Unbridled Resilience: The Path Forward

College of Medicine 

Faculty of Color Network presents

A Celebration of Black History Month

with Keynote Speaker: Dr. DaMaris B. Hill

 

Unbridled Resilience: The Path Forward

February  28, 2020

4:00-6:00pm

Hilary J. Boone Center

 

Heavy hors d'oeuvre will be served with networking and book signing.

RSVP at https:///bit.ly/2OnRoTU

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Boone Center

Carnegie Center KY Great Writers

Join us on Tuesday, February 11 for readings from Jayne Moore Waldrop, Author's RETRACING MY STEPS, Nazera Sadiq Wright's BLACK GIRLHOOD IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, and Katy Yocom's THREE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR.



The event starts at 6:00 pm, with a 25-minute open-mic session to give the audience a chance to participate. At 6:30 the readings by featured authors will begin. After the author readings, the audience will have the opportunity to get books signed.



Free admission. Books for sale courtesy of Joseph-Beth Booksellers. Refreshments provided by Nate's Coffee. Thanks to Cricket Press for the poster!



Sponsored by Reitzel Cook Foundation and Epping's on Eastside.

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Carnegie Center

Literary Migrations: Gaines Center for the Humanities

 

Greetings from the Gaines Center for the Humanities!

 

We are pleased so announce that for our 2020 Lafayette Seminar, the Gaines Center for Humanities at the University of Kentucky will be hosting a conversation with bestselling authors Sena Jeter Naslund and David King. This event will take place on March 5 at 6:00pm in the Hardymon Theatre at 329 Rose Street.  

 

Naslund is a co-founder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formally the Orange Prize). She is retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville. Naslund is a 2020 Kentucky Writer’s Hall of Fame inductee and keynote speaker.

 

David King is a Gaines alumnus and best-selling author of four books of history and narrative nonfiction, including Death in the City of Light and The Trial of Adolf Hitler. A Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, King taught European history at the University of Kentucky. He has been honored as a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.

 

The theme of the evening will be “Literary Migrations: Kentucky Authors Writing Beyond Place.” Additional details for the event can be found below. This event is free and open to the public—however space if limited so we are requiring guests to pre-register via our Eventbrite page.  We hope to see you there!

 

 

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English Undergraduate Focus Group

Dear Students,

 

I'd like to invite you to a focus group next Monday, January 27th, @ 6pm in the English Lounge (12th floor POT). This discussion is co-sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta.

 

I'm eager to hear your thoughts on how to make improvements to the program. If you're interested in sharing your ideas -- and meeting other English people -- please consider attending.

 

Questions to consider below.

 

Thanks!

Dr. Sizemore

 

Courses:

  • How do you choose your courses? Do you prioritize the course topic, the instructor, how well it fits into your schedule, other?
  • What kinds of courses do you find appealing? Are there certain topics, authors, questions, literary traditions, etc. you would like to see?
  • Do you feel you have enough course choices every semester? 
  • How could the curriculum be more flexible? How could course scheduling be more accommodating?

Student Life

  • Do you think there could be more extracurricular opportunities for English-oriented students? If so, what kinds of activities, groups, clubs, initiatives would be welcome?

Recruitment

  • The department has a lot of ideas about how to encourage more students to take ENG classes and to major or minor in ENG/Creative Writing. Why do you think students are likely to enroll in an ENG class or to major or minor in ENG/Creative Writing? What do you think prohibits them from doing so? What recommendations do you have for reaching more students?

Career Guidance

  • If the English Department organized some career conversations, forums with graduates from the program, resume workshops, etc., do you think students would be interested enough to attend? And even if there's interest, do you think students are likely to attend given busy schedules and competing commitments?

Other

  • Are there other initiatives or improvements you'd like to see?
  • How else can the department support its majors and minors?

 

 

 

 

Michelle Sizemore

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of English

University of Kentucky

https://english.as.uky.edu/user/2185


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English Lounge, 12th floor of POT
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