UK History Symposium with Tracy Campbell

The History Department is launching a virtual History Symposium! Once each semester, we will invite you to an informal but in-depth discussion with our faculty experts on topics of broad interest and appeal. We’ll send you a short pre-circulated reading that will help focus our discussion and give you something to think about in advance, if you have the time. (And if not, no worries – please join us anyway)!

Our first symposium is Tuesday, October 27, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. (EDT) with Dr. Tracy Campbell, who will chat with us about his wonderful new book, The Year of Peril: America in 1942 (Yale). In it, Tracy explores a theme that really hits home right now – how a nation and a people respond to a time of crisis.

Click here for a short piece that Tracy wrote based on the book, as well as here for a brief chapter from it. And for those of you hankering for more, you can purchase the hardcover, Kindle version, or audiobook here.

Space is limited, so please register here to participate. You will have an opportunity to submit questions in advance or during the live Zoom conversation. We’re looking forward to a great conversation!

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Happy Holidays? How to Cope in a Covid World

Join Kate Leger, professor in the A&S Department of Psychology, and Sharon Martin, staff psychologist at UK's Counseling Center, in conversation with A&S Interim Dean Christian Brady as they look at the impact of the pandemic on our emotions, especially during the upcoming holidays.

With COVID-19 continuing to affect our lives, this discussion will focus on why the pandemic has been so harmful to our emotional health and well-being and how many of our normal coping strategies are no longer possible. As many deal with multiple layers of grief this holiday season, we will look at strategies to reduce negative emotions and maintain happiness during these unusual times.  

Register Here

 

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UK Air Force ROTC to Honor Distinguished Alumnus in Virtual Ceremony

By Richard LeComte

The University of Kentucky’s Air Force ROTC 290 Detachment will honor distinguished alumnus  and retired Air Force Gen.  Jack I. Gregory during a virtual Zoom ceremony at 3 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 12. The event will be streamed from Buell Armory on the UK campus.

To attend the event, go to https://youtu.be/L6p9HxbmJx4; no registration is requited.

A&S Staff Halloween Contests

Between now and October 28th, please submit Halloween photos via email to asstaffcouncil@uky.edu of the following categories: 

  1. Best Individual Costume (Can be a full body shot or in a zoom frame)
  2. Best Pet Costume 
  3. Best Decor

    1. Can be a zoom background
    2. Can be a window or a door
    3. Any decor is encouraged!

From October 29th to October 30th we will open polling for all staff to vote on their favorite costumes in each category.  Winners will be announced (and fun trophies awarded!) on October 30th! 

 

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Sports, Social Justice, and COVID-19

Derrick White, professor in the UK History Department and African American and Africa Studies Program, and Amira Rose Davis, professor of History and African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, in conversation with A&S Interim Dean Christian Brady will examine how the intersection of COVID-19 and social justice made college and professional sports a site of activism and protest. The panelists will also discuss how it connects to a longer history of athletic activism. 

CHSS - Time Has Come; Let's Make a Move[ment] Part 2

Michael Goodin, blogger, photographer and professor in the UK Department of Plant Pathology, is our next presenter in the A&S Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences event series ​"Crises and Creating Social Change." Join in to hear the familiar "viewed from an unfamiliar perspective, and informed by science, experience, and art." Professor Goodin's presentation is entitled "Time has come; Let's make a move[ment]."

CHSS - Time Has Come; Let's Make a Move[ment] Part 1

Michael Goodin, blogger, photographer and professor in the UK Department of Plant Pathology, is our next presenter in the A&S Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences event series ​"Crises and Creating Social Change." Join in to hear the familiar "viewed from an unfamiliar perspective, and informed by science, experience, and art." Professor Goodin's presentation is entitled "Time has come; Let's make a move[ment]."

 
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