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City Stories: The People Behind the Policies

Apr 17, 2025

Join the Gaines Center for the Humanities as we welcome Vice Mayor Dan Wu to moderate three conversations between local policymakers and advocates around some of the most pressing health issues in our city: segregation, accessibility, and homelessness. Audience members will hear about the triumphs and tensions between the ways these important community leaders are working to help make our Lexington healthier for all. This event will take place at 1.00pm on Thursday April 17, 2025, at the Farish Theater in Lexington Central Library.

"Disability Bioethics"

Mar 24, 2025

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Behavioral Health Humanities Speaker Series welcomes Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the final speaker in the 2024-2025 series. Garland-Thomson's lecture, "Disability Bioethics" will take place at 7:30pm on Monday March 24, via zoom. This presentation offers definitions and explications of the emerging knowledge and practice field of disability bioethics and the related area of healthcare ethics.

Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Breathitt Lecture

Mar 3, 2025

Established to honor Edward T. Breathitt, an eminent Kentuckian (Governor of KY, 1963-67) and a UK alum with exceptional passion for higher education and the humanities, this lectureship is awarded to an undergraduate whose qualities of mind and spirit have been expressed eloquently on one of more of the basic concerns of the humanities: form, value, and memory. The award is presented by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, and the Edward T. Breathitt Lectureship recipient receives a special award and an honorarium of $500.

"Why History Matters for the Opioid Crisis"

Feb 24, 2025

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Behavioral Health Humanities Speaker Series welcomes David Herzberg as the fourth speaker in the 2024-2025 series. Herzberg's lecture, "Why History Matters for the Opioid Crisis" will take place at 7:30pm on Monday February 24, via zoom. Today’s opioid crisis is often portrayed as unprecedented, but it is only the latest and most devastating episode in a century-long history of drug policy disasters.

The 2025 Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities

Feb 20, 2025

The Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities recognizes advances in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, spotlighting ground-breaking work related to our annual theme. The inaugural lecture, for our Year on Health and the Humanities, will be given by Anastasia Todd and will take place at 4.00pm on Thursday February 20, 2025 in the John Jacobs Niles Gallery of UK's Fine Arts Library.

Gaines Center featured in the Journal of Appalachian Studies

Dec 16, 2024

The Gaines Center for the Humanities' annual Lafayette Seminar featured in the latest edition of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. The article, authored by Associate Director Dr. Chelsea Brislin, revisited the two-day 2024 Lafayette Seminar, a series of public events on the topic of Monsters, Myths, and the Metaphysical. Check out the article in the Volume 30, Number 2 edition, available now at this link.

Our Fall 2024 Newsletter

Dec 16, 2024

The Fall 2024 newsletter includes the many (many!) things happening over here in the UK Gaines Center including updates about our new class of Gaines fellows, our 2024-2025 mini-grant recipients, an alumni interview with Alexandria Davis, and a letter from our new Director, Dr. Michelle Sizemore.

Did You Miss "An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel"?

Dec 16, 2024

If you missed our 2024 Bale Boone Symposium, "An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel" you can now view the whole event on our YouTube channel.

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