Learning the Ropes: Black Girlhood, Identity and the Power of Play

18th Annual Black Womens' Conference

March 22
6:00pm - UK College of Law Courtroom
Student Town Hall Meeting
Asha French, Affrilachian Poet and English,
Emory University

March 23
10:00am - UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion Auditorium
Anna Julia Cooper Lecture
Nazera Wright, Ph.D., English, UK

12:00pm - UK Boone Faculty Center
Mary McLeod Bethune Luncheon
Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D., Ethnomusicologist and the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College
(Tickets $20 General Admission & $15 for Seniors/Students)

2:00pm - UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion Auditorium
Panel: “Girl Talk”: Creating Empowering
Spaces for Black Girls

4:00pm - UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion Auditorium
Panel: Black Girl Games 101: An Interactive Experience

5:30pm - UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion Auditorium
Doris Y. Wilkinson Distinguished Lecture
Ruth Nicole Brown, Ph.D., Education Policy Studies,
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and founder of
SOLHOT (Saving Our Lives Hearing Our Truths) Program
for Black Girls and Women

March 24
11:00am – 2:00pm - Lyric Theater and Cultural Center
Zora Neale Hurston Community Play Date for
Girls of All of Ages: A Village Experience

For more information on the conference and tickets, please call: 859.257.3593 or email: aaas@uky.edu