Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series

Named in honor of the noted scholar of African American history, Carter G. Woodson, this lecture series is sponsored each year by AASRP. Initially developed as a Faculty Luncheon Forum in 1992, this series has evolved into one of AASRP’s cornerstone events. It enriches the campus and community’s intellectual understanding of various topics and themes relating to issues of race and culture. It also provides faculty and graduate students with an academic arena to present their research as part of an organized forum.

All Woodson Lectures will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the UK Student Center, room 230. Guest lecturers for 2003 – 2004 are:

• September 18: Frank X. Walker “Rediscovering York, the original Affrilachian Poet,”
  
  
• November 5: Fay Yarbrough, “‘Her mother, she say, my great gran’mother was almost pure Injun’: Black Perceptions of Interracial Sex in the Nineteenth Century.”
  
  
• February 11: Michael Crutcher, “Masking Indian & Zulu: Representation of Race and Place in New Orleans Black Mardi Gras”
  
  
• February 25: Cynthia Lynn Shelton, "Politics, Patriotism and Power: Norma E. Boyd and Black Women's Organizing during the Cold War Era"
  
  
• April 21: Alicestyne Adams, "Underground Railroad and American Memory,"

For more information, contact the African American Studies and Research Program, 102 Breckinridge Hall, phone 257-3593.