In memoriam: Jane Willson
The Willson Center mourns the passing of our benefactor, Jane Willson.
Spotlight on the Arts at UGA: Nov. 4 – 15
The Willson Center has organized or sponsored a variety of events for UGA’s 2015 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including film screenings in Athens and Atlanta, a tour of historic Oconee Hill Cemetery, a tailgate celebration before UGA’s football game with Kentucky, and an international conference on William Shakespeare and appropriation.
Tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” at Morton Theatre sold out; Chapel event open to public
All tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 15 at the Morton Theatre have been distributed. Walker’s reading at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the UGA Chapel will be free and open to the public except for approximately 100 of the Chapel’s 433 seats, which will be reserved for groups including UGA and high school students. The doors will open at 2:30 p.m., and it is expected that the Chapel will fill to capacity.
For more information on Walker’s visit, please see http://willson.uga.edu/home-feature/alice-walker-to-visit-uga-in-fall-2015-as-inaugural-delta-visiting-chair/. To learn more about the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, please see www.deltachair.uga.edu.
Order a UGA All Arts Card today!
The UGA Arts Council has introduced the “All Arts Card” for students.
For $99, the card gives students admission to more than 60 concerts and plays with a full ticket price value of more than $2,000. The All Arts Card includes admission to performances at the UGA Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Department of Theatre and Film Studies and Department of Dance during the 2015-2016 academic year.
To order, go to http://pac.uga.edu/ and click on the student tab.
Many additional UGA Arts events are free to all students, including admission to the Georgia Museum of Art and galleries at Lamar Dodd School of Art, various events from The Georgia Review, UGA Press, Special Collections Libraries and more.
Go to arts.uga.edu to sign up for a monthly preview of events or follow UGA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more information on events year-round.
21st century humanities
Provost Pamela Whitten touts digital humanities at UGA, including programs associated with the Willson Center’s DigiLab.
National Humanities Alliance Foundation names Willson Center model for building humanities communities
The Willson Center is profiled as a national model for fostering successful humanities communities as part of a new initiative by the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, the supporting foundation of the National Humanities Alliance.
“Snail Darter” attorney Zygmunt Plater to give Odum Environmental Ethics Lecture
Zygmunt Plater, professor of law at Boston College, will give the 2015 Odum Environmental Ethics Lecture on Friday, April 10, on “The Snail Darter and the Dam: a very small endangered fish’s travels through the corridors of American power.”
“DIGI@UGA” Day launches major initiatives in digital humanities
The Willson Center, in partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries and the University of Georgia Press, will launch its new Digital Humanities Lab on the third floor of the main library as part of “DIGI@UGA” Day April 17.
New web-based project tracks U.S. Army deployment in Reconstruction South
Mapping Occupation, a recently launched web-based project by University of Georgia and City University of New York historians, provides the first detailed look at where the United States sent its troops to occupy the South after the American Civil War.
Pulitzer-winning author and journalist to speak at UGA
Douglas A. Blackmon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” will visit the University of Georgia for a talk on April 2 at 4 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall.
Third annual Slingshot festival begins March 26
Spread over five city blocks and dozens of venues, Slingshot spotlights international, national, and local acts on stage, boundary pushing artworks throughout the urban environment, and tech talks with leading innovators.
Dedication of the new location of the Willson Center
Through the generosity of Jane Willson, our Board of Friends and individual donors, and with support from the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center has relocated to a historically renovated two-story house at 1260 South Lumpkin Street.
Global Georgia Initiative 2014-2015
The Global Georgia Initiative brings world class thinkers to Georgia. It presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia.
University of Liverpool to host symposium on Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium
The University of Liverpool will host a symposium about the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, a Willson Center research project, over the course of Friday evening and Saturday, January 30-31, 2015.
Photos from Spotlight • Slingshot now online
An estimated 2,000 people came out to College Square in downtown Athens for our signature event in UGA’s 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival, and they saw a marvelous concert by five enormously talented musical acts.