Bring your appetite and your dancing shoes! Join us Wednesday, Sept 21 for a Salsa Lesson from the Salsa Center and some savory treats! Lesson from 6-7PM, event until 8PM.
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The youngster is profoundly disturbed by the scenes in which the monster murders the little girl and is later killed himself by the villagers. She questions her sister about the profundities of life and death and believes her older sibling when she tells her that the monster is not dead, but exists as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own.
We’re thrilled to partner once again with local bookstore sQecial media to bring you The Rosa Goddard International Film Festival, an annual celebration of cinema classics from around the world. This year we are featuring films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Víctor Erice, and Yasujiro Ozu. Tarkovsky and Ozu are widely considered two of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive is regarded by many as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made.
Tarkovsky’s film Mirror will be followed by a Q&A led by Raymond De Luca, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and a Tarkovsky scholar at the University of Kentucky. Masamichi Inoue, Associate Professor, Japan Studies, University of Kentucky will lead a Q&A following Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning. Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Professor of Hispanic Studies and a specialist in cinema and the Spanish Civil War will lead a Q&A following Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive.
All films are in their original language with English-language subtitles.
More information: https://www.kentuckytheatre.org/rosa-goddard
The Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences is committed to building and sustaining Humanities and Social Science Communities at UK and beyond. We are pleased to inaugurate a "Works-in-Progress" series, in which members of our community read and comment on each other's research.
Date: Friday, December 3, 2:00-3:00 PM EST
On Zoom: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/89727210986
Heather Campbell-Speltz (Hispanic Studies), Carmen Moreno-Nuño (Hispanic Studies) and Elena Cueto Asín of Bowdoin College, with discussant Jan Fernheimer (WRD)
The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain
Description: Contemporary Spanish graphic narrative has come so far in the last years that there is a prevalent feeling that in Spain we are living in a creatively Golden Age for comics. The graphic novel has gained respectability and has merited considerable critical attention, which has resulted in the normalization of the study of comics within the academic disciplines. The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain seeks to contribute to this growing critical landscape by engaging on the analysis of the representation of Spain’s past. It also seeks to contribute to the further consolidation of the comic as an object of academic study within U.S. Hispanism.
LEXINGTON 9/15/2021 - Beginning today, the University of Kentucky Martin Luther King Center, in collaboration with campus partners and student organizations, will honor National Hispanic Heritage Month.
By Jesi Jones-Bowman
UK undergraduate researchers Bridget Bolt and Gretchen Ruschman. Students are encouraged to explore undergraduate research opportunities at the Research + Creative Experience Expo.
At the University of Kentucky, undergraduates have access to outstanding research and creative work activities led by world-class faculty and staff that promote self-discovery, experiential learning and lifelong achievement.
Fall semester classes begin on Aug. 23, 2021. View the full academic calendar for the fall semester here.
