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2025–’26 Annual Theme: Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere

Programming Fellows:

Prof. Kenton Butcher (English)
Prof. Paul Barba (History)
Prof. P. Khalil Saucier (Critical Black Studies)

Theme Events

Crystal Wilkinson: “Sable Girls, Black Hill Folk and Brown Country: Examining Affrilachian Freedoms, Ancestral Memory, and Imagination”
Conversation with Dave Butcher: “Founding the Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum”
“Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere” Symposium
“Radical Memory, Strategic Forgetting: Race, Symbolic Power, and the Politics of Commemoration At Storer College In West Virginia”
Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined
Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB
Black Life in Appalachia: Beyond White Hillbilly Myths
2025-2026: Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere
2024-25: Narrating Russia’s Empires: Eurasian Resistance/s
2023-2024: Colonial Entanglements
2022-2023: Pandemic: Contagion and the Body Politic
2021-2022: Non/Humanity: Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities
2020-2021: Learning to Live With Floods: Histories, Change, Remembrance, Resilience
2019-2020: Confronting Fascism
2018-2019: Surrealisms: Inaugural Conference of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism

Stories & Events from the BHC

Creative Career Conversations: Radio and Podcast Production

The World According to Sound

“Crafting Utopia: William Morris, Kelmscott Press, & the Art of Living Well” (a panel discussion)

Arts & Humanities Alumni Career Panel

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