Finney Named National Book Award Finalist
UK English professor Nikky Finney has been named a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Poetry.
Poets Highlight Third Installment of James Baker Hall Series
This week the series will feature poets Erik Reece and Maureen Morehead.
Year of China Lecture Series
Eugene Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor
East Asia Art History Program
Harvard University
Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Oral Histories from Coal Country: Abby Kerins
Abby Kerins was a poster presenter at the Lexington Farmer's Market on September 17th, 2011. Inspired by Alessandro Portelli, author of They Say in Harlan County, Kerins' research involved listening to (and reading transcripts of) oral histories from the coal-rich region of Appalachian Kentucky. Kerins focused on the role of women during coal miners' strikes in the 20th century.
Social Theory First Working Paper
Fall 2011 Working Papers
All the working paper will be in the Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room.
1. Arnold Farr (Philosophy): In Search of Radical Subjectivity: Re-reading Marcuse After Honneth
Thursdsay, October 6th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
2. Akiko Takenaka (History): Postmemorial Conservatism: Mobilizing the Memories of the War
Dead in Contemporary Japan.
Thursday, Oct. 27th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
3. Jacqueline Couti (French-MCL): Colonial Democracy and Fin de Siècle: The Third Republic andWhite Creoles' Dissent in Martinique.
Thursday, Nov. 17th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm
A discussion by two respondents: Jeremy Popkin (History) and Joe O'Neil (German) and a general discussion with all present will take place.
These discussions are always stimulating and we welcome your participation, so try to make it. Wine and light snacks.
Date:
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Location:
The Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room
Kirk Hazen Lecture-Linguistics Program Speaker Series
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Ned Stuckey-French to give lecture "Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future"
THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
PRESENTS
NED STUCKEY-FRENCH
"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"
Thursday, October 6, 2011
4 pm
Niles Gallery
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program
Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
James Baker Hall Writers Series Highlights Affrilachian Poets
Authors present include Kelly Norman Ellis, Ellen Hagan and Nikky Finney.
UK Joins African American & Africana Studies
English professor Frank X Walker is working to combine the African American Studies & Research Program with Africana Studies at UK to create an area with greater community presence, international study and eventually an undergraduate major.
From East to West: Linguistic Diversity in Kentucky with Jennifer Cramer
Jennifer Cramer is a sociolinguist specializing in Kentucky dialects. Her current research utilizes students from all around the Commonwealth.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.