Center Events

Graduate Appalachian Research Community's 3rd Annual Appalachian Research Symposium and Arts Showcase

Date: 
February 11, 2011 - 8:00am - 8:00pm
Location: 
U.K. Student Center

The Dollmaker

Date: 
November 15, 2011 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
Young Library Auditorium

Tuesday, November 15-  The Graduate Research Community and the Appalachian Center present, A Screening of The Dollmaker (1984), a film based on the book by Harriette Simpson Arnow, 5:00 p.m., Young Library Auditorium. UK student and Arnow curator assistant Amber Surface will introduce the film.

Growing Local Economies Network Meeting

Date: 
June 1, 2011 - 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: 
West Liberty, KY

We are excited to announce a wonderful occasion for the GLEN network to meet together face to face this summer. The meeting will be a time to share, learn, and plan with other economic development professionals in the region.    The event will feature speakers, pecha kucha (present your current work or initiatives with a presentation that utilizes 20 PowerPoint slides at 20 seconds each), and a mini-open space to ensure ample small group opportunities for collaboration and understanding.

Elizabeth Engelhardt, Place Matters

Date: 
March 24, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
John Jacob Niles Gallery

Date: March 3, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: John Jacob Niles Gallery (Reception Following)

Part of the Place Matters Series

Now perhaps more than ever--in the context of a globalizing world and an internationalizing curriculum--PLACE MATTERS. This lecture series explores the importance of place in scholarship, pedgogy, and activsm.

"Gathering Wild Greens: Foodways Lessons from Appalachia's Global Past"

Speaker: Elizabeth Engelhardt, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Texas

Discussants: Professors Erik Reece (English) & Randall Roorda (English)

Babara Ellen Smith, Place Matters

Date: 
April 14, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
John Jacob Niles Gallery

Date:
April 14, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location:
John Jacob Niles Gallery (Reception Following)

Part of the Place Matters Series

Now perhaps more than ever--in the context of a globalizing world and an internationalizing curriculum--PLACE MATTERS. This lecture series explores the importance of place in scholarship, pedgogy, and activsm.

"Transforming Places: Towards a Global Politics of Appalachia"

Speaker: Barbara Ellen Smith, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

Elizabeth Engelhardt, Place Matters

Date:
March 24, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location:
John Jacob Niles Gallery (Reception Following)

Part of the Place Matters Series

Now perhaps more than ever--in the context of a globalizing world and an internationalizing curriculum--PLACE MATTERS. This lecture series explores the importance of place in scholarship, pedgogy, and activsm.

"Gathering Wild Greens: Foodways Lessons from Appalachia's Global Past"

Speaker: Elizabeth Engelhardt, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Texas

Discussants: Professors Erik Reece (English) & Randall Roorda (English)

Appalachian Student Research Symposium

Date: 
April 2, 2011 - 8:00am
Location: 
Student Center

The UK Appalachian Center, in partnership with the UK Appalachian Studies Program and the Appalachian Research Community, is sponsoring the 2011 UK Appalachian Research Student Symposium and Showcase for graduate students whose work relates to Appalachia. The symposium takes place Saturday, April 2 and will include a keynote speaker, lunch, dialogue session, a student art showcase, and awards ceremony.

John Pickles, Place Matters

Date: 
March 3, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
W. T. Young Library Auditorium (Reception Following)

 

Part of the Place Matters Series

Now perhaps more than ever--in the context of a globalizing world and an internationalizing curriculum--PLACE MATTERS. This lecture series explores the importance of place in scholarship, pedgogy, and activsm.

Speaker: John Pickles, Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies & Chair of Geography,University of North Carolina

Discussants: TBA

 

Placing' Futures and Making Sense of Globalization on the Edge of Appalachia"

Date: 
February 24, 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
John Jacob Niles Gallery

Part of the Place Matters Series

Now perhaps more than ever--in the context of a globalizing world and an internationalizing curriculum--PLACE MATTERS. This lecture series explores the importance of place in scholarship, pedgogy, and activsm.

Speaker: Ann Kingsolver, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Discussants: Professors Mary Anglin (Anthropology) & Keiko Tanaka (Rural Sociology & Asia (Center Director)

 

 

 

 

William Evans Talk

Date: 
November 19, 2010 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: 
Gatton Business & Economics Room 305.

The Center for Poverty Research is pleased to welcome William Evans (http://www.nd.edu/~wevans1/ ), Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics  at University of Notre Dame, as our next Seminar Series speaker on Friday, November 19, 2-3:30 p.m., in Gatton Business & Economics Room 305. 
 
The paper he will present is titled The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt.  Paper copies will be available in the Economics Department mailroom (third floor of Gatton) by Friday, November 12. Copies will also be available at the seminar.