By Our Hands presented by the Georgia Incarceration Performance Project is a cross-institutional research and theatrical project produced by the University of Georgia, Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners. Free public performances are taking place Nov. 8, 10, 16, and 17 in the Fine Arts Theatre as part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival. The project has been supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative.

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center invite applications from faculty and doctoral students for fellowships to take part in the third annual Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies, which will take place May 31 – June 6, 2020. The application deadline is Friday, November 15, 2019.

A professional development initiative that is open to advanced PhD students and faculty of all ranks and from all disciplines at the University of Georgia, the seminar is offered in partnership with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame and is made possible through generous support by the Max Kade Foundation.

The seminar is directed by Martin Kagel, A.G. Steer Professor of German and associate dean in the Franklin College; William Donahue, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Nanovic Institute; and Nicholas Allen, Abraham Baldwin Professor in the Humanities and director of the Willson Center.

The one-week residential seminar will take place in Berlin and feature distinguished speakers with expertise in European politics, economics, law, history, literature and the arts. Speakers will give introductory presentations followed by extensive discussion with seminar participants based in part on pre-assigned readings. The seminar will also use the city of Berlin as a location exemplifying transnational Europe and the program will include short excursions and the attendance of cultural events.

The goal of the seminar is to expand knowledge and understanding of transnational Europe among U.S. based scholars, advancing the discourse on campus on issues related to Europe, the EU, and Germany’s role in the European Union. Within this larger context, the seminar aims to initiate new research projects and curricular innovation, including collaboration between faculty from the two participating institutions, the University of Georgia and the University of Notre Dame.

“It was a true privilege to participate in the Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies,” said Paola De Santo, assistant professor of Italian in the UGA department of Romance languages, a 2019 alumna of the program. “The Seminar offered a rare opportunity to rethink and invigorate research and teaching programs both interdisciplinarily and in dialogue with a community of scholars, teachers and thinkers.”

Applications are encouraged from faculty and graduate students whose field of transnational study may be relevant to, but not necessarily grounded in, the study of Europe.

Detailed programs of the 2018 and 2019 seminars, including testimonials from faculty and graduate students, can be found at http://www.transnationaleuropeanstudies.org.

This initiative is in support of UGA’s membership of the Council for European Studies. For more information on opportunities connected to the Council for European Studies or about this seminar, please contact Martin Kagel at mkagel@uga.edu.

 

The award includes:

• a flight subsidy of up to $1,500;
• hotel accommodation in Berlin for the duration of the seminar;
• expenses for public transportation in Berlin, as well as for materials, cultural events, and most meals.

Application

All applicants

• List name, faculty rank or year in Ph.D. program, department and college
• Research and teaching agenda (1-2 pages)
  • Explain why the Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies will benefit your research;
  • Describe a curricular innovation or teaching-related activity you would likely implement in the wake of the seminar to support transnational European studies on campus;
• Attach a brief CV (max. three pages).

For graduate student applicants

• Include a letter of recommendation from your major professor or graduate coordinator.

Deadline and Submission
Application deadline is Friday, November 15, 2019. Notification will follow shortly thereafter. Submit proposal as a single PDF or Word document to Dr. Lloyd Winstead (winstead@uga.edu), senior associate director, Willson Center.

One year after UGA hosted the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) national conference, students and faculty from Athens will travel to the University of Kansas for the 2019 annual gathering of leaders. The November 7-9 event will feature discussions, white papers, posters, exhibitions, performances, and workshops around the theme of Knowledges: Artistic Practice as Method. Among the presentations selected through a rigorous peer review process is Exploring Research as Craft, a UGA student-led project developed with the support of the Willson Center’s partnership with Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

Project leaders Cydney Seigerman (Integrative Conservation and Anthropology) and Alden DiCamillo (Lamar Dodd School of Art) initiated their research through the Idea Lab Mini Grant program, a collaborative seed grant opportunity that pairs project teams with funding and mentorship from Ideas for Creative Exploration. Seigerman and DiCamillo worked with Alex McClay (Lamar Dodd School of Art), a graduate assistant in Interdisciplinary Arts Research, to facilitate production of an innovative three-part workshop series designed to promote cross-disciplinary communication by conceptualizing research and practice as craft. Workshop participants included graduate students from art, anthropology, ecology, English, forestry, microbiology, and landscape architecture. In spring 2019 the Exploring Research as Craft workshop outcomes were featured in a public exhibition and performance co-sponsored by ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art.

Presenting research at the national level is an incomparable professional and networking experience for graduate students at UGA. For Siegerman and DiCamillo, it is the culmination of a process that began with an inquiry about the connections of methods across seemingly disparate disciplines. Siegerman reflects that “my experience in lab – the rituals of setting up experiments, of measuring out starting materials with my favorite spatula, and the attention I paid to the process and beauty of my experiments is often forgotten in the final analysis of data.” The workshop series combined aspects of communication, feedback, and creative activities that led to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the craft of research. DiCamillo discovered “that interdisciplinary work that stems from the arts is filled with radical, energetic people and communities who know how to stretch and work ideas so that they become dynamic realities.”

Alex McClay has a unique perspective of Exploring Research as Craft from her dual role of project facilitator and participant. She recalls, “working with researchers from a variety of disciplines, all while offering feedback, production support, and visual knowledge, was the most impactful part of this experience.” As a graduate assistant in Interdisciplinary Arts Research, McClay is part of an elite group of students in art, music, and theatre and film studies who are recruited to work with Ideas for Creative Exploration as peer mentors and leaders. They gain practical experience by organizing the seed grant selection process, managing project budgets, and helping projects reach their full potential.

UGA is a partner in the a2ru network, a consortium of institutions aligned to promote interdisciplinary research, curricula, programs, and creative practice between the arts, sciences and other disciplines. As an additional benefit of membership, students are eligible to apply for travel grants from a2ru to support participation in the national conference and the upcoming 2020 Emerging Creatives Student Summit RISE UP! Community – Connection – Collective Memory hosted by the University of Cincinnati.

Ideas for Creative Exploration is supported in part by the Willson Center, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.

Exploring Research as Craft workshop participants:

Yana Bonday (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Sydney Daniel (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Jennifer Demoss (Integrative Conservation and Anthropology)

Alden DiCamillo (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Max Farrell (Ecology)

Savannah Jenson (English)

Kristen Lear (Integrative Conservation and Forestry)

Alex McClay (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Katharine Miele (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Megan Prescott (Microbiology)

Cydney Seigerman (Integrative Conservation and Anthropology)

Micah Taylor (College of Environment and Design)

Anna Rose Willoughby (Ecology)

IMAGE: Max Farrell, “Watering Hole Music”

The Willson Center co-hosted “Coastal Thinking: A Conversation” on Sept. 26 at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Video of the panel discussion, chaired by Willson Center Director Nicholas Allen, is available now on the NHC’s website. The panelists were Hester Blum (Penn State), Margaret Cohen (Stanford), Ryan Emanuel (NC State) and Killian Quigley (University of Sydney).

The event was part of the Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium, a partnership of the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The University of Georgia has committed to renew its membership in the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), a partnership of more than 40 institutions aligned to support interdisciplinary research, curricula, programs and creative practice between the arts, sciences and other disciplines. UGA joined the alliance in 2016 and hosted its national conference in November 2018.

“The University of Georgia’s membership in the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities underscores our commitment to fostering innovation in the arts while promoting a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration,” said Marisa Pagnattaro, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Chair of the UGA Arts Council.

The membership in a2ru is managed through a Willson Center Research Cluster that includes Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Earlier this year, ICE Artistic Director Mark Callahan was a co-principal investigator on a nearly $500,000 Innovations in Graduate Education grant to UGA faculty members from the National Science Foundation for the project “Applying Creative Inquiry to Enhance Imaginative and Collaborative Capacity in STEM.”

The Willson Center and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences are offering travel support of up to $1,000 for faculty or doctoral students presenting papers at the Council for European Studies annual conference. The conference, whose theme is “Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias,” will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 22-24, 2020. More information about the conference and about the proposal of individual papers can be found here. Proposals may be submitted until Tuesday, October 15, 2019. Participants will be notified of the Committee’s decisions by December 15.

There are limited funds available, so applicants are encouraged to consider all travel funds that might be available to UGA faculty and doctoral students in support of their proposals. Once you submit your proposal to the CES and receive their acknowledgement, please forward that acknowledgment to us by email, along with a scan of your proposal. Later, in November or December, after the CES has accepted your proposal, please send us that acceptance. Send both emails to Karen Coker at kcoker@uga.edu.

For questions, please contact Franklin College Associate Dean Martin Kagel at mkagel@uga.edu or (706) 542-2840. The University of Georgia is an institutional member of the CES.

The Willson Center welcomed author Michael Ondaatje to the University of Georgia as the 2019-2020 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Ondaatje, whose 1992 novel The English Patient was awarded the “Golden Booker” prize in 2018 as the best English-language novel of the past 50 years, visited UGA and Athens October 24-25 for a slate of public events and informal conversations with college and high school students.

Ondaatje’s main public event was an Oct. 24 reading and conversation in the UGA Chapel, followed by a meet-and-greet reception on the lawn outside the Chapel. On Ondaatje attended a public reception and book signing at Ciné, with sales by Avid Bookshop. Both events were free and open to the public. During his two-day visit, Ondaatje also met with students in classes at both UGA and Clarke Central High School.

Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje spent his late childhood in England and has lived in Canada since 1962. He is best known for his novels, including Coming Through Slaughter (1976), In the Skin of a Lion (1987), Anil’s Ghost (2000), Divisadero (2007), and most recently Warlight (2018), which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

The English Patient won the Man Booker, awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom, then was chosen for the Golden Booker from among the first 50 years of winners of the prize. The book is a kaleidoscopic tale of four characters ensconced in a bombed-out Italian villa near the end of World War II, its perspective constantly shifting through their separate and shared pasts and present in a densely layered exploration of the subjectiveness of identity and the personal resonance of history. A 1996 film adaptation, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, and Kristen Scott Thomas, won nine Academy Awards.

The Willson Center presented a free screening of The English Patient Oct. 16 at Ciné.

In addition to his novels, Ondaatje has published numerous acclaimed collections of poetry including There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning To Do, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting, as well as a memoir of his childhood, a book of interviews with the film editor Walter Murch, and a critical analysis of the prose and poetry of Leonard Cohen. He also directed a series of documentary films in the 1970s.

The Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, established by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, hosts outstanding global scholars, leading creative thinkers, artists, and intellectuals who engage with audiences on and off the UGA campus through lectures, seminars, discussions, and other community events. The Delta Chair program aims to foster conversations that engage with global perspectives through the humanities and arts.

The chair is founded upon the legacy of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, which from 1997-2011 was presented to individuals – including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Desmond Tutu, and Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter – whose initiatives promoted world peace by advancing understanding and cooperation among cultures and nations.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $150,000 two-year grant to pilot a consortium of four research institutions and their public partners to study coasts, climates and the environmental humanities. The Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC) is a partnership of the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an alliance of regional stakeholders.

“The humanities are deeply connected to the University of Georgia’s commitment to coastal communities and marine research,” said Nicholas Allen, Abraham Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA, who is the principal investigator of the grant. “This collaboration will allow us to partner with other leading research institutions to think locally about challenges on a planetary scale in a new and exciting phase of humanities exploration.”

Research into the diversity and complexity of coastal zones and cultures through the medium of environmental humanities approaches is growing rapidly in the context of climate instability. CHECC engages the sea and land grant missions of its member institutions via two initial clusters: “Coasts, Archives and Climates” and “Coastal Futures and the Public Humanities.”

The two clusters will engage diverse community groups, students, and faculty in projects that study the environmental history and impacts of storms and tidal waters on a series of specific locations. Each cluster will integrate archival research with public engagement in order to create humanities-informed models of understanding for contemporary and emerging challenges.

“Science has alerted society to the slow-moving change that is unfolding around us,” said Craig E. Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor in the department of geography and anthropology at Louisiana State University. “This consortium will address the complex roles of society and culture in responding. A diverse team of humanities scholars, whose institutions span the eastern seaboard and gulf coast, will explore the underlying social values and meanings of nature-society relationships and how they relate to our ability to confront environmental change.”

Members of CHECC will have their first meeting at the National Humanities Center on September 26, 2019. The meeting will conclude with a public conversation at 4 p.m. on “Coastal Thinking” between four leading environmental humanities scholars: Hester Blum of Penn State University, Margaret Cohen of Stanford University, Ryan Emmanuel of North Carolina State University, and Killian Quigley of the University of Sydney. Allen, of UGA, will chair the discussion.

“This opportunity to collaborate institutionally has the potential to transform individual partnerships into ongoing pipelines between our institutions and communities,” said Elizabeth Engelhardt, interim Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities and John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Moreover, the issues we are discussing demand that we work to scale. The problems are large; our partnerships need to be equally ambitious. This effort promises to be.”

The Willson Center invites nominations from faculty and students for the 2020-21 Delta Visiting Chair. The Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, established by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, hosts outstanding global scholars, leading creative thinkers, artists, and intellectuals. One aim of the program is to foster conversations in our community that engage with global perspectives through the humanities and arts.

Nomination:
Any UGA faculty or student (with a faculty sponsor) is eligible to make a nomination. Delta Visiting Chair nominees have included Man Booker Prize winners, Tate Prize winners, and holders of Guggenheim and other fellowships as well as individuals with comparable distinctions.

Submission:
Nominations (two-page maximum) should be submitted in Word or PDF form to the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at wcha@uga.edu. Please address any questions to this email. Deadline: September 2.

• Nominations should include a brief paragraph that speaks to the achievements of the individual being nominating and how that individual’s visit to campus would bring attention to the arts and/or humanities in a global context.
• Please also include a brief biographical summary of the individual or a link to a biographical statement. Supporting materials can include links to websites, images, or video. Please do not include attachments.
• Nominations from students should be reviewed by a faculty sponsor in advance. Students should copy their faculty sponsor when submitting their nomination.

Selection:
Nominations will be considered by a committee comprised of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Faculty Advisory Board for ranking, with final selection in consultation with the Office of Research. The nomination will be submitted to the University System Board of Regents for approval.

The Delta Visiting Chair was originally established as the Delta Prize for Global Understanding in 1997 through the generous support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, with the purpose of advancing understanding and cooperation among cultures and nations. The Delta Prize for Global Understanding was presented to individuals whose initiatives have helped promote world peace, including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter. The Delta Prize transitioned to the Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, as approved by the Board of Regents, in 2014. The inaugural Delta Visiting Chair was held by Alice Walker in 2015.

 

Call for proposals: Faculty of all ranks from multiple disciplines are invited to apply, and interdisciplinary teams are encouraged. The engagement of student researchers at both the graduate and undergraduate level also is encouraged. Research funds should be used to directly support research activities of the UGA faculty/teams submitting proposals. Funds must be spent at UGA and may be used to buy out faculty time, compensate students working on the project, secure or develop research materials, or cover the cost of publication. Funds may not be used to pay for research already completed.

The research initiative is being funded by up to $100,000 in private discretionary funds from the Office of the President. Funds will be made available as soon as possible after selection of the winning proposal(s), and should be expended by June 30, 2021. It is an expectation that the resulting research will generate one or more scholarly publications.

Proposal submission: Proposals should be submitted to the Office of Research via the Proposal Submission Form no later than Monday, September 30, 2019. Late proposals will not be considered. Proposals, submitted as a single PDF, should include:

• Title Page, listing:
  • Project title;
  • Name, affiliation, and email address of the contact faculty member;
  • Name, affiliation, and email address of all other UGA faculty members (if a team), as well as external experts (if relevant).
• Description of the research project, including how the work will be accomplished and by whom, not to exceed three single-spaced pages with a minimum 11-point font and 1-inch margins.
• An Itemized budget, using this form.

 

Contact email for questions: alexaspley1@uga.edu

John H. Morrow, Jr., professor in the UGA department of history, has been named the 13th recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing:

The Pritzker Literature Award—which includes a gold medallion, citation, and $100,000 honorarium—recognizes and honors the contributions of a living author for a body of work dedicated to enriching the understanding of military history and affairs. Museum & Library Founder & Chair Jennifer N. Pritzker, a retired colonel in the Illinois National Guard, will formally present Morrow with the award at the organization’s annual Liberty Gala on November 2 at the Hilton Chicago, where he will be joined by past recipients.

“I am truly honored to accept the 2019 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing,” said Dr. Morrow. “Receiving the award after nearly fifty years of historical writing, teaching, and consulting constitutes the ultimate affirmation of my career as a scholar of the history of modern war and society.”

Author or co-author of 8 publications, Morrow is an accomplished military historian and respected professor. His work includes The Great War: An Imperial History, The Great War in the Air, Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War (co-authored with Jeffrey T. Sammons) and German Airpower in World War I, among others. He has gained recognition for his ability to demonstrate how the past and the present intertwine inextricably.

“The screening committee’s recommendations and Colonel Pritzker’s selection speaks to Dr. Morrow’s years of dedication to the field of Military History,” stated Dr. Rob Havers, President and CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. “For the depth of his writing and research, his years of dedication and service to the field of military history, for his academic achievements including his commitment to shaping the minds of the next generation of military historians, Dr. Morrow stands as a deserving recipient of the 2019 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. We are grateful for his devotion to the field and are proud to shine a light on his exemplary work in military history.”

In addition to his many accomplishments and honors throughout a stellar academic career, Morrow is a member of the Willson Center’s Board of Friends. His recent collaborations with the Willson Center include his curation of a 2017 speaker series on the United States in World War I; his moderating of a panel discussion with the musician Kishi Bashi on Japanese-American incarceration during World War II for the spring 2018 Global Georgia Initiative; and a symposium commemorating the centennial of World War I which he co-organized at Georgia Tech in fall 2018.

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center at UGA have partnered with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame to present the second annual Seminar in Transnational European Studies June 2-9 in Berlin.

The seminar, made possible through generous support by the Max Kade Foundation, aims to expand knowledge and understanding of transnational Europe among U.S.-based scholars, advancing the discourse on campus on issues related to Europe, the EU, and Germany’s role in the European Union. Within this larger context, the seminar hopes to initiate new research projects and curricular innovation, including collaboration between faculty from the two participating institutions.

Included among the seminar’s week of events are two that will be open to the public: a panel on “European Journalism: Challenges, Threats, and Global Context” with Tom Nuttall (Berlin bureau chief, The Economist, Germany), Adam Nossiter (Paris bureau chief, The New York Times, France), and Katya Gorchinskaya (journalist and former CEO of Hromadske Television, Ukraine); and “Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain,” a talk by Fintan O’Toole (author and commentator, Ireland).

The seminar is directed by Martin Kagel, A.G. Steer Professor of German and associate dean in the Franklin College, William C. Donahue, the Rev. John C. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Nanovic Institute, and Nicholas Allen, Abraham Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center.

A full schedule and more information are available at the conference website.

The Willson Center received a three-year, $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2018 for the expansion of its Global Georgia Initiative, a public humanities program in place since 2013. One of the core developments that followed was the creation of an annual symposium to amplify and share ideas for engaged humanities research from a diverse community of academic leaders.

The first Georgia Humanities Symposium was held on Friday, March 8, 2019 in the Georgia Museum of Art on the UGA campus, in partnership with Georgia Humanities. The symposium’s three panel discussions included participants from state, regional, and national institutions including Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, the University of North Carolina, the National Humanities Alliance, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and the High Museum of Art. Videos of the panels are posted below.

The symposium was illustrative of a movement toward strengthening connections among humanities institutions nationally, and sharing strategies for involving local communities as partners in resource building and research.

Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has recently published its National Inventory of Humanities Organizations, a database encompassing more than 45,000 “not-for-profit, for-profit, and government institutions engaged in humanities scholarship and/or in bringing humanities knowledge or skills to various audiences.” And the NHA’s Humanities for All website catalogs more than 1,400 publicly engaged humanities initiatives nationwide and more than 40 in Georgia, including several that were represented at the symposium.

One of those is the Columbus Community Geography Center at Columbus State University, coordinated by Amanda Rees, who participated in the panel on “Georgia and the Public Humanities.”

Rees and student researchers in the center use academic resources and methods in collaboration with community members on projects such as a historical map to help develop a historic district nomination for a formerly segregated, post-World War II African American subdivision in Columbus. “When we can use our tools to help tell that story, that’s really pretty important,” she said during the panel. “To help people understand what they’re looking at, and not just see it in one way.”

Mark Wilson, director of Auburn University’s Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, was one of the more than 80 humanities research leaders who attended the symposium. “I was challenged to think about our community relationships and partnerships in a new way,” he said, “and I believe this gathering made a contribution to everyone who attended.”

“Every project that was shared in Athens expands the number and range of people who have experienced and benefitted from the humanities,” wrote Daniel Fisher, a project director at the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, in a blog post on the NHA’s website.

Vicki L. Crawford, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection and associate professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College, served as moderator on the symposium’s third panel on next steps for public humanities initiatives in Georgia. “As we face the challenges of our times, the humanities will continue to play a central role in American life and culture,” she said. “Our recent gathering was especially enriching and certain to generate new collaborations and partnerships among a diverse array of humanities educators and advocates throughout the state.”

The Willson Center is currently planning the 2020 Georgia Humanities Symposium, which will be held next spring.

 

Introductions

Nicholas Allen (Director, Willson Center) and Libby Morris (Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, UGA)

Panel One: Georgia and The Public Humanities

Chair: Stephen Berry (UGA)

Edward Hatfield (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Ann McCleary (University of West Georgia, West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail)

Amanda Rees (Columbus State)

Avis Williams (Putnam County School System)

 

 

Panel Two: Making Connections

Chair: William Warner (CHCI)

Rand Suffolk (High Museum)

Jeanne Bohannon (Kennesaw University)

Robyn Schroeder (UNC)

Brian Orland (UGA)

 

 

Panel Three: Next Steps

Chair: Vicki Crawford (Morehouse)

Kelly Caudle (Georgia Humanities)

Jacqueline Jones Royster (Georgia Tech)

Barbara McCaskill (UGA)

Daniel Fisher (NHA)

Closing Remarks

Nicholas Allen (Director, Willson Center)

 

 

 

 

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.

The Willson Center’s 2019 Global Georgia Initiative visiting speaker series began this February with public talks by author Jeff VanderMeer and historian and Ferdinand Phinizy Lecturer Stephanie McCurry. The series continues with a panel discussion on the removal of monuments in the global south featuring a presentation by South African photographer Christo Doherty on April 10, the Betty Jean Craige Annual Lecture in Comparative Literature by novelist NoViolet Bulawayo on April 15, and the Georgia Review Earth Day Lecture by the renowned environmental author Barry Lopez on April 22.

McCurry’s lecture can be viewed here.