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  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Series
    • Racial Justice and Equality with Gerald Smith
    • The Ethics and Virtues of Democratic Society with Fr. Jim Trimble
    • Teaching in a Pandemic with Cynthia Resor & Tonya May
    • 19th Amendment Series with Jackie Jay & Kathi Kern
    • Future Tense with Chris Begley
    • State of Justice: The criminal justice system in Eastern Kentucky
    • Kentucky Authors with Tom Eblen
    • Education IS Economic Development with Lee Todd
    • Kentucky History with Stephanie Lang
    • The Kentucky Mind with Melinda Moore & Theresa Botts
    • Kentucky Songcrafters with Carla Gover
    • Humans of Central Appalachia
    • LexPhil Conductor Candidate Interviews
  • Partners
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Future Tense

About the series

Future Tense is an interview segment hosted by anthropologist and author Chris Begley. The series is focused on our future in a post-pandemic world. Each segment features a conversation between Begley and a guest, exploring their unique take on that future. Artists, academics, activists, and politicians discuss where we are, where we are going, what we have learned, and what it means.

Chapter One:  Multidisciplinary artist Bianca Spriggs

Chapter Two:  UK Philosophy Professor Arnold Farr

Chapter Three: Pop culture critic and writer Dahlia Schweitzer

Chapter Four: Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X  Walker 

Chapter Five: Carol Taylor-Shim, Director of Bias Incident Support Services at the University of Kentucky

Chapter Six: Author Silas House shares pandemic observations

Chapter Seven: Lexington chef and community activist Dan Wu on rescuing restaurants as the pandemic dries up business

Chapter Eight: UCLA Egyptologist Kara Cooney on how strange societal behavior is nothing new

Chapter Nine: Dr. Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez: The power of collaboration in the face of disaster among those left to fend for themselves

Chapter Ten: Dr. Phillip Chang, former Asst. Chief Medical Officer, UKHealthcare on the confusion and uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic 

Chapter Eleven: Dr. MyraBeth Bundy, clinical psychologist and EKU professor of psychology: how the pandemic is messing with our minds

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