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A Screening of THE 24TH, and Interview with Director

Join us for a film screening of The 24th, a historical film written and directed by Kevin Willmott! This film screening will be held virtually followed by a brief Q&A discussion. For more insight on the film, check out this interview.

Read more on Kevin Willmott's extensive works HERE.

Watch The 24th movie trailer!

This event is sponsored by:

English Department MFA Visiting Writers Series
International Film Certificate Program
Gaines Center for Humanities
UK History Department
Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
Rosenberg College of Law
Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences
UK Veteran's Resource CEnter
William T. Young Library
UK Office of Institutional Diversity

To register, click HERE! Contact Pearl James for more information.

Date:

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 07:00 pm

Location:

Law School and streaming simulcast

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Racial Violence in Kentucky: A Historical Perspective

Date:

Monday, September 7, 2020 - 06:00 pm

Location:

Virtual

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gaines center

african american and africana studies

college of art and sciences

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Bale Boone Symposium: Viet Thanh Nguyen

For more information, see http://www.uky.edu/gainescenter/bale-boone

Date:

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 07:00 pm - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 09:00 pm

Location:

Singletary Center Recital Hall

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keys

creative writing

gaines center

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'Bodies of Evidence' to Explore Violence Against LGBTQ*, Black Individuals

The University of Kentucky's Gaines Center for the Humanities and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences are teaming up with the Office of LGBTQ* Resources, the Martin Luther King Center, the African American and Africana Studies Program and Black Student Union to present three events exploring violence against members of the LGBTQ*

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Series on Violence and the Human Condition Opens

The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities and the UK College of Arts and Sciences are teaming up to present a series of workshops on violence and the human condition.

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Violence and the Human Condition: Political Violence and Issues of Measurement and Methodology

For a full list of events and information visit: visionsinmethodology.org/conferences/2015-conference

Sponsered by the National Science Foundation, UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, UK Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Political Science, QIPSR, and the Department of Sociology.

Date:

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 01:00 pm - Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 05:00 pm

Location:

UK campus

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political science

sociology

college of arts & sciences

nsf

gaines center

qipsr

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Bale Boone Symposium Explores 'Legacies of Civil War'

As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close this year, University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities will examine the war's impact on history and culture in the years that followed as part of the 2015 Bale Boone Symposium on the "Legacies of the American Civil War" Feb. 4, 10 and 12.

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Phil Harling Named Next Gaines Center Director

Recognized for his exceptional contributions to research, teaching, and administrative work, Professor of History Phil Harling has been named director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities.