Tango Program Searches for the Soul of Argentina
Julian Hasse plays the bandoneón at a performance for the German Embassy. LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 5, 2014) — Tango, the popular music and dance genre, and art form, will be the focus of several...
View ArticleUK Professors Present Music Ed Research in Brazil
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 16, 2014)– This past July, members of the music education faculty represented the University of Kentucky School of Music at the 31st International Society for Music Education...
View ArticleHispanic Literature and Culture Journal Available Online
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2014) — The 2014 issue of Nomenclatura: Aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, a publication dedicated to investigating Hispanic literatures and cultures, is now available...
View ArticleBale Boone Symposium Explores 'Legacies of Civil War'
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 3, 2015) — As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close this year, University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities will examine the war's impact on history and...
View ArticleUK Awarded Freeman Foundation Grant for Study of Arts, Culture of Inner Mongolia
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 6, 2015)– The University of Kentucky's Office of China Initiatives and College of Fine Arts were recently awarded a Freeman Foundation grant, which will provide three faculty and...
View ArticleUK Confucius Institute Brings Exhibit, Symposium With Focus on Jewish...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 12, 2015) — An exhibition and symposium at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish refugees in China. The traveling exhibit, "Jewish Refugees in Shanghai...
View ArticleUK Confucius Institute Presents Symposium on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2015) — A symposium this week at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish Refugees in China, who fled east to escape Nazi persecution before and during...
View ArticleFrom UK to the UK With Fulbright
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 27, 2015) — Interiors junior Jessica Moore, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, has received a place with a Fulbright Summer Institute to study at Nottingham Trent University in...
View ArticleScholar Speaks to Difficulties of Documenting Black LGBTQ* Experience
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2015)— For centuries, African Americans in the United States have had to overcome a lack of resources chronicling individuals' lives and culture in the nation's early history...
View ArticleConfucius Institute Lecture Explores Origins of Yinyang
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 14, 2015)— The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute will present a lecture on the historical development and manifestations of [the notion of] "yinyang" and its origins in...
View ArticleUK Receives Funding for Model Confucius Institute, Accepts Multiple Gifts
The UKCI's Li Mengxi performing beautifully on the erhu as part of the Open House.Posted by Confucius Institute at the University of Kentucky on Friday, 11 December 2015 As part of the programming...
View Article'East Meets West' in Fashion
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 13, 2016)— The University of Kentucky's Confucius Institute brings together two worlds of style at "East Meets West: Fashion, Dance and Music." The fashion and performing arts...
View ArticleLexington’s Kids Invited to Celebrate Chinese New Year with UKCI
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2016)— The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI), Explorium of Lexington and Lexington’s Children’s Theatre (LCT) have partnered to provide an experiential event...
View ArticleConfucius Institute Offers Summer Camp for K-12 Students
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 26, 2016)— Students are invited to join the University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI) for its 2016 Language and Culture Summer Camp from June 27 to July 8. This two-week...
View ArticleUPK Book on Kentucky Art and Culture Wins Alice Award
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 17, 2016)— University Press of Kentucky’s "Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture," edited by Andrew Kelly and sponsored by the Frazier History Museum, has...
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