By Jenny Wells-Hosley
Gurney Norman (left) featured author Robert Gipe last semester as part of the UK Appalachian Center's "Conversations with Gurney" speaker series. Photo courtesy of Morris Grubbs.
By Lindsey Piercy
The University of Kentucky is proud to announce the first graduates of New Maps Plus — an online graduate program in innovative digital mapping.
9:15 – 10:20 a.m.: Gender and Sexuality in the Shaping of Black Studies
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.: Creativity and the Imagined Future of Black Studies
Noon – 1 p.m.: Lunch: Envisioning the Future
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.: Africa and the Diaspora in the Future of Black Studies
2:40 – 3:50 p.m.: New Voices in AAAS
4 – 5:30 p.m.: Closing Keynote: Nathan Connelly
Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the U.S. history podcast, BackStory. His writing focuses on black family, property and citizenship. Connolly is also the author of "A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Making of Jim Crow South Florida."
"1968: Student Advocacy in the Beginning of Black Studies and Expanding the Study of Race in Higher Education and the Community," will be held at 6 p.m. in Woodward Hall Room 207, located inside the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
Panel participants will include Black Student Union founders and activists Jim Embry, Theodore Berry, Guy Mendes, William Turner and Elaine Adams Wilson. Gerald Smith, professor in the Department of History, will moderate the panel.
By Lindsey Piercy
Expanding on the University of Kentucky's 70 Years of Integration series, the College of Arts and Sciences is commemorating 50 years of Black Studies at UK.
By Madison Dyment
The University of Kentucky prides itself on housing a diverse faculty whose work is rewarded with numerous achievements. Srimati Basu, an Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Anthropology, has added to this exalted tradition, having recently been named the president-elect for the Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA).
By Ruth Brown
This photo of UK's Cosmopolitan Club in 1945 is an example of a time when both President Huguette Balzola from Ciudad de México, Mexico, and Vice President Raul Lardizabal from Juticalpa, Honduras, held influential leadership roles.
By Madison Brown
Proposals and award nominations for the 2020 Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) conference are now open through Oct. 7. The conference will take place March 12-15, 2020, on the University of Kentucky campus.
