“Overt Revert,” an exhibition of paintings by Justin Barker, a first year MFA student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art's painting and drawing area, is currently on display at the Willson Center house, 1260 S. Lumpkin St....
Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and Director of the Willson Center, is an Astor Visiting Fellow in the humanities at the University of Oxford this summer....
The a2ru Faculty Research Cluster is accepting proposals from full-time, research-budgeted faculty, whose projects have the potential to further UGA’s reputation as a leader in arts-based research. The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2017. ...
The Willson Center will partner with the department of Romance languages, the French Embassy in the United States, and other entities to host an Afro-French Studies Colloquium at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 20 in Room 137 of the Tate Center. The event is free and...
The University of Georgia joined a2ru, the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, in 2016, and awarded its first round of arts research grants to UGA faculty earlier this semester. ...
The visit by 2017 Delta Chair for Global Understanding Colm Tóibín to Clarke Central High School was featured in the Washington Post on March 23. Athens public education advocate Bertis Downs, a member of the Willson Center Board of Friends, wrote a guest post on...
The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship is designed for nominees whose proposed project and professional expertise are both squarely in the humanities. The proposed project should engage a specific public beyond the academy in the humanities and the nominee should play a significant leadership role in...
The Willson Center will welcome the internationally acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín to the University of Georgia as the second annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding March 15-17, 2017....
Seed Life Skills is a nonprofit, research-based curriculum founded by Chef Hugh Acheson that is dedicated to providing young people with essential knowledge and skills in family and consumer sciences. Acheson and Almeta Tulloss, executive director of the Athens-based organization, have partnered with the Willson Center to produce a...
Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and Willson Center director, has secured a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to support "Remus, Celie, and Me: Preserving and Presenting the History and Life behind the Literature of Putnam County."...
The Willson Center has announced its schedule of events for the 2017 Global Georgia Initiative, an annual speaker and events series that presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene....
Sujata Iyengar, professor of English at UGA, and Professor Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin of the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM) have earned a grant from the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation through the Partner University Fund (administered through the French Embassy) to subsidize a series of conference-festivals, symposia,...
The University of Georgia has joined the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, known as a2ru, a consortium of almost three dozen research-intensive universities committed to advancing interdisciplinary, arts-oriented research. The Willson Center has initiated a new faculty research cluster that will serve as UGA's...
A digital humanities project to identify variations in Southern speech over time and space will be aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation. William A. Kretzschmar, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in the Humanities (department of English) and the project's principal investigator, directs the...
Diane Batts Morrow, associate professor of history and a 2014-2015 Willson Center Faculty Fellow, was interviewed in Global Sisters Report about her research on the first congregation of black Catholic sisters, founded in 1828. Morrow is currently at work on her second book about the Oblate...