Willson director to speak in Cambridge symposium “Joyce to Becket: Ireland and Modernism”
An international symposium on Ireland and Modernism at Magdalene College, Cambridge will feature more than 20 speakers.
An international symposium on Ireland and Modernism at Magdalene College, Cambridge will feature more than 20 speakers.
The Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab, supported by the Willson Center, the UGA Libraries, and the UGA Press, has announced a summer research program for students interested in the digital humanities.
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Willson Center invite applications for fellowships as part of a new professional development initiative. The application deadline is January 8, 2018.
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) November 1-3, 2018. An information session on the conference will be held December 8.
The Red & Black, UGA’s independent student-run newspaper and web outlet, has an in-depth feature on this year’s 30th anniversary of the Willson Center.
UGA Research magazine talked with Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era in the department of history and Willson Center associate academic director for digital humanities, about his CSI: Dixie website.
Filmmaker Alain Gomis and graphic novelist Marguerite Abouet will visit Ciné for an evening of events Thursday, Oct. 26 beginning with a reception and book signing at 5 p.m. in the CinéLab. Abouet and Gomis will join UGA faculty members for a conversation on representations of West African life through film and visual arts at 5:30, and Gomis will introduce a screening of his film Félicite at 7:15. All events are free and open to the public.
Gomis and Abouet will visit Athens and Atlanta as guests of the Consulate General of France in Atlanta. Their Ciné event is presented by the Willson Center and the department of Romance languages as part of the year-long celebration of the Willson Center’s 30th anniversary. The conversation with Gomis and Abouet will include Rachel Gabara, associate professor of French in the department of Romance languages, and Esra Santesso, associate professor in the department of English.
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1971, and at the age of 12 moved to France, where she has lived since. The Aya comics, which she creates with artist Clément Oubrerie, are set in the 1970s Abdijan of her youth, where Abouet’s eponymous protagonist and large cast of characters navigate life and love in the working-class enclave of Yopougon-Koute (“Yop City”) as well as the more glamourous environs of the cosmopolitan West African capital. The Aya books are popular with readers around the world and have been translated into 17 languages. Abouet has also written for film and television, and she and Oubrerie co-directed the 2012 animated feature film Aya of Yop City, which will be screened at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 in Room 118 of Gilbert Hall.
Alain Gomis is a Parisian writer and director whose films, including L’afrance (2001), Aujourd’hui (2012), and Félicité (2017) have focused on Africans and African immigrants in France. Félicité stars Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu as a nightclub singer in Kinshasa, Congo who scours the sprawling city in a desperate search for money to pay for her son’s surgery after he is injured in a motorcycle accident, won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Ciné is located at 234 W. Hancock Ave. in downtown Athens.
Filmmaker James Ponsoldt will visit Ciné for a day of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Willson Center on Saturday, Oct. 21. Ponsoldt is a writer and director whose credits include The End of the Tour, The Circle, and “Master of None.”
The Willson Center and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences are offering travel support of up to $750 for faculty presenting papers at the Council for European Studies annual conference. The deadline for submission of proposals is October 2, 2017.
The Athens, Georgia alternative weekly newspaper Flagpole paid tribute to the Willson Center in its Sept. 13 issue with a generous write-up of our 30th anniversary reception, which took place Sept. 6. Flagpole, a frequent partner with Willson Center community events in Athens, celebrates its own 30th anniversary on Oct. 27.
Asking “What can’t you do with an A.B. degree?” the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is encouraging students to consider undergraduate degrees in the humanities, arts, and social sciences as the foundation of a versatile skill set with enormous value to employers as well as to the students themselves.
Graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and arts are encouraged to participate in a STEM communications contest hosted by the University of Georgia Libraries.
Congratulations to Sheila McAlister, Emily McGinn, Susan Rosenbaum, and David Saltz, all awardees of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“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.