Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
“The Sonority Hierarchy & the Importance of Morphology in the Syllabification of Indo-European”
Venue: Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Annual Luckens Prize Lecture in Jewish Studies
Tania Tulcin, Yeshiva University
"Looking Down from the 'Tip of the Yud': Judah Leib Gordon's Critique of Rabbinic Culture in Late Imperial Russia."
Monday, January 28, 2013
7:00 pm
W.T. Young Library, Auditorium
The Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize for Jewish Thought & Culture: The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished original essay by a graduate student or recent PhD. The Luckens Prize is administered by the University of Kentucky Jewish Studies Program and carries a prize of $1000, made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Mark Luckens.
The University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group is hosting the third annual Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society.
Now in its third year, the 2013 Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference will provide opportunities to engage with contemporary scholarship on the political-economic causes and effects of environmental degradation and ecological change. With an interdisciplinary and international group of presenters, panelists, and keynote speakers, this year's conference will offer considerable insight into pressing contemporary questions relating to sustainability, global climate change, and local environmental conflicts. This year, we have over 200 scheduled presenters, representing a wide variety of geographic and disciplinary affiliations.
The final program can be view here.
Listen to a podcast about the Political Ecology Group below.
The dates for the event are 2/28 (5:30 PM) until 3/2 (10:00 PM).
The final program link is here.
The conference website can be found here.
And we also have a podcast.
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
“Does English Have Resumptive Pronouns?”
Co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the UK Department of English
Venue: Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
A.J. Verdelle will read from her work. There will be a reception following the reading.
Co-sponsored by African American and Africana Studies.
Prof. Jeff Clymer discusses his new book, Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
Read A J Verdelle's THE GOOD NEGRESS over winter break and then come out and talk about it with friends and members of Sigma Tau Delta. Books for sale at Morris Book Shop.
Most of us heard that the world was going to possibly end on December 21st, 2012, and that it was predicted by the traditional Mayan calendar. In this podcast, Rusty Barrett, a linguist and scholar of Mayan culture and history, explains the superstitions and misunderstandings surrounding December 21st, and a little bit about how the Mayan calendar works.
