By Olaoluwapo Onitiri
Many people grew up playing video games throughout their childhood. Gaming has become an important culture in the world today. It has inspired many, including Kishonna Gray, who is using her gaming experiences to create platforms to talk about important topics, such as Black people in the cyber world and intersectional feminism.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 22, 2022) — Axolotls are no strangers at the University of Kentucky.
Join historian Karen Petrone and Russian scholar Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, along with Gregory Hall, professor in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, in conversation with Interim Dean Christian Brady as they discuss the ongoing crisis between Ukraine and Russia and the historical, cultural, and political motivations for the conflict.
Registration is limited, RSVP here.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2021) — “We cannot understand where humanity has been and where we are going without Black Studies.”
This is the mantra of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies (CIBS) — a multidisciplinary research institute based in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of African American and Africana Studies.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2021) — “We cannot understand where humanity has been and where we are going without Black Studies.”
This is the mantra of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies (CIBS) — a multidisciplinary research institute based in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of African American and Africana Studies.
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Dennis Preston, adjunct professor of linguistics in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts & Sciences, was named a Fellow by the American Dialect Society. He is among the first group of 10 who were chosen for the honor and was President of the Society in 2001-02.
The organizing committee of the Kentucky Gender & Women’s Studies Conference is happy to announce the Fourth Annual Kentucky GWS Conference. In 2020, the conference was canceled due to the pandemic. We are still not out of the woods, hence this year we will hold the conference virtually. This year’s theme of the conference is “Gender, Sex, and Politics: On Power, Identity and Biopolitics.” In the past decade, the world has seen a rise in the anti-gender right -wing movements. The political gains made by right-wing parties in various countries have paved the way for conservative laws that have a negative impact on bodily autonomy of women, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disability, and minority populations in multiple countries.
The theme of the conference will address the issues faced by people all across the world in terms of bodily rights and autonomy. We invite original research papers, poster presentations and workshops on this theme. This conference aims to create an intellectually stimulating space for graduate students, activists and faculty to exchange and develop their thoughts on contemporary academic/political conversations across different disciplines, approaches, and positions.
For a detailed schedule of the conference, visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/schedule
To register, visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/registration-form-zoom
Dr. Mason is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and English at the University of Kentucky. She is also affiliate faculty at the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies at University of California and serves on the editorial board of American Studies at University of Kansas.Her areas of interest are 20th-century American culture and literature; critical studies of whiteness; race and reproduction; theories of gender and sexuality; and Right-Wing Movements. She has published multiple scholarly articles and books on these topics.
To learn more about Dr. Mason, please visit: https://gws.as.uky.edu/users/cama239
To register for this webinar and rest of the KYGWS Conference panels, please visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/registration-form-zoom
For information visit: https://kygws.as.uky.edu/ or email us at kygwsconference@gmail.com.
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- S-STEM, a new program funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will provide four years of scholarship support for up to 15 qualifying incoming biology or neuroscience majors a year in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky. The average scholarship amount will be $5,000 a year, depending on financial need, going up to $10.000.
