Collages & Paintings by Don Chambers, an Athens artist and musician, will be on display at the Willson Center through December 20. The exhibition includes the new collage series "Cryptomnesia," as well as other works in photoprint, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and rust. All works are...
By Our Hands presented by the Georgia Incarceration Performance Project is a cross-institutional research and theatrical project produced by the University of Georgia, Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners. Free public performances are taking place Nov. 8, 10, 16, and...
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center invite applications from faculty and doctoral students for fellowships to take part in the third annual Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies, which will take place May 31 - June 6, 2020. The application deadline is Friday,...
One year after UGA hosted the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) national conference, students and faculty from Athens will travel to the University of Kansas for the 2019 annual gathering of leaders. The November 7-9 event will feature discussions, white papers, posters,...
The Willson Center co-hosted "Coastal Thinking: A Conversation" on Sept. 26 at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina's Research Triangle. Video of the panel discussion, chaired by Willson Center Director Nicholas Allen, is available now on the NHC's website. The panelists were Hester Blum...
The University of Georgia has committed to renew its membership in the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), a partnership of more than 40 institutions aligned to support interdisciplinary research, curricula, programs and creative practice between the arts, sciences and other disciplines. UGA...
The Willson Center and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences are offering travel support of up to $1,000 for faculty or doctoral students presenting papers at the Council for European Studies annual conference. The conference, whose theme is "Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias...
The Willson Center welcomed author Michael Ondaatje to the University of Georgia as the 2019-2020 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Ondaatje, whose 1992 novel The English Patient was awarded the "Golden Booker" prize in 2018 as the best English-language novel of the past 50...
[caption id="attachment_9703" align="alignright" width="300"] Nicholas Allen[/caption] The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $150,000 two-year grant to pilot a consortium of four research institutions and their public partners to study coasts, climates and the environmental humanities. The Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium...
The Willson Center invites nominations from faculty and students for the 2020-21 Delta Visiting Chair. The Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, established by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, hosts outstanding global scholars, leading creative thinkers, artists, and...
The University of Georgia has issued a call for faculty research proposals to learn more about the role of slavery in the early development of the institution. This research initiative, supported by private funds, is intended to culminate in one or more definitive, publishable histories...
John H. Morrow, Jr., professor in the UGA department of history, has been named the 13th recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: The Pritzker Literature Award—which includes a gold medallion, citation, and $100,000 honorarium—recognizes and honors...
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center at UGA have partnered with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame to present the second annual Seminar in Transnational European Studies June 2-9 in Berlin. The seminar, made possible...
The Willson Center received a three-year, $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2018 for the expansion of its Global Georgia Initiative, a public humanities program in place since 2013. One of the core developments that followed was the creation of an annual...
Rebecca Rutstein, the Willson Center's 2018-2019 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, is an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps....