<div dir="auto">Good Morning,</div><div dir="auto">Below is an invitation to an exciting Helen Keller symposium being sponsored by the American Printing House for the Blind. </div><div dir="auto">Cathy </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Micheal Hudson</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mhudson@aph.org">mhudson@aph.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 2:31 PM<br>Subject: Invitation to the 2022 Helen Keller Symposium<br>To: <a href="mailto:kcb@kentucky-acb.org">kcb@kentucky-acb.org</a> <<a href="mailto:kcb@kentucky-acb.org">kcb@kentucky-acb.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:helga.gilbert@ky.gov">helga.gilbert@ky.gov</a> <<a href="mailto:helga.gilbert@ky.gov">helga.gilbert@ky.gov</a>>, <a href="mailto:info@bcbky.org">info@bcbky.org</a> <<a href="mailto:info@bcbky.org">info@bcbky.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:mcdaniel@bcbky.org">mcdaniel@bcbky.org</a> <<a href="mailto:mcdaniel@bcbky.org">mcdaniel@bcbky.org</a>>, Cathy Jackson (<a href="mailto:cathyj1949@gmail.com">cathyj1949@gmail.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:cathyj1949@gmail.com">cathyj1949@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:president@nfbofky.org">president@nfbofky.org</a> <<a href="mailto:president@nfbofky.org">president@nfbofky.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">You are on this list because you represent important Kentucky Blindness organizations and I need your help. As a part of our long-term strategy at the American Printing House to publicize the AFB Helen Keller
Archive and make it more widely available, we’re hosting a symposium here in Louisville that we are very excited about. The details are below.
<a href="https://cvent.me/1Owyb3" target="_blank">Registration just went live. </a> I hope you’ll share it with your friends, colleagues, and your community, both locally and nationally, and we hope you’ll consider attending! This is going to be an incredibly diverse program
featuring young voices, veteran scholars, people who are Blind, people who are Deafblind, and people who are Deaf. There are some, at the national level, who expressed doubts that Kentucky is the right place for this collection. We want to prove them wrong.
I would love to collaborate with you to get the word out to the community, via email, social media, or other formats unique to your organizations. If you have ideas on ways to publicize the symposium or people I should contact, I’d love to know. Feel free
to send me any ideas. We can’t wait!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The 2022 Helen Keller Symposium<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hidden Legacies of Helen Keller<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Sponsored by the American Printing House for the Blind and the Filson Historical Society<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">September 17-18, 2022<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">$75 standard admission/$25 Student Admission<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Free to APH Staff and Free to Members of the Filson Historical Society<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Hidden Legacies of Helen Keller<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Everyone thinks they know Helen Keller’s story. But Keller – an author, activist, fundraiser, advocate, sister, daughter, ambassador, friend, celebrity, and champion of women, people with disabilities and
those living in poverty around the globe – defies easy description. Join us for a two-day symposium that explores, from dynamic and diverse perspectives across the spectrum of disability history scholarship and experiences, the hidden historical legacy and
context of this great American. The talks will be accompanied by highlights from the rich archives of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Keller’s employer for forty years. The AFB collections are now located in the Museum of the American Printing
House for the Blind (APH) in Louisville, Kentucky. On Sunday, September 18, there is an additional opportunity, a behind-the-scenes tour of the AFB Helen Keller Archive at the Printing House.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://cvent.me/1Owyb3" target="_blank">Register for Hidden Legacies of Helen Keller here!</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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