The 28th Annual Black Women's Conference, "Excavating the Lives of Black Women," will take place virtually on March 24, 2023.

Please register for each event here:

10 a.m. | Panel with Whitney Baptiste Battle & Ayana Omilade-Flewellen | Register Here

2 p.m. | Keynote with Dr. Afua Cooper | Register Here

Saturday, March 25, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Cemetery clean-up at African Cemetery No. 2. (419 E 7th Street, Lexington)

Community volunteer event will assist with headstone cleaning and minor landscape clearing in this historic cemetery. A brief tour of the cemetery, including a focus on the graves of notable women buried in the cemetery who contributed locally to the thoroughbred industry, social safety nets, education, and politics.

Parking is in the cemetery itself. Participants should drive in through either of the two gates and park far enough to one side to leave a driving lane. We will assemble at the center garden

Second year MFA students who will be graduating in May will read from their theses.

Neither a workshop nor a formal book talk, this discussion format will be open for both faculty and grads and include a brief reading from an incomplete work, followed by remarks on where/how the project has been going, what the process has been like, some of the questions the writer is currently grappling with, and time for questions and conversation about the project.

The International Village Living Learning Program, in collaboration with the Student Organizations and Activities, will screen a 1990 Iranian film entitled Close-up (dir. Abbas Kiarostami) from 4 pm on Wednesday this week, March 1, at Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema. Here is a synopsis of the film, taken from the website of The Criterion Collection, the distributor of the film. https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up. Please help us spread the word about this fascinating film to your students and friends.

Lewis Honors College is delighted to welcome Prof. Michael Bérubé to campus next week for a talk from his recent book,

It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of eleven books to date, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006). He has also published two edited collections, Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995; with Cary Nelson) and The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2005).

The talk is March 2, 2023 at 4:00, and is free and open to the public.  Please forward to your departments and share widely!  We hope to see you there.

MARIGHELLA (Brazil, 2019), the directorial debut of Wagner Moura, a biopic about the eponymous mid-century Brazilian politician, writer, and anti-dictatorial guerrilla fighter.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 4-7pm, WT Young Auditorium

Q&A with Prof. Kamahra Ewing (English; African American and Africana Studies)