A&S Celebrates New Hall of Fame Members
The University of Kentucky College of Arts Sciences Hall of Fame induction and festivities are slated for Friday, Oct. 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the UK Singletary Center for the Arts.
"Perverse Subjects: Becoming Bodies of Literature in the Library"
The second in the “Works in Progress Series” features Melissa Adler, Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science. She will be discussing the introduction to her book manuscript, tentatively titled Perverse Subjects: Becoming Bodies of Literature in the Library. The book provides an account of the ways in which the Library Congress classification standards that organize research libraries in the U.S. and abroad have reproduced normative ideas about sexuality since the beginning of the 20th century. The project challenges these classifications through the lens of perversion, echoing Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s call to become “perverse readers.”
Carol Mason (GWS) and Rusty Barrett (Linguistics) will serve as respondents. Attendees should email CST Director Dr. Marion Rust (marion.rust@uky.edu) for a copy of Dr. Adler’s paper.
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Bingham-Davis House, Gaines Center
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Long Time Ago... A Performance by Crit Callebs Eastern Band Cherokee Storyteller
Crit Callebs (Eastern Band Cherokee descendant) is a traditional hunter, food gatherer, and fire-tender and lives on the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation. He is completing his Master’s Degree at Central Washington University (CWU) in Cultural Resource Management with an expertise in treaty rights concerning Indian hunting and fishing. He served as the Native American Liaison at the Center for Diversity and Social Justice and was a very popular guest lecturer for the American Indian Studies program. Crit is a trainer for the “Since Time Immemorial” tribal sovereignty and history curriculum implemented in K-12 classrooms in Washington State. As an active member of the Northwest Indian Storytelling Association he has been a featured storyteller for the Tseil-Waututh Nation, CWU Museum of Culture and Environment, Colville Tribes Youth “Warrior Camp” and is the 2014 Alaska Spirit of Reading storyteller. Crit is also a professional survival trainer and former instructor for the world renowned Boulder Outdoors Survival School. One of his great passions is teaching youth and adults how to be self-reliant in the wilderness. Using his gift of storytelling, he travels throughout the U.S. and Canada sharing traditional stories, teaching cultural camps and conducting workshops that promote self-awareness, ancestral skills, and Indigenous values.
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The Niles Gallery -- Lucille Fine Arts Library
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Conformal field theory at large central charge
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CP179
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Film Screening: Goodbye Gauley Mountain
The team of Stephens and Sprinkle screen their film Goodbye Gauley Mountain, in which they activate the metaphor "Earth as lover" and join the fight against mountain top removal (MTR) in Appalachia. The fight for environmental justice can be sexy, fun, and diverse.
Co-sponsored by: UK College of Arts & Sciences, American Studies Program, Appalachian Center, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, Gender & Women's Studies Dept.
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Young Library Auditorium
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Emily Satterwhite: "Hillbilly Horror and Wrong Turn"
Appalachian Studies scholar and author of Dear Appalachia will speak on "Hillbilly Horror and Wrong Turn".
Co-sponsored by: UK College of Arts & Sciences, American Studies Program, Appalachian Center, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, Gender & Women's Studies Dept.
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Young Library Auditorium
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Departmental Tea
Hosted by the Graduate Student Council. All are welcome to come mingle over coffee, tea, and cookies!
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745 Patterson Office Tower
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Analysis and PDE Seminar
Title: On rotating star solutions to the Euler-Poisson equations
Abstract: The Euler-Poisson equations are used in astrophysics to model the motion of gaseous stars. The so called rotating star solutions are density functions that satisfy the Euler- Poisson equations with a prescribed angular velocity configuration. They are one of the many efforts to try to characterize the equilibrium shape of fluids under self gravitation. Auchmuty and Beals in 1971 found a family of rotating star solutions by solving a variational free boundary problem. Recent interests in the astrophysics community require one to extend the picture to include a solid core together with its gravitational fields. In this talk, we will discuss an extension of the Auchmuty and Beals result in this direction. If time permits, we will also explore results on non-existence of solutions for fast rotation, and discuss the effects of gas equation of state.
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337 White Hall Classroom Building
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Discrete CATS Seminar
Title: A categorification of the Stanley symmetric chromatic polynomial
Abstract: Given a graph G with n vertices, Stanley defined a symmetric polynomial X_G(x_1, x_2, ...) so that for every positive integer k, X_G(1,..,1,0,...) = chi_G(k) is the number of proper k-colourings of G. We build a double chain complex C_*(G) of S_n-modules so that the Frobenius series Frob_G(x;q,t) of the resulting bi-graded homology H_*(G) satisfies Frob_G(x;1,1) = X_G(x_1, x_2, ...).
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745 Patterson Office Tower
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