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In the 1950s James Baldwin wrote that "it is only in his music that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story." Back then, Baldwin held that Black musical textures signaled a story "which no American is prepared to hear." In film and television for the decades that followed, a wide gap yawned, at times howled, between the music and the characters. Midway in the 2010s, however, the gap between music and filmic elements…
In the global hit South Korean drama Crash Landing on You, a South Korean heiress finds her true love after a paragliding accident drops her in North Korea. In this talk, Professor Mi-Ryong Shim explores how South Korean romantic dramas appeal to their audiences through the mode of overindulgence and how Crash Landing on You manages to stage the pleasures of visual and melodramatic excess even in the unlikeliest of settings.…
When Season 1 of Bridgerton debuted in December 2020, it became the most-watched English-language series on Netflix ever — and when Season 2 premiered in March 2022, the show broke its own record. In this talk, Professor Casie Legette will think about some reasons for the show’s huge popularity, paying particular attention to the way it made a "fan-fiction" version of Regency England available and accessible to non-white viewers. This…
It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that the final season, and especially the final episode, of Game of Thrones was terrible. But why? In this talk, Professor Cody Marrs will contrast GoT (and analogues like Lost and Killing Eve) with shows that concluded successfully (like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos), to explore why certain endings are satisfying — or not. This event is part of…
A talk featuring the chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal, Greg Ip.  Mr. Ip will be virtually presenting his talk, "The Coming Economic Cold War," Monday, April 25 from 12-1pm EST on Zoom. Questions will be moderated by Dean Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge. Please join us by registering here. Campus partners include: College of Pharmacy Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication Terry College of…
Meeting Dirac’s Challenge Quantum Many-body Physics in the 21st Century  Andrew Millis Department of Physics, Columbia University Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute  Thursday, April 7, at 3:55 PM  Physics Building Room 202  Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99879004873?pwd=Vkp2dHJDdU9tcnpNUWp5SFk4QVIvQT09 
Dr. Josephine Jarpa Dawuni Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Founder and Director, Institute for African Women in Law & Director, Center for Women, Gender & Global Leadership Howard University, DC. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0ULV6cxqRkitr9caFVuqVw
"Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness," Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson, University of California - Riverside. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdO-qrzwrGNwKG1Z3cGbuDs6QxqXzWiiu  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Robinson will be discussing their book Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth…
"Pandemic India: Seen through photographs, darkly," Rustom Bharucha. Bharucha is a writer, director and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He retired as professor of theatre and performance studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural…
“The State of the Humanities, Circa 2022,” Robert Townsend, director for humanities, arts, and culture, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to the his tenure at the AAAS, Rober Townsend spent 24 years at the American Historical Association, in positions ranging from editorial assistant to deputy director. He is the author of History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-…
“Ghosts, Zombies, and Mother Nature: Native Women’s Horror Films Fight Back,” Dr. Channette Romero, English. Free, open to all, FYO approved. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.
Professor Fay Yarbrough, Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, will present “Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation,” co-hosted by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson for the Homeland Returns series in Native Amercian studies at UGA. Yarbrough will discuss Choctaw women’s roles in Choctaw society during the tumultuous nineteenth century, which included the removal of the Choctaw people from the…
“Feminism Re-Examined: Muslim Women in Graphic Novels,” Dr. Esra Santesso, English. Free, open to all, FYO approved. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.
Chris Singleton is a former professional athlete drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2017. Following the loss of his mother in a racially motivated church mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Chris has now become an inspirational speaker sharing his message of “Love is Stronger than Hate” through unity and racial reconciliation. You can attend his lecture Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. Real-time captioning will be…
"BLACK WOMEN’S #HISTORICALWELLNESS: Traditions of Connecting Self-Care to Social Justice," Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudumvqD0pE9f45lcN9vjzfN8WN6JVsapG  After registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. In this UGA Women’s History Month Virtual Keynote Lecture, Dr. Evans will…
"A Conversation with Greg Bluestein, Author of Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power" is sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in partnership with the School of Public and International Affairs and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. It is presented as part of the Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative public events series. Bluestein is a political reporter…
Join the final installment of the 2021-2022 UGA Laboratory of Archaeology Speaker Series: The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives with "LiDAR, Remote Sensing, and Archaeology." Join Dr. Tim Murtha and Dr. Whit Schroder, from the University of Florida, with LeeAnne Wendt, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, as a discussant. Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3CXda95 For this webinar, the group will…
"Fair for whom? Attitudes towards the rights of transgender girls in school sports," by Dr. Richard Blissett, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, COE FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.
"Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil," Nathan Brown, associate professor of English, Canada Research Chair in Poetics, and director, Centre for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal. Nathan Brown is the author of three books: The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics (2017), Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), and …
"Mysteries and Applications of Algal Sensory Photoreceptors," Peter Hegemann, Insitute of Biology & Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
"Hollywood Patriarchy: Why the film industry is dominated by white men and how women resist," by Dr. Kate Fortmueller, Entertainment and Media Studies. FYO approved. Email TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.
"Protest, Silencing, and Epistemic Activism," Dr. José Maria Medina, Northwestern University. Funded by the Klenier Lecture Series.
"Impeachment: Frederick Douglass and Andrew Johnson after the Civil War," Professor Robert Levine, University of Maryland. Levine is the general editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature and the author of six books, including Race, Transnationalism, and 19th Century American Literature; The Lives of Frederick Douglass; and the forthcoming The Failed Promise:  Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass…
"Militarizing the Police: Empire and the Global Color Line" This talk offers an historical sociology of militarized policing in the US and Britain, where the model of our current “civil police” was born. It explores the deep historical roots of militarized policing, its causes, and its inextricable connections with empire abroad and racial dynamics at home. Julian Go is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, where he is also a…
Join guest speaker Madelyn Shaw for an illustrated talk exploring the myths and realities of 1960s fashion. A discussion between Shaw and Ashley Callahan, curator of the new exhibition “Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics” will follow the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press, the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of…

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