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“Breaking Barriers in Bourbon: Digital Media, Diversity, and the Black Bourbon Society” will take place 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. The event is part of UK Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History’s “Women in Bourbon Oral History Project.”

With the “madness” of March underway, UKNow called on Jenny Rice, an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, to help us explain the seemingly incomprehensible psychology behind superstitions.

A tech company is being blasted for using White actors to portray Black roles.

The recent show of solidarity among Black and Asian American activists belies a fraught history. Can the communities now work side by side? Stephanie Sy explores the question with Tamara Nopper, a sociologist at New York University’s Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, and Brenda Stevenson, a history and African American studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  The final installment of the Dean’s Speaker’s Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines, a program of the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, will take place on Thursday, April 29 with a lecture by Sarah J. Jackson, a communication studies expert at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson, the Presidential Association Professor and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center at Penn, will speak virtually on the topic of “Anti-Racism and Communication Studies” beginning...

A French Writer Goes In Search of Lost Time, with a Little Help From Google New York Review of Books, 2021 "In the internet there is a fountain of youth into which at first you drunkenly plunge your face, and then in the dawn light you see your reflection, battered by the years," writes Maël Renouard. In "Fragments of an Infinite Memory", he takes a step back to meditate on the effects of online browsing upon our lives. Maël Renouard begins Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the I...

Brent Seales is among 213 recipients of NEH grants, totaling $32.8 million, awarded to humanities projects across the country. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo. LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 3, 2021) — The University of Kentucky is one step closer to becoming a global center for imaging and restoring ancient artifacts thought to be damaged beyond repair. Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to create...

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “comp...