POSTPONED: Breaking Barriers in Bourbon: Digital Media, Diversity, and the Black Bourbon Society
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER; LIKELY TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING 2022
A Passport to the World: Cultures Without Borders Event
Samara Davis discusses her success as social media influencer and culture creator by explaining how she leveraged her work in Digital Media to found the Black Bourbon Society and the nonprofit organization Diversity Distilled. Her work in both areas has helped to reshape Kentucky’s $8.6 billion dollar industry to be more inclusive of African Americans.
In compliance with UK's return-to-campus policies all attendees and participants will be required to wear a mask covering the nose and chin to enter.
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Passport to the World: Cultures Without Borders
Writing, Rhetoric, Digital Studies
Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
MLK Center
James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits
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POSTPONED Worsham Theatre, Gatton Student Center
International Studies Professor Leads Effort to Honor Alumni and Teach Undergrads About the World
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- This fall, Emily Beaulieu Bacchus is helping the Political Science Department at the University of Kentucky select a graduate to honor with the first Outstanding Alumni Award.
In Memoriam: Dr. Linda Kraus Worley
Sept. 5, 1950 – Aug. 15, 2021
Dr. Linda Kraus Worley, professor of German Studies and Folklore/Myth in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures and Classics, died after 13-month-long battle with a rare leukemia on Aug. 15, 2021. She died under UK hospice care and with loving friends at her bedside.
Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence Announces 2021 Class of Chellgren Student Fellows
The University of Kentucky Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence announces the 2021 class of Chellgren Student Fellows. Twenty fellows are from the College of Arts & Sciences.
A&S K Week 2021
The College of Arts & Sciences welcomed its incoming freshmen class to campus on Aug. 20, 2021 at its K Week event.
A&S Announces 2021-22 Ambassadors
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky.. – The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences has named its 2021-22 Student Ambassadors. Ambassadors have a wide range of responsibilities, including:
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Participating in such UK recruiting efforts at preview nights and open houses.
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Serving fellow students through programs including Merit Weekends, K-week and Admitted Student Day.
Visiting Writers Series: An Evening with Nicole Chung
NOVEMBER 18 | An Evening with Nicole Chung | 7 PM
Join us for our virtual evening with memoirist Nicole Chung!
About Nicole Chung:
Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and nearly two dozen other outlets, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and an official Junior Library Guild Selection. Chung's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, TIME, The Guardian, and Vulture, among others, and she also wrties a weekly advice column for Slate. To learn more about Nicole Chung, visit nicolechung.net!
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Visiting Writers Series: An Evening with Carter Sickels
OCTOBER 21 | An Evening with Carter Sickels | 7 PM
Join us for our virtual evening with novelist Carter Sickels! The Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program is co-sponsoring the MFA in Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series with the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
About Carter Sickels:
Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press), winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award. The Prettiest Star was also selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and a Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury), a 2013 Oregon Book Award finalist and Lambda Literary Award finalist, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. His writing appears in various publications, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Joyland, and Catapult. Carter is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and has received fellowships from the Bread Load Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University. For more information on Carter Sickels, visit www.cartersickels.com!
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