Gaines Center Opens Search for Next Director
UK invites nominations and applications for the position of director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities and John R. Gaines Endowed Chair in the Humanities.
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Celebrate 2013: Ben Chandler
The Honorable Albert B. Chandler III (Ben Chandler) received his B.A. in history in 1983 and his J.D. in 1986. He was elected Kentucky Attorney General in 1995 and served as the United States Representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district from 2004 to 2013. A long-time supporter of arts and humanities at the state and national level, he is now executive director the Kentucky Humanities Council.
A&S Course Blends Science and Humanities, Explores Art and Epidemics
A new hybrid course in the College of Arts and Sciences will bridge the gap between to seemingly unrelated areas: art and epidemics.
Art and Epidemics: UKC 310 with Rita Basuray and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter
Creative expression and disease aren't two topics that are often juxtaposed, but UKC 310: Art and Epidemics, will explore five diseases from a creative and technical angle: tuberculosis, AIDS, cancer, alcoholism, and the plague - through a variety of creative lenses, including film, short fiction, poetry, and art. Rita Basuray and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter will co-teach the fall 2013 course, looking at the parallels between scientific and creative writing, and where these forms diverge.
UK Alumnus Wendell Berry Delivers Jefferson Lecture in Washington
Kentucky poet, novelist, environmentalist and University of Kentucky alumnus Wendell Berry delivered the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities last night in Washington, D.C.
