• 鈥淎&S Faculty Field Trip: Civil Rights Tour of Louisville鈥 will be a June 19 bus tour of local sites significant to the 20th century movement. Cate Fosl, director of UofL鈥檚 Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, will lead the 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. tour occurring on the Juneteenth commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Fosl, an associate professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies, also is author of 鈥淪ubversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South鈥 and co-author of 鈥淔reedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky.鈥

Tour participants will start at Freedom Park at Cardinal Boulevard between Second and Third streets on UofL鈥檚 Belknap Campus. Bus stops will range from the Braden home and Muhammad Ali鈥檚 boyhood home to the Western Branch Library and churches. The group will get off the bus in Chickasaw Park for a 1960s-style picnic dinner.聽The $20 event includes the boxed picnic dinner and transportation; registration is required at .

  • 聽鈥淎&S Faculty Field Trip: Shakespeare in the Park鈥檚 鈥楬amlet鈥,鈥 will begin with a pre-play discussion at 6:30 p.m. July 12 led by English professor Julia Dietrich, who teaches classes on the author鈥檚 works as well as medieval literature, culture and rhetoric.

The discussion will be at Quills Coffee at Cardinal Towne, 327 W. Cardinal Blvd. Then the group will walk to nearby Central Park for Kentucky Shakespeare鈥檚 8 p.m. outdoor 鈥淗amlet鈥 production.聽The event is free but registration is required at .

For more information, contact Claire Pope at 502-852-6490 or claire.pope@louisville.edu

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Judy Hughes
Judy Hughes is a senior communications and marketing coordinator for UofL鈥檚 Office of Communications and Marketing and associate editor of UofL Magazine. She previously worked in news as a writer and editor for a daily newspaper and The Associated Press.