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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 by Isabelle Loring Wallace.
Art History Faculty Lecture by Janice Simon.
“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,…
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…
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…
“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…
"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, 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…
“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 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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
In the global hit South Korean drama Crash Landing on You, a South Korean heiress finds her true love after a paragliding accident drops her in North Korea. In this talk, Professor Mi-Ryong Shim explores how South Korean romantic dramas appeal to their audiences through the mode of overindulgence and how Crash Landing on You manages to stage the pleasures of visual and melodramatic excess even in the unlikeliest of settings.…
Stanley Holder, a member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, is a former employee of the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) where his roles ranged from Director of Student Services (Riverside Indian School) to Acting Associate Deputy Director of the Division of Performance and Accountability. He has over 30 years of experience in developing and managing education, behavioral, mental health, and economic development programs and projects for…
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series has brought over 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. Artist bio Troy Lamarr Chew II (b. 1992 in Los Angeles, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)…
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series has brought over 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. Artist bio Ruby Neri (b. 1970, San Francisco) draws upon twentieth-century West Coast…
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series has brought over 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.
This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Ben Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Europe, transnational Europe, and Christian-Muslim relations. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. Free Admission. Free Pizza. All are welcome. An FYO event.
"The Revolution will be Embodied: An Archival Meditation on the Corporeal Narratives of Grace Jones in Radical Joy and Pleasure" presented by Sha'Mira Covington, Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors and Institute for African American Studies.
Chadwick Allen, professor of English and adjunct professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington, will give the 2022 American Indian Returns (AIR) lecture. This annual event is sponsored by LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature in English and director of the Native and Indigenous Studies at UGA. This event is free and open to the public. Allen’s lecture focuses on his new book, “…

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