Elizabeth Wright, Distinguished Research Professor and associate academic director of the Willson Center, recounts some of the latest steps in her imaginative and expansive research and teaching agenda

Cassia Roth, assistant professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies, discusses “A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil” and her newly awarded fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Where Am I? is a series of brief video talks by humanities and arts faculty, students, and community members at the University of Georgia who share their research, creations, conversations and personal reflections.

The third in a series of virtual gatherings on “The Public Humanities Tomorrow,” organized by the CHCI Public Humanities Network in partnership with the Whiting Foundation, will take place Thursday, December 10 from 9:30 – 11 a.m. EST.

“Ireland, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled” was published in November 2020 by Oxford University Press.

This page will update with archived videos of these virtual events as they become available.

Thirty-four micro-fellowships supported the creation of shareable reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic through the arts and humanities.

For the first time, the Willson Center has produced its annual report as an online-only publication.

Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor in the department of information studies at UCLA, gave an online talk September 15, 2020 on “Rethinking Assumptions: The Current Value(s) of Academic Work” as part of the UGA Signature Lectures series.

The Public Humanities Network of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), in partnership with the Whiting Foundation, has organized a series of of virtual gatherings called “The Humanities Tomorrow,” the second of which will take place Friday, Nov. 13 from 2:30 – 4 p.m. ET. Registration is now open for the online conversation on “Cultural Preservation and Storytelling – The Archaeology of Redress.”

These gatherings are designed to share experiences of contemporary humanities projects by scholars who are visionaries and change-makers, with a focus on practical lessons we might share as a community in committing to this work.

Each gathering will last no longer than 90 minutes, will be open to everyone who registers in advance, and will be recorded for sharing through the CHCI afterwards.

Public Humanities Network members may also like to register for the National Humanities Conference on November 6, 10, 12, and 13, which is hosted virtually by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance.

“The Public Humanities Tomorrow: Cultural Preservation and Storytelling – The Archaeology of Redress“

Date: Friday, November 13, 2020
Time: 2:30 – 4 p.m. ET
Registration required – available here

As archaeologists working in communities that have been impacted by colonialism we are constantly confronted with the troubles of uncovering and interpreting difficult histories. Is it possible to move beyond merely reiterating narratives of trauma and their legacies? Can we as archaeologists begin to imagine forms of redress? Building off of frameworks in community-engaged scholarships, we explore the ways in which our community-engaged practice requires us at times to step outside of our disciplinary training to imagine a praxis of redress.

Panelists:
Justin Dunnavant, Vanderbilt University
Ayana Omilade Flewellen, University of California, Riverside
Gabby Omoni Hartemann, The Federal University of Minas Gerais

Chair:
Alexandra Jones, Archaeology in the Community

“The Public Humanities Tomorrow: A Conversation on Projects Engaged with Immigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners” takes place Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m.

Professor LeAnne Howe kicks off a new series of talks by faculty who share their research, publications, conversations and personal reflections.

A Department-Invited Artist or Lecturer program for virtual class presentations and Shelter Scholarships to support graduate students in the humanities and arts.

The online @UGAResearch news magazine has published an article featuring interviews with four recipients of the Willson Center’s Shelter Projects micro-fellowships.

The Coasts, Climates, Humanities and the Environment Consortium is funded by a pilot grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for two years. Its partners are the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, and Louisiana State University. The consortium has a series of site-specific and publicly engaged research projects in coastal sites, which look at questions of climate breakdown, community resilience and the capacity of the humanities to imagine the futures of places under threat from storms and sea-level rise.

This is the last in a series of four conversations featuring participants in the consortium and scholars whose research informs its work. All four conversations are available here.

The full conversation and a short preview are below.

The participants are:

Jacqueline Lawton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
Ken Sassaman, University of Florida
Nicholas Allen, moderator, University of Georgia

FULL CONVERSATION

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