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…;

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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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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

By Danielle Donham

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:

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

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.

A&S Students in 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Show What’s Wildly Possible in Undergrad Research

By Olaoluwapo Onitiri 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – In October 2021, The University of Kentucky announced the top 10 finalists for the fourth annual 5-minute Fast Track competition. Run by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the 5-Minute Fast cultivates students’ presentation and research communication skills and challenges them to describe their research within five minutes.  

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