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.



Sponsored by:

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

 

Samara Davis Portrait

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POSTPONED Worsham Theatre, Gatton Student Center

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.

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:  

  • Participating in such UK recruiting efforts at preview nights and open houses. 

  • Serving fellow students through programs including Merit Weekends, K-week and Admitted Student Day. 

Visiting Writers Series: An Evening with Nicole Chung

A woman in a navy blue shirt folds her hands atop a low brick wall. The background is a blurry suburban housing neighborhood.

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!

Stay tuned for the webinar link!


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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!

To register, click HERE!

 
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UK Professor Finds Nefarious Links to Paper Mill Sites on Higher Ed Websites

By Richard LeComte Jim Ridolfo

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A University of Kentucky professor has dug into the websites of universities in Australia and the United States and found some odd things lurking there. Programmers in charge of concerns that produce illicit papers for students are finding ways to redirect students from university help sites to their own “paper mills.” 

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