Karen Tice is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Professor Tice is giving a lecture on April 18th entitled Queens of Academe: Student Life and Campus Pageantry. The lecture is a part of a series put on by the Gender and Women Studies department. Professor Tice's lecture is based on her forthcoming book, Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants, Student Bodies, and Campus Life, which will be published in March.
2012 Breathitt Lecture : Memory and Hapticity by Ainsley Wagoner. Why architecture must depend upon common senses.
Speaker: Sascha Seiler, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Lecture title: Closing the Transatlantic Gap: American Popular Music and German Culture since the 1960’s
Date, time, place: Monday, March 5, 4:00 pm, Student Center 249
Abstract of the talk:
Today, American popular culture can be found everywhere in Germany, but this was not always the case. Especially German literature, and with it every other form of cultural articulation commonly regarded as ‘high art’, had its problems in accepting these new forms of music, film or writing that came from the USA. In fact, until the end of the 1960s there was such a strict division between what was considered highbrow and lowbrow that it took a major cultural scandal to open German culture up to the aesthetic possibilities that lay in American popular culture. For German intellectuals it was a long and hard way to realize that popular culture in general must be seen as an important aesthetic phenomenon that not only has a big influence on everyday life but also is a basic factor when we consider transatlantic cultural relations between Germany and the USA.
The talk analyzes the great influence that American popular culture had on German literature until the present day, starting with the problematic beginnings in the 1960s and ending with the ironic ‘Popliteratur’-movement that began to surface in the late 1990s.
A&S professors to receive awards include professors John Anthony, Phillip Crowley, Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, Joseph Straley, and Irene Chico-Wyatt
Performances to include traditional dances, tai-chi and kung-fu demonstrations
UK presents a screening of the documentary "Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity" on a period during Argentina's Dirty War when more than 500 babies were kidnapped and given to military supporter
The University of Kentucky’s Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program will feature a panel discussion about hydraulic fracturing (or “fracing”) as a way of extracting natural gas in Kentucky. The event, part of the Appalachian Forum series, will take place from 7-9 p.m Thursday, Feb. 23, in Room 106 of UK's White Hall Classroom Building.
By: Jonathon Spalding
For two millennia the leading intellects of Western Europe expressed their most sophisticated thoughts in a language that is now largely considered extinct.
Sen. Rand Paul will deliver a public talk March 2 at the University of Kentucky, titled "A Year in the Senate: Discussion and Reflections."
The University of Kentucky celebrates Founders Day with a recognition of faculty achievements Wednesday, Feb. 22. Recipients of numerous awards will be honored in a special ceremony at 4 p.m. in Worsham Theater in the UK Student Center. The event is open to the campus community and public.
UK President Eli Capilouto, Provost Kumble Subbaswamy, deans and department chairs from various colleges will present the awards, which include the following:
-- Public Scholar Award
-- Albert D. and Elizabeth Kirwan Memorial Award
