The UK Appalachian Center is hosting a SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) Meeting from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 19, 2015. Two of five 2014 Brown Award recipients, Lindsay Shade and Kathryn Engle will be presenting on their research. Each presenter has research interests in Appalachia and are graduate students at the University of Kentucky.
Please, join in the fun at the Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering in Lexington, KY! This event spans February 12, 2015 through February 15, 2015 and has something for everyone. This is an opportunity for community engagement, learning about traditional mountain music, and hearing artists perform. During the Saturday, 2/14/15 event, there will be fun for all ages at the Appalachian Youth Day portion of the event from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission for the Youth Day is free, and there will be workshops, open mic, jam sessions, singing, and dances! (Please note that a parent must accompany children at all times.) Please, see the Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering website for detailed information, including a full schedule of performers and events: http://lexoldtime.com/.
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Various including ArtsPlace, 161 North Mill Street, Lexington, KY, Al's Bar, Willy's Locally Known, and Windy Corner Market
The UK Appalachian Center welcomes Fran Ansley on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Ansley will screen and discuss the bilingual film Morristown: In the Air and Sun. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Village Branch Public Library at 2185 Versailles Rd., Lexington, KY.
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Village Branch Public Library, 2185 Versailles Road, Lexington, KY
Please, join the UK Appalachian Center for an Appalachian Forum in our Speaker Series on Civil Rights, Labor and Environmental Social Movements in Appalachia. This event is free and open to the public and will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in room 213 of Kastle Hall. This event will feature a screening of the film Up the Ridge, a documentary about the American Prison system. There will be a discussion of the film after the viewing. Our guests for the film discussion are Amelia Kirby, filmmaker and Development Director at the Appalachian Citizens Law Center and Melynda Price, UK Law faculty and Director of the African American & Africana Studies Program.
The second in the “Works in Progress Series” features Melissa Adler, Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science. She will be discussing the introduction to her book manuscript, tentatively titled Perverse Subjects: Becoming Bodies of Literature in the Library. The book provides an account of the ways in which the Library Congress classification standards that organize research libraries in the U.S. and abroad have reproduced normative ideas about sexuality since the beginning of the 20th century. The project challenges these classifications through the lens of perversion, echoing Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s call to become “perverse readers.”
Carol Mason (GWS) and Rusty Barrett (Linguistics) will serve as respondents. Attendees should email CST Director Dr. Marion Rust (marion.rust@uky.edu) for a copy of Dr. Adler’s paper.
Crit Callebs (Eastern Band Cherokee descendant) is a traditional hunter, food gatherer, and fire-tender and lives on the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation. He is completing his Master’s Degree at Central Washington University (CWU) in Cultural Resource Management with an expertise in treaty rights concerning Indian hunting and fishing. He served as the Native American Liaison at the Center for Diversity and Social Justice and was a very popular guest lecturer for the American Indian Studies program. Crit is a trainer for the “Since Time Immemorial” tribal sovereignty and history curriculum implemented in K-12 classrooms in Washington State. As an active member of the Northwest Indian Storytelling Association he has been a featured storyteller for the Tseil-Waututh Nation, CWU Museum of Culture and Environment, Colville Tribes Youth “Warrior Camp” and is the 2014 Alaska Spirit of Reading storyteller. Crit is also a professional survival trainer and former instructor for the world renowned Boulder Outdoors Survival School. One of his great passions is teaching youth and adults how to be self-reliant in the wilderness. Using his gift of storytelling, he travels throughout the U.S. and Canada sharing traditional stories, teaching cultural camps and conducting workshops that promote self-awareness, ancestral skills, and Indigenous values.
The team of Stephens and Sprinkle screen their film Goodbye Gauley Mountain, in which they activate the metaphor "Earth as lover" and join the fight against mountain top removal (MTR) in Appalachia. The fight for environmental justice can be sexy, fun, and diverse.
Co-sponsored by: UK College of Arts & Sciences, American Studies Program, Appalachian Center, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, Gender & Women's Studies Dept.
Appalachian Studies scholar and author of Dear Appalachia will speak on "Hillbilly Horror and Wrong Turn".
Co-sponsored by: UK College of Arts & Sciences, American Studies Program, Appalachian Center, Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, Gender & Women's Studies Dept.
Lecture by Stacy Takacs, author of "Terrorism TV." Was West Virginia soldier Jessica Lynch really a female Rambo, and did the military make her a damsel in distress to be saved from Iraqis?: Explore how to spin a war.
The events are sponsored by American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Appalachian Center, the English Department, and the Environmental Sustainability Program. All events are free and open to the public.
The UK Appalachian Center welcomes Fran Ansley on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Ansley will screen and discuss the bilingual film Morristown: In the Air and Sun. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Village Branch Public Library at 2185 Versailles Rd., Lexington, KY.
