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Date: 09/05/2014
- 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Martin
Luther King Center (Student Center)
AAAS presents the Carter G. Woodson Lectures Series.
DaMaris Hill, Assistant Professor of Creative
Writing and African American and Africana Studies, will read an excerpt from
her novel Willows in the Spring.
“We Wear the Mask: Black Superheroes Through the Ages” Sep 6, 2014 – Jan 3, 2015
This exhibit at the Lyric Theater and Cultural Center features a comprehensive timeline highlighting the history of black superheroes illustrated with framed posters, original art, comic books and action figures from the private collection of Frank X Walker & his son Taajwar D’Van Howard.
Date: 09/12/2014 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: 238 Classroom Building
Speaker / Presenter: Rashad Shabazz
This talk examines the articulation of carceral
power in the kitchenettes and the impact it had on identity formation. I
demonstrate this by highlighting how carceral power was expressed in the
geography of kitchenettes. Kitchenettes were small, tight, cramped spaces
that many Black migrants were forced to live in once they arrived to Chicago.
I argue that the expression of police power that was operating in the Black
Belt migrated into the homes of Black migrants. Though not actual
prisons, kitchenettes were amenable to the expression of carceral power—particularly
containment and restriction—present throughout the Black Belt.
Kitchenettes absorbed the exercise of police power that functioned in the general
space of the Black Belt and brought it closer to the skin. https://aaas.as.uky.edu/rashad-shabazz-our-prison-kitchenettes-carceral-power-and-black-masculinity-during-interwar-years
Date: 09/08/2014 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: MLK Center
Speaker /
Presenter: Michael Twitty
Michael W. Twitty is a
recognized culinary historian and independent scholar focusing on historic
African American food and folk culture and culinary traditions of historic
Africa and her Diaspora. He is a living history interpreter and historic chef,
one of the few recognized international experts of his craft— the
re-construction of early Southern cuisine as prepared by enslaved African
American cooks for tables high and low—from heirloom seeds and heritage breed
animals to fish, game, and foraged plant foods to historic cooking methods to
the table. He is webmaster of www.Afroculinaria.com,
the first website/blog devoted to the preservation of historic African American
foods and foodways. He has conducted over 200 classes and workshops, written
curricula and educational programs, giving lectures and performed cooking
demonstrations for over 100 groups including the Smithsonian Institution,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Carnegie-Mellon, Thomas Jefferson's
Monticello, Library of Congress, the Association for the Study of Food and
Society and Oxford University's Symposium on Food and Cookery. https://aaas.as.uky.edu/michael-twitty-kosher-soul-presentation-0
Date: 09/17/2014
- 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: William
T. Young Library
Speaker / Presenter: Ezra
Greenspan
Writing African American Biography:
The Case of William Wells Brown, Kentuckian
Sept
17, 2014 at 4pm in the William T. Young Library https://aaas.as.uky.edu/writing-african-american-biography-case-william-wells-brown-kentuckian-1
Date: 09/22/2014
- 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Niles
Gallery
Speaker / Presenter: Diana
Ferrus
Diana Ferrus is a South African
writer, poet and cultural activist of mixed Khoisan and slave ancestry. Diana
gained international recognition for her poem "For Sarah Baartman,"
which played a role in the French government’s decision to return the remains
of Sarah Baartman to South Africa. Ferrus is a founder of the Afrikaans
Skrywersvereniging (ASV), Bush Poets,(all women poets) and Women in
Xchains(grassroots women writers). Her publishing company, Diana Ferrus
Publishers, in association with the University of the Western Cape, has
published life stories of former South African activists. Her most recent book
is "I've Come To Take You Home. https://aaas.as.uky.edu/writing-poetry-has-allowed-me-live-cultural-resistance-south-africa
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