Join us for a film screening of The 24th, a historical film written and directed by Kevin Willmott! This film screening will be held virtually followed by a brief Q&A discussion. For more insight on the film, check out this interview.

Read more on Kevin Willmott's extensive works HERE.

Watch The 24th movie trailer!

This event is sponsored by:

• International Film Certificate Program
• Gaines Center for Humanities
• UK History Department
• Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
• Rosenberg College of Law
• Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• UK Veteran's Resource CEnter
• William T. Young Library
• UK Office of Institutional Diversity

To register, click HERE! Contact Pearl James for more information.

Feeling a bit lost as a new or not-so-new faculty member during this uncertain time? Our faculty peer mentoring programs can help. Research shows that faculty peer mentoring creates various benefits for mentees, including but not limited to higher research productivity, increased teaching proficiency, more robust networks and collegial relationships, better work-life balance, and higher career satisfaction.

Please join Sarah Lyon, Associate Dean of Faculty, and Karen Petrone, Director of the Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences, for a workshop to help you get the mentoring you need to thrive in your faculty career.

REGISTRATION HERE!

Faculty peer mentoring is proven to be beneficial for both mentors and mentees. It can foster new collegial relationships, develop research and teaching skills, improve work-life balance, and create opportunities to meet faculty from other departments or fields. However, it is not easy to build effective faculty mentorship without proper guidelines and appropriate structures that set clear, professional boundaries and accomplish concrete goals.

Please join Sarah Lyon, Associate Dean of Faculty, and Karen Petrone, Director of the Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences, for a workshop that will offer tips and provide resources and strategies to help interested faculty be effective faculty peer mentors.

REGISTRATION HERE!

This Q&A about Szalavitz’s forthcoming book, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette Books, 2021), will explore the history of harm reduction and what it suggests about dealing with the current overdose crisis. It will examine the false narrative that now drives opioid policy and how harm reduction offers both a more accurate and a more effective way to manage drug issues.

This Q&A about Szalavitz’s forthcoming book, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette Books, 2021), will explore the history of harm reduction and what it suggests about dealing with the current overdose crisis. It will examine the false narrative that now drives opioid policy and how harm reduction offers both a more accurate and a more effective way to manage drug issues.

Bradford will demonstrate that drugs — especially opium — were critical components in the formation and failure of the Afghan state. He will discuss how the country moved from licit supply of the global opium trade to one of the major suppliers of illicit hashish and opium. "Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy" (Cornell University Press, 2019) breaks the conventional modes of national histories that fail to fully encapsulate the global nature of the drug trade by explaining how Afghanistan’s emergence as a major supplier of illicit drugs is tied to broader changes to the global drug market and international drug control. Drawing from his book, Bradford’s talk will explore the global history of opium within the borders of Afghanistan, how the drug trade is tied to the formation of the Afghan state and the future implications of drug production, trade and use in Afghanistan and globally.

Join us for the first session of the second annual Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UK CHSS! The Summer 2021 "Kreminar" explores the theme of Opioids and Opiates and will feature six virtual seminars, presentations, and discussions by scholars and practicioners researching and writing about the history and contemporary status of opioids, opiates, and addiction.

Register for the first session here! https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lceurrToqHtKjkHefbHmeAVql…

This program brings together a scholar on the history of gender and Asians in the United States with two activists whose work combats Anti-Asian hate and fights discrimination against Asian and Asian American Women in the United States. Our speakers will be:

Charlene Buckles, Development Director of ACLU Kentucky

Tosha Larson, an activist living in Lexington, Kentucky

Akiko Takenaka, Department of History, University of Kentucky

Co-sponsored by the A&S Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LZJzSyGkSYybA8semEoTaw