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a gaines center for the humanities mini grant event Denim Day Fashion Show: Awareness, Advocacy, and Action Registration Now Open

Rock your denim and join us for a powerful day raising awareness, standing up, and making change happen! Clothing is not consent. Join us for an evening of fashion, storytelling, and change as we challenge harmful myths and support survivors.

The 2026 Lafayette Seminar in Public Issues Humanities in Action: Origins and New Directions Registration Now Open

The Gaines Center for the Humanities will host the 2026 Lafayette Seminar, “Humanities in Action: Origins and New Beginnings,” from 3.00pm until 5.00pm on Thursday, April 16, in the Hardymon Theater, Davis Marksbury Building.

now accepting applications Gaines Humanities Cooperatives

The Gaines Center for the Humanities is excited to introduce “Gaines Humanities Cooperatives”—an initiative that fosters new and emerging working groups on Humanities-focused research, pedagogy, advocacy, and public scholarship. Envisioned as a generator of community across departments and colleges, Gaines Cooperatives assist in the formation of these university networks by providing funding, space, and other institutional support for coalescing around common interests and goals.

The 2026 Breathitt Lecture with Beaux Hardin Black Que(e)ries: Bridging Communities through Poetic Origins from Black Archives Registration Now Open

Beaux Hardin, a University of Kentucky College Arts & Sciences senior, has been selected to give the 31st annual Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities. Hardin’s lecture will discuss poetry as a creative medium that invents new language, ultimately connecting people from around the world and creating an immaterial space that redefines identity.

a gaines center for the humanities mini grant event Everything in Common: Nothing to Lose The 2026 Social Theory Symposium

Sponsored by a Gaines Center for the Humanities mini grant, the 2026 Social Theory Symposium, featuring author Peter Linebaugh, will take place on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 April, 2026.  Date Time Event Location

A GAINES CENTER for the humanities MINI GRANT EVENT The Keeping Space

Save the date for the screening of The Keeping Place, a short documentary by Jena Seiler and Nicole Martin, on Thursday April 2, 6.00pm, at the Lyric Theater. A panel discussion will follow the screening. This event is sponsored by a 2025-2026 Gaines Center Mini-Grant.

NOW AVAILABLE Our Fall 2026 Newsletter

The Fall 2026 newsletter includes the many (many!) things happening over here in the UK Gaines Center including our 40th anniversary alumni reunion celebrations, our 2025-2026 mini-grant recipients, and spotlights on current senior fellow Marc Vazsonyi and alumna Cat Wentworth.

NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM The 2025 Bale Boone Symposium with Ebony G. Patterson

The 2025 Bale Boone Symposium with Ebony G. Patterson is now available to stream on our YouTube channel. CLICK HERE TO STREAM

now available to stream 2025 Breathitt Lecture with Lucas Carlos de Lima

The 2025 Breathitt Lecture, Crystal Palaces: Designing a Better World Amidst Social Chaos presented by Lucas Carlos de Lima, is now available to stream on our YouTube channel.  Click here to view the lecture. 

Gaines Class of 2027 Gaines Center Selects Newest Cohort of Fellows

The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities is thrilled to announce the selection of 12 undergraduates as the newest class of Gaines Fellows. These students will join the prestigious Gaines Fellowship Program in the Humanities for the 2025-2026 academic year.

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