Schedule of public events for Winter/Spring Semester 2023

• January 18, 2023 - Billy Van Pelt, Strickland Auditorium, Lecture

• January 25, 2023 - Anton Treuer, Carrick Theater, Lecture

• February 13 - March 10,  Art Exhibition by Professor Zoé Strecker, Morlan Gallery

• March 1 - ‘The natural world and the imagination - An evening of song and verse, Bodley-Bullock House

• March 8 – Zoé Strecker - Artist's Talk, Carrick Theater, followed by a closing reception in Morlan Gallery

• March 22 - Mara H. Benjamin - Strickland Auditorium, Moosnick Lecture

• April 6, noon - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lecture at University of Kentucky, Singletary Center

• April 6, evening  - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Group conversation on local sustainability at Transylvania University, Young Campus Center, time TBA

Transy Community Climate Conversation Sessions

Discussion group sessions open to the whole Transy community over Zoom on Wednesdays 6:15-7:15 on the following dates. Register by each event below to receive the Zoom links.

• March 29 – Discussion of lecture by Mara H. Benjamin

• April 12 – Discussion of lecture and essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Billy Van Pelt works with major funders and partners throughout the Southeast and Texas; presents at conferences and meetings of allied organizations; and secures partnerships to expand American Farmland Trust’s programmatic work across these regions. Before joining AFT, he ran his own government relations firm. During this time, he served as the founding CEO of Woodford Forward, a land use advocacy organization. As a landscape architect, he worked in both the private and public sectors, including over a decade as the director of a farmland protection program in Lexington, Kentucky, where he conserved 28,000 acres. Billy earned a BA in business administration from Transylvania University, where he serves on the Board of Regents, a BS in landscape architecture from the University of Kentucky and a MBA from Midway University, where he serves on the Board of Trustees, and serves on the Lexington-Frankfort Scenic Corridor, Inc. Board of Directors.  He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.  Billy and his spouse, Todd Cheever, M.D., live in Bowling Green, Kentucky and also maintain a home in Lexington, Kentucky.

Poetry read by Prof. Jeremy Paden and select Transylvania student poets

Music by Mason Colby, Lexington-based traditional string band artist

Light snacks will be served.

March 29, 2023

6:15 - 7:15 pm in person.

Climate Conversation Session

Discussion of lecture by Mara H. Benjamin

Open to the whole Transy community. Register HERE to receive information about meeting.

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

These events have received support from:

The following University of Kentucky colleges, councils, centers and offices:

• Lewis Honors College

• Student Sustainability Council

• Office of the Dean, UK College and Arts and Sciences

• Departments of Philosophy, Sociology, History, and Linguistics in the UK College of Arts and Sciences

• UK Center for the Environment

• Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment

• Crabtree-Cornell Family Fund for the Environment

• Office of the Associate Dean of Instruction, UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

• Office of the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

• UK Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies

• UK Center for Equality and Social Justice

• Environmental Humanities Initiative

• Urban Forest Initiative

• Gaines Center for the Humanities

• UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences

And from 

• Transylvania University

April 12, 2023

6:15 - 7:15 pm

Climate Conversation Session

Discussion of lecture and essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Open to the whole Transy community. Register HERE to receive info about our class meeting.