"Difference at the Crossroads: Impovisation, Radical Writing & Risk-taking as Rigor"
Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, she explores how issues of difference impact participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. Although Carolyn pursed an acting career for eleven years, a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences,
she returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Informed by her early life experiences, the aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn has appeared on Tavis Smiley, MSNBC, NPR and has been interviewed for numerous
newspapers and magazines. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board that is working to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relations of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors explores the relationship of African Americans to the environment and the environmental movement (UNC Press).
Let’s Write! is a voluntary shared writing program that involves twice-monthly meetings organized around individual themes, all building toward different writing boot camps throughout the semester. These mini-workshops offer participants a supportive environment discussing and engaging in research and writing.
Join us for the first episode of Office Hours, where we talk to Professor Srimati Basu about family law in India and Doctor Edward Kasarskis about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Office Hours is produced by the College of Arts & Sciences and airs on WRFL FM 88.1 every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m.
This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
This year's Passport to the World will engage the campus community in crucial global conversations through public lectures, cultural events, coursework and travel opportunities.
Come out for a cause supporting UK Habitat for Humanity and SMAT, Student Media and Technology. Two DJs will be spinning the hottest dance music. Free admission but donations welcome. Must show UK ID to attend. Sponsored by UK Habitat for Humanity and Student
Media and Technology.
UK's Department of English launches its new MFA and welcomes new fiction faculty.
This talk examines the articulation of carceral power in the kitchenettes and the impact it had on identity formation. I demonstrate this by highlighting how carceral power was expressed in the geography of kitchenettes. Kitchenettes were small, tight, cramped spaces that many Black migrants were forced to live in once they arrived to Chicago. I argue that the expression of police power that was operating in the Black Belt migrated into the homes of Black migrants. Though not actual prisons, kitchenettes were amenable to the expression of carceral power—particularly containment and restriction—present throughout the Black Belt. Kitchenettes absorbed the exercise of police power that functioned in the general space of the Black Belt and brought it closer to the skin.
