Interest meeting for students interested in getting involved with racial justice work in Corbin, Kentucky
Join us for a SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentation Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12-1:30PM at the UK Appalachian Center. 2018 UK Appalachian Center Eller & Billings Student Research Award recipient, Kahyah Pinkman (School Psychology) will present "Rural African American Parents of a Child with ASD: Examining Service Provider Interactions & Parent Interpretation of Child Development." Dr. Marianne Kongerslev, UK Appalachian Center's current visiting scholar and Assistant Professor of Anglophone literature and cultural studies at Aalborg University in Denmark, will share her presentation "Affect in Appalachian Literature" with us as well. This is a free event open to UK students, faculty and staff. Lunch will be provided.
Join Gurney Norman and Chris Holbrook for an informal gathering at the App Center at 3PM before their presentation at the James F. Hardymon Theater in the Davis Marksbury Building at 5PM. Coffee and tea will be provided. We hope to see you there!
Join us for a reception hosting Ashley York, co-director of the film Hillbilly, at the UK Appalachian Center (624 Maxwelton Court) at 8PM following the showing of the film at Gatton Student Cinema. Mimi's Southern Style catering will be provided. This is a free event!
Talking About the Black Experience in Kentucky- Why is it urgent to have this conversation now? Dr. George Wright, noted author and incoming Visiting Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, hosted an interactive webinar exploring the Black experience in Kentucky in dialogue with Judi Jennings and Sharyn Mitchell.
This online webinar hosted by the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center took place Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 4:00-5:00 pm. It was also available through the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center Facebook Page and has been featured on the May 2019 issue of Balancing the Scales.
Participant Bios
Dr. George Wright is the author of three books written from his unique perspective as a native Kentuckian: “A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980, Volume II; Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule and "Legal Lynchings," and Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930. He will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020.
Dr. Judith Jennings, also a native Kentuckian, first met George Wright when they were graduate students in history at UK. Jennings has written on the abolition of the British slave trade and co-edited Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia.
Sharyn Mitchell is from central Kentucky and is currently the Research Services Specialist at the Special Collections & Archives at Berea College. She is on the board of the Madison County Historical Society and President and Co-Founder of the African American Genealogy Group of Kentucky.
This webinar is partially funded by ARTWORKS, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Partners:
University of Kentucky Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program
Join us at the UK Appalachian Center March 7, 2019 10-11AM as we welcome our visiting scholar, Marianne Kongerslev. Marianne (PhD, University of Southern Denmark, 2016) is Assistant Professor of Anglophone literature and cultural studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has previously carried out research on Native American literature, US popular culture, gender studies, and critical race studies, and she has previously taught US cultural studies at Copenhagen Business School, University of Southern Denmark, and Aarhus University. From 2014-15, she was visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley. She recently started researching affect and precarity in US literatures and culture, in a project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. She will be visiting the Appalachian Center from March until May, 2019. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be served.
Appalachian author, Chris Holbrook, visited the University of Kentucky on Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00-6:30PM at the James F. Hardymon Theater in the Davis Marksbury Building. Chris joined Appalachian Center scholar-in-residence, Gurney Norman, as a part of the ongoing series "Conversations with Gurney" to discuss his book Upheaval among other topics related to Appalachia.
Convo with Gurney from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2019 UK Appalachian Center Eller & Billings Student Research Award which supports students who are involved in research studies focused in and on the Appalachian region. To be eligible for this award of up to $1,000 students must be actively enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program at the University of Kentucky. Applications for this award are due this FRIDAY, MARCH 1ST. To apply please click HERE!
