On Friday September 16, 2011 at 3:30 P.M. there will be a concert featuring Colombian singer Claudia Grenier in the Niles Gallery of the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library. The concert will be followed by light refreshments at 4:30 P.M. This is event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies program as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
On Wednesday September 21, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. there will be a Latin American music concert in Worsham theater featuring Latin American Studies professors and graduate students from the School of Music. The concert is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the School of Music.
Thursday, September 8
6:00 -- Welcome Reception
7:00 - 8:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina
"War and Gender in the Age of the World Wars: Reflections on the History and Memory of German Women's War Service in the Third Reich"
Friday, September 9
9:00 - 10:30 -- Panel I: war and Gender in the Neneteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Research Presentations by Franci Chassen-Lopez (Mexico). Pearl James (US), and Colleen Glenn (US)
10:30 - 11:00 -- Break
11:00 - 12:30 -- Panel II: War and GEnder in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centure
Research Presentations by Diane King (Iraq), Lien-Hang Nguyen (Vietnam) and Karen Petrone (Russia/Soviet Union)
2:00 - 3:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame
"Tomorrow's War and Gender Violence in the 21st Century"
3:45 - 5:00 -- Closing discussion led by Karen Hagemann and Carolyn Nordstrom
Thy symposium is coordinated by the Working Group on War and Gender and is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Fund.
Hispanic Studies
During fall 2010, a panel of A&S alumni described how the University of Kentucky prepared them for their careers.
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UK's first day of Fall Classes is August 24th, 2011.
The University of Kentucky's Department of Hispanic Studies is expanding its online course selection this summer to encompass an expanding foreign language need in the community, the Commonwealth and across the globe. Spanish for Health Professionals is the name of this wholly-online summer course, and fundamental health language, Hispanic culture and lifestyle are the topics at hand.
Hispanic Studies Ph.D. Students
University of Kentucky Hispanic Studies professor Susan Larson specializes in 20th century Spanish literature and film. She's currently engaged in research on questions of modernity and the social and cultural implications of urban planning.
"I'm interested in how discourses of science and technology work their way into film, literature and culture in general," she said.
Cristina Alcalde’s book, "The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru," recently published through Vanderbilt University Press, addresses the different types of violence women experience during different stages of their lives.
