There are all sorts of rare materials in UK Libraries, including a huge collection of books and posters from the former Soviet Union. With the 2012-2013 academic school year's A&S Passport to the World initiative focusing on Russia and its neighbors, the collection will get some extra exposure.
UK sophomore Nicole Schladt and junior Sarah Smith have received two of Kentucky's six English-Speaking Union Scholarships, which they will use to pursue summer studies at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge respectively.
Power to the People?
March 30
UK Alumni House
In this workshop-conference we want to reflect on the usages of the phrase “power to the people” by insurrectional movements, oppositional parties, and governments. Our aim is to compare leftwing populist regimes in Latin America, with right wing populist movements in Europe and the US, and insurrections made in the name of the people in different parts of the world. We have invitied colleagues to present case studies, comparative work, and theoretical reflections on the different meanings and usages of the term the people. The conference will take place at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. The University Press of Kentucky will publish an edited volume with the conference papers.
Power to the People?
Symposium presented by the International Studies Program
Friday, March 30, 10am - 6pm
Ballroom, King Alumni House
400 Rose St. Lexington, KY
10:00am Panel 1: The people?
Robert Jansen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism”
Paulina Ochoa, Yale University
“Power to Whom? A Processualist View of the People”.
Benjamín Arditi, National University of Mexico
“Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan. Political reformatives of vanishing mediators in 2011”
Ernest Yanarella, panel commentator, University of Kentucky
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm Panel 2: Power to whom?
Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University
“Populism and political representation in comparative perspective”
Carlos de la Torre, University of Kentucky
“The Contested Meanings of Insurrections, the Sovereign People, and Democracy in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia”
Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego
“Who Speaks for the People of Plurinational Bolivia?”
Margarita López-Maya, Central University of Venezuela, and CENDES Venezuela
“People´s Power in Laws and Discourses of Hugo Chávez´ Government”
Jeffery Paige, panel commentator, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4pm Panel 3: Exclusionary inclusions?
James Hertog and Robert Zuercher, University of Kentucky
"Media Coverage of Tea Party Claims to Represent the People"
George Michael, Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education, USAF
“The Tea Party and the Extreme Right: Fellow Travelers?”
Cristóbal Rovira, University of Sussex
“Explaining the (re)emergence of populism in Europe and Latin America”
José Pedro Zuquette, the author of 'Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe'
‘”Free the People’: The Search for ‘true democracy’ in Western Europe’s political far-right culture”
Ron Formisano, panel commentator, University of Kentucky
A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.
Two A&S professors head to India to foster relationships in higher education as part of an international delegation.
The award honors initiatives in international higher education among an association of more than 1,100 member institutions. The Discover Germany-Discover USA program sends 20 UK students of diverse backgrounds, either minority, Appalachian or first-generation college students, to Berlin each June and brings 20-25 German immigrants or first-generation college students to UK each September.
Shawn Cecil is an International Studies and English undergraduate student at UK. She studied abroad in Grenoble, France for the 2010-2011 academic year. In this interview, conducted by Cheyenne Hohman and Jonathan Beam, Cecil talks about her experiences abroad and plans for the future.
Salut tout le monde! My ever-exciting blog continues with one of my favorite aspects of travelling to and visiting a big city: street performances! In places like London and Paris (and even places like New York and Chicago!,) street performances can be quite excellent. I say, if you enjoy the show, don't hesitate to donate a little and help the musicians along. I'd like to add that, what I find really cool about a lot of street performances that I've seen in Paris, many of them aren't even bothered by the police. Or, sometimes when they are drawing particularly large crowds as some dancers often do, the police will watch with crowd, allowing the performers to finish before they break the crowd up and shoo the performers away. So go! Enjoy the talents that people are sharing with the world!
Hi everyone! My blog continues with all of the things I can think to tell you to make your travels on planes easier and more enjoyable!
I visited London as the first part of my IS Winter Travel Grant trip. Now, I share with you my experiences.
