A&S Award Opportunities
These award winners, along with others, will be honored at the A&S Celebration of Excellence on April 25.

Olorunsola Award for full-time, tenure-track assistant professors in A&S
Deadline: March 10
A&S is soliciting applications for the Victor Olorunsola Endowed Research Award, which is awarded to faculty in their first four years of teaching. One award of $2,000 will be made this year. Guidelines and additional information

A&S Research and Creative Activity Grant for Tenured/Tenure-track Faculty
Deadline: March 10
A&S announces funding opportunities to promote the research and creative activities of faculty members with the purpose of increasing the extramural research funding, and the number of scholarly publications, refereed exhibits, and artistic performances of the college. Guidelines and proposal template

A&S Research and Creative Activity Grant for Graduate Students 
Deadline: March 23 - 4PM
A&S announces funding opportunities to promote the research and creative activities of graduate students with the purpose of increasing the extramural research funding, the number of scholarly publications, refereed exhibits, and artistic performances of the college. Guidelines and proposal template

January 12 – February 24
Unseen: Visualizing Ecological Systems
The Hite Art Institute is pleased to present “Unseen: Visualizing Ecological Systems,” an exhibition curated by critical and curatorial studies master’s candidate Madison Sevilla. “Unseen” features sculptures and drawings by Stephen Cartwright and Shohei Katayama that explore the intersections between art and ecology. Location: Schneider Hall, Belknap Gallery

Thursday, Feb. 2, noon-1pm
Art and "Terrible Truth"
Prof. John Gibson (Philosophy), director of the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society, will discuss why in the context of art, but not in life, we often take intense delight in viewing the tragic, traumatic, disgusting, and horrible. Location: University Club & Alumni Center, Ballroom B

Thursday, Feb. 2, 5-7pm & 8-10pm
French Film Festival: Being 17
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them. Location: Student Activities Center (SAC), Floyd Theater 

Sunday, Feb. 5, 12:30-2:30pm
French Film Festival: Rififi
Presented by Prof. John Greene (Classical & Modern Languages). Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony discovers that his old girlfriend has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved. Location: Speed Cinema

Thursday, Feb. 9, 11am-12:15pm
Poetry Recital by Dr. Fernando Operé
Dr. Fernando Operé of the University of Virginia will recite poetry in Spanish during Prof. Rhonda Buchanan's Spanish 405 class. All are welcome. Dr. Operé's visit is co-sponsored by the Cultural Center's Hispanic/Latino Initiative. Location: Bingham Humanities Building, 114

Thursday, Feb. 9, 3-4pm
'Captives: The Ignored Protagonists of the History of the Americas,' a lecture by Dr. Fernando Operé
Dr. Fernando Operé, Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, will speak about the subject of his latest book, Relatos de Cautivos en las Américas: Desde Canadá a la Patagonia, Siglos XVI al XX. In his lecture, he will give an overview of the history of captives taken by indigenous tribes in both North and South America over the past five centuries. Dr. Operé's campus visit is co-sponsored by the Cultural Center's Hispanic/Latino Initiative.  Location: Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room

Thursday, Feb. 9, 5-7pm & 8-10pm
French Film Festival: A Kid
Mathieu has never known his father. One morning, in his Parisian flat, he receives a call from Quebec telling him his father just died. Mathieu decides to go to the funeral and meet the two Canadian brothers he just found out he had. In Montreal, nobody is aware of his existence, and Mathieu realizes he is in a hostile territory. Location: Student Activities Center (SAC), Floyd Theater 

Friday, Feb. 10, 6-8pm
Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation
The Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce the opening of “Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation,” an exhibition of seven contemporary artists whose work explores the intersection between painting and digital technology. Location: Cressman Center for Visual Art, Gallery 

Sunday, Feb. 11, 3-5pm
Kiki Petrosino - Writing the Ancestors: Literacy, Family, & the Creative Process
Prof. Kiki Petrosino (English), Faculty Fellow at the Commonwealth Center for Humanities & Society, will introduce poems from her latest book-in-progress. She will discuss how researching her African American family's multigenerational journey to literacy has shaped her current artistic practice. Location: Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

Sunday, Feb. 12, 12:30-2:30pm
French Film Festival: Elevator to the Gallows
Presented by Prof. Matthieu Dalle (Classical & Modern Languages). A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. Location: Speed Cinema

Thursday, Feb. 16, 5-7pm & 8-10pm
French Film Festival: School of Babel
The director's feature documentary debut follows one class of students ranging from 11 to 15 years of age as they begin life in a new land at a one-of-a-kind Parisian education program for immigrant children. Location: Student Activities Center (SAC), Floyd Theater 

Sunday, Feb. 19, 12:30-2:30pm
French Film Festival: Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Presented by Prof. Wendy Yoder (Classical & Modern Languages). A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. Location: Speed Cinema

Thursday, Feb. 23-25
45th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (February 23-25, 2017) is now in its 45th year, and has become an international event attracting more than five hundred participants annually. Scholars in all languages and literatures are invited to submit proposals on any topic pertaining to literature and culture since 1900. The Conference also welcomes submissions by creative writers. Reading committees select the best critical and creative works; the papers are then grouped for presentation at sectional meetings held on our campus. The conference also hosts national and international Group Societies. Each year the Conference features keynote presentations by distinguished authors and critics. Location: Belknap Campus

Thursday, Feb. 23, 5pm
"Sex, Death, and Falconry," Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam has taught at UC San Diego and the University of Southern California and is currently Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book on Fascism and (homo)sexuality. Readers can visit his website at www.jackhalberstam.com. Location: Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Thursday, Feb. 23, 5-7pm & 8-10pm
French Film Festival: Things to Come
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her. Location: Student Activities Center (SAC), Floyd Theater 

Friday, Feb. 24, 3:15pm
Solange Rodríguez Pappe
Solange Rodríguez Pappe is one of the leading figures of the current Latin American fiction scene. In 2010, she received the coveted literary prize Joaquín Gallegos Lara awarded to the best fiction work in Ecuador. She describes herself as a writer specialized in the art of the "strange" and science fiction. Location: Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Friday, Feb. 24, 5pm
Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr is the author of five books of poetry, That Winter the Wolf Came (Commune Editions, 2015); Well Then There Now (Black Sparrow, 2011); This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (California, 2005); Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You (Wesleyan, 2001); and Response (Sun & Moon, 1996), and winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is currently a professor of English at Mills College, where she holds the Joan Danforth Professorship in the Arts, and is one of the three founding members of the small press collective Commune Editions. Location: Strickler Hall, Cochran Auditorium, room 102 

Saturday, Feb. 25, 5pm
"The Black Arts Movement, Hip Hop, and How Bob Dylan Can Be a Nobel Laureate," James Smethurst
James Smethurst is Professor and Graduate Director of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His primary research areas are African American literature, culture, and intellectual history from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on black cultural and political radicalism. He is currently working on a history of the Black Arts Movement in the southern United States. Location: Cressman Center for Visual Art  

Sunday, Feb. 26, 12:30-2:30pm
French Film Festival: The Battle of Algiers
Presented by Prof. Remington Smith (Communication). In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. Location: Speed Cinema

Friday, Feb. 3, noon-1pm
Mayor Greg Fischer: Urban Challenges and Solutions
The Urban & Public Affairs Speaker Series presents this talk by Greg Fischer who is now in his second term as Louisville’s 50th Mayor. He earned Public Official of the Year honors from Governing magazine in 2013, and a recent survey of U.S. mayors by Politico named him as the most innovative mayor in America. Location: Urban Studies Institute, 123

Thursday, Feb. 9, 8pm
Underwater Archaeologist Bjørn Lovén on "Lechaion – The Main Harbour of Ancient Corinth"
What did the harbor of the ancient Greek city-state of Corinth look like, and what was the role of that harbor in shaping Greek colonization of the Mediterranean world? Underwater archaeologist Bjørn Lovén of the SAXO-Institute at the University of Copenhagen explores these questions in his lecture "At the Crossroad of the Ancient World: Lechaion – The Main Harbour of Ancient Corinth." Location: Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium 

Sunday, Feb. 19, 4pm-6pm
University of Louisville/Yearlings Club Forum Series
Black History Month Program
A Salute to African American Athletes
Trailblazers Who Broke Color Barrier in College Sports
Location: The Yearlings Club

Monday, Feb. 20, 6-8pm
Does it Matter Who’s President: Success and Failure in the White House
Political Science Department alumna Barbara Perry, Ph.D. will deliver the McConnell Center’s President’s Day lecture. Her talk will examine definitions of presidential greatness and effective leadership to determine why some presidents are more consequential than others. She will conclude with multi-media illustrations of presidential success and failures from the Miller Center’s renowned archives. Location: Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium 

Thursday, Feb. 16, 7:30-8:30pm
"The Strange Tale of the Anglican Priest who foresaw the Modern Solar System and wiped out the Inhabitants of Jupiter," a talk by Dr. Chris Graney
This talk will focus on William Whewell (1794 -- 1866) of Cambridge University in England.  His prescient insights regarding the nature of the solar system and its possible inhabitants went strongly against the prevailing thought of his time, and are relevant to our time as well. Location: Natural Sciences Building, 112 

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 6-8pm
Graduate Student Writing Group
The University Writing Center organizes and facilitates writing groups for graduate students at UofL. The goal is to provide support, community, accountability, and feedback for graduate students working on research writing. Students can work on any project during the writing groups – seminar papers, journal articles, grant proposals, conference presentations, job letters, etc. Students from all disciplines and programs are welcome at the writing groups. Location: University Writing Center, Ekstrom Library

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 15 & 22, 4-5pm
Design Basics Courses for A&S Staff and Faculty
The College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office is offering a series of three “Design Basics” classes from 4-5 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 15, and 22. The series will be taught by Professor Leslie Friesen (Fine Arts) in the Digital Humanities Lab (HUM 204). Space for each session is limited to 21 people and priority registration is given to A&S staff and faculty who create and distribute promotional material as part of their job duties. If space permits, we will open registration beyond that group. Additionally, there will be a wait list so don’t hesitate to sign up even if the class is full. For more information and to register: attend.com/designbasics. Location: Digital Humanities Lab, Rm 204 (Bingham Humanities Bldg.)

Wednesday, March 8 & Thursday, March 9, 2-3pm
Content Creation Courses for A&S Staff and Faculty
Two training sessions for A&S staff who are interested in creating written and photo content in order to promote your department, center, institute or program. From print and e-newsletters to stories and profiles for your department website, we will discuss easy, effective, and inexpensive ways to develop content on faculty, student, and alumni research, creative activities, engagement, and service. The sessions on Wednesday, 3/8 and Thursday, 3/9 are the same, so pick the one that best suits your schedule. For more information and to register: attend.com/contentcreation. Location: Shumaker Research Bldg. RM 139

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 6-8pm
Creative Writing Group
In this group, we will work together to explore creative writing in a safe, open, and encouraging environment. During meetings, we will write, investigate issues of craft, read and respond to each other's work, and have fun. Any member of the UofL community is welcome – undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We welcome any genre of writing and any level of creative writing experience—all you need is an interest in creative writing! It is not required to sign up for a writing group meeting beforehand. If you are interested in participating, or would like to get more information, please contact Jessie Newman, Assistant Director for Graduate Student Writing, University Writing Center at writing@louisville.edu or 852-2173. Location: University Writing Center, Ekstrom Library

Friday, Feb. 3, 5:30-7:30pm
Celebration of A&S Grad Students
In addition to the awards opportunity listed above under “Awards,” please tell your graduate students about the Celebration of A&S Grad Students. Free event for arts & sciences graduate students, along with a guest and children. Free dinner, crafts for both adults and kids, games with prizes, face paint, and more. Please RSVP using the ticket link for EventBrite and share the word via our Facebook page. Location: George J. Howe Red Barn