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An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel

Oct 17, 2024

Join the Gaines Center for the Humanities for the 2024 Bale Boone Symposium featuring award-winning author, Emily St. John Mandel. The event takes place at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday October 17, at the Mitchell Fine Arts Center at Tranyslvania University. Moderated by Gaines Center Director Michelle Sizemore, Ph.D., the conversation will focus on the role of the humanities in a world navigating climate change, global pandemics and fracturing leadership.

Doug Naselroad: Lecture & Panel Discussion

Oct 18, 2024

A discussion panel featuring Dr. Chelsea Brislin, Associate Director of the Gaines Center, will follow Doug Naselroad's lecture about cultural heritage and recovery. The lecture and panel discussion will take place at 12.00pm on Friday October 18, in The Forum (room 111) of the Gray Design Building. Naselroad is the Master Luthier for the Troublesome Creek Stringed Instrument Company. The Troublesome Creek Stringed Instrument Company makes some of the world’s finest guitars. It also provides a path forward for people in recovery.

Poetry in the Trees

Oct 14, 2024

As part of the Urban Forest's Initiative Tree Week, the Gaines Center is proud to host Poetry in the Trees on Monday 14 October at 4.00pm. Taking place on the Gaines Center Lawn (218 E Maxwell St.), this event will include short poetry readings from volunteers and the opportunity to create your own piece of "black-out" poetry. If you would like to volunteer to read a poem on the theme of trees, please contact Hannah Schultz (hannah.schultz@uky.edu) or Austin Lillywhite (austin.lillywhite@uky.edu).

Humanities in Action

Sep 30, 2024

Add HMN 303 to your planned courses for Spring 2025! 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.

"Don't We Die Too?": Learning from Black Gay Men's AIDS Activism

Sep 30, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Behavioral Health Humanities Speaker Series welcomes Dan Royles as the second speaker in the 2024 series. Dan's lecture, "Don't We Die Too?": Learning from Black Gay Men's AIDS Activism will take place at 7:30pm on Monday October 21, via zoom. Since AIDS was first identified in 1981, the disease has disproportionately impacted gay and bisexual men, as well as communities of color, and especially African Americans.

The 2024 Curiosity Fair

Sep 26, 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).

Reckoning, Remembering, Restoring

Sep 26, 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.

"Disability Bioethics"

Sep 25, 2024

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.

"Why History Matters for the Opioid Crisis"

Sep 25, 2024

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.

"Experience as Health Data"

Sep 25, 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.

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