Global Georgia Initiative 2014-2015

Global Georgia InitiativeThe 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 combines the best in contemporary thinking and practice in the arts and humanities with related advances in the sciences and other areas. The speakers for 2014-2015 are Loung Ung, Paul Seawright, Ann Powers with Patterson Hood, Randy Borman, and John T. Edge.

Loung UngLoung Ung

Author, human rights activist
Betty Jean Craige Annual Lecture

Date: January 29, 2015, 4 p.m.
Location: Rusk Hall, Larry Walker Room, 4th Floor
Title: “First They Killed My Father”

 

Paul SeawrightPaul Seawright

Photographer, head of Belfast School of Art

Date: February 5, 2015, 4 p.m.
Location: Georgia Museum of Art, Griffith Auditorium
Title: “Things Left Unsaid”

 

Ann Powers with Patterson HoodAnn Powers and Patterson Hood 2

NPR music critic and correspondent; Drive-By Truckers

Date: February 12, 2015, 4 p.m.
Location: UGA Chapel
Title: “Our Back Pages: The Music, Books and Movies That Fed Two Creative Lives”

 

Randy BormanRandy Borman

Conservationist, Chief of Ecuadorian Cofan tribe

Date: February 19, 2015, 4 p.m.
Location: UGA Chapel
Title: “An Amazon Contribution to Global Survival”

 

John T. EdgeJohn T Edge

Writer, Southern Foodways Alliance Director

Date: February 26, 2015, 4 p.m.
Location: UGA Chapel
Title: “Grits, Greens, and Gochujang: The Emergence of a Newer Southern Cuisine”