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EKU Libraries and the Office of Graduate Education and Research are raising awareness for scholarly and creative achievements through the launch of a new series of webcasts, “Focus on Scholarship”.

Each 10- to 15-minute “Focus on Scholarship” webcast will feature an Eastern community member discussing scholarship, how it informs their teaching, and, as appropriate, the supportive role of the Libraries and Graduate Education and Research. At least one interview will be released each month during the fall and spring semesters, and be regularly featured in the EKUpdate and on the EKU Libraries website. The EKUpdate will also continue listing current faculty and staff publications.

The series kicks off with Dr. Michael Austin, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, author of “Wise Standards: Philosophical Foundations for Christian Parenting” and editor and one of 18 contributors to “Football and Philosophy: Going Deep”, a collection of essays that examine the popular sport through a philosophical lens. The Austin interview, and all subsequent programs, can be seen at Focus on Scholarship and at mms://media.eku.edu/mdr/media/library/fos1009.wmv.

Other interview subjects in the series will include:

• Derek Nikitas, author of “Pyres” and “The Long Division”
• Dr. Linda Frost, editor of “Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton”
• Dr. Tammy Horn, author of “Bees in America: How the Honeybee Shaped a Nation”
• Dr. Vic Kappeler, who ranks third nationally in the production of books related to criminal justice

Conducting the interviews will be Carrie Cooper, Dean of the Labraries, along with Dr. Pogatshnik, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Dr. Jaleh Rezaie, Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Research. The series, produced by EKU Media (formerly the Media Production Center), will also be made available at the Power of Maroon YouTube channel.

On Monday, November 9th at 6pm in room 108, the Madison County Chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth will be screening COAL COUNTRY, a documentary about mountain-top removal coal mining.  It will be introduced by activist Teri Blanton, who is featured in the film.

For the film trailer, please click here.

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The Madison County Chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Facebook page.

Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in Crabbe Library Room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

Rob Sica will moderate this week’s discussion of what is estimated to be the most widely read New York Times Magazine article in its history, What Do Women Want?, a survey of perplexing and controversial research on sex differences in the burgeoning field of sexual psychophysiology.

For more information about the series, please click here.

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Of related related: Conversation with sexologist Meredith Chivers and article author Daniel Bergner (Charlie Rose); Conversation with Chivers (The Agenda with Steve Paikin); Emily Bazelon and Ann Althouse (Bloggingheads); Perversion, and the Mystery of Sexual Desire (Psychology Today); Rape, Fantasies, and Female Arousal (Slate)

Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in Crabbe Library Room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

Dr. Mark Konty will moderate this week’s discussion of What’s Happening to Women’s Happiness?

[M]ore than 1.3 million men and women have been surveyed over the last 40 years, both here in the U.S. and in developed countries around the world. Wherever researchers have been able to collect reliable data on happiness, the finding is always the same: greater educational, political, and employment opportunities have corresponded to decreases in life happiness for women, as compared to men.

For more information about the series, please click here.

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Of related interest: Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (NY Times, Freakonomics Blog); Modern Woman Woes (The Agenda with Steve Paikin); Valley of the Dudes (Bloggingheads.tv)

Come and enjoy a presentation in celebration of Dr. Melba Porter Hay’s Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South.  Breckinridge was a leading women’s rights advocate as well as an activist in the areas of public health, education and charity.  Dr. Hay has highlighted Breckinridge’s notable achievements as well as detailed fascinating new information through newly discovered correspondence.  Don’t miss this exciting examination of a prominent Kentucky historical figure.  Presentation will be followed by a book signing and reception.  Proof of attendance slips will be available for students in attendance.  Classes are welcome!

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Time: 2:00PM-3:30PM

Location: Crabbe Library Grand Reading Room

Word Cloud: Libraries and Scholarship

Faculty and staff are invited to join the EKU Libraries Leadership Team in the Teaching and Learning Center in the Keen Johnson building on Monday, October 19, at 11:15 a.m. to discuss ways the University Library supports scholarship, teaching, and professional interests.

Topics include:

• A future digital repository to support student and faculty publications, including journals written and published at EKU
• The process for recommending new resources for purchases
• New collections, tools and technologies from the libraries
• Google Books, Google Scholar and Google Documents
• Navigating copyright clearance
• Library instruction
• The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity
• Library website highlights

Lunch will be served.  We hope to see you there!

Tuesday, October 20, 6:30pm in Crabbe Library 108 — Followed by discussion in the Library Cafe

GIGANTE (Uruguay, 2009, 85 minutes)

Jara is a shy and lonely 35-year-old security guard at a supermarket on the outskirts of   Montevideo. He works the night shift, monitoring the surveillance cameras of the entire building. One night Jara discovers Julia, a 25-year-old cleaning woman, through one of the cameras and is immediately attracted to her. Night after night, he watches her on the cameras while she works. Soon he starts following her after work: to the cinema, the beach and even to a date with another man. Jara’s life becomes a series of routines and rituals around Julia, but eventually he finds himself at a crossroad and must decide whether to give up his obsession or confront it.

Director Adrián Biniez: “This film is not about the beginning of a relationship, but about what precedes it. It is about the process that any human being in love has to face before taking action, at a stage where he has to deal with his feelings and his deepest fears. A stage where what he knows about her is little more than an image: a big question mark he wishes to decipher.” [Source]

For more information about the series, please click here.

The prestigious Oxford Handbooks, now available online for the first time, provides access to over 2,000 essays from 65 print handbooks.  Covering four main subject areas (Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion), each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.

Click here to access the trial for Oxford Handbooks.

Trial ends: October 30, 2009

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