From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: Race and Cultural Masculinities
Film viewing of The Murder of Emmett Till followed by a panel discussion.
Film viewing of The Murder of Emmett Till followed by a panel discussion.
Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.
Sessions all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday in the UK Student Center with scholars and students from around the world.
TITLE: Square roots of divergence form operators on L^p spaces
ABSTRACT: An abstract is available online at
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~kott/PDEseminarf13/Haller-Dintelmann.pdf
"Davis Bottom: Rare History, Valuable Lives" reveals the fascinating history of a working-class neighborhood established in Lexington after the Civil War. Davis Bottom is one of about a dozen ethnic enclaves settled primarily by African-American families who migrated to Lexington from the 1860s to the 1890s in search of jobs, security and opportunity.
The documentary is part of the Kentucky Archaeology and Heritage Series, produced by Voyageur Media Group, Inc. for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey and the Kentucky Heritage Council. The series is distributed by Kentucky Educational Television (KET) to viewers, teachers and students throughout the state. Wednesday's advance screening, part of the first-ever Kentucky Archaeology Month activities, is free and open to the public.
Invisible War (2011), an Academy Award-nominated documentary, will be shown for free this Saturday morning, April 20, 2013, at 10 AM at the Kentucky Theater. This film documents the lives of women and men who have been sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. Several of the survivors have roots in Kentucky, and some of them will be at the screening to answer questions. Come out, see the film, hear their stories.
Sponsored by UK Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, English, History, WRD (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media), American Studies and the Center for research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW)
A sign-up sheet is posted outside Julia Johnson's office door (1219 POT). Please sign up to read a poem by you or by someone else. Sign-up slots will be in 1/2 hour spots. So, you will show up to read during your 1/2 hour. Individual readings should be no longer than 3 minutes. Invite your friends or just stop by to listen.
For more information contact julia.johnson@uky.edu
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructurein a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012 forthcoming). Her current work includes a new book project, "Nature's Infrastructure," dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Tom Conley is Lowell Professor in the Departments of Romance Languages and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Conley studies relations of space and writing in literature, cartography, and cinema. His work moves to and from early modern France and issues in theory and interpretation in visual media. In 2003, Dr. Conley won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in topography and literature in Renaissance France.
Worsham Theater (UK Student Center)
Admission $5
Tickets available at the UK Student Center Ticket Office or at the door
Films of the Perestroika period--1980s-1990s