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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Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldu6orTgsGNMut4fgQShAd7iYnLydjvpS
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!
Details and Zoom link forthcoming.
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.
https://uky.zoom.us/j/91668962948
The new decade is here and so is Nikky's new book. Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry ( pub date April 15, 2020) is her first poetry collection since winning the National Book Award in 2011. In addition to the poems, there are hotbeds, a horticulture term introducing her readers to her journals, the place where most of her poems have always found their calcium and strong knees. There are also artifacts, images and photographs, that assist the words in composing how the poet's poet-life came to be. Over the last 30 years each and every Nikky Finney book has always been wonderfully different but this long awaited new minglement of word and image crafts a new kind of American poesy.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bale-boone-symposium-featuring-nikky-finne…
By Titus W. Chalk
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon and author Kiese Laymon, whose memoir Heavy won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie medal for nonfiction, are featured in this year’s University of Kentucky Visiting Writers Series, which will be held online. Laymon will be reading alongside distinguished writers Cinelle Barnes, Minda Honey and UK alumna Joy Priest.
By Whitney Hale
Watch the trailer for the 2017 Emmy-nominated documentary "BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez" above.
“...while Black, is a story-telling event about life as an American living in America and subject to ongoing terrorism inflicted by other Americans. ...while Black is a curated evening of dramatic readings, poetry and spoken word, written and performed by people with varying perspectives and firsthand knowledge of what it’s like to be a Black Person living, shopping, driving, and thriving in America. “
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0SNMe_pFRSWL7MKUyFurMQ
