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Panic in the Streets (1950, dir. Elia Kazan)

Synopsis: When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it's pretty obvious that the victim died from gun shot wounds. The police surgeon notices that the man is also displaying other symptoms and Lt. Commander Clint Reed, a doctor with the U.S. Public Health Service, diagnoses a highly contagious disease, pneumonic plague. He tries to convince local officials to find everyone who may have been in contact with the dead man. The Mayor supports his efforts but many, including the police, are doubtful. Reed wants to avoid publicity so as not to panic the public. They have little information to go on - they don't know the dead man's identity - and Reed estimates they have 48 hours before disease begins to spread. With police Capt. Tom Warren going through the motions, Reed sets out to find the killers.

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Frank X. Walker, Professor of English and AAAS, will be giving a reading from his newest book, Masked Man, Black:  Pandemic & Protest Poems

 

Sponsored by African American and Africana Studies and the Martin Luther King Center

African American and Africana Studies and the Martin Luther King Center present the Carter G. Woodson series featuring Shauna M. Morgan, Director of Equity and Inclusion Initiatives 

African American and Africana Studies and the Martin Luther King Center present the Carter G. Woodson series featuring Dr. Kamahra Ewing, Assistant Professor of English and AAAS. 



"Africana Voices from the Global South: Nollywood in the Black Atlantic"



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Anti-Racist Assignment/Activity Create-athon: Creating anti-racist classroom spaces and assignments doesn’t simply happen. This is work that we have to plan ahead for. This Create-athon aims to help us set aside time to do just that - plan ahead to build inclusion and equity into our assignments and activities for the upcoming spring semester, with a specific focus on better supporting Black students on campus. This semester’s focus is in line with EGSOs aim to work in solidarity with Black students currently leading the way in pushing UK to address its issues with anti-Black racism. (Note that future create-athons and workshops may focus on supporting students from a range of marginalized groups at UK.) We will start at 10:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. with built-in lunch and snack breaks as we go. We will build and workshop assignments together and we will each leave with at least one new and/or revamped anti-racist assignment or activity to use in our classes in the spring. MAs, MFAs, and PhDs all welcome!

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The 2016 election was traumatic for many students, leaving instructors handling classroom tensions and student emotions for which they received no formal training. This election cycle has raised similar emotions, intensified by a higher degree of anxiety as Election Day approaches. This workshop will discuss pedagogical practices for both short term and long term post-election ramifications. In the short term, instructors need to manage student anxiety, emotional responses to the election, and maintain a safe classroom environment, while protecting their own mental health. In the long-term, curriculum on media literacy, political engagement, and social justice offer substantive ways to respond to the current political climate.

Zoom link:  https://uky.zoom.us/j/96152011641

Critical Compassion, a Deeper Dive: Our students are experiencing multiple traumas right now: the global pandemic, the United States’ racial reckoning, and the tensions of this highly fraught election year. How can we, as instructors, best help and engage our students in this uniquely tense season? In this session we will watch CELT’s presentation from July on “Critical Compassion and the Pedagogy of People,” followed by a discussion of how we can best utilize these practices in our English, Creative Writing, and WRD classrooms.

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