How I Wrote It: A Series Celebrating Feminist Authors Featuring Vanessa Holden
In this series we celebrate feminist authors who recently published a book or article. A 15-20 minute interview with the author about the journey to publication will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
Dr. Vanessa Holden is Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies. In
Surviving Southampton (University of Illinois Press 2021), she explores the contributions that African
American women and children made to the Southampton Rebellion, often called Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
Dr. Elizabeth Williams, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, will interview the author.

Discrete CATS Seminar
Speaker: Galen Dorpalen-Barry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Title: TBA
Abstract:
We will be meeting in 745 POT and the speaker will be live from Germany via Zoom.
"Headscarves and Hashtags: Orthodox Jewish Women Represent Themselves"
This is the first lecture in a series on "Orthodox Judaism Today" organized by the UK Jewish Studies program.
Recording: https://uky.yuja.com/V/Video?v=7297895&node=31012841&a=7990788&autoplay=1

How I Wrote It: A Series Celebrating Feminist Authors Featuring Anastasia Curwood
How I Wrote It, a GWS series celebrating feminist authors. On Dec 7, 2022, Frances Henderson (GWS/AAAS) interviewed Anastasia Curwood (HIS, AAAS) about her recent book, Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics.
A&S Faculty Voices: Dr. Kishonna Gray
A&S Faculty Voices featuring Dr. Kishonna Gray, associate professor in Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies and Africana Studies.
How I Wrote It: A Series Celebrating Feminist Authors
How I Wrote It: A Series Celebrating Feminist Authors
Featuring Anastasia Curwood on Shirley Chisholm
In this series we will celebrate feminist authors who recently published a book or article. A 15-20 minute interview with the author about the journey to publication will be followed by Q&A with the audience. We will then celebrate with light refreshments and hearty congratulations at the Alumni Gallery (next door to auditorium)
A zoom option is available at https://zoom.us/j/7034048946

Inside Comics
Please join us November 30th at 1:00 pm at the Cornerstone Esports Theater, or online, for INSIDE COMICS, a hybrid Q&A event with comic creators Stephanie Williams and O’Neill Jones.
Stephanie Williams is a writer for DC's Nubia: Queen of the Amazons series, and also penned Wakanda #1 for Marvel. She's a comic book historian and pop culture critic for SYFYFANGRRLS, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. Stephanie also created the webcomics Parenthood Activate! and But What If Though?
Erin O'Neill Jones is a comic book artist and illustrator who has drawn for publishers and brands such as: DC, IDW, Jordan Brand, Marvel, and Simon & Schuster. She is currently collaborating on REJECT SQUAD with author Alyssa Cole, which will be published in 2024 by Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins.
In 2020, Williams and ONeill Jones collaborated together to make Living Heroes, a fancomic mashup of superheroines and the 1990s sitcom, Living Single. The Kickstarter for this project was funded in a remarkable 24 hours.
Join us as we chat with these two creators about comics, characters, and collaboration. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions to the speakers.
The Cornerstone Esports Theater is at 401 S Limestone, Lexington, KY 40508
Alternatively, you can register for the online webinar here: tinyurl.com/insidecomicsreg
This event is sponsored by:
The Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
The Gaines Center for the Humanities
The MFA in Creative Writing at UK
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

