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Presented by former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. Part of the Signature Lecture Series. Sears became the first African-American chief justice in the nation when she was appointed Georgia Supreme Court chief justice in 2005. She was the first woman and the youngest person to sit on the bench when she was appointed justice in 1992. Co-sponsored by the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Institute for Women's…
"Writing Oneself Into Existence: Arts-Based Research and the Power of Voice & Storytelling," Angela Hall, Institute for Women's Studies and the department of theatre and film. Contact: Terri Hatfield 706-542-2846  
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” 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 her the first woman of color to win the honor.
"Fun With Fonts: Mathematical Typography," Erik Demaine, a professor of computer science at MIT. In this lecture, Demaine will speak about typefonts that he and his father, Martin, have designed. The typefonts are based on mathematical theorems and open problems Demaine is well-known for his significant results, such as a proof of the fold-and-cut theorem, as well as for his legendary curiosity and infectious enthusiasm. Both of these…
Alexis Esquivel is a Cuban visual and performance artist whose work has often explored themes of history, race and identity, particularly in a Cuban cultural context. This lecture offers a reflection on the issue of race in Cuba and its historical development, drawing from an analysis of some of the most important artists to address these themes since the turn of the century. Esquivel will guide a virtual trip through a series of exhibitions…
Part of a recurring series, this week's event will feature Derrick Angermeier, a doctoral candidate, and a lecture entitled "How Did Hitler's Atomic Bomb Ignite the Cold War?" Angermeier's dissertation research focuses on the historical arguments made by Nazi thinkers and demonstrates that Nazism’s flawed historical analysis points to ideological consistencies within a thought system that was notorious for inconsistency. Pizza will be…
"Martin Luther's Gospel," Phillip Cary, a professor of philosophy at Eastern University and scholar in residence at the Templeton Honors College at Eastern. Cary is one of the most prominent and distinguished scholars of protestant theology in the United States today. He has written extensively on Martin Luther, and attendees would be hard pressed to find another scholar who can do such justice both to Luther's historical situatedness and to his…
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa will discuss her creative process and debut novel, "Daughters of the Stone." The novel chronicles the lives of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women on the island and the mainland. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author and finalist of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers, will discuss her creative process, the importance of stories and her debut novel's representation of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women…
"Carracci's 'Butcher Shop As If It Were a Church,'" Gail Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum will discuss baroque artist Carracci's response to history through his Butcher Shop.
UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication advertising professor Tom Reichert will present this month's science discussion entitled, "Sex in Advertising: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Too Afraid to Ask." The event is free and open to the public.
Zéphirin Diabré, opposition leader in the Parliament, former presidential candidate of Burkina Faso, former deputy administrator of the U.N. Development Program and visiting Harvard scholar will be give a lecture titled "Contesting Constitutional Change and Restoring Democracy in Burkina Faso." Hosted by the African Studies Institute. Zéphirin Diabré hails from the village of Foungou in the department of Gomboussougou in Zoundwéogo province of…
Billy Weeks, a two-time winner of the Gordon Parks International Photography award, will speak. The talk will focus on “the moment where the photographer past interacts with the subject present. In other words, what is it that attracts the photographer to make an image?." Weeks' visit complements an exhibit of photographs from a "Life" magazine 1956 photo essay on segregation in the South will be on view at the Richard B. Russell Building…
Dengue fever debilitates, sickens and even kills millions of poor people around the world every year—many of them young children. And the same mosquitoes that carry dengue also spread other high-profile viruses such as zika, the subject of a World Health Organization warning that pregnant women should avoid travel to certain countries for fear of severe birth defects. Thomas W. Scott, a Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Nematology at…
This week's lecture: "'Going to the Chapel and We're Gonna Get Married': Ordination and Gay Marriage" presented by Wanda Wilcox, Women's Studies, Adult Education, and Franklin Advising
Join Alice Aycock as she shares stories of her career as an artist and get an in-depth look at selected works from the artist’s oeuvre. Her large-scale pieces in earth and industrial materials pertain to themes of human and spatial relationships with nature, architecture and the built environment.
Jane Wodening, writer and first wife of legendary avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, will make a rare public appearance in support of her latest book, Brakhage's Childhood (2015). Wodening will speak and take questions from the public about her long and celebrated career as an author and about her thirty-year collaboration with Brakhage on dozens of visionary experimental movies about their domestic lives—including, perhaps most…
Earl Lewis, President of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, will give the Louise McBee Lecture.  Lewis, a noted social historian, was a former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He is the author and co-editor of seven books. Sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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. …
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.

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