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Franklin Connections: Kal Golde

Kal is the assistant director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC, where he helps run moot courts that prepare attorneys who argue cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kal previously worked at SCOTUS blog, a news site and legal database on the Supreme Court, and the American Constitution Society, a nationwide network of progressive lawyers and law students. Kal graduated from UGA’s Franklin College in 2018,…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

“Our Girls”: Imagining Community and Personhood in a Rare Disease," Dr. Usree Bhattacharya, Language & Literacy Education. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


History at Work: Palmer Hicks

The History at Work Speaker Series explores the many ways of putting a history degree to use after college. This episode features history alum Palmer W. Hicks II. Palmer Hicks graduated from UGA with a B.A. in History. He is an account executive with EZLease, A Lease Accelerator subsidiary. His talk is part of HISTORY AT WORK, a series that explores the many ways to turn historical thinking into a post-college career Pizza will be served to…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Hell with a Knife: Troublemaking & Affect Alienation in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Lynda Barry's Cruddy," Gina Abelkop, English and Women's Studies, Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lecture: Anthony Amore: “Stealing Rembrandts”

Anthony Amore, director of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will share stories and insights regarding art theft and the people and reasons behind it. Amore, who has more than 15 years of experience investigating art crime, heads the ongoing efforts to recover 13 works of art stolen from the Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art.” This…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why Was the Leader of the Confederacy So Often Depicted as a Mule?

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate talk series features Dr. Akela Reason, associate professor and director of the Museum Studies Certificate program. Reason will discuss Winslow Homer’s last major painting of the Civil War, "Rainy Day in Camp", and the depiction of the leader of the Confederacy as a mule. Free admission; free pizza.


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”: Frankenstein as Object-Oriented Feminist Manifesto," Kathleen Hurlock, English and Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Willson Center Director's Series: Alan Parks

Alan Parks, author of the Harry McCoy series of Glasgow noir mysteries, will take part in a conversation with Nicholas Allen, Professor in Humanities at UGA and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event is part of the Willson Center's Director's Series of conversations, curated by Allen. Before beginning his writing career, Parks was creative director at London Records and Warner Music, where he marketed and…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"How Gender Creates Community in Let's Plays: The tension between assumed audience and actual audience," Erin McDermott, Theater & Performance Studies and Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Were Civil War Soldiers Sometimes Coerced into Fighting?

This guest episode of Lunchtime Time Machine features Peter Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. Dr. Carmichael's academic interests include 19th-century US history, Civil War and Reconstruction, southern history, public history and cultural history. Carmichael’s most recent book, "The War for the Common Soldier," was published by University of North Carolina Press in November 2018 as part of…


Artist Talk: A Subjective Response to Emerging Technologies: a Conversation with Siebren Versteeg

New York-based digital artist Siebren Versteeg will discuss his work in relation to new technologies and contemporary art. From the origins of the web, to Web 2.0, to NFTs and blockchain, Versteeg's practice continues to respond and meddle with the burgeoning media forms that reshape our connections to art, value, and truth. He will address this work as it relates to ongoing interests in algorithmic computation, painterly abstraction, and doom…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"New Findings & Responses To Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception Crisis Pregnancy Centers," Dr. Andrea Swartzendruber, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, College of Public Health, and an affiliate faculty member of Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Friday Speaker Series - "Introducing the New Undergraduate Certificate in LGBTQ Studies: Information, Updates, and Opportunities"

"Introducing the New Undergraduate Certificate in LGBTQ Studies: Information, Updates, and Opportunities" presented by Drs. Chris Cuomo, Cecilia Herles, and Josie Leimbach, Women's Studies


Curator Talk: "Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume"

Meghan Gerig, museum intern and recent graduate of UGA’s art history program, will be joined by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, for a Zoom conversation about works in the exhibition and Gerig’s research for the show as an intern.


Angela Miller: “Friends and Relations: The Queer Symbolic Realists of the Lincoln Kirstein Circle”

Angela Miller, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, will give a Zoom lecture in conjunction with the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” This lecture traces the shared interests — aesthetic, romantic and philosophical — that brought together three artists who enjoyed the support and patronage of Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet. What did…


Lecture & Discussion: Marion Wynne-Davies

"How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World," Marion Wynne-Davies, professor of English literature, University of Surrey. Wynne-Davies joined the University of Surrey in 2007 and was responsible for establishing English as a discipline at the University. She also one of the first to pioneer the use of placements in English Literature and Creative Writing degrees in the UK. Before coming to Surrey, she worked at the universities…


Sofía Córdova Lecture: Visiting Artist and Scholars Lecture

Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, installation, photography, and…


Charter Lecture Series 2021

The four UGA faculty members who were named 2020 and 2021 Regents’ Professors, an honor bestowed by the Board of Regents on distinguished faculty whose scholarship or creative activity is recognized both nationally and internationally as innovative and pace-setting, will each discuss their work in a joint Charter Lecture. Pejman Rohani, 2020 Regents’ Professor and University of Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Ecology and Infectious…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"The Nomadic Female Subject And Erotic Autonomy:  Sexual Citizenship In Marilene Felinto’s 'The Women Of Tijucopapo,'" Timeko McFadden, Spanish, Romance Languages, Women's Studies


Dr. Erika Edwards: "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic"

Dr. Erika Edwards, associate professor in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will discuss her book Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic (Alabama UP, 2020). A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q and A session and general conversation. This event will be held over Zoom. Registration is required. Dr. Edwards is an expert of the black…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"I Got All My Sisters With Me (On Black Twitter): Second Screening of 'How to Get Away With Murder' as a Technocultural Discourse on Black Womanhood," Dr. Vanessa Gonlin, Sociology.


Betty Jean Craige Lecture: Megha Majumdar

Author Megha Majumdar will give her talk, "Writing Socially Engaged Fiction," as the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies's annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture, co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program. The event is also presented as part of the Willson Center’s 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series. Megha…


African Studies Institute Spring 2021 Lecture: Daniel Wubah

The African Studies Institute presents its virtual Spring Lecture. Our Spring Lecture guest speaker will be President Daniel Wubah of Millersville University with his topic "Rethinking Hierarchy: Perspectives on Servant Leadership as a King and University President."


"Writing for a Better World" Keynote Address

What Does it Mean to Assess Writing for a Better World? In this talk Dr. Inoue will engage us with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a better world. We'll focus not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"What Can I Do With a Major in Women's Studies?," presented by UGA Career Center.  
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