'Old-Time Music Gathering' Brings Appalachia to Lexington
The first Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering will do just that, bringing an Appalachian experience to Lexington with traditional Appalachian music and art.
UK Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase Now Accepting Submissions
The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center,Appalachian Studies and the Graduate Appalachian Research Community (GARC) are announcing a call for participation for the 2015 UK Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase.
Scholarship Enables Students to Preserve Jewish Heritage
by: Gail Hairston
(Feb. 3, 2015) — University of Kentucky students have a rare opportunity now to get in on the ground floor of a historical and innovative three-year project to record and preserve Kentucky’s Jewish heritage and history for generations to come.
Bale Boone Symposium Explores 'Legacies of Civil War'
As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close this year, University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities will examine the war's impact on history and culture in the years that followed as part of the 2015 Bale Boone Symposium on the "Legacies of the American Civil War" Feb. 4, 10 and 12.
Juan Carlos Callirgos: "The Intricacies of Race and Racism in Peru"
Juan Carlos Callirgos, Dept. of Social Sciences-Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, presents "The Intricacies of Race and Racism in Peru".
The talk is at noon at the Great Hall, Margaret King Library.
Please join us for a joint GWS and LACLAS reception at 4pm in 104/105 Breckinridge Hall.
Sponsored by the Department of Gender & Women's Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Program, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Nan Woodruff: Living with the Legacies of Violence in the Jim Crow South:Memory, Trauma, and the Civil Rights Movement"
Social Theory Series Focuses on Transnational Lives
The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Science's Committee on Social Theory will host its 2015 lecture series, “Transnational Lives,” throughout the spring semester.