Global Hangouts are back! Join the UK International Center for a kick-off in exploring all things from Nigeria. There will be delicious Nigerian treats and a showing of the film The Wedding Party. Mark your calendars – they’ll be exploring Nigeria all month long.
Year of Equity Lecture: "Looking for Territories of Freedom: Queer Quests in Ukrainian Writing" by Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas.
Translation is a complicated endeavor in any medium, but film subtitles provide their own particular set of challenges. In this talk, film scholar and translator Darcy Paquet will consider some of the practical, artistic, and cultural issues that arose while translating the subtitles for Bong Joon-ho’s award-winning Parasite, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden and other Korean films. Through specific examples and descriptions of the subtitling process, this talk will aim to highlight some of the ways in which meaning and emotional nuance can shift when moving across languages.
There will be a reception before this event starting at 5:30 p.m.
A Bite of China provides a hands-on learning and cultural experience for University of Kentucky students to explore Chinese cuisine! Each month, students learn how to make a different dish and a leave with a tasty treat.
March's "A Bite of China" session delves into Peking Noodles.
A Bite of China provides a hands-on learning and cultural experience for University of Kentucky students to explore Chinese cuisine! Each month, students learn how to make a different dish and a leave with a tasty treat.
February's "A Bite of China" session delves into Jianbing.
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.
