THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

PRESENTS

NED STUCKEY-FRENCH

"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"

Thursday, October 6, 2011

4 pm

Niles Gallery

Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program

Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.

GWS Faculty Meeting

Join the UK Sociology Graduate Student Organization (and friends) in this informal gathering to hear from Jamie Pond (PhD Candidate, UK Sociology) on her unfolding research into gender and religious beliefs (or lack thereof):  "Religiosity, Fundamentalism, and Feminism: Why Religiosity is Associated with Conservative Attitudes Towards Women."

Lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Jacqueline Couti, an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, will discuss how the development of "doudou," a Creole term in the French Caribbean, was adopted by 19th century European scholars to rewrite national identity in the  then French colony of Martinique. Martinique is now a department, which is an administrative district of France.

UK College of Arts & Sciences, Wired, and the VIP Center present the Bandana Project.  Bandanas were created to raise awareness and support of people experiencing exploitation.

Bandanas will be displayed in the lobby of Keeneland Hall.  The exhibit opening reception, including special guests and refreshments, will begin at 6:00pm.

For more information, please contact the VIP Center at 257-2884.

The Department of Gender & Women's Studies and the GWS Graduate Student Union will host a meet & greet for GWS students, faculty, and staff.

Come hear a team of students and faculty discuss how majoring or minoring in Gender and Women's Studies can build your analytical skills and equip you to take on the tough guys.  Professor Carol Mason opens the talk with images you may love to hate.  Contact A&S academic advising center at 257-9251 for more information.