A&S Student Highlights Resources for First-Generation Students

By Ryan Girves

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 8, 2021) — Firsts can be scary. The first time riding a bike or learning how to drive, or a first job — all scary. Being the first in your family to do something — even scarier. 

Austin Huff, a first-generation University of Kentucky senior from Topmost, a small town in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, knows this all too well.  

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.



Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_avKJ0ZdzRMKHE3w0bhDYwQ

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. 

 

Register HERE: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iQW3GabIRZaWPpvt2rka4Q

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