Sharon Bridgforth, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic. Her piece, blood pudding, was produced in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. She is the 2010 – 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty member at The Theatre School at DePaul University. 2009 Mellon Artist In-Residence in The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.  For more information, visit http://sharonbridgforth.com/s/

4:30-5:30pm

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, African American Studies, American Studies, Department of English, Gender and Women's Studies, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, and the Office of the Vice President for Diversity.

Novelist Daniel Black will read from and discuss his most recent novel Perfect Peace.  The novel features a protagonist who was born biologically male but was raised as a girl for the first 8 years of his life.

4:30-5:30pm

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, African American Studies, American Studies, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, and the Office of the Vice President for Diversity.

Go here for a podcast with Daniel Black, conducted by Dr. Vershawn Young: http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2011/08/24/daniel-black-perfect-peace-st-martin%E2%80%99s-press-2010/

A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.

This semester we are reading Secret Historian:  The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring. Read the book with us to prepare for a symposium inspired by Steward.  “Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward” will be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, May 18-19, 2012.  Whether or not you can join us for the symposium, join us for the book.  It’s a page-turner! Reading schedule is as follows:

3:30pm, Wed, Feb 15:  Chapters 1-7

3:30pm, Thurs, March 22:  Chapters 8-14

3:30pm, Wed, April 25:  Chapters 15-21

Meeting Place:  The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities, Commonwealth House, 226 East Maxwell Street.

This reading group is sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Call 859-257-1388 with questions or concerns.