02/21/2014 
Premier Scholarship Interviews
High school seniors will participate in an invitation-only interview for Transylvania University's top three merit scholarships, the William T. Young, Kenan, and Trustee awards. Other activities will be offered throughout the day including tours, class visits, speakers, and a recognition luncheon.
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02/14/2014
Premier Scholarship Interviews
High school seniors will participate in an invitation-only interview for Transylvania University's top three merit scholarships, the William T. Young, Kenan, and Trustee awards. Other activities will be offered throughout the day including tours, class visits, speakers, and a recognition luncheon.
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02/10/2014
Premier Scholarship Interviews
High school seniors will participate in an invitation-only interview for Transylvania University's top three merit scholarships, the William T. Young, Kenan, and Trustee awards. Other activities will be offered throughout the day including tours, class visits, speakers, and a recognition luncheon.
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02/07/2014
Premier Scholarship Interviews
High school seniors will participate in an invitation-only interview for Transylvania University's top three merit scholarships, the William T. Young, Kenan, and Trustee awards. Other activities will be offered throughout the day including tours, class visits, speakers, and a recognition luncheon.
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01/31/2014
Premier Scholarship Interviews
High school seniors will participate in an invitation-only interview for Transylvania University's top three merit scholarships, the William T. Young, Kenan, and Trustee awards. Other activities will be offered throughout the day including tours, class visits, speakers, and a recognition luncheon.
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02/20/2013
Kenan Lecture Series: Peter Bergen, CNN
Peter Bergen, CNN correspondent, presents "The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East." Free and open to the public.
10/23/2012
Kenan Lecture Series presents: Marion Nestle, "Food Politics: How the Food Industry influences Nutrition and Health"
Marion Nestle, professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, will present "Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health." There will be a reception and book signing after the talk.
For more information, contact Meg Upchurch at 8252 or mupchurch@transy.edu
03/07/2012
Kenan Lecture Series: Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute on environmental policy analysis
"The Long Death of Environmentalism." Free and open to the public.
11/08/2011
Kenan Series: American Shakespeare Company performing "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
Ticket information to be announced.
11/08/2011
Kenan Series: American Shakespeare Company performing "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
Ticket information to be announced.
11/07/2011
Kenan Series: American Shakespeare Company performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Ticket information to be announced.
11/07/2011
Kenan Series: American Shakespeare Company performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Ticket information to be announced.
03/31/2011
Reading by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor, named poet laureate of Kentucky in 1999, and currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at Transy, will give readings from his works as part of the Delcamp Visiting Writer Series at Transylvania. Free and open to the public.
02/17/2011
Post-Kenan Tea: Follow up Conversation on the Randall Kennedy Presentation
Follow up Conversation re: Kenan speaker Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
02/15/2011
Kenan Lecture: Randall Kennedy, Harvard law professor
Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy is the author of the books "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" and "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal." Known for his fearlessness in tackling sensitive racial issues, Kennedy brings the divisive issues that plague black America to the forefront of mass culture.
02/15/2011
Conversation with Kenan speaker Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Kenan speaker Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School.
10/20/2010
Kenan Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah
"Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers." Kenan Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy, Princeton University and the University Center for Human Values. For more information, contact Kathy Simon at (859) 233-8124.
10/13/2010
Faculty/staff discussion of "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" by Kenan lecturer Kwame Anthony Appiah
This fall's Kenan lecturer, philosopher and public intellectual Kwame Anthony Appiah, will deliver his lecture Oct. 20. The philosophy program, in connection with the office of the vice president for academic affairs, would like to invite faculty and staff to participate in a book discussion. Dean Pollard's office is securing 20 copies of "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers," which will be distributed for free to the first 10 staff and 10 faculty to sign on to participate in a discussion. If you are interested, please contact Jack Furlong at 8160 or jfurlong@transy.edu.
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03/25/2010
Richard Taylor: Poetry Reading
Poetry reading, given by Richard Taylor, 2010 Kenan Visiting Writer, is open to the public.
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03/10/2010
An Evening with Mary McDonnell
"Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica" star Mary McDonnell will give the winter Kenan Lecture. Free and open to the public. Ticketed event; limited seating.
10/28/2009
Kenan Lecture: Sean B. Carroll
Kenan Lecture "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of the Species," by Sean Carroll. Carroll is professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the author of several books, notably, "Into the Jungle: Epic Adventures in the Search for Evolution," "The Making of the Fittest," and "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo." The lecture is free and open to the public.
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02/16/2009
Kenan Lecture
Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian, "Our Lincoln".
10/15/2008
Kenan Lecture: “The U.S. and China: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in the World”
Lector: Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.—China Relations
10/02/2007
Kenan Lecture
Mary Robinson, first female president of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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