In celebration of the University of Kentucky's upcoming sesquicentennial in 2015, the 52nd of 150 weekly installments chronicles a set of rules and guidelines of proper behavior given to women at the institution in 1918.
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)
The African American and Africana Studies (AAAS) program emerged in Fall 2011, uniting African American Studies & Research Program with Africana Studies, to create greater community presence, to provide international study opportunities in the focus area and to work toward creating an undergraduate major. In the Fall 2013, the area will expand even further, as two new distinguished faculty join the program.
Susan Bordo will have an interview and call-in on the Reader’s Entertainment Radio show. Visit the site here to chat live.
You can also call the toll free number 877-497-5906. After the show you can download the podcast or visit the blog that will accompany Susan Bordo's visit here.
For more information please contact: sheila.english@gmail.com
For more information about the book signing click here.
>Ashley Bourgeois
Jonathan Coleman
Amanda Higgins
Maria Moreno
Dr. Janice Oaks
The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has chosen 12 outstanding undergraduates as new scholars for the university's Gaines Fellowship Program for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.
A celebration of Kate Black's contributions as an Appalachian Studies Archivist and Scholar
Everyone is invited to the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Conference!
8:00am - 8:45am Coffee & Pastry Welcome
8:45am - 10:00am Session 1: "Reading the Dickensian City"
10:15am - 11:30am Session 2A. "Examining Trauma: Representations in Film, Poetry, and Visual Literature"
Session 2B. “Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem”
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch at the Boone Center
1:00pm - 2:00pm Keynote, Dr. Leah Bayens - "The Consilience of Ecological Agrarianism" - Niles Gallery
2:15pm - 3:30pm Session 3: "Minds, Memories, and Publics, Medieval and Early Modern"
3:45pm - 5:00pm Session 4: "Stardom"
Post-conference pizza and drinks will be held at Pazzo's -- all are welcome!
“Susan Bordo astutely re-examines Anne’s life and death anew and peels away the layers of untruth and myth that have accumulated since. The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a refreshing, iconoclastic and moving look at one of history’s most intriguing women. It is rare to find a book that rouses one to scholarly glee, feminist indignation and empathetic tears, but this is such a book. “
Suzannah Lipscomb, author of 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII.
"In "The Creation of Anne Boleyn", we watch Anne Boleyn the woman transform into Anne Boleyn the legend---a fascinating journey. Bordo covers Anne's historical footprints and her afterlife in art, fiction, poetry, theater and cinema, each change reflecting the concerns of a different era. Meticulous, thoughtful, persuasive---and fun."
Margaret George, bestselling author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Cleopatra
If you think you know who Anne Boleyn was, think again. In this rigorously argued yet deliciously readable book, Susan Bordo bursts through the dead weight of cultural stereotypes and historical cliches to disentangle the fictions that we have created from the fascinating, elusive woman that Henry VIII tried—unsuccessfully—to erase from historical memory. This is a book that has long been needed to set the record straight, and Bordo knocked it out of the park. Brava!
Robin Maxwell, national bestselling author of Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn and Mademoiselle Boleyn
"A fascinating re-examination of a singularly misunderstood figure. By turns sassy and serious, playful and profound, Susan Bordo cuts through the layers of legend, fantasy, and untruth that history and culture have attached to Anne Boleyn, while proving that the facts about that iconic queen are every bit as intriguing as the fictions."
Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion
For more information about her interview and call-in on ther Reader's Entertainment Radio Show click here.
