Creative Writing Award Submission Deadline

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.

Date:
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Location:
1213 POT

Workshop on Creole Complexity

9:00-9:30

Welcome

Tea & Coffee

9:30-10:30

Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis a mistake?

John McWhorter, Columbia University

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

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:15  

The complexity of definites in French based creoles

Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University

12:15-1:00

Language ecology and form selection in some Iberian creole languages

Clency Clements, Indiana University

1:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:45

If you look closer : Inflectional morphology in Louisiana Creole

Fabiola Henri  (Univesity of Kentucky) & Thomas Klingler (Tulane University)

2:45-3:30

On Decreolization, Creole Simplicity Metrics, and the Tales of Brer Rabbit

Kevin Rottet & Jamie Root, Indiana University

3:30-3:45

Coffee Break

3:45-4:30

Implicative relations and morphological complexity: The case of Mauritian

Raphael Finkel, Fabiola Henri & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky

4:30-5:00

Open discussion

5:00-5:30

Business Meeting 

 

Conference Dinner 

 

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Location:
Business & Economics 148

Analysis and PDE Seminar

Title:  On the ground state of the magnetic Laplacian in corner domains

Abstract:  I will present recent results about the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian in general 3D-corner domains with Neumann boundary condition in the semi-classical limit.  The use of singular chains show that the asymptotics of the first eigenvalue is governed by a hierarchy of model problems on the tangent cones of the domain. We provide estimations of the remainder depending on the geometry and the variations of the magnetic field. This is a joint work with V. Bonnaillie-Nol and M. Dauge.

 

 

Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower

DaMaris Hill and Nathan Moore discuss Afrofuturism on WUKY

Wikipedia defines the subject as “an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.” Professor DaMaris Hill and her student Nathan Moore elaborate on this definition and tell us about the course. More information about the class is av

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