Interdisciplinary Conversation On Anticarceral Feminism

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DR. EMILY THUMA

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION ON ANTICARCERAL FEMINISM

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies invites you to an exciting conversation with Dr. Emily Thuma, author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (University of Illinois Press, 2019) and Assistant Professor of U.S. Politics and Law at The University of Washington, Tacoma. Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at University of Kentucky and Dr. Ashley Ruderman-Looff, from the Department of Crime and Justice at U-Mass Dartmouth and an alumna of the University of Kentucky GWS PhD program, will join Dr. Thuma in conversation about the history of anticarceral feminism. They will examine its intersectional emergence from movements for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. This timely conversation is made possible with funds from the Graduate School

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 3:30PM VIA ZOOM



REGISTER AT: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s-fdmALzQ3SkLM4BuZtl1A

 

 

 

 

 

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Holler Back! Season 2 Episode 7: Wela’lin to Venus Evans!

Billy and Stacie interview a key player in the Native American Heritage scene here in Kentucky. Venus Evans wears many hats including the Commissioner at Large for the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission! Venus tells us about her tribe's history, and the work she is doing in Kentucky to keep the indigenous population's story alive. Find out more about the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission here to see how you can get involved: www.heritage.ky.gov!

UK Undergraduate Research Program Sparks Student Success

By Elizabeth Chapin

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 27, 2021) – Each year, the University of Kentucky’s Students Participating as Ambassadors for Research in Kentucky (SPARK) gives a select group of undergraduates from diverse backgrounds a unique, hands-on research opportunity to prepare them for graduate study in health-related fields. Student recipients include two in the College of Arts & Sciences. 

Universities, Youths, Race and Policing

This panel brings together community members and scholars to discuss best practices of youth and campus policing, and practices that need to be reformed. How can we promote racial equality and social justice in youth and campus policing? The speakers are Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, Executive Director of the Institute for Compassion in Justice, Chief of Police Eric Scott of the Berea Police Department, Marro Inoue, a UK anthropologist who will speak about his field work as an intern at the UK police department, and Dwayne Mack, a historian at Berea College, whose scholarship focuses on race and policing.

Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VQ5Hr0lPRNm5xiRoPcSCcw

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UK Appalachian Center to Showcase Student Research on Appalachia

By Jenny Wells-Hosley

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 22, 2021) — The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center will showcase the work of student researchers through its Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress series this semester.

This series will feature presentations from graduate and undergraduate students covering topics ranging from poetry to cancer research to education to local foods. 

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