A Look Inside Gender, Film, and Appalachia
Carol Mason's class examines the range of representation in images of Appalachia and Appalachians in popular media.
***EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER***6th Annual Appalachian Research Community Symposium and Arts Showcase
***THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS. WE WILL RESCHEDULE AND POST UPDATES WHEN PLANS ARE FINALIZED*** The University of Kentucky Graduate Appalachian Research Community presents the 6th Annual UK Appalachian Research Community Symposium and Arts Showcase on Saturday, March 7, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the William T. Young Library. This year's keynote speaker is Lisa Conley, Ph.D. Her research interests focus on foodways, environmental sustainability, and local food politics in motivating the self-provisioning practices of people in rural and urban Kentucky. Please, find more information about registration or proposal submition here: https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/annual-research-symposium. The deadline to submit abstracts is February 15, 2015. Registration for presenters and non-presenters is free. Undergraduate and Graduate students are welcome to register.
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William T. Young Library
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Breckinridge Bash: GWS & AAAS Fall course preview
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104/105 Breckinridge Hall
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.
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Great Hall, Margaret King Library
Nan Woodruff: Living with the Legacies of Violence in the Jim Crow South:Memory, Trauma, and the Civil Rights Movement"
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Alumni Gallery, Young Library
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.
UK Libraries Exhibit Explores History of Kentucky's African American LGBTQ Community
The University of Kentucky Special Collections and Research Center (SCRC) is presenting a new exhibition on LGBTQ members of the African-American community in the Commonwealth.
Jennifer D. Jones: Looking for Lorraine and Langston: Queering African-American Archives and Histories
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Great Hall King Library, 2nd floor
African American LGBTQ History Panel Discussion
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Center Theater, Student Center
Defining Borders: Social Theory Graduate Course
Every spring the Committee on Social Theory offers the team-taught seminar—always with four professors. Previous course themes/names for the seminar have included “Law, Sex, and Family” “Autobiography,” and “Security.” But previous seminars may not have spoken so directly to the professors’ personal backgrounds as “Transnational Lives” does with this team of four.