By Women Making History: UK researcher works to preserve collective memory of WWI
By LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 29, 2023) — One University of Kentucky researcher is studying what some scholars call a “Twilight Zone of History,” a moment between what’s passed down through family memory and what’s accessible through historical texts.
A&S Professor Brings South American Works Written in Latin to Modern Readers
By A Fish
LEXINGTON; Ky. — Leni Ribeiro Leite is bringing to light South American works written in Latin, which brings together an ancient language modern nation-building. In the past, Latin had the power that English has today despite being a “dead language,” and many of these texts have not been translated due to their location and content. Ribeiro Leite, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
A&S researcher to study COVID’s illicit fentanyl market spike in Eastern Kentucky
By Allison Rogers
The perfect storm brought on by the influx of illicit fentanyl combined with the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020 resulted in a 49% spike in the number of drug overdose deaths in Kentucky compared to the same period in 2019. Kentucky’s spike in overdose deaths is one of the greatest increases nationwide.
Two A&S Students Selected for UK's Beckman Scholars SUCCESS Program
By A Fish A&S Anthropologist Finds Solar Panels Crossing Class Boundaries in Lebanon
By A Fish
Harvard Physicist to Present Van Winter Lecture in A&S
By A Fish
LEXINGTON; Ky. — Moiré electronics are hot topics for theoretical physics. Ganpathy Murthy, professor of physics and astronomy in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences, spoke about the upcoming van Winter Lecture and about guest lecturer Ashvin Vishwanath, a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of condensed matter at Harvard University.
Catholic Space, Catholic Time, and the Performative Power of the Word
An Inaugural Lecture for the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair in Catholic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Reception to follow.
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Young Library Auditorium
The World Making and World Breaking Capacities of Religion in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Prof. Catherine Wanner (Penn State University) has conducted 30 years of ethnographic research in Ukraine. She is the author or editor of seven books, including her most recent monograph, Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming edited volume, Dispossession: Imperial Legacies and the Russo-Ukrainian War (Routledge, 2023). Her research has focused primarily on the politics of religion in Ukraine and increasingly on human rights and conflict mediation within the context of war. She is the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity.
Sponsored by World Religions, History, Anthropology, Sociology, MCL, and the Lewis Honors College, and with special thanks for the support of the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
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Steward Room at the Bingham Davis House (Gaines Center for the Humanities)
