Date: Presentations will be on 4/26/2012 or 4/27/2012 (To be determined):

Deadline for poster abstracts is Thursday April 19th. (Presentations on 26th or 27th TBD). No posters will be printed later than 5:00pm the night before presentations. To submit an abstract for your poster presentation, please complete the form below. If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Quinn (ryan-joel-quinn@uky.edu) or at 757-343-0734. All submissions will be confirmed via email.



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A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.

WHO: John M. Holbrook, Texas Christian University

WHAT: Large mid-continent earthquakes are a thing of the past: The facies proxy record of Holocene deformation events in the New Madrid Seismic zone courtesy of the Mississippi River

WHERE: Slone Research Building, Room 303

WHEN: 3:50p.m.

WHO: M. Royhan Gani, University of New Orleans

WHAT: From bug to basin: Along-strike variability of shallow-marine and coastal plain strata

WHERE: Slone Research Building Room 303

WHEN: 3:50p.m.

WHO: Robert D. Hatcher Jr., University of Tennessee-Knoxville

WHAT: Crustal structure of the eastern U.S. from potential field data

WHERE: Slone Research Building, Room 303

WHEN: 3:50p.m.

CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States. This event features a lecture given by Professor Renqiu Yu of Purchase College, State University of New York. Remarks begin at 6pm. This event also features a webcast by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor and current counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The webcast will be moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.Webcast begins at 7pm.

November 16, 2011

Lecture begins at 6pm

Webcast begins at 7pm

Small Ballroom, UK Student Center

Sponsored by: Chinese Students & Scholars Association, National Committee on United States-China Relations

Every first Friday of the month, UK College of Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Working Group hosts a networking forum for faculty, students, staff, and members of the community, including sustainability advocates, growers, business owners, market managers, chefs, etc. (see http://www2.ca.uky.edu/safs/ for more information). It is our hope that through our speakers, we’ll be able to start some lively discussions and maybe get some project ideas flying. Download the flier.

For this month’s First Friday on November 4, we have invited a panel of 3 A&S faculty members to talk about: “Does Culture Matter in Sustainable Agriculture?” 

First Friday: November 4

7:30 am - 9:30am

E.S. Good Barn

A Panel Discussion: Does Culture Matter in Sustainable Agriculture?

Jeff Rice, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, UK Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media

Ann Kingsolver, Ph.D.

Director, UK Appalachian Center

Doug Slaymaker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Japanese, UK Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

In recent years, "cultural sustainability" has been increasingly emphasized in the literature of sustainable agriculture as the fourth leg of sustainability (three legs are economic, ecological, and social sustainability). Books and documentary films which emphasize the need for localizing food economy and making agriculture more sustainable have become very popular. One can argue the idea of "sustainability " has become part of the lexicon that reflects and shapes our lifeworld and everyday practices. Through a lively debate on the question of “culture”, we hope to inquire the notion of "cultural sustainability" and explore opportunities for collaboration among faculty in Ag and A&S colleges.

A breakfast of locally-produced foods will be served starting at 7:30 a.m. There is no charge for the breakfast, but donations will be accepted gladly to help offset the costs a bit. The program will begin at 8:15 and last until 9:30 a.m. If you need to leave before 9:30, please come anyway.