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English alumna one of six Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winners

Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000: In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The Rona Jaffe…

Georgia Virtual History Project

One of the new Faculty Research Clusters recently launched by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is the Digital Humanities Lab co-directed by Franklin faculty in the departments of English (Bill Kretzschmar) and history (Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt). This initiative combines digital…

Women's Studies: Friday Speaker Series

  From a women’s perspective:  Friday Speaker Series brings together diverse women for thought-provoking lectures By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu           Beginning later this month, a Friday speaker series in the Franklin College Institute for…

Engaging Students and Communities in Music Research

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music present a lecture by a noted expert on bringing research into communities and vice-versa. Carol Muller, a South African-born Ethnomusicologist at the University of Pennsylvannia, will speak at the Hodgson Schoo, at 4 p.…

UGA Apero Africana lunchtime lecture series begins today

  Lectures begin today at 12:15 in room 481 at Tate Center By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu Today is a special historical anniversary.  Fifty years ago today, hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists descended on Washington D.C. to call for civil and economic rights for African…

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