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.

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

Wondering how to get started on a national grant or fellowship application?  Or received a rejection and did not know what to do next?  Professor Craig Koslofsky, Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois and an experienced faculty grant advisor will, demystify the grant cycle in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This workshop will prepare you to design and present your research so that you can submit multiple grant applications in the 2021-2022 cycle, which begins in April 2021 and continues through April 2022.

Craig Koslofsky has many years’ experience as a grant advisor with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois. He has worked with numerous NEH Faculty Fellowship and Guggenheim awardees, as well as recipients of highly competitive fellowships from the ACLS, the National Humanities Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and other funding agencies. Koslofsky is working on a book on research proposal design and presentation.

To join the workshop, please use the Zoom link below:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/83880863296

Are you interested in publicly-engaged scholarship and working with local communities? Please join us for a panel featuring scholars from a variety of disciplines to learn more about their work and suggested best practices. The workshop will acquaint you with a broad array of resources and conversations on the topic of publicly-engaged scholarship and answer any questions you may have.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Appalachian Center, and the Center for Equality and Social Justice. Register at https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldOuqqj4sE9J_LsYywrLeKI_nv-I0mh…

For more information about our presenters, please see their personal webpage:

Dr. Christia Brown, Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Dr. Natalie Nenadic, and Dr. Matthew Wilson

Are you interested in publicly-engaged scholarship and working with local communities? Please join us for a panel featuring scholars from a variety of disciplines to learn more about their work and suggested best practices. The workshop will acquaint you with a broad array of resources and conversations on the topic of publicly-engaged scholarship and answer any questions you may have.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Appalachian Center, and the Center for Equality and Social Justice. Register at https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldOuqqj4sE9J_LsYywrLeKI_nv-I0mh…

For more information about our presenters, please see their personal webpage:

Dr. Christia Brown, Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Dr. Natalie Nenadic, and Dr. Matthew Wilson

Our first-ever virtual research day is focused on celebrating research efforts, sharing research findings, disseminating best practices, enhancing collaborations, and mentoring the upcoming generation of clinical and translational researchers.  As always, the event is free to participants as part of our commitment to our community. 



Join us for poster and oral presentations, the annual Von Allman 60-Second Poster Pitch Competition, mentor awards, entertainment, and more!

Register at: https://www.labroots.com/ms/virtual-event/ccts-spring-research-day-2021

For more information about our presenters, please see their personal webpage:

Dr. Philip A. Kern, Dr. Karen Petrone, John M. Berry, and Dr. Claire Clark

This panel brings together community members and scholars to discuss best practices of youth and campus policing, and practices that need to be reformed. How can we promote racial equality and social justice in youth and campus policing? The speakers are Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, Executive Director of the Institute for Compassion in Justice, Chief of Police Eric Scott of the Berea Police Department, Marro Inoue, a UK anthropologist who will speak about his field work as an intern at the UK police department, and Dwayne Mack, a historian at Berea College, whose scholarship focuses on race and policing.

Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VQ5Hr0lPRNm5xiRoPcSCcw