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2024 Spotlight
on the Arts

UGA's annual festival runs through the month of November

A Year in the Humanities and Arts

The Willson Center’s 2023-2024 annual report is now published online

UGA Students Reap International Awards

UGA's Rhodes and Schwarzman Scholars incorporate study in the humanities and arts

Penn Center National Historic Landmark District

Mellon-funded partnership foregrounds Gullah Geechee culture & community

Delta Visiting Chair Hua Hsu

The Willson Center welcomed the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to UGA and Athens in March 2024

Promoting Scholarly Inquiry & Creative Activity

Willson Center now accepting nominations for 2025-26 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

Faculty and students are invited to submit nominations through February 15, 2025. The Delta Visiting Chair hosts outstanding artists, writers, musicians, socially engaged thinkers, and cultural innovators to foster conversations in our community that engage with global perspectives through the humanities and arts ...

Launch party for UGA Arts Collaborative set for Oct. 23 at Athenaeum

Please join us for the official launch and celebration of the UGA Arts Collaborative, hosted by the Willson Center. The event will feature food, drink, welcoming remarks, and a chance to gather in community with creative practitioners and collaborators ...

Athens poet Coleman Barks to read at UGA Chapel for Spotlight on the Arts

The internationally renowned poet Coleman Barks, a longtime Athenian and professor emeritus of English at UGA, will give a reading of his work at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 12 in the UGA Chapel as part of the university's 2024 Spotlight on the Arts festival ...

Upcoming Events

Deadlines

Internal Opportunities (More Information)

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Feb. 14 | Distinguished Artist or Lecturer

Feb. 14 | Willson Center Graduate Research Award

Feb. 14 | Willson Center Research Seminar

No Deadline | UGA Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

External Opportunities (More Information)

The Willson Center offers assistance preparing applications for external grants and fellowships for research and practice in the humanities and arts.

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Nov. (anticipated) | NEA: Grants for Arts Projects (November and April deadlines for limited submission through SPA; NEA deadlines in February and July)

Nov. 1 | American-Scandinavian Foundation: Fellowships

Nov. 1 | American Research Institute in Turkey: ARIT Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey

Nov. 1 | American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize Fellowship Program

Nov. 3 | Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (Harvard University)

Nov. 15 | ACLS: Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies

Nov. 17 | Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard University): Postdoctoral Fellowships

Nov. 20 | NEH: Collaborative Research Grants

Nov. 30 | ACLS: Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

Nov. 30 | ACLS: Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

Dec. 1 | American Philological Association: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship

Dec. 2 | American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants (also October 1)

Dec. 4 | NEH: Scholarly Editions and Translations

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