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.

THURSDAY MARCH 2 

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

11 a.m. – Dr. Felski workshop and Q&A (Patterson Hall 209) 

2 p.m. – Interactive Gaming Workshop with Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Gray and B Bailey (E-Sports Lounge) 

3:30 p.m. – Student Panel – “Political Rhetoric and Resilience” with Mark Hines, Sam Aftel, Andy Cheng (Patterson Hall 219) 

6 p.m. – Appetizers / Meet & Greet Dr. Felski – Girls Girls Girls Burritos

Check out the event website: https://wholesumky.org/?p=5728

Inspired by Marlene McCarty’s Group 2

Hello,

I am sending a friendly reminder on behalf of the DEI Committee to alert that tomorrow (November 1st) we will show Vampires vs. the Bronx at 6:30 PM in the William T. Young Auditorium. 

Please encourage your students to attend this Afro-Latinx horror-comedy that deals gentrification. The film will be followed with a brief Q&A by special guest faculty Dr. Jeff Rogers from the MCLLC Department. 

We hope to see you there!

Thanks, and have a great week ahead,

DEI Committee 

Graduate Student in Hispanic Studies

Assistant Director, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

Please join us November 30th at 1:00 pm at the Cornerstone Esports Theater, or online, for INSIDE COMICS, a hybrid Q&A event with comic creators Stephanie Williams and O’Neill Jones. 

Stephanie Williams is a writer for DC's Nubia: Queen of the Amazons series, and also penned Wakanda #1 for Marvel. She's a comic book historian and pop culture critic for SYFYFANGRRLS, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. Stephanie also created the webcomics Parenthood Activate! and But What If Though?

Erin O'Neill Jones is a comic book artist and illustrator who has drawn for publishers and brands such as: DC, IDW, Jordan Brand, Marvel, and Simon & Schuster. She is currently collaborating on REJECT SQUAD with author Alyssa Cole, which will be published in 2024 by Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins.

In 2020, Williams and ONeill Jones collaborated together to make Living Heroes, a fancomic mashup of superheroines and the 1990s sitcom, Living Single. The Kickstarter for this project was funded in a remarkable 24 hours.

Join us as we chat with these two creators about comics, characters, and collaboration. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions to the speakers.

The Cornerstone Esports Theater is at 401 S Limestone, Lexington, KY 40508

Alternatively, you can register for the online webinar here: tinyurl.com/insidecomicsreg

This event is sponsored by:

The Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies

The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies

The Gaines Center for the Humanities

The MFA in Creative Writing at UK

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

Join us for a screening of Mighty Harlan County.

Mighty Harlan County follows a group of miners formerly employed by BlackJewel Mining. In Summer of 2019 the company abruptly filed bankruptcy leaving the miners unemployed. Soon after their checks started bouncing and money already deposited in their accounts was clawed back. A handful of miners decided to take a stand. They went down and blocked the tracks refusing to let the coal that they mined be sold until they were paid. Numbers grew quickly on the tracks as the legal battle to get them paid ensued. 

Jared Hamilton is an Appalachian born documentary style photographer and videographer who currently splits his time between Pikeville, Ky. and Whitesburg, Ky. Jared graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2012 with a BA in Photojournalism. He has made work for clients such as New York Times, Appalshop, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Garden & Gun, EKU, and NPR. He self publishes much of his personal work including three volumes of his zine Familiar Paths. He is also the Chairman of the Board for M.A.R.S. Collective, an artist collaborative group based at Wiley's Last Resort on top of Pine Mountain in Whitesburg, Ky.