Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and nearly two dozen other outlets, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and an official Junior Library Guild Selection. Chung's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, TIME, The Guardian, and Vulture, among others, and she also wrties a weekly advice column for Slate. To learn more about Nicole Chung, visit nicolechung.net!
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About All You Can Ever Know
What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them?
From early childhood, Nicole Chung heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her Korean birth parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of giving her a better life; that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew up, she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
The Facebook Group “Shtisel - Let’s Talk About it” was founded in 2019 by three women in Detroit, MI to discuss their mutual interest in a new Israeli television show recently added to Netflix. As of August 2021, the group has over 33,000 followers. Members use the group to post questions and insights about a broad range of topics related to the television show, including the Hebrew and Yiddish languages, the practices of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and life in contemporary Israel. Drawing on surveys, ethnographic interviews, linguistic analysis of social media postings, and audio diaries of members as they watch the show recorded via a specially created app, this talk explores how members of the group learn about Judaism from watching and discussing Shtisel. It highlights the capacity of digital media tools like television and social media to create opportunities for a broad range of participants to engage in collective Jewish conversations forged across religious, cultural and international boundaries, and performed through social media.
Bios:
Laura Yares is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her work explores Jewish education as a site for understanding the ways that Jews have constructed and continue to construct understandings of self, community and other. Her current research includes a book project exploring the growth of Jewish Sunday Schools in 19th century America a contemporary ethnographic study analyzing Jewish learning in cultural arts spaces.
Sharon Avni is Professor of Academic Literacy and Linguistics at BMCC at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the co-author of Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community and American Jewish Summer Camps, and is a research affiliate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis. Her current work includes modern day Hebraists in the United States.
The Unconscious Bias (UBI) Training will be offered to extension faculty and staff. Unconscious bias refers to the automatic stereotypes or attitudes we hold about groups or people. These biases can be held for or against those most like us and most different from us. The UBI is working to incorporate this understanding of unconscious bias to foster an environment where each one of us feels a sense of belonging and empowerment as we ready ourselves for the global community of tomorrow.
We are excited to share the registration for the 10th Annual Jr. MANRRS Leadership Institute is now open!
We are excited to welcome scholars from across the state to explore the UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, participate in contests and attend workshops and tours.
Registration is just $10 a participant.
Further information that is helpful regarding the event include:
Join the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law for a conversation with Law Professors, Criminal Justice Scholars, Judges, Attorneys, Journalists and Activists as we discuss the validity of the search warrant in the Breonna Taylor case. Each panel will be asked an hour of pre-selected questions followed by 25 minutes of audience Q&A. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP and access livestreaming via the Facebook page, which can be found by clicking here.
For a law review article that addresses the problems in the search warrant that lead to Breonna Taylor's death, please press here.
The Panels:
Legal Scholars (9:30am-10:55am)
Samuel Marcosson (University of Louisville)
Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University)
Jennifer M. Kinsley (Northern Kentucky University)
Chris Bryant (University of Cincinnati)
Moderator: Blake Sims (2L)
Criminal Justice Scholars (11:00am-12:25pm)
Dr. Philip Stinson (Bowling Green State University)
Dr. Ebony Ruhland (University of Cincinnati)
Dr. Peter B. Kraska (Eastern Kentucky University)
Moderator: Kennedy Weathers (3L)
Judges & Attorneys (1:00pm-2:25pm)
Judge Denise Clayton (Kentucky Court of Appeals)
Judge David Tapp (US Court of Federal Claims)
Sam Aguiar (Breonna Taylor Attorney)
Jason Rothrock (Director of Prosecution: Fayette County)
Moderator: Sarah Byres (2L)
Journalists & Activists (2:30pm-3:55pm)
Bailey Loosemore (Louisville Courier Journal)
Chanelle Helm (BLM Louisville Organizer)
Tim Findley (Louisville Mayoral Candidate)
Moderator: Bennett Tuleja (2L)
Breonna Taylor Symposium
To find information on panelists, agenda, venue and contact information, follow this link.
The VWS began in the spring of 2014 with a reading by poet Roger Reeves. Each year, the Department of English continues to bring nationally renowned authors to UK.
"This series is a source of inspiration and excitement for our students, faculty and staff and continues to add to the overall vibrant literary culture of Lexington,” said Crystal Wilkinson, associate professor of English.
You can find a full schedule of 2021 VWS events listed below.
Kevin Willmott (presented by Film and Media Studies): 7 p.m. Oct. 13, William T. Young Auditorium, Register Here
Willmott is an Oscar and Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter, as well as a professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for co-writing and directing "The 24th" — a historical drama on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. Willmott grew up in Junction City, Kansas, and received his bachelor’s degree in drama from Marymount College. After graduation, he returned home and worked as a civil rights activist, fighting for the rights of the poor, creating two Catholic worker shelters for the homeless and forcing the integration of several long-standing segregated institutions.
Carter Sickels (presented by the Appalachian Center): 7 p.m. Oct. 21, online via Zoom, Register Here
Sickels is the author of the novel "The Prettiest Star," (Hub City Press) which is a recipient of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award. The novel was also selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and named a Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine. His debut novel, "The Evening Hour" (Bloomsbury 2012), was adapted into a feature film, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Additionally, Sickels' works have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Joyland, Guernica, Catapult and Electric Literature. Sickels, who is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award and has earned fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and MacDowell.
Nicole Chung: 7 p.m. Nov. 18, online via Zoom, Register Here
Chung is an American writer and editor. She is the former managing editor of The Toast, the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine and the author of the national bestseller, “All You Can Ever Know.” The memoir was named Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR and the Library Journal. Additionally, it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book and an official Junior Library Guild Selection. Chung's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Time, The Guardian and Vulture, among others. She was also named to the "Good Morning America" AAPI Inspiration List honoring those “making Asian American history right now."
All Visiting Writers Series events are free and open to the public.
Cultivating Inclusion Series: What If I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People Book Discussion, Part ICollege of Agriculture, Food and Environment
The Cultivating Inclusion Series provides an informal, safe environment for faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversations related to diversity and inclusion while fostering an appreciation of inclusivity within the UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment.
In this book, readers will find innovative and surprising ways to keep personal diversity journeys moving and the diversity commitment of your organization. Written to make this information bite-size and accessible, readers will find quick answers to typical What should I do? Questions, like: What if I say the wrong thing, what should I do? What if I am work and someone makes a sexist joke, what should I say?
Join the discussion by reading chapters 4, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 21. Participants will engage in discussion groups centering on the topics of inclusion, exclusion, microaggresssions, and microaffirmations. Participants will leave this session with increased awareness of personal habits and strategies to incorporate inclusivity into daily work and practice.
The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment (UK CAFE) is committed to diversity and inclusion. We hope to make sure students, staff, faculty, and stakeholders are provided with a culturally aware environment to succeed in a global society. To that end, the UK CAFE Office of Diversity is happy to host Intercultural Awareness Day (IAD) annually to educate, inform, and expose our community members to the varying diversities that exist within our college and community.
The 2021 IAD Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend this year’s program that will take place November 1, 2021, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm in the E.S. Goodbarn.
Themed “Learn Together, Grow Together,” this year’s event will focus on urban and rural sustainability within the local food system. The program will be centered around minority business owners in the food chain and their challenges of entrepreneurship and working with local farmers delivered through two panels and a networking brunch.
Registration will soon open.
E.S. Good Barn, 451 University Drive, Lexington, KY 40503
