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Education writer Paul Tough will give a talk associated with his newest book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, which will be published Sept. 10. The event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute of Higher Education at UGA in partnership with Avid Bookshop. Books will be available at the event and may also be pre-ordered through Avid. Tough is the author of …
"Discerning the Devil Among Us: The Spiritual Instruction of Murder on the Early Modern Stage and Page," Mary Floyd-Wilson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and chair of the department of English and comparative literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mary Floyd-Wilson works in the field of early modern English literature, primarily drama placed in cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Past projects…
"Reinvigorating the Library Research Session in Women's Studies" Amber Prentiss, UGA Libraries.    
"Undoing Disparities in Faculty Workloads," Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara, professor of higher education and associate dean, University of Maryland. Many faculty and academic leaders experience the inequitable allocation and rewards of teaching, mentoring, and service work in the academic workplace. O’Meara, PI of the NSF-funded Faculty Workload and Rewards Project, will share the latest social science research on implicit biases as they…
Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe presents lawyer, scholar, and author Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) for her annual American Indian Returnings (AIR) Talk.  This year's AIR Talk will take place on the Autumnal Equinox, Thursday, September 19th, at 4:15 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art, 90 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602.  This event is free and open to…
"'A Seat at the Table': Black Women Administrators' Narratives of Struggle and Support in the Ivory Tower," Rosemary E. Phelps, Counseling and Human Development Services; Kecia M. Thomas, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences; Nichole Ray, Women's Studies; and Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Women's Studies and Adult Education.
“Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism,” Barbara Fuchs, professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Fuchs's lecture is hosted by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the departments of English…
"Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance," Leslie Gordon Simons, Sociology.
"Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers," Carl Richard, professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Part of the Classics Department celebration of 50 Years of Education Abroad.    
“Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of English, Department of History, the Institute for…
"The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama," Dr. Hilary Green, associate professor of history and co-program director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Green earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, her M.A. in History from Tufts University in 2003 and her B.A. in History with…
"DIY Primatology: Building Careers," Dr. Dorothy Fragazy, UGA Department of Psychology. Keynote talk presented at the 2019 meeting of the American Society of Primatologists  
PhD Candidate Joshua Chu will presents his dessertation defense seminar on "Understanding the role of cardiolipin in Helicobacter pylori flagellar synthesis"
"Gendered Prisoner Societies: Structure and Status in Male and Female Prison Units," Derek Kreager, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Penn State.
NoViolet Bulawayo will speak on “The Immigrant Experience in America” at the 2019 Betty Jean Craige Lecture. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe. She earned her MFA from Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, and has also held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford, where she now teaches fiction. Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian’s First…
David Silkenat presents a talk on his new book, Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Silkenat is a senior lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina. He is a co-host of The Whiskey Rebellion, an American History podcast.
"The Web of Life: Birds and the Memory of South American Temperate Forests," Dr. Tomás Ibarra from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Villarica Campus. Ibarra is visiting UGA as a Franklin International Faculty Exchange Fellow. At the  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dr. Ibarra is an Assistant Professor and researcher at the Centre for Local Development (CEDEL), the Centre for Intercultural and Indigenous…
This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Timothy Yang speaking on "What's the Difference between a Licit and Illicit Drug?." Yang joined the history faculty this year and teaches courses on the history of East Asia, Japan, science and medicine, capitalism and memory. He is writing a book that explores the connections between medicine, capitalism and empire through a micro-history of a Japanese…
Charter lecture, featuring Roger Hunter, Program Manager, NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program. On the day of his graduation from UGA with a degree in mathematics in 1978, Hunter was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force, where he served for 22 years. He joined NASA in 2008 and served as project manager for NASA's Kepler Mission, the first mission capable of finding potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. He…
The department of religion presents a lecture by Keon McGuire, assistant professor at Arizona State University, on Tuesday March 26 at 7 p.m. in Peabody Hall, room 115. The lecture, “Religious Afterlife: Race, Gender, and Religion among Black Undergraduates,” is part of the Religion and the Common Good seminar series and open to the public.   McGuire will discuss how narratives concerning institutional and organized religion’s declining…
Industry 4.0 in Germany as Seen from a Cultural and Media Studies Perspective. Lecture by Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. Andreas Böhn discusses the concept of Industry 4.0 in Germany. Known as the "New Industrial Revolution," Industry 4.0 is a mechanization of many tasks that has the potential to elevate workers to more highly technical and advanced positions as the economy shifts. A specialist in modern German…
In recognition of the 2019 national Women’s History Month theme “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence,” the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia will be hosting numerous programs in March. This year’s Women’s History Month Keynote Address will be presented by Layli Maparyan, Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Dr. Maparyan is best known…
The African poet, essayist, playwright and nonfiction writer Niyi Osundare will deliver the 2019 African Studies Spring Lecture on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Special Collections Library Osundare will be visiting the University of Georgia from Monday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 6, 2019. A winner of numerous awards including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, two Cadbury Prizes, the…
Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The visit includes a public lecture on February 20th at 4pm entitled "The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing: Examples from German." Dr. Meyer has a research collaboration at UGA with John Hale; Hale will…
Stephanie McCurry is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University. She specializes in the nineteenth century United States, the American South, the American Civil War and the history of women and gender. Her current interests include the history of the United States in the immediate post-Civil War moment, the history of postwar societies and processes of reconstruction in the 19th and 20th…

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