How I Wrote It - A Series Celebrating Feminist Authors

In this series, we will celebrate feminist authors who recently published a book or article. The author and interviewer will discuss the writing process of recently published work. After a 15 to 20 minute interview, the audience is invited to ask questions that will help their own writing process. 
 
Dr. Charlie Zhang is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. In Dreadful Desires (Duke University Press 2022), he examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy.
 
This event is sponsored by the UK Department of Gender & Women's Studies, light refresments to follow. 
 

 

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Location:
William T. Young Library - UK Athletics Association Auditorium

Racializing Space, Gendering Place: Intersectional Challenges in Gaming Research.

Utilizing Nirmal Puwar’s concept of space invaders, I explore the interconnected relationship between space and bodies, wherein specifically minoritized populations are stigmatized and framed as deviant when they are occupying spaces constructed by and for privileged bodies. The concept of digital space invaders refers to the process wherein minority bodies residing in institutionalized spaces are considered to be out of place, becoming ‘space invaders’, disrupting spaces and locations ‘which have not been “reserved” for them’. In the current context, I utilize the metaphor of the space invader to consider Black women’s occupation in digital gaming communities. Employing both Black feminist traditions with ‘post’- colonial feminisms, I draw connections in how these women are perceived, exploring the reproduction of deeply rooted prejudices and colonial legacies expressed in territorial concepts of belonging.

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Location:
Whitehall CB 118

ENS Undergrad Meeting

Choose one of these two dates to attend:



Wednesday, Aug 31st or Friday, Sept 2nd



Both meetings will be from 3:00 - 4:00 pm in Room 301 of the Whitehall Classroom Building



Contact Tony Stallins if you have questions.

Date:
Location:
Room 301 Whitehall Classroom Building

Black Women's Conference: Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities

Please register for the conference at:  https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kd-2oqjwrHNK456UpiyUVBxjL_0IVpm…;

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the links to join the conference. 

 

27th Annual Black Women’s Conference:

Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities

April 15, 2022



10-10:15 AM:  Welcome

Anastasia C. Curwood, Director, CIBS and AAAS

10:15-11:45AM:  Covid, Clapbacks, and Curation:  Blackness in the Digital Era

Kim Gallon, Purdue University,

Regina Hamilton, UK,

Kishonna Gray, UK

Moderated by TBD

12:30-1:45PM: Appalachia Ain’t White: Locating Black Feminists in the Region

Jillean McCommons, University of Virginia

Enkeshi El-Amin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

Moderated by Kishonna Gray, UK

2:00-3:15PM Reading Buy Black: An Author and Critics Conversation

LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan

Oneka LaBennett, University of Southern California

Aria Halliday, UK

Moderated by DaMaris Hill, UK

3:30-4:30PM:  Keynote: Nazera Wright:  Digital Gi(rl)s: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

Moderated by Aria Halliday, UK

4:30-4:45PM:  Wrap Up

Gallery

 

 

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Virtual- registration required
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