Year of China Film Series-2 Million Minutes

2 Million Minutes

 
November 8, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

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2 Million Minutes

http://www.2mminutes.com/

2 Million Minutes is a series of documentaries depicting how students in the United States, India, and China spend the 2,00,000 minutes of their high school years. Producer Robert Compton is a businessman who wanted to turn a lens to the role of education in the increasing amount of competition the United States faces from India and China. As of 2009, four chapters were produced.

Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Film Series-Last Train Home

Last Train Home (归途列车)

November 1, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
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Each spring, during the Chinese New Year, millions of migrant factory workers leave their jobs on the prosperous eastern coast to visit the rural villages they call home. Last Train Home tells the story of one particular migrant family, the Zhangs, as they deal with the ruptures this annual migration creates in their family. Last Train Home is Canadian director Lixin Fan’s debut documentary and was released in 2009. 

Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Lecture Series-Carma Hinton

Year of China Lecture Series

Carma Hinton - Director, "Morning Sun"

Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University

Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Thursday, October 27, 5:00-6:40pm

http://china.as.uky.edu/news/famous-filmmaker-focus-china-visits-uk

http://china.as.uky.edu/scholars/carma-hinton

Date:
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Social Theory First Working Paper

Fall 2011 Working Papers

All the working paper will be in the Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room. 

1. Arnold Farr (Philosophy): In Search of Radical Subjectivity: Re-reading Marcuse After Honneth

Thursdsay, October 6th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm

Click here to see paper

2. Akiko Takenaka (History): Postmemorial Conservatism: Mobilizing the Memories of the War 

Dead in Contemporary Japan.      

Thursday, Oct. 27th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm  

3. Jacqueline Couti (French-MCL): Colonial Democracy and Fin de Siècle: The Third Republic andWhite Creoles' Dissent in Martinique.

Thursday, Nov. 17th, 6:30-8:00 or 8:30 pm  

A discussion by two respondents: Jeremy Popkin (History) and Joe O'Neil (German) and a general discussion with all present will take place.

These discussions are always stimulating and we welcome your participation, so try to make it. Wine and light snacks.

 

Date:
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Location:
The Commonwealth House, Gaines Center, upstairs seminar room

Ned Stuckey-French to give lecture "Baldwin, Didion, Digitization, and the Future"

THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

PRESENTS

NED STUCKEY-FRENCH

"BALDWIN, DIDION, DIGITIZATION, AND THE FUTURE"

Thursday, October 6, 2011

4 pm

Niles Gallery

Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

Co-Sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program

Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2012), and coauthor (with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French) of Writing Fic-tion: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Longman, 8th edition). His articles and essays have appeared in journals and magazines such as In These Times, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Walking Magazine, culturefront, Pinch, Guernica, middlebrow, and American Literature, and have been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in Best American Essays.

Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library

Film: Señoritas Extraviadas

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

The Latin American Studies Program Presents

Film: Señoritas Extraviadas,

Lourdes Portillo, Director

Artist Diane Kahlo and LAS Director, Carmen Martínez Novo to host discussion following film

October 13th Thursday - 4 pm

New Student Center 230

Date:
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Location:
New Student Center 230
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