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Greetings from the Gaines Center for the Humanities!
We are pleased so announce that for our 2020 Lafayette Seminar, the Gaines Center for Humanities at the University of Kentucky will be hosting a conversation with bestselling authors Sena Jeter Naslund and David King. This event will take place on March 5 at 6:00pm in the Hardymon Theatre at 329 Rose Street.
Naslund is a co-founder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formally the Orange Prize). She is retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville. Naslund is a 2020 Kentucky Writer’s Hall of Fame inductee and keynote speaker.
David King is a Gaines alumnus and best-selling author of four books of history and narrative nonfiction, including Death in the City of Light and The Trial of Adolf Hitler. A Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, King taught European history at the University of Kentucky. He has been honored as a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.
The theme of the evening will be “Literary Migrations: Kentucky Authors Writing Beyond Place.” Additional details for the event can be found below. This event is free and open to the public—however space if limited so we are requiring guests to pre-register via our Eventbrite page. We hope to see you there!
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