UK Founders Day Ceremony to Celebrate Faculty Achievement
A&S professors to receive awards include professors John Anthony, Phillip Crowley, Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, Joseph Straley, and Irene Chico-Wyatt
Distinguished Speakers to Share Insight With English and GWS Students
A collaboration between the GWS and English departments, as well as the African American and Africana Studies and American Studies programs will bring speakers to classes for the benefit of students.
GWS Research Matters Series: Mary Anglin, "Fighting the Odds: Poverty, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Breast Cancer
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107 Breckinridge Hall
Gender and Women's Studies Presents Queen Lecture Series
Series kicks off this Thursday with Linguistics professor Rusty Barrett, with a lecture entitled "Sickening Queens"
UK Professors Give a Positive View of LGBTQ Identities
What was expected to be a small project attracted such an inspiring amount of positive feedback from the community, that the authors wanted to share the stories with a broad audience. Using personal narratives from their research, their book focuses on how LGBTQ-identified individuals can cultivate a sense of well-being and a personal identity that allows them to flourish in all areas of life.
Race, Class, and Drag: Rusty Barrett
Rusty Barrett is an assistant professor in the Linguistics program. On February 16th, 2012, Barrett will present a lecture, “Sickening Queens: Ethnic and Class Difference in Drag.” The lecture is at 4pm in the President’s Room at the Singletary Center for the Arts, and will address ways in which drag performances reflect social and cultural differences related to class and ethnicity.
GWS Symposium: Tamara Mose Brown, "Building a Community of Mothers: Under the Watchful Eye"
GWS Symposium:
A gathering of people from the university and the community who will speak to various issues with regard to motherhood, including but not limited to: Mothering the elderly
Queer Parenting
Mothering while in the academy
Mothering, class, and reproduction
Tamara Mose Brown, author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Carribeans Creating Community, will lead the discussion around the idea of "Building a Community of Mothers: Under the Watchful Eye".
18th Floor of Patterson Office Tower, 1:00pm
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Location:
18th floor Patterson Office Tower
Tamara Mose Brown: "Nanny Networks: A Discussion about Raising Brooklyn"
Tamara Mose Brown, author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community, will be presenting a talk titled "Nanny Networks: A Discussion about Raising Brooklyn".
4:00pm in the President's Room of the Singletary Center.
Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
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Location:
President's Room, Singletary Center
A Positive View of LGBTQ: Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky
What's positive about having a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer identity? Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky wanted to find out!
A&S Students Win Scholarships to Study at Cambridge, Oxford
UK sophomore Nicole Schladt and junior Sarah Smith have received two of Kentucky's six English-Speaking Union Scholarships, which they will use to pursue summer studies at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge respectively.