Current and former students discuss their experiences researching and traveling abroad. Learn about study abroad, alternative spring break, and other education abroad opportuities. Snacks Provided.

Join International Studies and Ph.D. Student Raymond Jones during Latin America week to learn about the significance of food in Latin America and how to make your own Enchiladas Verdes. Raymond is a graduate student in Hispanic Studies. His dissertation focuses on cookbooks and Latin American recipes, studying the kitchen as a “laboratory” for women and people of color in colonial Latin America. Space is limited. Only the first 20 students registered will be admitted. Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cooking-with-culture-tickets-50594712146.

International Studies Presents: Latin America Week! September 17th -21st, 2018 Throughout the year, the International Studies Major will be presenting students with programming based on the thematic or geographic concentrations of the major. Join us next week to learn about careers, programs, funding, and educational opportunities relevant to students in International Studies and the Latin America concentration. Events will include:

Los Códices: An Exhibit of Illustrated Books from Indigenous Mesoamerica ,September 19th-October 1st , 2018, Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections, 3:30pm-4:30pm

Presented by Department of Hispanic Studies, UK Libraries Special Collections, Research Center Department of Anthropology Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program. The exhibit will be open to the public during regular library hours from September 19th to October 26th(M-F, 8am to 4pm). 

Cooking with Culture: Understanding Latin American Perspectives Through Food, October 1st, 2018, Food Connection, The 90, 440 Hilltop Avenue, 5:00pm

Raymond Jones is a graduate student in Hispanic Studies. His dissertation focuses on cookbooks and Latin American recipes, studying the kitchen as a "laboratory" for women and people of color in colonial Latin America. Come learn about the significance of food in Latin America and learn how to make your own Enchiladas Verdes. Event space is limited so registration is required.

Study Abroad in Latin America, October 2nd, 2018, The 90, 203, 5:00pm

Current and former students discuss their experiences researching and traveling abroad. Learn about study abroad, alternative spring break, and other education abroad opportuities. Snacks Provided.

International Late Night Film Series: Un Padre No Tan Padre, October 3rd, 2018, Bill Gatton Student Center, Worsham Cinema, 7:00pm

This quirky comedy follows 85-year old Don Servando Villegas (Héctor Bonilla,) an old-fashioned Mexican patriarch who gets kicked out of his retirement home for bad behavior. Un Padre No Tan Padre is a story about family: the one we're born into and the one we create along the way. Co-sponsored by the International Village LLP, the Year of Migration, and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Trumpism and the Future of Democracy: Lessons from Latin America, October 4th, 2018, Patterson Office Tower, 1645, 12:00pm

Join us for a brown bag lunch where Professor of Sociology, Dr.Carlos de la Torre will present his research on the Political Sociology of Latin America with emphasis on populism, democracy, racism, and citizenship.

Populist Authoritarianism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, October 5th, 2018, Young Library Auditorium 10:00am

The global rise of populism with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump brought populism from the margins and the global south to the global north. Populists are in power not only in unconsolidated and fragile democracies in Latin America, but in Hungary, Poland, Greece, and the U.S. As the world region where populists got to power since the 1940s, Latin America offers lessons to activists, scholars, and politicians of how populists undermined democracy from within. Promising to give power back to the people, populists in power followed a playbook of the concentration of power in the executive, the war against the media, regulation of civil society, and the transformation of democratic adversaries into enemies. Speakers include Kurt Weyland (UT Austin), Federico Finchelstein (New School), Silvia Pedraza (Michigan), Phillip Penix-Tadsen (Delaware). Sponsored by Hispanic Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology.

Next week, on Wednesday, September 26th, th4e Stuckert Career Center will be hosting the Fall Semester Internship & Career Fair from 11:00am-3:00pm in the Gatton Student Center. Approximately 90 employers will be in attendance, ranging from large companies like Kroger, St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Dell, and Toyota, to nonprofit organizations and service organizations, like Teach For America, the Council of State Governments, and the U.S. Air Force.

Participating employers are interested in connecting with student from all academic majors. Employers will be eager to share information with students about internships, co-ops, and job opportunities, so students from all class years (Freshman-Senior) are encouraged to consider attending. Any efforts that you can undertake to promote this fair and encourage student participation are deeply appreciated.

No advance registration is required to attend the Fall Internship and Career Fair, but students are encouraged to wear business-professional attire, and to bring multiple copies of their résumé/CV. The Fall Internship & Career Fair is a partnership between the Stuckert Career Center and the Graham Career Management Office in the Gatton College of Business and Economics. Students are also welcome and encouraged to attend the Engineering & Computer Science Career Fair taking place from 11:30am-4:00pm in the Gatton Student Center on Tuesday, September 25th. Students are encouraged to review the list of employers attending the fall career fairs using the Handshake Jobs and Internships app and/or the UK Career Fair Plus app – both are available for free through the Apple and Android app stores.

Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira is a professor of International Relations at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Graduate Program San Tiago Dantas and Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. He is author of the book “Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem” and the “Neoconservative Thinking in the United States’ Foreign Policy”. Presented by International Studies.

Join the International Center for a week packed full of events to start your global journey in knowing people, issues and opportunities – but most importantly, your impact! We will be focusing on three main issues throughout the week. The issues are Access to Healthcare, Food Insecurity, and Natural Resource Management. Below you will find a summary of the issues, links to explore more about the issues, and ways for you to get involved either on campus and in the greater Lexington community.

In addition to learning about these issues, we want to encourage students to take an active role in understanding how they can make an impact. The International Center, in collaboration with Student Academic Life, will be offering Impact Grants for student organizations to design their own on-going programming focused on one of these issues. Student organizations can apply here for the on-going programming grants.

Events are listed below and will start Monday, September 17 and go until Friday, September 21.

Cultural Research and Internship Opportunities
September 18th, 2018, Gatton College of Business, 435 UV, 3:00pm-4:00pm

Panelists will include Juliana McDonald, George Crothers, Philip Mink, and Renee Bonzani from the University of Kentucky’s Department of Anthropology. The University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology offers programs in three sub-disciplines of anthropology: archaeology, cultural, and biological. Learn about new and upcoming research, opportunities for field work, as well as their experiences with working with the Museum of Archeology.

Part of International Studies Arts and Culture Week.