Celebrate the New Year With ISA
Indian New Year festival to be held at the Singletary Center.
Year of China Film Series-Beijing or Bust
Beijing or Bust
November 15, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118
Bejing or Bust
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791066/
Beijing or Bust is a documentary that follows six American-born Chinese as they leave their lives in the United States for new ones in Beijing. The film, which is documentary maker Hao Wu’s first, was released in 2005. In 2006, while producing a different documentary Wu was detained by PRC officials for nearly 5 months.
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Year of China Film Series-2 Million Minutes
2 Million Minutes
November 8, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118
*Please note change in date*
2 Million Minutes
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.
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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
*Please note change in date*
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.
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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
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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Visiting Professor Gives Youthful View of Egyptian Uprisings
UK's Department of Anthropology welcomes a renowned political reporter to campus to discuss the struggle between a confident future and controversial history for contemporary Egyptians.
Year of China Lecture Series
Eugene Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor
East Asia Art History Program
Harvard University
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
Bale Boone Symposium to Explore Religion
Gaines Center for the Humanities will present a symposium exploring the connections between religion and such topics as history, science and politics.
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
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.
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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.
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library