Tags: Lecture


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.  


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Play Like a feminist: Why Feminism Needs Video Games (and vice-versa)," Dr. Shira Chess, Entertainment & Media Studies, College of Journalism and Mass Communication  


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Open Digital Initiatives at UGA Press," Lisa Bayer and Melissa Gamble, UGA Press.  


Lecture: Lia T. Bascomb

"In Plenty and in Time of Need," Lia T. Bascomb, associate professor of African American studies, Georgia State University.  Part of a series on Gender, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World, presented by the History and Gender Workshop, a Research Seminar of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Bascomb will discuss her book In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity (…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Islam, Slavery, and the Russians: Josefa Amar’s Construction of European Women’s Authority in Enlightenment Spain," Dr. Dana Bultman, Spanish, Romance Languages, University of Georgia


2021 Boyd Lecture: Finding Your Inner Fish: From Expeditions to Enhancers

2021 George H. Boyd Distinguished Lecture "Finding Your Inner Fish: From Expeditions to Enhancers" Neil Shubin Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Anatomy, University of Chicago Register for Zoom webinar https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sJoEBAXkQoC1SmVhyYmP2A Shubin leads fossil expeditions around the world while directing a molecular biology laboratory that studies the great transitions in the history of life. His team…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Recent works for microtonal saxophones," Emily Koh, School of Music.  


Fall 2020 Franklin College Visiting Scholar Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Harvard University

Former UGA Assistant Professor and current Roy G. Clause Associate Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Garcia-Peña has gained national and international recognition for her outstanding and innovative research on Latinx in the USA and Latin American’s diaspora in the USA and Europe.   In her talk titled “Against Death: Afro-Dominican Feminist Counterdiscourse in the Diaspora,” Professor García-Peña will discuss her work on Afro-Dominican…


2020 Virtual African Studies Fall Lecture

The 2020 Virtual African Studies Fall lecture will on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 3:30pm on Zoom (https://zooom.us/j/95154360979). The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Alexander Fyfe, Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He will be talking on the topic, "Humanism Beyond the Subject: Early African Prose Fiction and the Politics of the Human." 
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