UK professor Jill Rappoport will discuss Charles Dickens' dedication to social reform in both his works and in his life.
February 26, 2012
2:00pm
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 161 Lexington Green Circle
A collaboration between the GWS and English departments, as well as the African American and Africana Studies and American Studies programs will bring speakers to classes for the benefit of students.
Publisher & Proprietor of RedBone Press, Lisa C. Moore, will discuss her developing documentary on Black Lesbian Elders in the South.
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.
See more about Lisa C. Moore's project here: http://www.gaycenter.org/node/6693
The 2012 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference will be hosted by the University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, March 22-25, and will take place at the downtown Lexington Hilton Hotel and the University of Kentucky campus.
Rusty Barrett is an assistant professor in the Linguistics program. On February 16th, 2012, Barrett will present a lecture, “Sickening Queens: Ethnic and Class Difference in Drag.” The lecture is at 4pm in the President’s Room at the Singletary Center for the Arts, and will address ways in which drag performances reflect social and cultural differences related to class and ethnicity.
English undergraduate Jeremy Puckett is finishing his first novel, Black Bottom Hollow. Puckett recently sat down with Cheyenne Hohman to discuss the writing process, his inspiration for writing, and different avenues for publishing.
This podcast was produced by Sam Burchett.
Kentucky poet, novelist and environmentalist Wendell Berry has been named the 2012 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
GWS Research Matters Series presents:
Melissa Stein
"Bodies of Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Biological Determinism"
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/
