Join the UK College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Social Theory for a guest lecture on, "Populism, Trump, and American Democracy in Comparative Perspective." This lecture is part of the Spring 2019 Lecture Series by The Committee on Social Theory.

Kenneth M. Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests focus on party systems, populism, social movements, and the politics of inequality in Latin America. He is the author of Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era (Cambridge University Press) and Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Standford University Press). He is also the co-editor of The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (Johns Hopkins University Press), The Diffusion of Social Movements (Cambridge University Press), and Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean (Palgrave-MacMillan). His current research explores the political impact of financial crises in Latin America and Southern Europe from a cross-regional comparative persepective.

Description:Join the Society of International Studies for a scavenger hunt around Louisville searching for international influences across the city.

More details to come.

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For questions regarding this event or those seeking to register, please contact SIS Promotions Officer Sara Rastoder at sara.rastoder@uky.edu

Join the Society of International Studies to talk about IS themes, global occupations and career preparation.

For questions regarding this event, please contact SIS Promotions Officer Sara Rastoder at sara.rastoder@uky.edu

Join the UK College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Social Theory for their spring lecture series featuring Maria Pia Lara on, "'Populism'": A Conceptual Analysis."

Join the Society for International Studies for an off campus dinner for their last event before spring break. * Restaurant and time to be determined by polling.

For more questions or restaurant suggestions for this event, please email SIS Promotions Officer Sara Rastoder at sara.rastoder@uky.edu

Description:Join the University of Kentucky International Center for a workshop aimed a providing a cultural learning opportunity for international and domestic students to learn from one another.

The program has a cost of $25 which includes transportation, lodging, materials and most meals. To apply visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFM0ZE58ystFNUnu5imJDBQmfOhhQ…

The deadline for applications is February 1st.

For more information visit: http://international.uky.edu/ISSS/GetInvolved/CCW?fbclid=IwAR02fsOXL0jn…

The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce is working with the School of Journalism to host a crisis simulation. Students who take part will work together to engineer a diplomatic solution to a hypothetical international crisis. For the current simulation, the general area of interest will be Kurdistan.

For more information or questions, please contact Kati Stafford at k.stafford@uky.edu

Join the Society for International Studies and Sigma Iota Rho for a screening of a movie centered around a relevant issue in the international community. Snacks provided! The film is to be determined at a later date

Join UK College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Social Theory for their spring lecture series featuring Paulina Ochoa Espejo on, "Bounding the Demos: Populism, Immigration, Exclusion."

Professor Lok Siu is a cultural anthropologist and faculty of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Her areas of expertise include Asian diasporas in the Americas, transnational migration, belonging and cultural citizenship, performance, and food. Her award winning books include Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford U Press 2005) and Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (Stanford U Press 2007). She lectures at universities and museums throughout the US and Europe, and she has appeared in CNN's United Shades of America with Kamau Bell and on WNYC's Brian Leher show. She is currently working on her book manuscript, "Worlding Asian Latinx: Living Archives of Cultural Mixing."