This event is part of the College of Arts & Sciences Year of Equity and UK's 70 Years of Intergration Series

 

Schedule:

Panels

 9:00 am                      Welcome from Director Anastasia Curwood

9:15 – 10:20                Panel:  Gender and Sexuality in the Shaping of Black Studies

10:30 – 11:45              Panel:  Creativity and the Imagined Future of Black Studies

12:00 pm                     Lunch:  Envisioning the Future

1:15 – 2:30                  Panel:  Africa and the Diaspora in the Future of Black Studies

2:40 – 3:50                  Panel:  New Voices in AAAS



4:00 pm                       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.