Black Women's Conference: Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities
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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
International Village showing of "La Vie en Rose"
The International Village Living and Learning Program, in collaboration with the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, is hosting an international film series that is open to the public.
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GSC Worsham Cinema
A&S Professor, Post-Doc Comment on Women in U.S. Foreign Policy
Tiffany D. Barnes, professor of political science in the University of Kentucky's College of Arts & Sciences, and UK postdoctoral scholar Bomi K. Lee have written an essay for the Washington Post titled "Even after Albright, foreign policy leaders are still mostly men." Their coauthor is Diana Z. O’Brien of Rice University.
UK Political Science Interns: A Gallery of Achievement
The UK College of Arts & Sciences' Political Science Department has accumulated a gallery of student achievement, featuring 15 undergrads whose internships led them to the heart of government. Here are their stories.
A&S Authors Featured in UK Libraries' Reading List
UK Libraries’ exploreUK is home to more than 530,000 digitized collections, prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts and streaming video. Here are a few titles by local and faculty authors on subjects ranging from Black History Month, Women’s History Month and current events as well as local people and places. The books are from the University Press of Kentucky:
A&S Alum Discusses How Her Brother's Crisis Led Her to UK
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 23, 2022) — Everything can change in a moment.
It sounds like a cliché. But experiences, good and bad, have the power to fundamentally alter us — challenge our beliefs and influence our behaviors.
Can you pinpoint a “life-defining moment” — an experience that changed your life trajectory?
Appalasia
Please join us for a virtual performance and Q&A featuring Appalasia. Appalasia was formed by Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, and Sue Powers in Pittsburgh, PA. Together they have created an evocative and ambitious performance language for dulcimer, erhu, banjo, and vocals that combines the influence of their folk-roots with original composition and inspired improvisation.
This event is co-sponsored by the UK Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, Passport to the World's Year of Cultures Without Borders, the Gaines Center for the Humanities, and the Office of China Initiatives. It is presented in association with the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
We'll have a virtual viewing session at the John Jacob Niles Gallery, April 1st, at 3:30PM, or you can tune in via Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/83469552756
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John Jacob Niles Gallery - Lucille Little Fine Arts Library, Zoom
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Lecture, Endowment Honor Chemistry Professor Susan Odom
By Richard LeComte
UK Geoscience Alum Follows Passion for Earth Science Into the Distillery Industry
By Olaoluwapo Onitiri
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The University of Kentucky has a high-quality environmental geoscience program and has produced excellent geologists like Rachel Nally, who is using the skills she developed through the program in her work as the environmental and sustainability manager at Heaven Hill Distilleries.