Christy Desmet, a beloved and highly accomplished member of the UGA department of English faculty for more than three decades, passed away on July 25. The following tribute was written by her dear friend, longtime collaborator, and fellow professor of English, Sujata Iyengar....
The Willson Center will welcome Rebecca Rutstein, an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps, to the University of Georgia as the third Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding....
The annual national conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) will be held on the UGA campus and in other Athens, Ga. venues Nov. 1-3, with the theme of Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability. The full schedule and registration information are available at the a2ru website....
August 9 | NEH Summer Stipend for 2019 (limited submission)
Aug 30 | WC Distinguished Artist or Lecturer (opens July 19)
Aug 30 | WC Graduate Research Award (opens July 19)
Aug 15 | NEH: Public Humanities Projects
Aug 22 | Princeton Society of Fellows postdoctoral fellowships
Sep 18 | NEH-NSF: Documenting Endangered Languages
Sep 18 | Princeton Arts Fellowship
Sep 18 | Princeton: Hodder Fellowship
Sep 26 | ACLS Fellowships
Sep 26 | ACLS: Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Sep 26 | ACLS: Collaborative Research Fellowships
Oct 5 | American Academy in Berlin: Fellowships (Berlin Prize)
Oct 9 |NEA: Research Art Works
Oct 15 | Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Senior Fellows
Oct 15 | LUCE Foundation: Advancing Public Scholarship on Religion and Theology
Oct 17| National Humanities Center Fellowships
Oct 24 | Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowships
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