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Photographer Shelby Lee Adams reflects on his life-long journey to seek out identity by capturing portraits of Appalachia’s mountain people through the lens of his camera. Adams’ need to document the unseen self-providers creates a desire to keep alive a culture that is slowly disappearing. As Adams prepares his archive for future generations, he relives his childhood roots through annual visits to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky.

James Hollenbaugh is a Pennsylvania-based American Filmmaker predominantly working in small gauge film formats. Focusing primarily in the documentary, essay film, and experimental genres, his work has been exhibited internationally at prominent film festivals. He is the recipient of the 2015 Stellar Award in Documentary from the Black Maria Film Festival and two Best of Festival Awards at the U.S. Super 8mm Film Festival at Rutgers University. In Spring 2024 Hollenbaugh was awarded the Edison Innovation Award at Princeton University for his series of artist documentary portraits in conjunction with the Thomas Edison Film Festival. He has been the Program Director for over fifteen years at ‘Moviate’, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s only film cooperative where he programs monthly film screenings and the annual Moviate Underground Film Festival.

Presented by the University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute in collaboration with the Filson Historical Society. A reception will be held from 4:30-5:25 p.m., followed by the lecture at 5:30 p.m.

This lecture offers a timely and important exploration of how we can live healthier, disease-free lives. Centered around the concept of healthspan—the portion of life spent in good health, as distinct from total lifespan—the session will challenge us to think differently about what it means to pursue health, rather than merely reduce disease risk. Leaders from the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute will reflect on their multiyear journey shaping a research agenda that reframes medicine around the foundations of well-being. Drawing from robust scientific evidence, the talk will highlight key building blocks of health—including nature, nutrition, and community—and why these require renewed attention in medical research and health systems. The presentation will also offer practical insights into what individuals can do now to promote their own healthspan. Local examples, especially in nature-based interventions and the possibilities of diet, will help ground these ideas in real-world impact.

Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar is the Smith & Lucille Gibson Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Environmental Medicine, and Director of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville. A Fellow of the American Heart Association, he is recognized as a pioneer in the field of environmental cardiology. His research explores how oxidative stress from internal and environmental sources contributes to cardiovascular disease. Dr. Bhatnagar leads major initiatives such as the Green Heart Louisville Project and has authored hundreds of scientific publications while mentoring a large research team. He will be joined by colleagues from the Envirome Institute as part of the presentation and discussion.

This program is generously sponsored by Dinsmore.

Explore how Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) evolved from an impoverished Kentuckian theologian’s daughter into a restless Kansan housewife and then a prolific New York writer, reformer, and publisher. In her bimonthly magazine The East Side, Zoe (as everyone called her) set out “to fight for the poor with my pen.” Her fellow Manhattan bohemians—writers, filmmakers, performers, politicians—joined an intentionally disorganized organization that she founded, the Ragged Edge Klub, and appointed her Queen of Bohemia. The last issue of The East Side described her recent dream that she would soon die, and after that accurate premonition made headlines in hundreds of newspapers nationwide, she fell into obscurity, until now.

Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn’s Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris has been called “a daring story told with exceptional verve” (Amy Reading, 2024 Pulitzer finalist and biographer of New Yorker editor Katharine White). Kahn is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Magazine Antiques, and Apollo magazine, covering art, architecture, history and design. Her 2019 biography of the Connecticut-born, globetrotting painter Mary Rogers Williams (1857-1907) from Wesleyan University Press won awards from institutions including the Connecticut League of History Organizations.