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Lunchtime Time Machine: What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?

Join another episode of the Lunchtime Time Machine, featuring Nan McMurry, as participants try to determine "What Does Race Have to Do with Buried Bones in the Medical College of Georgia?" In addition to being head of the Collection Development department in the UGA Libraries, Dr. McMurry teaches a course on the history of medicine each fall. Free history, and free pizza. The university community is invited. This is an FYO event.


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"M(i/e)nding the Gaps in Mental Health Among Black Americans," Dr. Rosalyn Denise Campbell, School of Social Work. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Artist Talk: Pam Longobardi

Join an Artist Talk with Pam Lonogbardi, the recipient of the 2021 Margie E. West Prize.  Longobardi has exhibited widely across the US and in Greece, Monaco, Germany, Finland, Slovakia, China, Japan, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Costa Rica and Poland. She currently lives and works in Atlanta as Regents’ Professor, Distinguished University Professor, and Professor of Art at Georgia State University. In 2006, after witnessing the vast amounts…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Women and the Holy City: The Struggle over Jerusalem’s Sacred Space," Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit, International Affairs.


Tripping on your own cloak: How fungal cell wall repair pathways can expose ß(1,3)-glucan to the host immune system

Tripping on your own cloak: How fungal cell wall repair pathways can expose ß(1,3)-glucan to the host immune system


Franklin Connection: Elizabeth Charles

Elizabeth C. Charles is a historian in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State, researching and compiling for the Foreign Relations of the United States series. She completed Reagan administration FRUS volumes on the Soviet Union 1983-85, 1985-86, both recently published and available online at history.state.gov. She also compiled a Reagan volume on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1984-1988, which is in…


Franklin Connections: Kal Golde

Kal is the assistant director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC, where he helps run moot courts that prepare attorneys who argue cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kal previously worked at SCOTUS blog, a news site and legal database on the Supreme Court, and the American Constitution Society, a nationwide network of progressive lawyers and law students. Kal graduated from UGA’s Franklin College in 2018,…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

“Our Girls”: Imagining Community and Personhood in a Rare Disease," Dr. Usree Bhattacharya, Language & Literacy Education. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


History at Work: Palmer Hicks

The History at Work Speaker Series explores the many ways of putting a history degree to use after college. This episode features history alum Palmer W. Hicks II. Palmer Hicks graduated from UGA with a B.A. in History. He is an account executive with EZLease, A Lease Accelerator subsidiary. His talk is part of HISTORY AT WORK, a series that explores the many ways to turn historical thinking into a post-college career Pizza will be served to…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"Hell with a Knife: Troublemaking & Affect Alienation in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Lynda Barry's Cruddy," Gina Abelkop, English and Women's Studies, Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lecture: Anthony Amore: “Stealing Rembrandts”

Anthony Amore, director of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will share stories and insights regarding art theft and the people and reasons behind it. Amore, who has more than 15 years of experience investigating art crime, heads the ongoing efforts to recover 13 works of art stolen from the Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art.” This…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why Was the Leader of the Confederacy So Often Depicted as a Mule?

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate talk series features Dr. Akela Reason, associate professor and director of the Museum Studies Certificate program. Reason will discuss Winslow Homer’s last major painting of the Civil War, "Rainy Day in Camp", and the depiction of the leader of the Confederacy as a mule. Free admission; free pizza.


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”: Frankenstein as Object-Oriented Feminist Manifesto," Kathleen Hurlock, English and Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Willson Center Director's Series: Alan Parks

Alan Parks, author of the Harry McCoy series of Glasgow noir mysteries, will take part in a conversation with Nicholas Allen, Professor in Humanities at UGA and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event is part of the Willson Center's Director's Series of conversations, curated by Allen. Before beginning his writing career, Parks was creative director at London Records and Warner Music, where he marketed and…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"How Gender Creates Community in Let's Plays: The tension between assumed audience and actual audience," Erin McDermott, Theater & Performance Studies and Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Were Civil War Soldiers Sometimes Coerced into Fighting?

This guest episode of Lunchtime Time Machine features Peter Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. Dr. Carmichael's academic interests include 19th-century US history, Civil War and Reconstruction, southern history, public history and cultural history. Carmichael’s most recent book, "The War for the Common Soldier," was published by University of North Carolina Press in November 2018 as part of…


Artist Talk: A Subjective Response to Emerging Technologies: a Conversation with Siebren Versteeg

New York-based digital artist Siebren Versteeg will discuss his work in relation to new technologies and contemporary art. From the origins of the web, to Web 2.0, to NFTs and blockchain, Versteeg's practice continues to respond and meddle with the burgeoning media forms that reshape our connections to art, value, and truth. He will address this work as it relates to ongoing interests in algorithmic computation, painterly abstraction, and doom…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"New Findings & Responses To Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception Crisis Pregnancy Centers," Dr. Andrea Swartzendruber, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, College of Public Health, and an affiliate faculty member of Women's Studies. Contact TLHAT@uga.edu for Zoom link.


Friday Speaker Series - "Introducing the New Undergraduate Certificate in LGBTQ Studies: Information, Updates, and Opportunities"

"Introducing the New Undergraduate Certificate in LGBTQ Studies: Information, Updates, and Opportunities" presented by Drs. Chris Cuomo, Cecilia Herles, and Josie Leimbach, Women's Studies


Curator Talk: "Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume"

Meghan Gerig, museum intern and recent graduate of UGA’s art history program, will be joined by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, for a Zoom conversation about works in the exhibition and Gerig’s research for the show as an intern.


Angela Miller: “Friends and Relations: The Queer Symbolic Realists of the Lincoln Kirstein Circle”

Angela Miller, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, will give a Zoom lecture in conjunction with the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” This lecture traces the shared interests — aesthetic, romantic and philosophical — that brought together three artists who enjoyed the support and patronage of Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet. What did…


Lecture & Discussion: Marion Wynne-Davies

"How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World," Marion Wynne-Davies, professor of English literature, University of Surrey. Wynne-Davies joined the University of Surrey in 2007 and was responsible for establishing English as a discipline at the University. She also one of the first to pioneer the use of placements in English Literature and Creative Writing degrees in the UK. Before coming to Surrey, she worked at the universities…


Sofía Córdova Lecture: Visiting Artist and Scholars Lecture

Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, installation, photography, and…


Charter Lecture Series 2021

The four UGA faculty members who were named 2020 and 2021 Regents’ Professors, an honor bestowed by the Board of Regents on distinguished faculty whose scholarship or creative activity is recognized both nationally and internationally as innovative and pace-setting, will each discuss their work in a joint Charter Lecture. Pejman Rohani, 2020 Regents’ Professor and University of Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Ecology and Infectious…


Women's Studies Virtual Friday Speaker Series

"The Nomadic Female Subject And Erotic Autonomy:  Sexual Citizenship In Marilene Felinto’s 'The Women Of Tijucopapo,'" Timeko McFadden, Spanish, Romance Languages, Women's Studies
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