the controversial representations of Haiti in the media and discuss the future of Haiti's sovereign sustainability.
Date:
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Location:
103 Main Building
Symposium - Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Symposium: Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought
Day 1: February 2, 2012 - "Politics of Food and Sexuality in French Caribbean Literature"
Time: 4:45p.m. - 6:30p.m.
Place: Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little Library
"Savoureux Piment: The Fake Pornography of Gisèle Pineau and Dany Laferrière" by Valerie Loichot, Emory University
"Bon appétit: A Masculine Tale of Desire, Resistance, and Fear in Raphael Confiant's Mamzelle Dragonfly" by Jacqueline Couti, University of Kentucky
Sponsors: College of Arts & Sciences, African American and Africana Studies Program, LSA, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Division of French and Italian, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women Studies.
Generally speaking, when people think about the Caribbean, they may have the motto Sun, Sea and Sex in mind. They may visualize tropical and hedonistic islands where they could go on vacation to have fun and relax. The Caribbean often remains a tourist destination until tragedy strikes, like 2 years ago with the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
What do we know really about the Caribbean, its people and its cultures? Could this space be anything else but a place to go on vacation and have cheap alcohol and sex or on a rescue mission, if not on community service?
Simplistic and stereotypical views prevent us from seeing histories of survival, of self-determination and resilience against all odds. What really happened to displaced populations from the African continent, put into bondage for centuries and then supposedly liberated and left to fare for themselves under the tight influence of external forces? Was the end of slavery, the end of the plantation system the end of their sorrows and struggles? What about the effects of western imperialism, colonialism or any other -ism one can think of?
To answer some of these questions, Valerie Loichot and Jacqueline Couti will examine the socio-political implication of sexuality, gender and violence in French Caribbean literature. Two years after the earthquake, Myriam Chancy and Nick Nesbitt will explore the controversial representations of Haiti in the media and discuss the future of Haiti's sovereign sustainability.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little Library
Anthropology Colloquium Series: Dr. Sholeh Sharokhi
Dr. Sholeh Sharokhi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University, will give a talk entitled "Engendering the Protester: Body Politics and Sexual Representation of the Iranian Political Protest".
Date:
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Location:
POT Board Room, 18th floor
Xenon Research at UK's Particle Accelerator: Erin Peters
Erin Peters is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department, president of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association at UK, and graduate research assistant to Steven Yates. In this interview, Peters talks about her research at UK’s particle accelerator.
This podcast was produced by Stephen Gordinier.
English Department Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Jill Rappoport
3:00pm
Stay afterward for refreshments and conversation!
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
University of Kentucky Student Writes Novel Set in Rural Kentucky
In the second semester of his senior year, University of Kentucky undergraduate Jeremy Puckett is attempting an accomplishment normally undertaken by professors — publishing a book.
Applied Statistics Lab Will Foster Collaborative Research, Provide Statistical Support
I’d like to point your attention to the newest installment of the Dean’s Channel where I spoke with statistics professors Arne Bathke and Arny Stromberg. In 2011, UK opened its first Applied Statistics Lab (ASL), with the help of the Office of the Vice President for Research, several UK college deans, and infrastructure grants such as the university's recent Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), UK statisticians in the College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Statistics, and the College of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics.
The main objectives of this venture are to provide improved statistical services to groups preparing grant proposals, direct faculty involvement from the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics for study design and data analysis throughout UK, foster collaborative research between scholars who develop quantitative methodology and those who use such methodology in their work, and to become a resource which may be referenced in institutional support for larger grants, in addition to direct statistical support typically included in such grants.