The UK Appalachian Center, Appalachian Studies, and the Graduate Appalachian Research Community (GARC) seek to promote interdisciplinary dialogue on issues in Appalachia. We are proud to follow up our first four successful symposia with the 2014 UK Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase.
Invisible War (2011), an Academy Award-nominated documentary, will be shown for free this Saturday morning, April 20, 2013, at 10 AM at the Kentucky Theater. This film documents the lives of women and men who have been sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. Several of the survivors have roots in Kentucky, and some of them will be at the screening to answer questions. Come out, see the film, hear their stories.
Sponsored by UK Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, English, History, WRD (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media), American Studies and the Center for research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW)
Invisible War (2011), an Academy Award-nominated documentary, will be shown for free this Saturday morning, April 20, 2013, at 10 AM at the Kentucky Theater. This film documents the lives of women and men who have been sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. Several of the survivors have roots in Kentucky, and some of them will be at the screening to answer questions. Come out, see the film, hear their stories.
Sponsored by UK Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, English, History, WRD (Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media), American Studies and the Center for research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW)
A celebration of Kate Black's contributions as an Appalachian Studies Archivist and Scholar
Everyone is invited to the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Conference!
8:00am - 8:45am Coffee & Pastry Welcome
8:45am - 10:00am Session 1: "Reading the Dickensian City"
10:15am - 11:30am Session 2A. "Examining Trauma: Representations in Film, Poetry, and Visual Literature"
Session 2B. “Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem”
11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch at the Boone Center
1:00pm - 2:00pm Keynote, Dr. Leah Bayens - "The Consilience of Ecological Agrarianism" - Niles Gallery
2:15pm - 3:30pm Session 3: "Minds, Memories, and Publics, Medieval and Early Modern"
3:45pm - 5:00pm Session 4: "Stardom"
Post-conference pizza and drinks will be held at Pazzo's -- all are welcome!
Matt Wray, a sociologist from Temple University, has been researching suicide across the United States.
From 2006-2008, Dr. Wray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University and this talk is related to his work in medical sociology and public health on suicide. He is also well-known for his scholarship on whiteness and class relations. His books include Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006), The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (coedited, Duke University Press, 2001), Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (coedited, New York University Press, 1998), and White Trash: Race and Class in America (coedited, Routledge, 1997). He has published recent articles on suicide in the U.S. in Social Science Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
Matt Wray examines health disparities among different regional populations in the U.S., particularly focusing on the widening gap in health and lifespan between white Appalachian residents and white U.S. residents overall. In his upcoming talk, he will raise the role of stereotyping and stigma as a factor in the population health disparities between regions and will explore the possibility of addressing this in health and social science research without furthering stigmatization and stereotyping of the Appalachian region.
A sign-up sheet is posted outside Julia Johnson's office door (1219 POT). Please sign up to read a poem by you or by someone else. Sign-up slots will be in 1/2 hour spots. So, you will show up to read during your 1/2 hour. Individual readings should be no longer than 3 minutes. Invite your friends or just stop by to listen.
For more information contact julia.johnson@uky.edu
A sign-up sheet is posted outside Julia Johnson's office door (1219 POT). Please sign up to read a poem by you or by someone else. Sign-up slots will be in 1/2 hour spots. So, you will show up to read during your 1/2 hour. Individual readings should be no longer than 3 minutes. Invite your friends or just stop by to listen.
For more information contact julia.johnson@uky.edu
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructurein a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012 forthcoming). Her current work includes a new book project, "Nature's Infrastructure," dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group, and is the current editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructurein a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012 forthcoming). Her current work includes a new book project, "Nature's Infrastructure," dealing with the infrastructural transformation of the Gangetic Plains between the 17th and 19th centuries.
