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KU scholars strive to advance racial equity through newly funded projects
Promoting health equity through culturally competent pharmacy care, dismantling anti-Black linguistic racism, documenting the unique contributions of diverse composers and celebrating living Indigenous cultures while repairing relationships with Native communities are among the goals of four projects selected for the 2022 KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Awards. ...
Prof. Willmott and son unveil 9th Street statue in Junction City following MLK event
Junction City’s most famous names took the stage last week for the local Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. ...
KU welcomes Ukrainian scholars following fundraising efforts
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the University of Kansas began working on several initiatives to support academic peers in Ukraine. One such endeavor, led by the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies, sought funding to support graduate students and faculty whose education and work were...
Performance by Tweesna Rose Mills, FMS graduate student, portrays Indigenous history
Mills, from the Shoshone-Yakama-Umatilla Nations, spent weeks preparing for her performance at the Spencer Museum of Art. ...
Three Jayhawks invited to attend White House Native American events
The University of Kansas and the Office of Native American Initiatives is proud to share that three KU students were invited to and attended two prestigious events in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 and 15. ...
Dr. Olga Kyrylova, Visiting Assistant Professor in FMS, participated in Ukrainian Film event for Columbia University in New York
Kyrylova, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Film and Media Studies, participated in the events of the Ukrainian program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, in New York: the book launch Mondegreen by Volodymyr Rafeenko (English translation Dr Mark Andryczyk, 2022) 11/16/2022 and the discussion of the screening The Guide...
Dr Olga Kyrylova, FMS Visiting Professor, in Chicago for ASEEES Convention
Kyrylova, a Visiting Professor at the Film and Media Studies, took part the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) held from 10th to 13th of November 2022 in Chicago. She was invited as a participant of the international roundtable “Ukrainian Formalism and its...
Chop & Steele documentary by KU alumni gives thanks for strengths
Steinbauer’s latest, Chop & Steele, is “a feature-length comedy documentary about childhood friends turned professional comedians.” For fans of underground video and weird things like Everything Is Terrible!, the Found Footage Festival and Steinbauer’s previous film, Winnebago Man, keeps alive a treasure trove of forgotten VHS detritus scoured from thrift...
Prof. Willmott discusses his William Allen White documentary and the importance of hometown newspapers
offers a modern perspective on the life of the “Sage of Emporia,” Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper publisher William Allen White. Willmott is the renowned independent filmmaker and Academy Award winning writer, with director Spike Lee, of “BlacKkKlansman”, plus an impressive list of other films. He lives in Lawrence and teaches...
Nine KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for fall
This fall, nine University of Kansas students will receive an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA). UGRA recipients are awarded a $1,000 scholarship as they work on mentored research and creative projects. ...
Prof. Mai Awarded an Arts & Humanities Grant for "Telling Our Stories"
The Achievement & Assessment Institute has announced the recipients of this year’s Arts & Humanities Grant. ...
KU Discoveries recognizes Prof. Kevin Willmott in Faculty Kudos
Kansas House honors filmmaker and FMS Prof. Kevin Willmott
presented filmmaker and Kansas native Kevin Willmott with a certificate recognizing his contributions to the state of Kansas through his work in the film industry. ...
KU chancellor announces promotion, tenure for 160 faculty and researchers for fall 2022
Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 50 individuals at the University of Kansas and Edwards campuses and 110 individuals at KU Medical Center campuses. ...
FMS alum Micah Brown Interviewed on the Jayhawker Podcast
come to Kansas as a student athlete, you get very familiar being in front of a camera. Interviews and nationally televised games are the norm. It kind of comes with the territory. ...
Spreading ‘Jayhawk love’: FMS alum creates Baby Jay picture book
and 2018 KU graduate Jacob Hood grew up immersed in all things Jayhawk. ...
KPR Presents: "Interior Chinatown" with Professor David Mai
April 10, 2022: It's the KPR Presents Book Club! Join us for a conversation about Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, with Polli Kenn of the Lawrence Public Library and David Mai of the University of Kansas Department of Film and Media Studies. Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award in...
‘It gives meaning to your life,’ filmmaker Kevin Willmott says of the work during virtual talk
Willmott was in fifth grade, a comic book gave him his first lesson in Black history. ...
Oscar winner, Marymount alumnus Kevin Willmott in Salina for free showing of 'The 24th'
face in Kansas filmmaking who has ties to Salina is returning to the city this week for a free screening of his latest film. ...
KU Film and Media Studies Upgrades Its Neve® Genesys Black Console
after installing a Neve® Genesys Black G32 console in its Film & Media Studies Department, the University of Kansas has made its desk even more powerful by installing two 8-channel Neve dynamics cards. ...
Kevin Willmott: An activist of small towns and silver screens
two sides to Kevin Willmott. One writes films, wins Oscars, and works with Hollywood superstars like Spike Lee and John David Washington. The other teaches in a small Kansas town, laughs at his own jokes, and enjoys nothing more than kicking up his feet to the TV. ...
Lawrence filmmaker brings humor to healing with web series ‘Trauma Bonded’
Chloe Burns was looking for an outlet. ...
A moment in Lawrence: Former residents of La Yarda and their descendants attend film screening
of La Yarda, the East Lawrence housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers from 1920-51, and many of their descendants attended a screening of a film about the neighborhood Saturday evening. ...
Book spotlights dark side of 20th-century British writer who wrestled with faith
The figure of the gargoyle is key to appreciating the early 20th-century British writer G.K. Chesterton, author John Tibbetts believes. ...
The Stylist Short Cuts Competition – Get to Know Our Winners - Part 1: Connor Sandheinrich
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Free State Festival’s first act will feature The 24th, Not So Silent Cinema, and more
State Festival’s first act will bring a celebration of cinema al fresco to venues across Lawrence the week of June 21-27. ...
KU graduate receives grant for film documenting Latino community in Lawrence
from KU's Film and Media studies department in 2020 and has already presented “Apertura,” a film she produced, at the 2020 New York Latino Film Festival. ...
Talking dictionary to link Lawrence, Kansas, and Guerrero, Mexico
By creating an online trilingual dictionary with a grant from Humanities Kansas to the local Centro Hispano, applicants hope to help descendants of immigrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero preserve their heritage and maybe even speak to their grandparents back home in the indigenous language Meꞌphaa. ...
Post-grad Life After Pandemic
a senior from Chicago, will graduate with a dual degree in film and media studies and English, with a minor in theatre. After graduation, he will attend the University of Southern California for its film and television production program. ...