Gaines Center for the Humanitites

The 2026 Bale Boone Symposium An Evening with Ted Chiang

Oct 6, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Join the Gaines Center for the Humanities at 6.00pm on Thursday October 6, 2026 for the 2026 Bale Boone Symposium featuring acclaimed author Ted Chiang. Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer, whose work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others, the titular novella going on to inspire Dennis Villenue’s 2016 film, Arrival.

Behavioral Health Humanities and Community Advancement Lecture Series: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Mar 24, 2025, 7:30 – 8:30 PM

"Disability bioethics" presenter: Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. She works in disability culture, bioethics, and health humanities. She is a Hastings Center Senior Advisor and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and author of Staring: How We Look, and several other books.

Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities

Apr 4, 2024, 6:00 – 7:00 PM

Josh Cola, a University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts senior, has been selected to give the 29th annual Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities. Cola’s lecture will explore Mark McCloud's departure from the blotter art movement of the 1990s. “A Hit of Nostalgia – Mark Mccloud’s Through the Looking Glass and Blotter Art in the 1990s” will be presented at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in the Davis Marksbury Building. Cola is an art history major from Aurora, Ohio.

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