Join us for a SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12PM-1:30PM. James S. Brown Award Recipient, Mauri Systo (Anthropology) will present her work at the UK Appalachian Center. Systo will present her work entitled "Gig City: Tech Revitalization and Social Justice in Chattanooga, TN." This is a free event open to UK students, faculty and staff! Lunch will be provided.

Join us for two SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations Friday, January 25, 2019 12PM-1:30PM. James S. Brown Award recipient, Christopher Leadingham of the History department will present his work "John Bowman and an Environmental Approach to Early Kentucky History." Eller & Billings Student Research Award recipient, Jillean McCommons, also of the History department will present her work entitled "Black Appalachian Identity in the Era of Black Power." This is a free event open to UK students, faculty and staff! Lunch will be provided.

Join us for two SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations February 26, 2019 12PM-1:30PM. Two Eller & Billings Student Research Award recipients, Michaela Lambert of Forestry and Natural Sciences and Vira Pravosud of the School of Public Health will present their work at the UK Appalachian Center. Lambert's presentation title will be announced shortly. Pravosud's work is entitled "Exceptional Survival Among Kentucky Stage IV Lung Cancer Patients: Appalachian versus Non-Appalachian Populations." This is a free event for UK students, faculty and staff. Lunch will be provided. 

GARC (Graduate Appalachian Research Community) will be having a meeting 10/23/18 at 1:00 in the App Center Annex.

Our second and third SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations were held on November 27, 2018 12PM-1:30PM at the UK Appalachian Center. Emma Kiser's presentation "Protecting Old-Growth Kentucky: Toward an Environmental History of Blanton Forest," and Julia Miller's presentation, "Let's Not Do Anything Drastic: School Consolidation as a Case Study in Urbanormitivity" were very interesting and caused many thought provoking questions from those in attendance. Both Kiser and Miller are recipients of Appalachian Center's Eller & Billings Student Research Award, an award given to studnets who are focused on furthering the conversation of sustainability in the Appalachian region. UK faculty, staff and students enjoyed a catered meal from The Simple Greek. We look forward to our next set of SWAP presentations coming in Spring 2019, and hope you will join us!

Our first SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentation took place on October 30, 2018 12PM-1:30PM. Aaron Guest, James S. Brown award recipient and doctoral candidate in Gerontology, presented his work on "The Impact of Rural Aging Appalachian LGBTQ Social Networks on Health." This free event for UK students, faculty and staff included a catered lunch from Moe's Southwest Grill.

Our inaugural "Conversations with Gurney" event was held at the Lucille Caudill Little Library in the John Jacobs Niles Gallery (160 Patterson Drive) on November 14th from 2-4PM. Gurney Norman, scholar-in-residence for the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program, hosted Anne Shelby, native Kentuckian, storyteller, poet, and award-winning author. After the performance, a reception was held at the Appalachian Center, 624 Maxwelton Court. Soup beans, Ale 8 and a great time was enjoyed by all!

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Conversations with Gurney: Anne Shelby from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.

The Rural Reading Group will meet at the Appalachian Center Annex Wednesday October 17th from 10AM-12PM. For more information about Rural Reading Group, contact Kevin Alejandrez at ksal222@g.uky.edu. 

Registration is open for the 2019 Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference. This year the conference will be on the campus of RCARS Robinson Center for Agricultural Research and Sustainability) in Jackson. The dates are Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, February 22nd & 23rd. Scholarships offered by KSU are available! Please click HERE to register!