Please, join the UK Appalachian Center and the African American and Africana Studies Program in welcoming beloved author Crystal Wilkinson to Campus for a talk on Tuesday, April 5th. Ms. Wilkinson is the current Writer in Residence at Berea College and will present in the UKAA Auditorium in the W. T. Young Library from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Her talk is titled Black Women and Mental Health in Appalachia. She will also read from her latest  novel, The Birds of Opulence and hold a discussion with audience members. This event is free, and all UK Students, Faculty, and Staff are most welcome to attend! Please, find more information about Crystal Wilkinson here. 

This will be the 7th annual Graduate Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase! This event brings students from across UK's Campus and from throughout the Appalachian Region together to present their work and research, and the theme is Difference and Affinity: Representing Appalachia. This year's keynote speaker is Tom Hansell, Co-Director of University Documentary Film Services and Assistant Professor at the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and Director of After Coal. The Symposium will span two days this year: Saturday, March 5, 2016 and Sunday, March 6, 2016 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. Poster submissions are due online by midnight on Sunday, January 31, 2016. Registration for presenters and non-presenting attendees is due online by Monday, February 15, 2016. Please, see the GARC page on our website for more information and for submission and registration instructions!  This year's Symposium and Art Showcase is generously co-sponsored by the UK Student Government Association. 

Join us for our first SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) Event of the spring 2016 semester!  Thursday, February 18, 2016 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., the UK Appalachian Center welcomes Lauren Renee Moore, a Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology and Lindsay Shade, a Graduate Student from the Department of Geography.  These students were the recipients of the 2015 James S. Brown Award and will present talks related to their research.  Lauren Renee Moore presents Growing Food for Near of Far? Beginning Farmers and Agricultural Decision Making in the Blue Ridge.  Lindsay Shade presents The Historical and Legal Geography of Subsoil Land in the West Virginia Shale Boom.  This event is free and open to all UK Students, Faculty, and Staff; lunch will be provided.

Please, join us in welcoming two of our 2015 Eller Billings Summer Mini Research Grant Recipients as they present their work at our SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) Event!  Tammy Clemmons, a Graduate Student in Anthropology will give at talk entitled Youth Media Education and Activism in Central Appalachia and Chelsea Adams, a Graduate Students in Educational Psychology will give a talk entitled Stigma Conciousness in Appalachian Students at the UK Appalachian Center from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016.  This is a free event for UK faculty, students, and staff, and lunch will be provided.

For more information on the film series "Europe Through the Lens: a Festival of Contemporary European Films" visit libguides.uky.edu/eurofilm.

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