Free Polish Classes

FREE, not-for-credit Polish classes will be held weekly for an hour beginning on January 29, 2013 (Tuesdays, 5-6pm, 208 Whitehall Classroom Building). Materials will be provided. No prior knowledge of Polish necessary. It’s not limited to UK students; everybody is welcome.

For more information, please email freepolishclasses@gmail.com

Annual Luckens Prize Lecture in Jewish Studies

Tania Tulcin, Yeshiva University

"Looking Down from the 'Tip of the Yud': Judah Leib Gordon's Critique of Rabbinic Culture in Late Imperial Russia."

Monday, January 28, 2013
7:00 pm
W.T. Young Library, Auditorium

The Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize for Jewish Thought & Culture: The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished original essay by a graduate student or recent PhD. The Luckens Prize is administered by the University of Kentucky Jewish Studies Program and carries a prize of $1000, made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Mark Luckens.

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Free Russian Language classes are back! Join Beau & Madison as they introduce students to the world of Russian. These classes continue the work begun last semester. Beginning level. Materials provided. Classes will meet every Thursday while UK classes are in session. 8-9 p.m. in CB 234. For information & updates check the Free Russian Language class page on Facebook.

Co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of English
Languages of Russia’s Realms series

Join us for the second screening of spring 2013 sponsored by the UK International Film Series. This film was directed by Pavel Lungin. Russian title: Остров. Free & open to the public. The film is in Russian with English subtitles. Film synopsis is available at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851577/

Professor Gregory I. Frolenkov from the UK Medical School Department of Physiology will discuss the pros and cons of audiology and hearing rehabilitation services in Russia. Join us for this fascinating lecture.

Join us for the inaugural screening of the Spring 2013 UK International Film Series. Acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky's classic film "Solyaris" will be shown. (This is the original film from which Steven Soderbergh & George Clooney did a recent remake.) The event is FREE and open to the public. In Russian with English subtitles. Synopsis at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/.

Lecture: "The Ket Language of Siberia" Co-sponsored by the UK Department of English and the Linguistics Program

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