Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, co-founders and co-editors of the award-winning, scholarly, multimedia journal Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (B&L) announce an international conference on “Appropriation in an Age of Global Shakespeare” in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of B&L. We have joined forces with the ongoing Symposium on the Book at the University of Georgia, run by Miriam Jacobson and Anne Meyers Devine.

This two-day event of campus programs occurs on Sunday Nov. 8 and Monday Nov. 9.  Vereen Bell, Taylor Branch, Paul Hemphill, and Janisse Ray are the 2015 inductees. The actual induction ceremony, free and open to the public, will be held Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Building.

On Sunday, November 8 the following events will be held leading up to the induction ceremony the following day:

Alice Walker will join Valerie Boyd, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, for a public conversation in this Delta Chair community event. It is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. Tickets will be available through the Morton Theatre box office at a date to be announced.

Parking is available one half-block away in the West Washington Street Parking Deck at 125 W. Washington St.

More details will be released soon.

A native of Eatonton, Walker is the author of seven novels, including "The Color Purple," for which she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Walker has been designated the Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding.

Walker will give a talk and read from her literary works in this keynote Delta Chair event. The event free and open to the public, and seating is general admission.

Overflow seating with a live video stream will be available nearby. Parking is available in the UGA North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson Street.

Alice Walker, a native of Eatonton, Georgia, will visit the UGA campus Oct. 14 through Oct. 15. Walker is the author of novels, including The Color Purple, Meridian, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, books of poetry and essays, and seminal collections of short stories, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love and Trouble.  

Author and poet Jennifer Moxley will read from her work at Cine. Moxley is the author of six books of poetry, a book of essays, and a memoir. In addition, she has translated three books from the French. Her poems have been included in two Norton Anthologies, Postmodern American Poetry and American Hybrid.

New graduate students in the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. To be held 7-9 p.m. in the Lab Room at Ciné, 234 West Hancock, Athens. Free and open to the public.

Prof. McCaskill will discuss and read from her book, Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (UGA Press, May 2015). This event takes place in downtown Athens at Cine, 234 West Hancock Avenue, Athens, GA 30601.  Free and open to the public.  Contact bmccaski@uga.edu with any questions.

New graduate students to the Creative Writing Program are invited to meet with CWP faculty and current students, who will welcome them, make brief presentations about campus and community life, and answer questions. Please feel free to bring a lunch. The session will last 45 minutes. Venue to be announced.

Written by Martin McDonagh. Directed by Kristin Kundert.



A man has been searching for his missing left hand for a quarter century. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire for a hilarious roller coaster of love, hate, desperation, and hope. 

Production runs September 24-25, 27, 29-30, October 1-2 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12, $7 for students.