Symposium: Understanding the Arab Spring

The Arab Spring: Are the Islamists Coming?

The Arab Spring with its largley civil, peaceful, and immensely popular character surprised many experts and lay observers. But an intense debate continues about the ideological underpinnings of the Arab Revolutions. Are they liberal, democratic, religious, or simply non-ideological revolutions? The recent remarkable success of religious parties in the polls in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt has begun to cause anxiety among those who feared of these revolution as spearheading an Islamist takeover of the Arab world. Do these revolutions herald the entrenchment of Islamist politics in the Middle Eastern societies and states? The lecture attempts to answer this question.

Featuring

Professor Asef Bayat, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois

Agha Kan, Visiting Chair of Islamic Humanities, Brown University

Ihsan Bagby, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Kentucky

Hsain Ilahiane, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

Diane King, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Muslim World Working Group

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WHEN: Friday, March 23, 3:00p.m.

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Young Library Auditorium

Demolition (拆迁 ) & discussion with the director

 

April 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

Demolition(拆迁 ) & discussion with the director

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009mayjun/sniadecki.html

Demolition explores the impacts of migrant labor and the urban experience by focusing on the city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Director J.P. Sniadecki examines the interactions between the members of China’s floating population of migrant workers and the residents of Chengdu as well as the booming construction industry in China.

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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Another Bric in the Wall?: South Africa's Developmental Impact on Sub-Sarahan Africa

Padraig Carmody Trinity College, Dublin presents "Another Bric in the Wall?: South Africa's Developmental Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa". The event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Geography. The event is scheduled for Friday March 2nd at 4:00p.m. in Whitehall Classroom Building Room 114.

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CB 114

Challenge to the Production of Indigenous Knowledge

 

The Latin American Studies Program at the University of Kentucky presents a conference by Joanne Rappaport, Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Georgetown University entitled "Challenges to the Production of Indigenous Knowledge"

The talk will take place on Wednesday March 7th at 3:00p.m. in the Niles Gallery in the Fine Arts Library.

Joanne Rappaport received a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in 1982. Her interests include ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, and Andean ethnography and ethnohistory.

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Niles Gallery, Lucille Caudill Little Library

UKCI 2012 Spring Gala: Chinese Kung-fu, Dragon & Lion Dance

Sunday February 26th at 6:00p.m. is the UK Confucius Institute's 2012 Spring Gala. The program, performed by the Hubei University Dragan-Lion Dance Troupe, will feature the dragon dance, lion dance, tai chi fan, a kung-fu demonstration, a show of chinese zither, calligraphy, and Han Dynasty Chinese Costumes.

To purchase tickets click here or call (859)-257-4929

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Singletary Center for the Arts
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