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Dr. Moya Bailey - Keynote

Dr. Bailey will present a keynote speech on Black Women's Digital Resistances, Thursday, March 10th, 7:00PM via Zoom.

Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VCwrlGwXRAyoT_cTraMSZg

Dr. Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.

This event is sponsored by The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies and the Department of Gender & Women's Studies.

 

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Zoom - Registration Required

Workshop “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis and the Next”

Register here:  https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pc-GtqDIvE9G4ovB2j71UKJrtTneZPCIc

 

A Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop Series Event

 

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world, especially

as people around the world are faced with crises such as climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms,

mass incarceration, racist policing, environmental degradation caused by capitalism and severe wealth inequality.

 

This workshop is to give University of Kentucky’s faculty, staff, students, and Fayette County’s

community members tools for understanding what mutual aid is and why it is important.

 

This event is sponsored by the Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Department of Gender & Women’s Studies

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Zoom (registration required)

Inclusivity after Graduate School - LGBTQ+ Individuals

Mr. Mark Williams will speak with LGBTQ+ graduate students as early career professionals and offer guidance on search strategies to find inclusive organizations and share indicators of organizations that prioritize employment inclusivity. Allies are welcomed to join to learn how to make the workforce more inclusive. Food will be provided.

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WT Young Library - Alumni Gallery

A&S Faculty, Students Receive UK Office of Sustainability Awards

By Carlie Laughlin

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 11, 2021) — University of Kentucky students, faculty and staff from every area of campus are leading exciting, sustainability-focused programs. These programs provide high-impact research and learning opportunities for students and faculty, have significant positive environmental and economic impacts on operations, and provide resources and support for a foundation of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at UK and across the Commonwealth. 

1st Research + Creative Experience Expo Coming to UK

By Jesi Jones-Bowman

UK undergraduate researchers Bridget Bolt and Gretchen Ruschman. Students are encouraged to explore undergraduate research opportunities at the Research + Creative Experience Expo.

At the University of Kentucky, undergraduates have access to outstanding research and creative work activities led by world-class faculty and staff that promote self-discovery, experiential learning and lifelong achievement.

Faculty Manuscript Book Workshop Awardees Announced

CHSS is happy to announce its first-ever round of grant awards. Four awardees are recipients of the Faculty Manuscript Book Workshop! The Faculty Manuscript Book Workshops are an opportunity for generating constructive, informed criticism on near-final book manuscripts, when authors can most effectively utilize such feedback. An expert in the awardee’s field will be invited to present their thoughts on the manuscript, followed by a response from the author and discussion with a broader group of invited faculty. 
 

A&S Faculty Members Among CELT 2021-22 Teaching Innovation Institute Faculty Cohort

By Trey Conatser

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 3, 2021) — Of its many effects, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about rapid innovations in teaching. Courses were redesigned for a range of delivery modes to in-person and remote students (often at the same time) and the conversation about active learning, class community and belonging took on new urgency as the challenges of the pandemic amplified the barriers — systemic and discrete — to student engagement, motivation and success.

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