The Berry Center's Agrarian Voices Lecture Series presented with support by The Josephine Ardery Foundation is pleased to share
“Belonging in Kentucky: The Life and Work of bell hooks”
Dr. Megan Feifer and Abby Houston, of Berea College, and Dr. Leah Bayens, of The Berry Center’s Farm and Forest Institute, discuss the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the late Kentucky author bell hooks. In this first Agrarian Voices Lecture of 2024, these scholars will talk about why and how hooks came home to Kentucky, accepting a position as a Distinguished Professor at Berea College, and how she became an advocate for the little places and people on the margins. Using an archived 2007 interview hooks conducted with Wendell Berry, these scholars will consider the importance of finding common ground that cuts across race, class, and gender.