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"Experience as Health Data"

Nov 18, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Behavioral Health Humanities Speaker Series welcomes Keisha Ray as the third speaker in the 2024-2025 series. Keisha's lecture, Experience as Health Data: What the Health Humanities Teaches us About Listening to Black Narratives will take place at 7:30pm on Monday November 18, via zoom.

Now Accepting Applications for the Gaines Fellowship

Nov 18, 2024

The application for the Gaines Fellowship is open now and interested applicants are invited to attend our first information session (via zoom) at 3.00pm on Tuesday, November 18: https://uky.zoom.us/j/84929544324. A second information session will be held at 2.00pm on Wednesday, January 22: https://uky.zoom.us/j/87372002950 .

Reckoning, Remembering, Restoring

Nov 9, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center, Reckoning, Remembering, Restoring: A Symposium on the History of Racial Violence in Kentucky will take place from 9.00am until 4.00pm on Saturday, November 9, 2024, at the Lyric Theater & Cultural Arts Center in Lexington. This event will explore how digital humanities—through databases, newspapers, census data, legal cases, and archives—can shine a light on the widespread racial violence that contradicts the myth of Kentucky as a racially progressive state.

The 2024 Curiosity Fair

Nov 6, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities mini-grant program, the 2024 Curiosity Fair will take place on Wednesday November 6, 4:00pm until 6:00pm, in the Gatton Student Center Grand Ballroom. The purpose of the Curiosity Fair is to celebrate the role of curiosity in education, by inviting participants to engage in interactive demos from a variety of disciplines, from science to art to humanities. The event is informal, fun, and free! If you have questions, please contact Lydia Wade (Lydia.Wade@uky.edu) or Libby Hannon (libby.hannon@uky.edu).

Humanities in Action

Nov 4, 2024

Add HMN 303 to your planned courses for Spring 2025; registration opens on November 4! This is a unique hands-on course showcasing careers in the Humanities. Students will explore how libraries digitize and coordinate their collections; they will experience the process of how we memorialize history in Kentucky through historical markers; and finally, they will experience a real archaeological dig while learning how artifacts are collected and preserved.

Sizemore Named Director of UK Gaines Center for the Humanities

Jul 3, 2024

Michelle Sizemore has been named the new director of the University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities, pending approval by the board of trustees.