Join us for our monthly Coffee & Conversations, every last week of the month (we will rotate days of the week). All students, staff, and faculty welcome.
Join us for our monthly Coffee & Conversations, every last week of the month (we will rotate days of the week). All students, staff, and faculty welcome.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 12, 2023) — The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research recently announced the 21 undergraduate winners of the 58th annual Oswald Research and Creativity awards. Chad Risko, faculty director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Research Ambassadors were on hand to congratulate the winners and distribute the awards.
Can We See the Baby Bump, Please / A World Without Down's Syndrome (double feature) TUES, FEB 28 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (dir. Surabhi Sharma, India, 2013) a detailed exploration of commercial surrogacy in India / (dir Clare Richards, United Kingdom, 2016) a documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds TUES, FEB 21 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (Lingui, les liens sacrés; dir. Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 2021) On the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only 15-year-old daughter Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth TUES, FEB 7 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (dir. Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2019) This absorbing documentary charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
Happening TUES, JAN 31 @7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (L'événement; dir. Audrey Diwan, France, 2021) based on Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recalls her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s
Beautiful Sin TUES Jan 24 @ 4:00pm in Worsham Cinema, Gatton Student Center (dir. Gabriela Quirós, Costa Rica/US, 2014) about the personal and legal challenges facing families contending with a ban on IVF in Costa Rica
Join us for our monthly Coffee & Conversations, every last week of the month (we will rotate days of the week). All students, staff, and faculty welcome.
Greg Pape
6:00 PM
March 22nd, 2023
UK Federal Credit Union E-sports Theater, The Cornerstone
Greg Pape is the author of Four Swans (from Lynx House Press) Sunflower Facing the Sun, Storm Pattern, and several other books of poems. New work from his recently completed book, American Flamingo, has appeared in DoubleTake and The Atlantic. His poems have appeared in many anthologies, including Poems of the American West and The Viking Portable Western Reader. He lives in the Bitterroot Valley and teaches at the University of Montana.
