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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Report from Infinity: Rural Highway, Southern Georgia, After Rainstorm," photographer Raymond Smith.
"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…
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…
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…
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…
  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…
"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…
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
"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…
"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," 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…
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.  
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.  
Katelyn Kivett and Kate Templeton, from the UGA Career Center, will present this lecture as part of the Friday speaker series. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.
Melissa Fahmy, from the UGA department of philosophy, will present this lecture as part of the Friday speaker series. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.
Justin Lavner, from the UGA department of psychology, will present this lecture. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.
Mary Caplan, from the UGA School of Social Work, will present this lecture. The event is free, open to the public and is a First Year Odyssey course.
Kristyl Tift, from Women's Studies & Theatre and Film Studies, will present this lecture that is part of a weekly lecture series for the Institute of Women's Studies. The event is FREE, open to the public and is First Year Odyssey (FYO) event.
This is a Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and co-founder of the Center for Virtual History at UGA. The lecture focuses on the increasing role of medical science in establishing precise causes of death in the 19th-century U. S., which in turn created a more precise and robust understanding of public health. The data is drawn from two sources—the South…
Distinguished UGA alum John R. Parker Jr. (History, '73) presents a talk on "What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?” John Parker is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served for this lunch hour talk.
Award-winning historian Catherine Clinton, author of Mary Lincoln: A Life(HarperCollins, 2009) delivers a short lecture on the myriad tragedies suffered by Mary Lincoln in the aftermath of her husband's murder. Inconsolable in grief, Mary Lincoln was then herself the victim of character assassination in stories that were circulated first by her enemies, then by her biographers and her historians. Come hear the "other half" of the…

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