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Women’s Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series Lecture

"Fair for whom? Attitudes towards the rights of transgender girls in school sports," by Dr. Richard Blissett, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, COE FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lecture: Nathan Brown

"Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil," Nathan Brown, associate professor of English, Canada Research Chair in Poetics, and director, Centre for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal. Nathan Brown is the author of three books: The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics (2017), Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), and …


Cellular Biology Seminar - Peter Hegemann

"Mysteries and Applications of Algal Sensory Photoreceptors," Peter Hegemann, Insitute of Biology & Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin


Women’s Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series Lecture

"Hollywood Patriarchy: Why the film industry is dominated by white men and how women resist," by Dr. Kate Fortmueller, Entertainment and Media Studies. FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Philosophy Department Colloquium

"Protest, Silencing, and Epistemic Activism," Dr. José Maria Medina, Northwestern University. Funded by the Klenier Lecture Series.


Lecture: Robert Levine

"Impeachment: Frederick Douglass and Andrew Johnson after the Civil War," Professor Robert Levine, University of Maryland. Levine is the general editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature and the author of six books, including Race, Transnationalism, and 19th Century American Literature; The Lives of Frederick Douglass; and the forthcoming The Failed Promise:  Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass…


Spring 2022 Sociology Colloquium Series

"Militarizing the Police: Empire and the Global Color Line" This talk offers an historical sociology of militarized policing in the US and Britain, where the model of our current “civil police” was born. It explores the deep historical roots of militarized policing, its causes, and its inextricable connections with empire abroad and racial dynamics at home. Julian Go is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, where he is also a…


Camelot to Counterculture: Clothing & Society in the 1960s

Join guest speaker Madelyn Shaw for an illustrated talk exploring the myths and realities of 1960s fashion. A discussion between Shaw and Ashley Callahan, curator of the new exhibition “Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics” will follow the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press, the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of…


Global Georgia Lecture: Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

"Reconsidering Reparations," Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy, Georgetown University. This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2022 Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of philosophy and the Institute for African American Studies. Advance registration for the event, which will be conducted via Zoom webinar, is required and …


Write@UGA Keynote Address

Title: Attention is the Scarcity: New Approaches to Information Literacy Abstract: Using a variety of examples showing the challenges of navigating our current information environment, digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield will show how and why traditional approaches to critical thinking instruction often fail to prepare our students for the world they encounter online. Questions considered will be the role of attention and emotion in making…


Women’s Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series Lecture

"Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence: Virtual Case Simulation Training for Religious Leaders," presented by Dr. Joon Choi, associate professor and interim associate dean for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Georgia School of Social Work. FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Aralee Strange Lecture: Dare Dukes

“Banging against the Barrel: How Cultural Production Nurtures Healing and Power at the Intersection of Personal and Community Narratives” Dare Dukes has worked as an artist, leader and community organizer in BIPOC communities in New York City and Savannah, Georgia. Working alongside families and youth of color, Dukes’ leadership at Deep Center in Savannah transformed a creative writing program into a social justice organization that disrupted…


Women’s Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series Lecture

Dr. Kevin J. Burke, Language and Literacy Education, College of Education, and Dr. Adam J. Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will present on their new book, "On Liking the Other: Queer Subjects and Religious Discourses." FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


UGA Laboratory of Archaeology Speaker Series

Join the first 2022 installment of the 2021-2022 UGA Laboratory of Archaeology Speaker Series: The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives with "Ancient DNA for Archeology in the Genomic Era" with Dr. Logan Kistler and discussants RaeLynn Butler and Turner Hunt of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3ffkO3y When used alongside other archaeological methods, DNA…


Women’s Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series Lecture

"Black Faces in White Spaces: Exploring the Influence of social support on the experience of Black students at predominantly white institutions" presented by Dr. Zoe Johnson, School of Social Work. Open to all and FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Was the Black railway legend John Henry a real person?

Join another episode of the Lunchtime Time Machine featuring Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson to explore the myth and legend of John Henry — " Was the Black railway legend John Henry a real person?" Nelson writes about 19th-century US history including the history of slavery and Reconstruction. He also writes about international finance, the history of science, and global commodities. In his spare time he reads science fiction and drinks too much…


Philosophy Department Colloquium

Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside Funded by the Kleiner Lecture Series and Co-Sponsored with the UGA Institute for African American Studies. Title of Talk: TBA Click on the web link below for Zoom details


“Cinema Roundtable: "American Triptych" and the Art of Collaboration

This Spotlight on the Arts event brings together five UGA faculty from the Grady and Franklin Colleges to discuss their recent work on the short film "American Triptych," written and directed by Booker T. Mattison (Entertainment and Media Studies). As the movie’s press book explains, “Three American lives are radically changed during the tumultuous summer of Covid-19. 'American Triptych' dramatically explores food insecurity, homelessness,…


Georgia Writers Hall of Fame: Pearl Cleage

2021 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Pearl Cleage will be in conversation with Valerie Boyd, Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence and Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. A Q&A will follow the conversation. Cleage, an Atlanta-based writer, is the author of more than 15 plays, including Flyin’ West and Blues for an Alabama Sky, which enjoyed an off-Broadway run last year. Her…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?

Join another episode of the Lunchtime Time Machine, featuring Nan McMurry, as participants try to determine "What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?" In addition to being head of the Collection Development department in the UGA Libraries, Dr. McMurry teaches a course on the history of medicine each fall. Free history, and free pizza. The university community is invited. This is an FYO event.


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"M(i/e)nding the Gaps in Mental Health Among Black Americans," Dr. Rosalyn Denise Campbell, School of Social Work. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Artist Talk: Pam Longobardi

Join an Artist Talk with Pam Lonogbardi, the recipient of the 2021 Margie E. West Prize.  Longobardi has exhibited widely across the US and in Greece, Monaco, Germany, Finland, Slovakia, China, Japan, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Costa Rica and Poland. She currently lives and works in Atlanta as Regents’ Professor, Distinguished University Professor, and Professor of Art at Georgia State University. In 2006, after witnessing the vast amounts…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Women and the Holy City: The Struggle over Jerusalem’s Sacred Space," Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit, International Affairs.


Tripping on your own cloak: How fungal cell wall repair pathways can expose ß(1,3)-glucan to the host immune system

Tripping on your own cloak: How fungal cell wall repair pathways can expose ß(1,3)-glucan to the host immune system


Franklin Connection: Elizabeth Charles

Elizabeth C. Charles is a historian in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State, researching and compiling for the Foreign Relations of the United States series. She completed Reagan administration FRUS volumes on the Soviet Union 1983-85, 1985-86, both recently published and available online at history.state.gov. She also compiled a Reagan volume on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1984-1988, which is in…
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