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Call for proposals: Whiting Public Engagement Fellowships and Seed Grants 2020-2021

Posted on Jan 22, 2019

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 29. The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship and Seed Grant programs are intended to celebrate and empower early-career faculty who embrace public engagement as part of...

Video of Delta Visiting Chair Rebecca Rutstein’s conversation with Mandy Joye and Nicholas Allen now online.

Posted on Dec 14, 2018

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....

UGA faculty win NEH grants in digital humanities

Posted on Dec 13, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two projects directed by UGA faculty members in its December 2018 grants cycle....

Georgia Humanities Symposium set for March 8, 2019

Posted on Nov 27, 2018

The Willson Center and Georgia Humanities will host the Georgia Humanities Symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019 in the Georgia Museum of Art on the University of Georgia campus....

Call for fellowship applications: Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies, June 2-9, 2019

Posted on Oct 5, 2018

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts invite applications for fellowships to take part in the second annual Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies....

Moogfest presents “Human and the Machine” featuring Michael Stipe (audio/visual work), Kishi Bashi, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Author & Punisher to close a2ru conference

Posted on Sep 5, 2018

The closing event of the 2018 a2ru national conference at the University of Georgia is an evening of performance and art curated by Moogfest on the theme “Human and the Machine,” featuring technologically innovative music, installations, and demonstrations....

Call for proposals: Mellon grant-funded research on “Coastal Studies” and “Global Studies of the American South”

Posted on Sep 5, 2018

Following the award of a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Willson Center invites proposals from faculty involved in publicly engaged humanities work....

Willson Center co-sponsors Symposium on the Humanities and the Sea in Mystic, Conn.

Posted on Sep 4, 2018

“Imagining the Coast” brings together students, community members, faculty, artists, museums, and historical societies to discuss the importance of the Connecticut coastline and seas to our understanding of the region’s history, culture, ecology, and identity, including its global connections....

Willson Center awarded Mellon Foundation grant for Global Georgia Initiative

Posted on Sep 4, 2018

A $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable the Willson Center to expand its Global Georgia Initiative, a public humanities program in place since 2013. ...

Remembering Christy Desmet

Posted on Aug 17, 2018

Christy Desmet, a beloved and highly accomplished member of the UGA department of English faculty for more than three decades, passed away on July 25. The following tribute was written by her dear friend, longtime collaborator, and fellow professor of English, Sujata Iyengar....

Rebecca Rutstein - Credit: Rebecca McAlpin

Renowned artist Rebecca Rutstein to visit UGA in November and March as Delta Chair

Posted on Aug 17, 2018

The Willson Center will welcome Rebecca Rutstein, an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps, to the University of Georgia as the third Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding....

Schedule announced, registration open for a2ru national conference at UGA Nov. 1-3

Posted on Aug 13, 2018

The annual national conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) will be held on the UGA campus and in other Athens, Ga. venues Nov. 1-3, with the theme of Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability. The full schedule and registration information...

UGA History’s Stephen Mihm awarded Public Scholar Grant by NEH

Posted on Aug 10, 2018

Stephen Mihm, associate professor in the department of history, is one of 22 recipients of grants from the Public Scholar program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which helps to fund "well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership."...

Willson Center, Franklin College join with Notre Dame to host seminar in Berlin

Posted on May 18, 2018

Scholars, policy experts and journalists from around the world will meet in Berlin this month to consider issues related to contemporary transnational Europe, thanks to a new joint initiative by the University of Georgia and the University of Notre Dame. The inaugural Berlin Seminar in Transnational...

Putnam County and UGA students engage with NEH-funded public humanities project