Dean's Circle - Vanessa Holden
Learn how Vanessa Holden (History), Director of the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative, is uncovering early African American contributions to Kentucky’s signature industries.
Free Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Erik Reece
Award winning author and UK professor, Erik Reece, will discuss the craft of Creative Nonfiction, and choose a couple of participants' written excerpts to analyze in-depth.
Q&A about CNF and UK's MFA program will follow.
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Erik Reece is the author of AN AMERICAN GOSPEL: ON FAMILY, HISTORY AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD and LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, which won Columbia University's John. B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club's David R. Brower Award for Environmental Excellence. His work has appeared in HARPER'S, ORION, THE OXFORD AMERICAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at ORION magazine and is currently at work on a book-length argument for the preservation of UK's own Robinson Forest, called THE EMBATTLED WILDERNESS.
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Labor, Displacement, and Minority Experiences in Contemporary China
Far from a monolithic population, the contemporary People’s Republic of China is host to a vast array of ethnic and linguistic minority cultures. Minority groups are found in China’s borderlands and recognized autonomous ethnic regions, but also in the factories, fields, mines, and other workplaces that symbolize China’s recent economic boom. This economic expan-
sion is intertwined with migration: both internally within China’s borders, and drawing migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. According to official statistics, there were more than 245 million internal migrants in 2017, with thousands of foreign-born migrants now working in China as well. Few Americans are aware of the minority experiences embedded within China’s economic and political rise. This panel presentation brings together emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines who focus on migrant and minority groups in China. The panel will help students, faculty, and community at the University of Kentucky become aware of the underlying stories of diaspora and migration beneath the surface of modern China.
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Building a Better Society: Our Environmental Future
The second installment of the A&S Virtual Speaker Series continues the theme of how the liberal arts, through seemingly disparate fields, address major issues of today.
CLIME Program
BCTC and UK developed CLIME, a consortium across 4 majors (Anthropology, Hispanic Studies, International Studies, and Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MCLLC)) and two institutions, to enhance and expand international experiential educational opportunities. In this video, two current CLIME students share their experiences in the program here at UK.
A&S Students Selected as 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Finalists
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 28, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Office of Undergraduate Research has announced the fourth annual 5-Minute Fast Track student research competition finalists. These undergraduates competed in the competition’s two preliminary rounds and were selected as Top 10 finalists to present their research during the final round on Thursday, Oct. 28, in the Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema.
Arts and Sciences Dean's Circle 2021
Full video recap of our 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Circle meeting.