By Richard LeComte
Summer fun in Appalachia: hiking, climbing, camping, swimming—and holding somebody’s removed femur in a hospital.
By Richard LeComte
Lily Vossekuil, Elizabeth Lorch and children working to improve their comprehension came together in the summer of 2021 to show how undergraduates and faculty can collaborate on research that benefits the Kentucky community.
Please register for the conference at: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kd-2oqjwrHNK456UpiyUVBxjL_0IVpm…;
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27th Annual Black Women’s Conference:
Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities
April 15, 2022
10-10:15 AM: Welcome
Anastasia C. Curwood, Director, CIBS and AAAS
10:15-11:45AM: Covid, Clapbacks, and Curation: Blackness in the Digital Era
Kim Gallon, Purdue University,
Regina Hamilton, UK,
Kishonna Gray, UK
Moderated by TBD
12:30-1:45PM: Appalachia Ain’t White: Locating Black Feminists in the Region
Jillean McCommons, University of Virginia
Enkeshi El-Amin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Moderated by Kishonna Gray, UK
2:00-3:15PM Reading Buy Black: An Author and Critics Conversation
LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan
Oneka LaBennett, University of Southern California
Aria Halliday, UK
Moderated by DaMaris Hill, UK
3:30-4:30PM: Keynote: Nazera Wright: Digital Gi(rl)s: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Moderated by Aria Halliday, UK
4:30-4:45PM: Wrap Up
Gallery
The International Village Living and Learning Program, in collaboration with the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, is hosting an international film series that is open to the public.
Tiffany D. Barnes, professor of political science in the University of Kentucky's College of Arts & Sciences, and UK postdoctoral scholar Bomi K. Lee have written an essay for the Washington Post titled "Even after Albright, foreign policy leaders are still mostly men." Their coauthor is Diana Z. O’Brien of Rice University.
The UK College of Arts & Sciences' Political Science Department has accumulated a gallery of student achievement, featuring 15 undergrads whose internships led them to the heart of government. Here are their stories.
UK Libraries’ exploreUK is home to more than 530,000 digitized collections, prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts and streaming video. Here are a few titles by local and faculty authors on subjects ranging from Black History Month, Women’s History Month and current events as well as local people and places. The books are from the University Press of Kentucky:
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 23, 2022) — Everything can change in a moment.
It sounds like a cliché. But experiences, good and bad, have the power to fundamentally alter us — challenge our beliefs and influence our behaviors.
Can you pinpoint a “life-defining moment” — an experience that changed your life trajectory?
