At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Julia Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of English. Johnson focuses on poetry, as a subject of study as well as a personal pursuit. Her latest volume of poems will be published in the fall.
All English Department faculty, staff, and graduate students invited!
Feel free to bring significant others, children, and well-behaved pets.
Adam Banks was recently featured on KET to talk about his academic interests and concerns for minorities in the Digital Age.
Dr. Vershawn Young discusses Miriam Thaggert's Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance with the author.
For more of Dr. Young's podcast interviews with scholars of African American cultural and literary studies visit the website for New Books in African American Studies: http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences has appointed new chairs to many of its departments for the 2011-2012 year.
Thursday, September 8
6:00 -- Welcome Reception
7:00 - 8:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina
"War and Gender in the Age of the World Wars: Reflections on the History and Memory of German Women's War Service in the Third Reich"
Friday, September 9
9:00 - 10:30 -- Panel I: war and Gender in the Neneteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Research Presentations by Franci Chassen-Lopez (Mexico). Pearl James (US), and Colleen Glenn (US)
10:30 - 11:00 -- Break
11:00 - 12:30 -- Panel II: War and GEnder in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centure
Research Presentations by Diane King (Iraq), Lien-Hang Nguyen (Vietnam) and Karen Petrone (Russia/Soviet Union)
2:00 - 3:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame
"Tomorrow's War and Gender Violence in the 21st Century"
3:45 - 5:00 -- Closing discussion led by Karen Hagemann and Carolyn Nordstrom
Thy symposium is coordinated by the Working Group on War and Gender and is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Fund.
Dr. Pearl James is hosting a workshop for graduate students considering going on the job market. This will be the first of a series of meetings aimed to help job candidates apply for jobs, assemble applications, and prepare for interviews and campus visits.
Contact Dr. Pearl James for more information.
