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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…


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…
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