Elora Chowdhury: "Dhaka to Cincinnati: Mapping Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Violence, and Agency
Part of A&S Year of South Asia
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Niles Gallery
The Brains Behind the Orphan Trains
The Brains Behind the Orphan Trains
You've read the book. Now get the backstory.
Film screening of Race: The Power of Illusion and a discussion with Professor Melissa Stein about scientific racism and Charles Loring Brace.
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Alumni Gallery
GWS & AAAS Breckinridge Bash & Spring Course Preview
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105 Breckinridge Hall
Academic Majors Fair
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The Hub in the basement of W. T. Young Library
Event Series:
Kentucky LGBTQ Archive
Historian Jonathan Coleman will exhibit and discuss the Kentucky LGBTQ archive on Aug 28 at 2pm in the Farish Theater. The cost is $15 and all proceeds benefit Moveable Feast Lexington.
For more information about the event and the archive, check out the Lexington Herald Leader feature "Kentucky's Hidden Gay History Emerges, from Drag Queens to Revolutionary War Vets" from Aug 24, 2016.
Exhibit & Discussion of Kentucky LGBTQ Archive
What: Historian Jonathan Coleman will exhibit and discuss the Kentucky LGBTQ Archive.
When: 2 p.m. Aug. 28
Where: Farish Theatre, Central Library
Cost: $15. All proceeds benefit Moveable Feast Lexington, which provides meals for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Tickets and info: 859-252-2867
For more information about this event and the archive please see the article written in the Lexington Herald Leader on Aug 24, 2016: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article…
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Farish Theater, Central Library
GWS Student Leslie Smith's piece in The Hechinger Report
GWS student Leslie Smith wrote an opinion essay for The Hechinger Report titled "How I broke away from the endless cycle of poverty,
Anthropology Alumna is Editor of New Book on Changes in Appalachia
By Samantha Ponder
University of Kentucky alumna Rebecca Adkins Fletcher is one of the editors of the new book "Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress," published by University Press of Kentucky (UPK).
GWS welcomes our newest faculty member: Charlie Yi Zhang
Charlie Yi Zhang received his Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Arizona State University in 2013. After joining University of Kentucky in August 2015, he soon found his intellectual home in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. For the fall of 2015, he taught GWS 250: Social Movements and GWS 302: Gender Across the World—Transnational Perspectives and will teach GWS 200: Sex & Power and GWS 302: Gender Across the World- Masculinities during the spring 2016 semester. In addition to teaching, Dr.