Our next meeting is Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm at the Willy T Starbucks. We will be work-shopping this meeting, so come prepared to critique and/or share. If you are planning on coming, please let us know. Also, if you would like everyone who RSVPs to have an electronic copy ahead of time, email us your piece.
Writing Events & Opportunities:
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon Meacham Talk – Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7:00 pm, Singletary Center for the Arts. Meacham will present the first annual Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Lecture, honoring the late U.S. Senator and Kentucky Governor. Ford, a longtime advocate for the Martin School, was the principal sponsor of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, sometimes called the “motor voter act.” Meacham’s address will highlight the eveningprogram in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Center for the Arts and is expected to focus on current and future developments in voting rights and elections.
Visiting Writers Series: A reading by Roxane Gay – Wednesday, Oct. 14, 8:00pm, Singletary Center for the Arts. "Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK. She is also the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016."
A great opportunity for undergraduates interesting in being published:
"Indiana Review and Indiana University’s W280 Literary Editing and Publishing course have decided to team up and create a space for any currently enrolled undergraduate student to submit POETRY or SHORT FICTION (up to 5000 words) to us for consideration in our once-annual issue of Indiana Review Online: an Undergraduate Project. This inaugural issue will be published on Indiana Review’s website in January 2016 and will be wholly edited by undergraduate IU students enrolled in the course."
http://indianareview.org/2015/07/announcing-indiana-review-online-an-undergraduate-project/
"Indiana Review and Indiana University’s W280 Literary Editing and Publishing course have decided to team up and create a space for any currently enrolled undergraduate student to submit POETRY or SHORT FICTION (up to 5000 words) to us for consideration in our once-annual issue of Indiana Review Online: an Undergraduate Project. This inaugural issue will be published on Indiana Review’s website in January 2016 and will be wholly edited by undergraduate IU students enrolled in the course."
http://indianareview.org/2015/07/announcing-indiana-review-online-an-undergraduate-project/
VIP Solidarity Slam – Wednesday, October 28th, 7-9pm, rm 114CB (Whitehall). If you are interested in performing, please contact carol.tyler@uky.edu.
Thanks,
Yvonne
Co-President"
Yvonne
Co-President"
Dear All,
UK Education Abroad will hold its annual Fall
Fair on Thursday, September 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Buell Armory
(next to the Main Building).
The Education Abroad Fair showcases a wide range
of education abroad programs, including faculty-directed programs, exchanges,
consortia programming, and much more. Students can learn more about
international internships, service-learning opportunities and conducting
research abroad. In addition, campus offices involved in the education
abroad planning process, such as the Office of Student Aid and the
Stuckert Career Center will have representatives available to answer
questions.
Please encourage your students to attend the
Fair. You might also recommend that students review our discipline-specific MAPs. UK Faculty and
advisors are also encouraged to attend.
For more information about the Education Abroad
Fair, please click here.
University of Kentucky Constitution Day 2015
Town Hall Forum
“The Power of Symbols: Confederate Imagery in the Public Space”
September 9, 2015 – The tragic massacre of 9 African American congregants at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and the subsequent removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina capitol have generated a national conversation on the appropriateness of Confederate symbols and imagery in the public space. Kentucky has found itself in the middle of this conversation, with public debate centering on the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the Frankfort capitol rotunda and the statue of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan at the Lexington Courthouse.
Confederate imagery – flags, monuments, statues, and paintings – are regarded by many as symbols of racism and slavery that should be removed from the public square. Others view them as historic artifacts that remind us of our complicated past and should not be hidden away. Still others consider Confederate symbols, including the rebel battle flag, as emblems of Southern heritage and pride.
In recognition of Constitution Day, the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Program and the Division of Undergraduate Education (UGE) at the University of Kentucky will host the town hall forum “The Power of Symbols: Confederate Imagery in the Public Space.” This town hall forum will explore diverse issues and perspectives regarding the exhibition of Confederate monuments, flags, and symbols on public land and in public buildings. Panelist will thoughtfully and respectfully explore the history of Confederate images, elicit public discussion regarding the influence of Confederate symbols, and explore potential responses and resolutions for moving forward.
This town hall forum will be held on Thursday, September 17, 2015 from 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. in the University of Kentucky’s William T. Young Library Auditorium, located at 401 Hilltop Ave., Lexington, KY. This forum is open to the public. Community members, students and faculty at the University of Kentucky and surrounding colleges and universities are encouraged to attend. Submit questions and comments regarding this town hall forum using the hashtag #UKYTownHall. Your tweets may be addressed or included in the forum.
UK will also host a number of other Constitution Day events. For more information on the town hall forum or other Constitution Day events, please visit the UK Undergraduate Education website at http://www.uky.edu/UGE/constitution-day. The press is invited to cover this event.
College of Arts and SciencesPassport to the World / Year of Europe 2015-2016 Kick-Off Event!Thursday, September 3 from 12-2 on the Memorial Hall LawnThere will be free food, music, and Year of Europe t-shirts as well as access to a wealth of information on upcoming Year of Europe events, courses, Education Abroad opportunities and more.
The A & S Passport to the World Program enables the College to embark on yearlong explorations of the culture and history of a particular region or country in an effort to engage our community in crucial global conversations through public lectures, cultural events, coursework and travel opportunities. After past programs focused on South Africa, China, Russia's Realms, Mexico, and the Middle East. A&S is shifting its focus to Europe for the 2015-2016 academic year. Updated information throughout the year can be found on the Year of Europe website: http://europe.as.uky.edu .Please encourage your students to attend!
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2015) — For centuries, African Americans in the United States
have had to overcome a lack of resources chronicling individuals' lives and
culture in the nation's early history based on bigotry and societal status.
Today, the black community's LGBTQ* members face similar obstacles in capturing
their story. Scholar Jennifer Jones will speak to these
difficulties at a talk at the University of Kentucky beginning 4 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 3, in the Great Hall of the Margaret I. King Library Building. The event
is free and open to the public.
The Girl Project - Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for students and can be purchased in advance (highly recommended). I will be at each of the performances this week and if you come to Saturday's performance you can catch my small cameo in the show as well as engage in the Post-Show Panel Discussion facilitated by Margaret McGladrey (Assistant Dean for Research, UK College of Public Health) and Ed Morris (UK Department of Sociology).
Kentucky Women Writers Conference - September 10-12, 2015 - More info
I went to your eng 207 class and gave feedback on another class' websites. We gave them recommendations on how to improve their websites. They also ran by some of their ideas to us. We approved or suggested alternatives based on the ideas. It was a fun experience to help others students out. I really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI went to watch Dear white People during UK's Late Night Film series with a few friends. It was a great movie filled with many surprises. Like how Sam, who is bi-racial was the biggest pro-black student on campus, was sleeping with her father's TA who is white. She tried to hide it because she was ashamed. Also how at the end of the movie when Troy started to run for student body president he told CoCo they had to keep their relationship on the low because of the YouTube videos she posted and how it would portray him during his campaign. In the end it was a great satirical movie and I truly enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI attended the Year of Europe event. There was European music and food and many opportunities for learning about Europe presented at the event. I also went to the Constitution Day. There was a panel answering questions about issues regarding the exhibition of Confederate monuments, flags, and symbols on public land and in public buildings. There was public discussion as well. It was very interesting to hear all of the different perspectives.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, October 26th I had the opportunity to attend the lecture presented by Dr. Terrell Strayhorn of Ohio State University. Dr. Strayhorn discussed race and the criminal justice system in America. This discussion was very insightful as we brought sensitive topics such as racial profiling and education levels in the African american community to light. Dr. Strayhorn was a very captivating speaker and it was overall a very enjoyable presentation.
ReplyDeleteI attended Dr. Hill's ENG 207 class. In the class, I observed other students projects and gave them feedback. I thought it was interesting to see other students channel there creativity through writing and technology.
ReplyDeleteI attended the showing of Dear White People in November in Memorial Hall. I'd heard a lot about criticisms of the film but overall I really enjoyed it. It addressed issues and microaggresions that face black students at PWIs all the time. The plot felt very familiar, as I could relate with a lot of the film being a black women attending a PWI.
ReplyDeleteI attended the education abroad event on September 17th. I entered this event with no knowledge about studying abroad. I learned that studying abroad is a very fun and interesting style of learning. It is a great opportunity to learn and adjust to different cultures. I believe studying abroad would be a great experience.
ReplyDeleteI attended the Mr. and Mrs. Black UK pageant earlier in the semester. This was my first pageant going to so I really did not know what to expect. I got to see some pretty cool talents and had a good experience.
ReplyDeleteI attended the viewing of the Dear White People movie with a friend of mine. Initially I had mixed emotions about the movie, but in the end I decided that I very much liked it. I felt as though the movie stereotyped to the extreme in many scenarios, but I suppose that was to better get the point across in a short time. Sam's character as the militant African American women could be seen as a stereotype as well as behaviors of white characters. Many themes were addressed in a short time, such as how the media portrays African Americans after the fight, weather or not white people and other races accept, or abuse black culture or both, overcompensation because one does not want to appear not black enough, and the Dean's pressure on his son because he felt he lost to the white man. I also thought it was interesting how the camera angles used made some characters look large in the scene, while others appeared small and unimportant.
ReplyDeleteThe event I attended was the Mr. And Mrs. Black Uk pageant and I really enjoyed it. The program was very uplifting and supportive of the black students. I felt as if it was showing and uplifting the black community, by showing that despite we go to a PWI they still have a group of people who support and uplift them!! I feel it really showed a supportive positive
ReplyDeleteSide of the black community, through all the negativity going on with police brutality.
The event I attended was the Mr. And Ms. Black Uk pageant, and I loved it. I feel like it was really supportive and uplifting of the people in the pageant. It showed that despite we go to a PWI there is still a community and supportive place for those black students.
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