Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
The University of Georgia
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.
Spread over five city blocks and dozens of venues, Slingshot spotlights international, national, and local acts on stage, boundary pushing artworks throughout the urban environment, and tech talks with leading innovators.
Through the generosity of Jane Willson, our Board of Friends and individual donors, and with support from the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center has relocated to a historically renovated two-story house at 1260 South Lumpkin Street.
The Global Georgia Initiative brings world class thinkers to Georgia. It presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia.
The University of Liverpool will host a symposium about the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, a Willson Center research project, over the course of Friday evening and Saturday, January 30-31, 2015.
An estimated 2,000 people came out to College Square in downtown Athens for our signature event in UGA’s 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival, and they saw a marvelous concert by five enormously talented musical acts.
The Global Georgia Initiative brings world class thinkers to Georgia. It presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene.
Matthew Bernstein is Chair of Film and Media Studies at Emory University and a major authority on American cinema, the Hollywood studio system, and Southern cinema.
The Willson Center will host a reception to celebrate the publication of Downstream: A Witherston Murder Mystery by Betty Jean Craige, University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and former director of the Willson Center.
As part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival, Barry McGovern, Irish stage, film and television actor, will give a reading of the poetry and prose of Samuel Beckett in a special appearance sponsored by the Consulate General of Ireland in Atlanta and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
The UGA Arts Council
is seeking graduate students to participate in the inaugural “4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship” competition. The event, which will award two prizes of $433 each, will give the campus community insight into the scholarship and research in the arts conducted by University of Georgia graduate students.
For the competition, graduate students have 4 minutes, 33 seconds to describe their research. They can use up to 33 visual aid slides to help explain the topic. The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 in the Chapel, as part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The Spotlight event is inspired by John Cage’s landmark 1952 composition 4’33,” which calls for a pianist simply to sit silently at a piano for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Cage’s 4’33” challenged audiences to reconsider the function of art and the borders between traditional art disciplines and between artistic practice and philosophy.
Points will be awarded based on performance, originality and passion, as well as conciseness, comprehension, engagement, and ability to convey the research to a non-specialist audience. Sound and props are permitted.
Two winners will be chosen: one by a panel of faculty within and outside the arts and another chosen as an audience favorite. The winners will receive support for their research in the form of an award of $433 each.
Graduate students pursuing master of arts or doctorates in the arts must sign up by Oct. 17 Oct. 24 by emailing camiew@uga.edu and CC’ing your department’s Arts Council representative (a list of Arts Council representatives is available here). The email should contain your name, degree objective and a paragraph that clearly, succinctly and compellingly describes your research topic and its significance to a non-specialist audience. A subcommittee of the Arts Council will determine the participants.
The University of Georgia spotlights its arts programs and venues during an annual nine-day festival that includes concerts, theater and dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film festivals, discussions on the arts and creativity, and more. The 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival will be held Nov. 6-14.
The Willson Center and the Music Business Program of the Terry College of Business present a special Spotlight on the Arts installment of the Slingshot festival of music, electronic art, and technology. Spotlight • Slingshot is a free public concert on College Square in downtown Athens featuring five acclaimed local and national acts, many including UGA graduates and attendees.
The inaugural research seminar,Cortona Seminar The Legacy of Classical Antiquity: Re-visioning the Past, explores the legacy of classical antiquity as the nexus of the visual and cultural history of Italy and its modern interpretations.
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Andrew Zawacki, associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program, has been recommended for an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. Zawacki is one of 20 recommended fellows for 2015.
