Year of Europe - German Film "The City Below"
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Bodies of Evidence: Policing Black Bodies
The University of Kentucky's Gaines Center for the Humanities and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences are teaming up with the Office of LGBTQ* Resources, the Martin Luther King Center, the African American and Africana Studies Program and Black Student Union to present three events exploring violence against members of the LGBTQ* and Black communities as part of a series of workshops on violence and the human condition. All three programs are free and open to the public.
Fittingly with the U.S. Supreme Court simultaneously deciding to uphold the right for same-sex marriage and to retract important aspects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the second part of the series is "Policing Black Bodies." This panel discussion will follow at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Young Library. The three scholars featured in this event will provide critical commentary, transnational connections and historical contexts for current struggles with violence against African and African-American communities. A Q&A session will be held at the end of this event, followed by a reception.
Melynda J. Price, director of the African American and Africana Studies Program and the Robert E. Harding Jr. Professor of Law at UK, will open the panel for "Policing Black Bodies." She is the author of "At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty."
The second speaker of the session will be Melissa Stein, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at UK and author of "Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934," newly published this fall.
Kevin Mumford, professor of history at University of Illinois and author of numerous books on Black history, including "Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America," rounds out the panel.
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Young Library Auditorium
GWS & AAAS Breckinridge Bash and Spring Course Preview
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105 Breckinridge Hall
Jennifer Jones: A Complicity of Silence: Aaron Henry The Fire Ever Burning and the Possibilities of Archiving Black Genders/Sexualities
Sponsored by African American & African Studies Program and UK Special Collections
Reception to follow after the presentation.
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Great Hall, King Library
A First of its Kind: Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Celebrates State’s History
From the earliest moments of Kentucky’s recorded history, the lives of African-Americans have been intricately woven into the fabric of the state.
Chemistry Department Seminar
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Timothy Croley from the Food and Drug Administration will be presenting a seminar titled The Application of Mass Spectrometry to Food Safety Research.
Faculty Host: Dr. Bert C. Lynn
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CP 114 A/B
UK Psychologist Studying Envy is featured in The New Yorker
University of Kentucky psychologist, Richard Smith, was featured in a recent article in The New Yorker
Impact of Move-In on Campus
Move-In is an exciting time for our campus community and an important time to begin fostering student success — our top priority at all levels in everything that we do.
Receiving NSF CAREER Award, Seo Will Enhance Physics Research and Education
Sung S. Ambrose Seo, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kentucky, has received the prestigious five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award totaling $672,981.