A poem selected by our director Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities Dear friends, I have been thinking this past week about literature in all our times of crisis, which reminded me, in usual roundabout fashion, of the time I slept with Samuel Pepys's chair (we happened...
The Willson Center invites proposals for Shelter Projects, a micro-fellowship program to support graduate students and community-based artists and practitioners in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the current pandemic through the arts and humanities....
A note from our director regarding our public events and programs for the spring....
A poem selected by our director Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities...
A poem selected by our director Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities...
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) national conference theme for 2020 is "Land and Equity: The Art and Politics of Place." The annual conference will be hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison October 15-17. Proposals are now being accepted for presentations, workshops, and...
The Athens Music Project began as a Willson Center faculty research cluster headed by Jean Kidula and Susan Thomas, both at that time professors of musicology in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. It has grown to include a vast and expanding repository of oral...
The online magazine @UGAResearch has published an interview with Willson Center director Nicholas Allen about the role of the humanities in higher education and in a happy and successful life....
Rachel Gabara, associate professor of Romance languages in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities for her book project, “Reclaiming Realism: From Documentary Film in Africa to African Documentary Film." Prof. Gabara is...
Faculty who are interested in being nominated for the Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship or Seed Grant may submit proposals to the Willson Center by March 26. Faculty are encouraged to review previously funded fellowships and seed grants on the Whiting website and to submit drafts to the...
In partnership with Georgia Humanities, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts hosted the second Georgia Humanities Symposium, a national conversation on the public humanities, in the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Ga. on Friday, February 7, 2020. The program was supported by a grant from The...
The Willson Center has announced its Global Georgia Initiative public event series for Spring 2020, which begins with a conversation on culture and community between the Creature Comforts and Allagash brewing companies on January 8. The series also includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, the second...
The Case for Arts Integration, produced by the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), presents insights gathered from interviews with academic leaders, institutional officers, faculty, staff, and students at over 60 research universities. The publication features evidence of impacts, best practices, challenges, and...
Humanities Moments: Finding Connections between the Past and our Daily Lives in the Undergraduate Classroom Humanities moments occur daily in the lives of human beings. We access them through stories that reveal our complexities, our aspirations, and our tragic flaws. Whether we reflect on our personal...
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...