Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
The University of Georgia
The Willson Center has announced its 2016 Global Georgia speaker series, which this year will also include an international symposium on the shared history of the U.S. South and Cuba and a multi-venue exhibition of photographs from The Do Good Fund collection.
Alan Rutenberg, Humanities Specialist in the Office of Research at the University of Tennessee, will offer two workshops on humanities fellowships at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on March 16-17, 2016.
The Willson Center and the Athens Fashion Collective will present a weekend of sustainable fashion events January 28-30, featuring Natalie Chanin, founder and designer of Alabama Chanin, and Georgia Sewn, a one-day expo of the regional fashion design industry.
The Willson Center has organized or sponsored a variety of events for UGA’s 2015 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including film screenings in Athens and Atlanta, a tour of historic Oconee Hill Cemetery, a tailgate celebration before UGA’s football game with Kentucky, and an international conference on William Shakespeare and appropriation.
All tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 15 at the Morton Theatre have been distributed. Walker’s reading at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the UGA Chapel will be free and open to the public except for approximately 100 of the Chapel’s 433 seats, which will be reserved for groups including UGA and high school students. The doors will open at 2:30 p.m., and it is expected that the Chapel will fill to capacity.
For more information on Walker’s visit, please see http://willson.uga.edu/home-feature/alice-walker-to-visit-uga-in-fall-2015-as-inaugural-delta-visiting-chair/. To learn more about the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, please see www.deltachair.uga.edu.
The UGA Arts Council has introduced the “All Arts Card” for students.
For $99, the card gives students admission to more than 60 concerts and plays with a full ticket price value of more than $2,000. The All Arts Card includes admission to performances at the UGA Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Department of Theatre and Film Studies and Department of Dance during the 2015-2016 academic year.
To order, go to http://pac.uga.edu/ and click on the student tab.
Many additional UGA Arts events are free to all students, including admission to the Georgia Museum of Art and galleries at Lamar Dodd School of Art, various events from The Georgia Review, UGA Press, Special Collections Libraries and more.
Go to arts.uga.edu to sign up for a monthly preview of events or follow UGA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more information on events year-round.
The Willson Center will welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker to the University of Georgia as the inaugural Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding October 14-15, 2015.
Provost Pamela Whitten touts digital humanities at UGA, including programs associated with the Willson Center’s DigiLab.
The Willson Center is profiled as a national model for fostering successful humanities communities as part of a new initiative by the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, the supporting foundation of the National Humanities Alliance.
Zygmunt Plater, professor of law at Boston College, will give the 2015 Odum Environmental Ethics Lecture on Friday, April 10, on “The Snail Darter and the Dam: a very small endangered fish’s travels through the corridors of American power.”
The Willson Center, in partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries and the University of Georgia Press, will launch its new Digital Humanities Lab on the third floor of the main library as part of “DIGI@UGA” Day April 17.
Mapping Occupation, a recently launched web-based project by University of Georgia and City University of New York historians, provides the first detailed look at where the United States sent its troops to occupy the South after the American Civil War.
Douglas A. Blackmon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” will visit the University of Georgia for a talk on April 2 at 4 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall.
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