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"Women at the Forefront of Global Solutions: Plastic, Recycling, and Haiti," Chris Cuomo, women's studies and philosophy; and Jenna Jambeck, engineering.  
DeKalb County CEO and Athens historian Michael L. Thurmond will discuss his book A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History, updated and re-released in 2019, 40 years after its original publication.  Thurmond has served as chief executive officer of DeKalb County, one of the most diverse counties in the Southeast, since January 2017. Thurmond is widely regarded as a “turnaround expert” after fundamentally transforming…
Mildred Barya will give a talk on her poetry. Barya is a Ugandan poet and fiction writer who has authored three poetry books: Give Me Room to Move My Feet (Amalion Publishing, 2009), The Price of Memory After the Tsunami (Mallory International, 2006), and Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say (Femrite Publications, 2002). She teaches creative writing at University of North Carolina, Asheville, and is a board member…
“The Sacred Anthropocene: On Religious Interpretations of Planetary Change,” Willis Jenkins, professor of religion, ethics, and environment, University of Virginia. Presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the departments of anthropology and religion and the Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium. Jenkins is the author of two award-winning books, Ecologies of Grace:…
This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Diane Batts Morrow and the intriguing question, "What do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?" Morrow teaches courses on African American history, and she is the author of "Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860". Free pizza will be served. This special edition of the LunchTime Time…
UGA recognizes the 19th Amendment Centenary with Women’s History Month celebrations In recognition of the 2020 national Women’s History Month theme “Valiant Women of the Vote,” the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia will be hosting numerous programs in March that honor the centennial of the 19thAmendment. This year’s Women’s History Month Keynote Address will be presented by Lisa Tetrault, associate professor of history…
"'To Kill or not Kill an Ant': Critiquing Opinion Writing Practices in Public Elementary School with Feminist and Nonmodern Philosophies," Shara Cherniak, Women's Studies and Educational Theory and Practice.  
The UGA Department of English and the Franklin College Office of Diversity and Inclusion are pleased to present a lecture, "Shakespeare and Academic 'Redlining,'" given by 2020 Visiting Scholar Dr. Tripthi Pillai of Coastal Carolina University. Her public lecture on the topic of Shakespeare and "redlining" in the context of U.S. and global higher education spaces and culture will foreground the pedagogical and research practices that, she…
"'She Persisted In Her Revolt': Slavery and Freedom in the French Caribbean," Jennifer Palmer, history.  
"These Beautiful End Times: Omens and Aesthetics in the Medieval South Asian State," Dr. Marko Geslani.  
"The Utopia of the Past in Contemporary Literature," Julio Premat, Université Paris 8 - Institute Universitaire de France. The lecture will be in Spanish and the following discussion in Spanish, French and English. Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
The UGA department of philosophy and the Office of Service-Learning present a lecture by Tom Wartenberg, “Doing Philosophy with Frog and Toad,” on Thursday Feb. 13 at 3:30 p.m. in room 115 of Peabody Hall on UGA’s North campus. A professor emeritus of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, Wartenberg is one of the leading scholars in the United States working on teaching philosophy to children. The lecture, part of a weeklong visit, is free and…
Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History will be supporting monthly informal talks by local scientists who work with or benefit from interactions with the Georgia Museum of Natural History. Talks are planned to be outdoors next to the Mary Kahrs Warnell Memorial Garden and Pond, also known as the "Turtle Pond" on South Campus. If the weather is less lovely, meet in the nearby River Basin Center building. The Friends will provide coffee.
The University of Georgia Center for Simulational Physics presents the inaugural Chhabra-Landau lecture on Thursday Jan. 9, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. in room 202 of the Physics building. The speaker is Sharon Glotzer, the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, the John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan,…
"Better Together: Third Party Helping is Enhanced When the Decision to Help is Made Jointly,” Dr. Ashley Harrell King, assistant professor of sociology at Duke University. Abstract: Past work has typically conceptualized the decision to help a dependent other as an individual decision. But unilateral giving is often initiated at the group level. And there are compelling reasons to expect that the helping behavior initiated jointly by multiple…
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Anna Brickhouse, Professor of English at the University of Virginia and award-winning author of The Unsettlement of America (Oxford, 2014) and Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge, 2005). Professor Brickhouse is a recipient of  Professor Brickhouse’s talk, “An Earthquake History of the Americas,” will take place on Monday, November…
"The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: Global Political Trends and Their Impact on Security, Privacy and Human Rights," Sebastian Kaempf, senior lecturer in peace and conflict studies in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland (Australia). This talk is supported by a Short-Term Visiting Fellow grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Kaempf's latest book, Saving Soldiers or…
"Italy at the Margins of Empire: Pastoral as a Way of Seeing," Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Tylus'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…
"From Urban Design to Student Hazing, the Georgia Colonists to the State Seal: The Entangled, Global Histories of Freemasonry and the Visual Arts," Alisa Luxenberg, professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art. From this emerging field of scholarship, Luxenberg will introduce several key relationships and methodological problems by way of examples from the forthcoming volume on the topic that she co-edited with Reva Wolf,…
UGA's Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Franklin College Office of Inclusion & Diversity Leadership present: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University. When British abolitionists called for a sugar boycott in the late 1790s, they pointed to…
Dr. Esendugue Fonsah is a professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He received his doctoral degree in Agricultural Economics from University of Nigeria. Dr. Fonsah was awarded the Senior Scientist Award of Excellence in Extension at UGA, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Tifton, GA. Furthermore, he received the Banana Worldwide Research Certificate in Guatemala. Dr. Fonsah has conducted research in farm management,…
Corey Madden is an award-winning writer and director, Executive Director of the Kenan Institute for the Arts and a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. At the Kenan Institute for the Arts Madden directs strategic initiatives that creatively blend the arts, enterprise, and innovative practice to positively impact the lives and careers of artists. Three programmatic themes — Creative Leaders, Creative Campus, and…
The speaker for the annual Gregory Distinguished lecture is Tiya Miles, who will speak on, " 'This Sack': Reconstructing Enslaved Women's Lives Through Objects." Miles is professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women’s histories.  
Elena Bianchelli, senior lecturer in the department of classics at UGA, will give a gallery talk in the exhibition “Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica."  
Dr. Juana Suárez, director of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program will deliver a lecture titled "The Visible and the Invisible: Documenting Latin American Moving Image Archives" on the place of audiovisual archives in shaping cultural histories in the region, comparing similarities and differences in their constituencies in order to analyze the administrative forces that currently shape archival practices, chief among them the…

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