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IWS Friday Speaker Series: Vivian Appler

A talk by Vivian Appler, associate professor in theatre and performance studies.  


Mountain Food Myths and Memories: A Conversation with Erica Abrams Locklear and Josina Guess

Please join guests for a conversation with Erica Abrams Locklear, author of Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People (University of Georgia Press), and Josina Guess, assistant editor for Sojourners Magazine, to discuss Locklear's book and how long-held preconceptions about Appalachian foodways color our perception of the region and its people.  This event is free and…


Lecture: KILLER ASTEROIDS! Why are they important, and how are we prepared to protect Earth?

Make plans to attend a lecture by Erica Jawin from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. She will discuss the dangers of asteroids to life on Earth and how researchers develop and prepare planetary protection methods.  


IWS Friday Speaker Series: Kathryn Manis

A talk by Kathryn Manis, Instruction and community engagement libraian, UGA Special Collections Libraries.  


Reading and Craft Lecture by Naheed Phiroze Patel

The Creative Writing Program at UGA and the Willson Center are delighted to host Willson Center Short Term Visiting Fellow Naheed Phiroze Patel.  Patel is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Guardian, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, Chicago Review of Books, HuffPost, Scroll.in, BOMB Magazine, Public Books, PEN America, The Rumpus,…


Dirty History presents Kris Lane: Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kris Lane, "Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity." A historian of early modern mining, Kris Lane revisits precious metals extraction and circulation in light of new approaches to materialism and environmental degradation. Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. He is author of Pandemic in Potosí: Fear…


Athens Science Cafe

April's Athens Science Cafe. Frank McQuarrie, a UGA engineering Ph.D. candidate & oceanographic engineer, will present a talk "Antarctic Flow: Using Robots to Understand Ocean Currents" More about Athens Science Cafe


Chris Suh (Emory): "Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia"

Dr. Chris Suh (Assistant Professor, Emory University) presents: “Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia”. Suh's talk will draw from his new book, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, March 2023), which tells the story of how the politics of interracial cooperation worked to define “progress” in an…


Visiting Artist Lecture | Cynthia Lollis & Daniela Deeg, ETC Press

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series has brought more than 80 distinguished guests to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia since 2002. Visiting Artists and Scholars spend three days on campus interacting with students and faculty, the culmination of which is a public lecture on the subject of the artist’s or scholar’s work. ETC Press is an international collaboration between two women: a German and an American.…


Art History Faculty Lecture | Isabelle Loring Wallace

Art History Faculty Lecture by Isabelle Loring Wallace.


Art History Faculty Lecture | Janice Simon

Art History Faculty Lecture by Janice Simon.


Lecture: Vincent Carretta

“Recovering the Life of Phillis Wheatley Peters, ‘A WONDER of the Age Indeed!’,” Vincent Carretta, professor emeritus of English, University of Maryland. This event will be conducted online as a Zoom webinar. Registration is free, open to the public, and available here. Carretta is the author or editor of more than 10 books, including scholarly editions of the writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho,…


A Conversation with Marcy Carsey

This year’s Peabody-Smithgall Lecture will feature television producer Marcy Carsey of such iconic hits as The Cosby Show, A Different World, Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and That '70s Show. Carsey began her career as an NBC tour guide, working up to The Tonight Show before moving to ABC as a programming executive. The co-head of the famed Carsey-Werner Productions, Carsey's work has inarguably shaped our understanding of…


Dr. La Shonda Mims (UGA Alum), “A Black Gay Political Force”: Drastic Dykes in Late-Twentieth Century Atlanta

Please join us for a talk by Dr. La Shonda Mims, (PhD, UGA) in which she presents her new book, Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South (UNC Press, 2022). After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities. Both cities also served as home to queer communities who defined themselves in accordance with their…


Lecture: Kaywin Feldman

“Building a National Collection in a Changing Nation” This lecture by Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will honor museum director William U. Eiland on the occasion of his retirement. Feldman previously led the Minneapolis Institute of Art as its Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President from 2008 to 2019 and directed the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007. She is a member of the…


Women's History Month Keynote Address

"Stories of Lumbee Women," Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. The event will be followed by a reception. It is part of the UGA Signature Lecture Series and the UGA Humanities Festival.


“The Humanities at Work,” Paula M. Krebs

“The Humanities at Work,” Paula M. Krebs, executive director, Modern Language Association. Krebs became executive director of the Modern Language Association in August 2017. She administers the programs, governance, and business affairs of the association and is general editor of the association’s publishing and research programs, as well as editor of two association publications. Krebs previously served as the dean of the College of…


Lecture: David Beavan

“Beyond Digital Humanities: Weaving Humanities, Research Software Engineering and AI,” David Beavan, lead research software engineer in the Research Engineering Group (REG) at The Alan Turing Institute, and research affiliate at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS). David Beavan from The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial…


Priyasha Mukhopadhyay to deliver Ballew Lecture

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay will deliver the Ballew Lecture Series talk “Reading for Company: Empire and its Forms of Writing, 1857- 1914,” drawing from her current book project in which she recovers the story of how ordinary forms of writing, from the bureaucratic document to the magazine, came to dominate the cultural imagination of colonial South Asia. The Ballew Lecture Series is organized by the Department of English, University of Georgia.…


Warrior Women: A Community Conversation Sparked by Sculptor Alice Woodruff

Meet local artist Alice Woodruff and view a selection of sculptures from the exhibition Warrior Women: From Invisible to Formidable One Hundred Strong. A panel discussion will explore themes from the exhibition followed by a community dialogue. Light reception. Panelists: Alice Woodruff - Artist Joan Prittie - Director of Project Safe and Instructor at the School of Social Work, UGA Tracy Brown - Almost Home Shelter Coordinator and one of the…


Delta Visiting Chair: Angela Brown – “It Takes Two”

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will welcome Angela Brown, a renowned operatic soprano who leads a nonprofit organization that provides cultural enrichment opportunities to underserved communities, to the University of Georgia February 20-24 as the annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Brown’s week in residence will include learning sessions with students in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and an Athens public high…


Nabil Ayers in Conversation with David Barbe

Writer and music executive Nabil Ayers will join David Barbe, director of the Music Business Program in the Terry College of Business, for a conversation about Ayers’s recent memoir and his life in the music industry. Ayers has written about race and music for The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and GQ. His memoir My Life in the Sunshine was published in 2022 via Viking/Penguin. He is the president of…


Lecture, "The Blood of Christians: Phillis Wheatley Peters and White Christianity" with Professor Kim Coles

Kim Coles is professor of English, women, gender, and sexuality studies, and Classics at the University of Maryland. Her current book, Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England, just appeared from the University of Pennsylvania Press.The book uncovers how belief itself — the excess, defect, or lack of religion — was largely apprehended and understood in terms of temperament in the early modern period. Race in this period…


Shennette Garrett-Scott: "All the Other Devils This Side of Hades: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks"

Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott from Texas A & M will present a history lecture, "All the Other Devils This Side of Hades: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks." Garrett-Scott's research focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century race, gender, and capitalism. Her first book, Banking on Freedom, is the first history of U.S. banking and finance that centers African American women. Free and open to the public. A Black History Month special event.


LTTM: Why did the Nazis murder Capitaine Charles N’Tchoréré?

The Lunchtime Time Machine popular undergraduates series welcomes Dr. Timothy Cleaveland for this month's talk. Cleaveland specializes in the history of Islamic West Africa, and has done research in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, France and Illinois. He is particularly interested in the history of slavery, race and gender in West Africa, as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Saharan and North African elite historically used racism…
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