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Lecture: Richard J. Roberts

Richard J. Roberts, chief scientific officer of New England BioLabs, will present "Exploring Bacterial Methylomes" as this year's George H. Boyd Distinguished Lecture. Roberts, an English biochemist and molecular biologist who co-discovered introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism for gene-splicing, was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Sponsored by the Office of the…


Lecture: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and professor of history at Harvard University will present “'The Civil Rights Queen:’ Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America” as this year's Donald L. Hollowell Lecture. Brown-Nagin’s 2011 book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, won the Bancroft Prize in American History, making…


Lecture: The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists

William R. Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will give a lecture entitled  "The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists" as part of the Global Georgia Initiative series. Ferris is the senior associate director of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. He was the founding director of the…


Holmes-Hunter Lecture: Sanford Bishop

Bishop is serving his 12th term in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the Second Congressional District, which encompasses middle and southwest Georgia. He previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate.


Lecture: Patricia Bell-Scott

Patricia Bell-Scott, UGA professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science, will discuss her new book, "The Firebrand and the First Lady," which is a portrait of the friendship between civil rights activist Pauli Murray and Eleanor Roosevelt. Co-sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies. A part of Black History Month observance. Prior to the event, the African American Choral Ensemble will present a…


Global Georgia Initiative: Assaf Gavron

Assaf Gavron is a writer and translator. His fiction has been translated into ten languages, adapted to the stage, and four of his books are optioned for films. Gavron is also one of the noted translators in Israel. Among the authors he has translated from English are J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran-Foer and J.K. Rowling. The event is part of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative. Gavron grew up in Jerusalem, studied in…


Global Georgia Initiative: Natalie Chanin

Natalie “Alabama” Chanin is the owner and designer of Alabama Chanin. She has a degree in environmental design with a focus on industrial and craft-based textiles from North Carolina State University. Chanin continues to learn and to teach craft traditions, using them to bridge generational, economic, and cultural gaps. Chanin’s talk is part of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative, which brings world-class thinkers to Georgia. …


Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series

The Insitute for Women's Studies presents a Friday speaker series. This week's topic is "Sexual Harassment and Assault on Campus: The Legal Side of Gender Equity" presented by Lisa Anderson and Elaine Woo, Atlanta Women for Equality.


Founders Day Lecture

Thomas C. Reeves, UGA professor emeritus, will present this year’s lecture to celebrate the 231st anniversary of the establishment of America’s first state-chartered institution of higher education. His lecture is titled "So You Think You're Smarter than a Robot: The Race between Human Learning and Deep Learning."  Brian Heredia, a member of the Class of 2018, will provide the student response.  Each year, the UGA Alumni Association…


Lecture: Professor Tom Gunning

Professor Tom Gunning, "Putting the digital back in digital cinema: The elusive touch, the evasive grasp, the open gesture" Tom Gunning is among the leading scholars of film in the United States and Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. In over one hundred publications, Gunning has concentrated on early cinema (from its origins to World War I) as well as on the culture of…

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Georgia Debate Union at Miami University tourney

Teams representing the Georgia Debate Union earned second and fifth place at the University of Miami intercollegiate debate tournament recently held in Miami, Florida.  The college debate tournament featured over 30 teams from 12 colleges and universities across the Southeast, Midwest, and mid-Atlantic, including the US Naval Academy and Vanderbilt University.  The team of Swapnil Agrawal, a freshman from Chamblee, and Advait Ramanan,…


Sustainable UGA Semester in Review

The fall 2015 Sustainable UGA Semester in Review celebrates people, programs, activities and academic courses that are creating a culture of sustainability at UGA. The program includes brief presentations from Office of Sustainability interns, posters and table displays from UGA classes, the announcement of 2016 Campus Sustainability Grant winners, light lunch fare and opportunities for networking. To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite…


Guest Lecture: Raymond Smith

Report from Infinity: Rural Highway, Southern Georgia, After Rainstorm," photographer Raymond Smith.


“Women and Girls: Local to Global, Global to Local”

"Women and Girls: Local to Global, Global to Local," Cecilia Herles, assistant director of the Institute for Women’s Studies. Herles will be speaking about challenges that are being faced by women and girls in Georgia and women and girls on a global scale, such as lack of safety, objectification, domestic violence and lack of access to health environment and food. Herles holds degrees in philosophy and English from Clemson University. She…


Guest Speaker: Johan Galtung

Sponsored by: School of Public and International Affairs Contact: Lauren Ledbetter 706-542-6511 At the invitation of professor Han Park, professor Johan Galtung will be visiting UGA. He will give a presentation related to peace and conflict studies. Galtung is a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies and the creator of the "Journal of Peace Research." He is currently based in Kuala Lumpur, where he is…


International Education Week: Keynote Speaker

Sponsored by: Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Institutional Diversity, Office of, International Education, Office of, International Student Life, Office of, Leadership and Service, Center for, University Housing,University Union Contact: Justin Jeffery 706-542-5867 "How Looking Sideways Can Expand Your View of the World," Rose George, an award-winning author.  George is an author…


Samurai lecture

American Samurai: A Teenager’s Journey from New England to the Satsuma Rebellion” William Fleming, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures and theater studies, Yale University, will speak in conjunction with the exhibition “Samurai: The Way of the Warrior.” The Satsuma Rebellion (1877) and the rebels who died in it have been romanticized in the Japanese imagination almost from the moment they first took up arms. On this side…


As the Cradle Crumbles

  This Monday, experience a talk straight from current headlines: As the Cradle Crumbles: Islamic State, the destruction of archaeological sites, and saving cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria. The lecturer, archaeologist Tina Greenfield, has worked in archaeological sites in Iraqi Kurdistan, among other Near Eastern sites, researching the earliest empires of the ancient world. She was forced to cut this fall’s excavation of an Assyrian…


Guest Lecture: Joan Adler

"For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr.," Joan Adler, author, historian and executive director of the Straus Historical Society. Adler is a historian, researcher, author and public speaker. She is the author of "For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr." and compiler/editor of several other books about the German-Jewish families she researches.   Her…


Gallery Talk: Samurai: The Way of the Warrior

Hyangsoon Yi, a professor of comparative literature and director of UGA’s Center for Asian Studies, will give a gallery talk on “Samurai: The Way of the Warrior.” Sponsored by: Georgia Museum of Art Contact: Hillary Brown 706-542-4662


#Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture

"Reading Outside the Canon: Some New Thoughts on Medicine in the Time of Galen," Vivian Nutton, a professor of the history of medicine and culture at the First Moscow State Medical School. Nutton studied classics at Cambridge University, before becoming a Fellow of Selwyn College, specializing in ancient history. In 1977, he moved to London where he taught the history of medicine to students at University College and the Wellcome Institute for…


2015 Devaux Lecture

"Conflict Resolution in Classical Athens: The Oresteia ," Edith Hall, a professor of classics at King’s College London. Hall has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and London universities, published 20 books and appears regularly on BBC Radio. The focus of her teaching includes courses in Alexandrian literature, Greek theatre and Aeschylus. For more information, contact: J. Rich  706-542-3918  


"German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie"

"German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie," Monique Laney, Auburn University. This lecture will be on the relocation of German rocket experts to the town of Huntsville, Alabama in 1950, and how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. Laney will discuss her book "German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era." The book…


"From European Witches to Afro-Caribbean Obeah Men: Gender and Supernatural Crimes in the Atlantic World"

Dr. Danielle Boaz of UNC Charlotte Africana Studies department will discuss her work on gender and supernatural crimes in the Atlantic World. A session of the Gender and History Workshop. For information, contact Leah Richier at richier@uga.edu.  


"Reconceptualizing LGBTQ Allyhood, and Why Feminism Matters in Queer Research"

Stephanie Anne Shelton, women's studies & language and literacy education, will present this lecture as part of the Friday speaker series. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.  
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