On February 6, 2014, the UK Student Activities Board hosted a reading featuring the Affrilachian Poets as part of a celebration of Black History Month. The poets, representing their publication Pluck! the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, each read a selection of their work individually.
Abstract: "Linguists have been teaching the general public for several decades now that traditional conceptions of "bad" versus "good" grammar are not based on scientific argumentation, but certain fashions laid down by assorted thinkers mostly in the eighteenth century. However, the public remains convinced that most speakers of English go about speaking it "wrong." In this talk, I try to present the linguist's perspective in a new way, showing that while all people must learn standard grammar for public purposes, nonstandard grammar is distinct, but not logically mistaken."
Title: Sub-Exponential Decay Estimates on Trace Norms of Localized Functions of Schrodinger Operators
Abstract: In 1973, Combes and Thomas discovered a general technique for showing exponential decay of eigenfunctions. The technique involved proving the exponential decay of the resolvent of the Schrodinger operator localized between two distant regions. Since then, the technique has been applied to several types of Schrodinger operators. Recent work has also shown the Combes–Thomas method works well with trace class and Hilbert–Schmidt type operators. In this talk, we build on those results by applying the Combes–Thomas method in the trace, Hilbert–Schmidt, and other trace-type norms to prove sub-exponential decay estimates on functions of Schrodinger operators localized between two distant regions.
On January 23, 2014, the Carnegie Center in Lexington inducted seven new members into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Department of English's 2014 Dantzler fiction and Farquhar poetry contests is Wednesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Awards
The deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Department of English's 2014 Dantzler fiction andFarquhar poetry contests is Wednesday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m.
Paper manuscripts should be submitted to Professor Gurney Norman, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. They can also be delivered to 1213 Patterson Office Tower, Monday throughFriday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fiction entries are limited to 3000 words. Poetry entries are limited to five poems or three manuscript pages.
The contest is for University of Kentucky undergraduate students only. The winning prize in each category is $250.
The Department of English has presented the Dantzler and Farquhar awards annually since 1953. Many of the winners have gone on to have successful literary careers.
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9:00-9:30 |
Welcome Tea & Coffee |
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9:30-10:30 |
Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis a mistake? John McWhorter, Columbia University |
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10:30-11:15 |
The left periphery and topic hierarchy in Santiaguense: complexity in a creole pronominal system. Marlyse Baptista and Rachel Bayer, University of Michigan |
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11:15-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-12:15 |
The complexity of definites in French based creoles Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University |
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12:15-1:00 |
Language ecology and form selection in some Iberian creole languages Clency Clements, Indiana University |
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1:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00-2:45 |
If you look closer : Inflectional morphology in Louisiana Creole Fabiola Henri (Univesity of Kentucky) & Thomas Klingler (Tulane University) |
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2:45-3:30 |
On Decreolization, Creole Simplicity Metrics, and the Tales of Brer Rabbit Kevin Rottet & Jamie Root, Indiana University |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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3:45-4:30 |
Implicative relations and morphological complexity: The case of Mauritian Raphael Finkel, Fabiola Henri & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky |
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4:30-5:00 |
Open discussion |
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5:00-5:30 |
Business Meeting |
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Conference Dinner |
Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker brought home the gold this past weekend, winning the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.
On March 1st, WUKY will broadcast readings of selections from the 2014 Hall of Fame authors, including UK professors Thomas D. Clark and James Baker Hall.
Deceased English department member inducted into Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame
