Friday, September 14th @ 5:30 pm we will be showing the film Sludge

Fridays@APP is a forum for students, facilitated under guidance provided by the Appalachian Center. Each Friday we will discuss key issues and events of the day pertaining to Kentucky, Appalachia, and the world at large. The purpose of the series is to provide an opportunity outside of the classroom for networking and for discussion of student-suggested topics and issues. Please join us any Friday you like.

The UK Appalachian Center announces Fridays @ APP, a film series and student-led discussion forum for the academic year 2012-2013. Fridays @ APP will foster spirited intellectual discussion and plenty of entertainment.

Fridays @ APP is a forum for students, facilitated under guidance provided by the Appalachian Center. Each Friday we will discuss key issues and events of the day pertaining to Kentucky, Appalachia, and the world at large. The purpose of the series is to provide an opportunity outside of the classroom for networking and for discussion of student-suggested topics and issues. Please join us any Friday you like.

The film series will begin on Friday, September 7, at 7PM. The venue each Friday will be the Appalachian Center, 624 Maxwelton Court (off of S. Limestone, across from the UK Law School), and refreshments will be provided.

Since the series is student-driven, we will decide each week what to view and discuss the next week.

The Robinson Scholars Program will welcome two-time Grammy nominee Larry Cordle to campus for a free concert on June 21 at 7 p.m. in the Singletary Center for the Arts.

Cordle is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter who also leads the bluegrass band Lonesome Standard Time. During his more than 30 years as a professional musician, the eastern Kentucky native has written or co-written numerous Top 40 country hits for a virtual who’s who of country musicians.

In addition to his concert performance, Cordle will also lead a workshop on songwriting and the business of music with high school students attending the Robinson Scholars Mission Appalachia summer camp.

“Larry Cordle is a true Appalachian treasure,” said Jeff Spradling, Robinson Scholars director. “We are thrilled that such an accomplished artist from the region will share his experiences with the students in our program.”

A native of Lawrence County, Cordle’s breakthrough in country music came in 1983 when he penned the number one country hit “Highway 40 Blues,” which was recorded by Ricky Skaggs. After that milestone, Cordle left an active career as a musician in Lexington to become a songwriter for Welk Music in Nashville.

The Robinson Scholars Program’s Mission Appalachia Camp seeks to raise awareness among eastern Kentucky youth about the important historical and cultural contributions of the region to the state and nation.

“In the Robinson Scholars Program, we value our east Kentucky roots,” Spradling said. “We want our scholars to come to UK well prepared academically, but we also want them to be proud of their region and culture,” Spradling said. “Mission Appalachia will give our students an opportunity to learn about and celebrate their rich heritage through arts and humanities programming.”

During the camp, scheduled for June 17-22, 35 students will participate in a variety of classroom and hands-on activities to learn about the rich culture of eastern Kentucky and Appalachia. Participants will take classes in writing and Appalachian Studies, discover the extensive Bert T. Combs Appalachian Collection, and participate in workshops in art, music, dance, and storytelling.

Another important aspect of Robinson Scholars programming is community service. All high school and college participants perform community service to remain active in the Robinson Scholars Program. “We will work with our students at the camp to develop meaningful community service projects that use arts and humanities themes,” Spradling said.

The concert with Larry Cordle is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30, and seating is limited. Cordle’s performance will be held as a fund raiser for the Robinson Scholars Program and to raise awareness about the program’s mission. For more information, contact Jeff Spradling, RSP director, at 859-257-5230.

Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University

A Digital Humanities Symposium

February 15-16, 2013

The University of Kentucky

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program

Keynote Speakers:

Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas

Malcolm McCullough, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan

Of all the topics of interest to the digital humanities, the network has received little attention among digital humanities proponents.  Yet, we live in a networked society: texts, sound, ideas, people, movements, consumerism, protest movements, politics, entertainment, academia, and other items circulate in networks that come together and break apart at various moments. While there exist networked spaces of interaction for digital humanities work – such as HASTAC or specific university centers -  we still must consider how networks affect traditional and future goals of humanities work. Have the humanities sufficiently addressed the ways their work, as networks, affect other networks, within and outside of the humanities? What might be a networked digital humanities or what is it currently if it does, indeed, exist? Can an understanding of the humanities as a series of networks affect – positively or negatively - the ways the public perceive its research, pedagogy, and mission?

The University of Kentucky’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program invites proposals for a two day symposium devoted to discussion of the implications of a networked digital humanities. The symposium will bring together academic and professional audiences in order to rethink the taxonomy of humanities so that we emerge with a network of people and ideas beyond the traditional taxonomy of “humanities” work. Thus, talks will not be limited to traditional humanities areas of study. 

Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

·      Public humanities work

·      Networks among disciplines

·      Ecologies

·      Animal and human networks

·      Online spaces

·      Mapping/Geography

·      Economics and the humanities

·      Labor and the humanities

·      Digital production of texts

·      Community work

·      Workplace organization

·      The university as network

·      Archives and Obsolescence

February 15-16, 2013

Panels, roundtables, performative pieces, and alternative forms of delivery are welcome and encouraged.

No registration fee to attend or present. Please send 250 word proposals to  Jeff Rice j.rice@uky.edu  by September 1, 2012.

Creating new ways to incorporate the energy conversation into our classrooms

 

Organized & Hosted by:

The University of Kentucky Appalachian Center

Facilitators:

Dr. Leanne Avery, SUNY Oneonta & Dr. Jenrose Fitzgerald, Univeristy of Kentucky

In this 3-day workshop, we will explore together methods for incorporating the science, engineering, and energy concepts students already know from everyday life into the science classroom, using new techniques and Appalachian examples. We will develop curricular materials together that meet the new state standards. Each day of this participatory workshop will build on conversations and activities from the day before, so it will be important to attend the full 3-day event.

The purpose of the workshop is to work collaboratively with science teachers to develop curricular materials that are place-based and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Drawing on our collective expertise and experience we will explore how to document and build on students’ local knowledge to engage students in science, as well as how to apply students’ problem-solving skills to issues of importance to their communities.

A participatory curriculum development workshop for middle and high school science teachers from the 54 ARC-designated Appalachian KY counties. (http://www.arc.gov/counties)

There will be a panel of those who have written Appalachian Health and Well-Being, Helen Matthews Lewis:  Living Social Justice in Appalachia, The Hills Remember, and A Positive View for LGBTQ to talk about those books and take questions from the audience.

Dinner reception and booksigning event for Helen and Judi; the authors published in Appalachian Health and Well-Being; Ted Olson, editor of The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still; and Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky, eds. of A Positive View for LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being. At 7PM, in Memorial Hall, there will be a panel of those who have written Appalachian Health and Well-Being, The Hills Remember, and A Positive View for LGBTQ to talk about those books and take questions from the audience.

 Helen Lewis and Judi Jennings will give an Appalachian Forum based on their new book, Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia.

Staged reading in Memorial Hall with talk-back for Q&A with playwright (Silas House), director (Adanma Barton), cast, crew and the band Sugar Tree at the Memorial Hall Amphitheater (rain room Gatton BE 148 for talk back session).