Black Studies @50 Program
September 19 & 20, 2019
Woodward Hall
Thursday, September 19, 2019
6:00pm: Keynote Panel:“1968: The Role of Students and the Beginning of Black Studies at UK and Expanding the Study of Race in Higher Education and the Community”
Featuring: Dr. William Turner, Jim Embry, Elaine Adams Wilson, Theodore Berry and Guy Mendes.
Please register to attend this keynote panel here: Registration
Friday, September 20, 2019
Panels
9:00am: Welcome from Director Anastasia Curwood
9:15 – 10:20am: Gender and Sexuality in the Shaping of Black Studies
10:30 – 11:45am: Creativity and the Imagined Future of Black Studies
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch: Envisioning the Future
1:15 – 2:30pm: Africa and the Diaspora in the Future of Black Studies
2:40 – 3:50pm: New Voices in AAAS
4:00-5:30pm: Keynote: Nathan Connelly, Johns Hopkins University and co-host of weekly podcast Backstory
Also, please see UK Special Collections Research Center's online exhibit "University of Kentucky Black Studies @ 50 Symposium: Related Archival Documents from the University of Kentucky Archives". Click here