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David Herzberg

"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.

Anastasia Todd

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.

Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon

Feb 19, 2025

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Creative Writing Division of the Department of English welcomes acclaimed author Kiese Laymon to campus. Laymon will speak at the Singletary Center for the Arts at 6.00pm on Wednesday February 19, 2025. 

Gaines Fellowship

Now Accepting Applications for the Gaines Fellowship

Jan 22, 2025

The application for the Gaines Fellowship is open now and interested applicants are invited to attend our information session (via zoom) at 2.00pm on Wednesday, January 22:  https://uky.zoom.us/j/87372002950. The Gaines Fellowship is an intensive two-year program awarded to 12 outstanding undergraduate students each year. Selected fellows take a four-credit hour seminar course as a small cohort focused on the humanities with outstanding UK faculty both semesters of their junior year.

App Studies

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. 

Fall 2024 Newsletter

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. 

Emily St. John Mandel

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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