disClosure Goes Digital Through UKnowledge
"disClosure," the annual thematic publication on contemporary social theory, has gone digital thanks to UK Libraries' UKnowledge website.
GWS End of Year Celebration
Come celebrate GWS students and the end of the semester!
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Commonwealth House
Vote, Pray, Write: (Researching) Women and Religious Politics in India
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Whitehall CB 233
A&S Undergraduate Wins Scholarship to Study at Oxford
Ryan Winstead, an English and gender and women's studies junior, has been awarded an English-Speaking Union (ESU) Scholarship presented by the English-Speaking Union Kentucky Branch.
"The New Social Justice Documentary"
Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin, is an internationally prominent film scholar and feminist critic who has lectured on five continents about the political and economic dynamics of race and gender in contemporary film. She is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books: Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002); The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (2006); Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008); Old and New Media After Katrina (2010); and In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011).
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18th floor of POT
GWS Research Matters
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion Director of Sexual Health Promotion Lab. "Let's talk about (pleasurable) sex: a couple-based approach to sexual health promotion"
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107 Breckinridge Hall
UK Film Series Looks at 1938 Documentary of Lebanon Family
"Reel to Reel: Special Collections at the Movies" will showcase the 1938 documentary "Our Day," telling the story of the Kelly family in Lebanon, Ky.
Navigating the Left Turn: Sexual Politics and the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador
Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in city and regional planning. Her areas of scholarship include critical development studies, international political economy, transnational feminisms, global sexual rights, social movements, and studies of neoliberal governance. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State Press, 2005), editor of Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Feminist (Im)mobilities in Fortress North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, 2013). Currently she is working on a co-authored book, Decolonial Justice: Resignifying Nation, Economy and Family in Ecuador. Her work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Politics & Gender, Rethinking Marxism, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics, as well as in several edited volumes.
Co-sponsors: Geography Department University of Kentucky and Gender and Women Studies University of Kentucky
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Student Center 211
Effects of Secession: UK Professors on Historic and Cultural Contexts of Ukraine
University of Kentucky professors Karen Petrone and Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby have helped bring a distinctly Russian flavor to UK. In addition to their departments, they are both a part of the Russian Studies program and helped organize 2012's Russian-themed Passport to the World events.
Ellen Goodman Launches Inequality Conference
An appearance by Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, author, speaker and commentator, on March 27 kicks off the two-day Conference on Political and Economic Inequality, hosted by the UK Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences.