UK Welcomes Omani Students to Campus
UK is one of America's first universities to receive students from the southwest Asian state of Oman in a five-year scholarship agreement with the nation's Ministry of Higher Education.
Fading Appalachian Dialect Features
Dr. Kirk Hazen from West Virginia University discusses Fading Appalachian Dialect Features. This is part of the linguistics program speaker series.
Coady Brownstein
During my four years at the University of Kentucky, I discovered my passion in life. My freshman year, I signed up for a Russian language class, and just fell in love with the language, the culture, and the literature of the Russian people.
Year of China Film Series-Beijing or Bust
Beijing or Bust
November 15, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118
Bejing or Bust
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791066/
Beijing or Bust is a documentary that follows six American-born Chinese as they leave their lives in the United States for new ones in Beijing. The film, which is documentary maker Hao Wu’s first, was released in 2005. In 2006, while producing a different documentary Wu was detained by PRC officials for nearly 5 months.
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Film Series-2 Million Minutes
2 Million Minutes
November 8, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118
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2 Million Minutes
2 Million Minutes is a series of documentaries depicting how students in the United States, India, and China spend the 2,00,000 minutes of their high school years. Producer Robert Compton is a businessman who wanted to turn a lens to the role of education in the increasing amount of competition the United States faces from India and China. As of 2009, four chapters were produced.
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Film Series-Last Train Home
Last Train Home (归途列车)
November 1, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
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Each spring, during the Chinese New Year, millions of migrant factory workers leave their jobs on the prosperous eastern coast to visit the rural villages they call home. Last Train Home tells the story of one particular migrant family, the Zhangs, as they deal with the ruptures this annual migration creates in their family. Last Train Home is Canadian director Lixin Fan’s debut documentary and was released in 2009.
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Film Series-Morning Sun
Year of China Film Series
Morning Sun (八九点钟的太阳)
http://www.morningsun.org/living/movies/movies.html
Morning Sun is an in-depth look at the Cultural Revolution, the socio-political movement that took place in China from 1966-1976. Director Carma Hinton uses an array of archival and propaganda footage along with interviews with Red Guard participants and victims to build a cinematic account of the tumultuous period in Chinese history. The film came out in 2003.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5:00pm-7:00pm
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Lecture Series-Carma Hinton
Year of China Lecture Series
Carma Hinton - Director, "Morning Sun"
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Thursday, October 27, 5:00-6:40pm
http://china.as.uky.edu/news/famous-filmmaker-focus-china-visits-uk
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Summarizing Sarikoli: Clint Parker Discusses Translating Chinese
Clint Parker is an undergraduate student in Chinese and Linguistics. Parker recently began work on a project translating a descriptive summary of a minority dialect called Sarikoli. The descriptive summary is in Chinese, and Parker is translating it into English.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
A&S Inducts Four Into Hall of Fame
Four individuals joined the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Friday evening at the Keene Barn and Entertainment Center.