The 2023 EGSO Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 2 and Friday, March 3 on the University of Kentucky's campus. The Symposium, which is centered around the theme of "Resilience," will include a combination of student panels, workshops, readings, and events hosted by Keynote Speaker Dr. Rita Felski. Most events are scheduled to be in-person, however, there will be the option to zoom into most of the sessions. Schedules and locations to be announced. Any questions or comments can be directed to Alexis Draut at andr228@uky.edu.

FRIDAY MARCH 3 

10 a.m. – Coffee and snacks in Fish Bowl (POT, 12^th floor) 

11 a.m. – Dr. Felski Keynote Speech at UK Athletics Association Auditorium (no food/drinks allowed) 

2 p.m. – Student Panel – “Queer Space and Time” with Anika Jensen, Andrew Thibaudeau, Krista Muratore (Patterson Hall 105) 

3:30 p.m. – Student Panel – “Race and Resistance” with Grace Vowels, Sarah Garrod and Anmol Sahni (Patterson Hall 105) 

7 p.m. – MFA Student Reading in MLK Center Multi-Purpose Room 

Anastasia Curwood and Peter Kalliney discussing and signing Shirley Chisholm: Champion Of Black Feminist Power Politics and The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization And Global Literature

All English students and faculty are invited to come celebrate the book releases of 2022.

Join us for our monthly Coffee & Conversations, every last week of the month (we will rotate days of the week). All students, staff, and faculty welcome.

Join us for our monthly Coffee & Conversations, every last week of the month (we will rotate days of the week). All students, staff, and faculty welcome.

Can We See the Baby Bump, Please / A World Without Down's Syndrome (double feature) TUES, FEB 28 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (dir. Surabhi Sharma, India, 2013) a detailed exploration of commercial surrogacy in India / (dir Clare Richards, United Kingdom, 2016) a documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds TUES, FEB 21 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (Lingui, les liens sacrés; dir. Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 2021) On the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only 15-year-old daughter Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.

Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth TUES, FEB 7 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (dir. Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2019) This absorbing documentary charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.

Happening TUES, JAN 31 @7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (L'événement; dir. Audrey Diwan, France, 2021) based on Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recalls her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s