The UK Confucius Institute invites all students to celebrate the Year of the Rat. Students are invited to celebrate Chinese New Year at 2 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Confucius Institute. Students can take part in food and fun cultural activities.
Join the UKCI for a free screening of the Chinese film “I Belonged to You,” complete with refreshments, followed by a discussion about the film. Please bring your student ID.
Synopsis: Two radio disc jockeys find the audience they reach reflects their own love and heartbreak.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmjd1JBcijY
Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the independence of the former Soviet Central Asian republics, public Islamic religiosity has proliferated; mosques have been constructed, forms of pious dress newly adopted, and previously-proscribed religious texts published. In Tajikistan, Sufi circles have been at the center of this so-called “Islamic revival.” I will discuss stories Sufis in Tajikistan tell about saints, both in oral narratives and print. In particular, I will describe the case of Mavlavi Jununi, a 19th-century poet and Sufi shaykh. During Jununi’s own lifetime and later during the Soviet period, his body of work was unknown save to his own disciples and immediate family. Now, chapbooks of his verse can be found in bookstalls all over the country. Among Sufis, Jununi’s poetry is often held in as high esteem as that of the classical Persian masters. I argue that figures like Jununi legitimate relatively new projects of Islamic piety. Stories about Jununi and others like him have created new notions of what it means to be Muslim in Central Asia after the enormity of Soviet disjuncture.
Sponsored by World Religions program and MCLLC.
This event is hosted by the University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences and is part of the Spring 2020 Passport to the World - Year of Equity lecture series.
In the last three years, Latinx and Latine have become increasingly popular substitutes for gender-non neutral words such as Latino and Latina and for the neutral but dichotomous Latin@. The words Latine and Latinx are thought to be more inclusive for speakers who are LGBTQ or gender non-conforming. Indeed, Latinx circulated in LGBTQ communities long before it gained broader usage. At the same time, the prominence of the word Latinx has generated backlash. Members of the Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies community at UK have considered replacing the word Latino with something else. Indeed, informal communications over the past two years have used both Latinx and Latin@ in place of Latino. LACLS is proposing a panel that would explore the scholarship and identity politics surrounding the issue and lay the groundwork for a potential change to LACLS’ official name.
This event is part of the Passport to the World: Year of Equity Spring 2020.
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The Epsilon Omicron Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho at the University of Kentucky exists to advance the service and scholarship of students of international studies through the promotion of a deeper understanding of world affairs.
We seek to provide a forum for students interested in politics and international studies to voice their ideas and advance their studies of the discipline outside of the classroom through engaging discussions and professional development events.
Learn more about what membership in Sigma Iota Rho has to offer
Meet current chapter members
Learn how you can become more involved with the study of international affairs on UK's campus
Our Mission
The Epsilon Omicron Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho at the University of Kentucky exists to advance the service and scholarship of students of international studies through the promotion of a deeper understanding of world affairs.
We seek to provide a forum for students interested in politics and international studies to voice their ideas and advance their studies of the discipline outside of the classroom through engaging discussions and professional development events.
Learn more about what membership in Sigma Iota Rho has to offer
Meet current chapter members
Learn how you can become more involved with the study of international affairs on UK's campus
Our Mission
The Epsilon Omicron Chapter of Sigma Iota Rho at the University of Kentucky exists to advance the service and scholarship of students of international studies through the promotion of a deeper understanding of world affairs.
We seek to provide a forum for students interested in politics and international studies to voice their ideas and advance their studies of the discipline outside of the classroom through engaging discussions and professional development events.
