Hear the artists of "Resistance" Angela Carbone and David Bogus discuss how their works examine cultural and social issues, encouraging, "contemporary interpretations of liberty and justice."

Come share the love with International Studies! Join us for Insomnia Cookies and a discussion about current topics in world affairs.

Often discussed as individual vulnerabilities exploited by a nefarious “other,” the blueprint for US trafficking began before the establishment of the nation-state—specifically, with the forced movement of indigenous peoples purportedly for the protection of a burgeoning citizenry.  Imagining an indigenous legal futurity, Dr. April Petillo envisions how justice more dependent on radical freedom from targeting than on capture and removal might improve anti-trafficking interventions. Blending legal ethnography, critical trafficking studies and sociolegal analysis reliant on indigenous critique/perspective, Dr. Petillo interrogates the ways that existing anti-trafficking efforts as constitutive tools of a punitive criminal system.  Using her work gathering indian country policy influencer perspectives on claims of targeted recruitment of indigenous peoples for sex trafficking, Dr. Petillo examines how trafficking discourse informed by “law-and-order” feminist rhetoric derails decolonial efforts and reifies jurisdictional coloniality. from this perspective, existing interventions are narrowly defined distractions which simultaneously divert attention from the structural violences that they represent as they increase harm and decrease justice for racialized peoples.  Dr. Petillo also addresses where this perspective shines a different light on approaches grounded in community-defined justice and decolonization than on incarceration.



Sponsored by Gender & Women’s Studies and the College of Arts & Sciences

Co-sponsored by African American & Africana studies

This talk inaugurates the Bracero photo exhibit, in the Rose St. Atrium of the Young Library (Feb 1 to May 1). The exhibit is curated by John Mraz, supported by the Young Library, and photographed by the Hermanos Mayo and permitted with the collaboration of the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), the Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, and the Centro Nacional para la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural Ferrocarrilero (CNPPCF).

Join UK Student Activities Board for Whippin' in the Kitchen! This event will be held on Tuesday, February 5th from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm in The Food Connection at The 90. This cooking class will introduce you to the art of Chinese cooking. Come join SAB to learn about this unique culture and make some yummy food!

Guest lecturer and Associate Professor, Dr. Scott Wolford will present, "How Peace Ends: Making and Unmaking Global Orders."

This lecture is sponsored by the UK Peace Studies Program and the College of Arts & Sciences.

Join the UK Jewish Studies program in welcoming Professor Ilana Blumberg of Bar Ilan University as she presents, "Diversity & Democracy: Teaching Life Writing to Jewish and Palestinian Israelis."

Having moved from the United States to Israel, Ilana Blumberg will discuss what it means to teach English literature in an Israeli university where social diversity isn't just an aim, it's
an everyday reality. As questions of democracy and equality are debated in the Israeli media and government, what does the actual pursuit of those ideals look like in a college classroom filled with half Jewish Israelis and half Palestinian Israelis? How does a professor make use of the opportunities of the social integration of the classroom without politicizing it in ways that inhibit students from the freedom to learn? What is the place of contemporary and local politics in a college classroom devoted to the study of literature and the liberal arts? Ilana will discuss how her approach to the study of literature shifted with her move to new students, the Israeli context, and the ever-present, elusive desire for equality, co-existence, and peace.

Ilana Blumberg is the author of Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Award, and Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio State UP, 2013). She is also the author of the memoir, Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American (Rutgers UP, 2019), where she writes about her experiences teaching in a wide range of classrooms, from kindergarten through university.
Blumberg is Senior Lecturer in English at Bar Ilan University where she coordinates the Creative Non-Fiction track in the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing. She previously taught at Michigan State University for ten years, where she was awarded the university’s Teacher-Scholar Award.

Join UK in welcoming Dr. Paula Diehl of Humboldt University in Berlin and University of Bielefeld as she gives a lecture on Rightwing Populism and the Media.