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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
CANCELLED- "Mixed Mesophytic Nation: Pathways to Citizenship" Panel at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference -
“Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs: Or, How to Think Historically About Race and Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic” Samuel Roberts, Columbia University
Movements for National Liberation in the Black Diaspora Francis Musoni (University of Kentucky), Clinton Hutton (University of West Indies – Mona, Jamaica), Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky), Ricky Jones (University of Louisville) -
Growing Up in Lexington's Black Community in the 1960s and 70s Blanche Hughes and George Wright -
Tuskegee Airmen Guest Speaker Ron Spriggs, USAF Veteran -
Universities and the Legacies of Slavery Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University -
“Panoramas, Periodicals, and Nineteenth-Century Commemoration.” Vance Byrd -
Written in Stone: American Monuments and Monument Protection Laws (The Kentucky Law Journal Symposium) Keynotes by Sanford Levison, Martha S. Jones -
Year of Equity Kickoff -
Cloistered Women's Voices Symposium and Concert -
Bale Boone Symposium: Europe Today and the Memory of Violence -
Bale Boone Symposium: Violence, Memory and the Sacred: The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust Jay Winter
Europe in Our Lives: Faculty Panel Discussion Anna Bryzski (Art History); Suzanne Pucci (French); Jeremy Popkin (History)
Claudia Roden "Gefilte Fish and Couscous" Claudia Roden
Katherine Bullock “Women and Islam” Katherine Bullock
Mina Yazdani “Religious Diversity in Iran” Mina Yazdani
Religion, Identity and Competing Visions of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia Professor Devin Deweese
“The Arab World and American Democracy” Dr. Jacob Berman -
“The Arab Spring: The Youth Revolts of the Arab World Aren't Over Juan Cole
Yousif Sheronik “Percussion of the Middle East” Yousif Sheronik
Tanya Habjouqa, Palestinian Photography
"Religion, Identity and Competing Visions of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia" Devin Deweese
"My Father’s Paradise: How a Jewish Kid from Los Angeles Traveled to Wartime Iraq in Search of Roots, Identity and His Father's Improbable Life Story " Ariel Sabar
"Sleepless Nights/Wasted Time: Seeking Islam in Egypt's Hollywood" Joel Gordon -
The Significance of Being First; Competing: Jewish and Arab Discourses Ilan Troen