Visiting scholar to present colloquium
Michelle Hebl, Franklin Visiting Scholar, will present a research colloquium entitled, “Reducing Interpersonal Discrimination” Oct. 2 at 3:30 p.m. in room 120 of the psychology building.
Open free to the public, the colloquium is co-sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of psychology and its Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership.
An associate professor of psychology at Rice University, Hebl is a social psychologist whose research and teaching delve into issues of diversity and discrimination. Known as a contemporary expert on stigma, she has collaborated on numerous published studies focused on understanding “mixed” interactions; that is, interactions between stigmatized and non-stigmatized individuals.
Using laboratory experiments and field studies, Hebl documents how discrimination is manifested within social interactions and in organizations. Her studies examine such issues as discrimination against gay and lesbian job seekers or pregnant women applying for jobs, and problems for obese patients seeking medical care or customer service.
English department to host two-day symposium on literary translation
Several internationally known translators will visit campus Oct. 2-3 for a symposium on literary translation. The two-day event, held at the Chapel and Fanning Institute, is free and open to the public.
Invited speakers include recipients of the PEN Translation Award, the Lannan Translation Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MacArthur Fellowship-working from nearly a dozen languages. Speakers include: Peter Cole, Forrest Gander, Michael Henry Heim, David Hinton, Pierre Joris, Susanna Nied, Richard Sieburth and Cole Swensen.
UGA faculty members participating include Coleman Barks, Doris Kadish and Jonathan Krell. Among authors translated by symposium participants are Milan Kundera, Anton Chekhov, Li Po, Paul Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin, Inger Christensen, Taha Muhammad Ali, Jaime Saenz, Pascalle Monnier and Walter Benjamin.
The schedule of events includes an opening session on Oct. 2 from 2:30-4 p.m. in the Chapel followed by a public reading from 4:30-6:30 p.m. On Oct. 3, the symposium will be held at the Fanning Institute and will feature panels on “Translating Poetry, Translating Prose” from 9:30-10:45 a.m., “Working with an Author, Translating the Past” from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and translation workshops on fundamentals of translating a given text from 2-4 p.m.
UGA receives state recycling award
UGA received the Georgia Recycling Coalition’s Spirit of Green Award for its outstanding and well-established institutional recycling program.
The UGA physical plant manages campus recycling and its recycling efforts are available to each member of the UGA community. Students have been engaged through the GoGreen Alliance, which was formed to offer the opportunity for all environmental/sustainability student organizations and groups at UGA to collaborate, coordinate, unify and collectively strengthen their individual efforts. The GoGreen Alliance provides an organizational structure for the individual organizations to collaborate, rather than compete, and to make maximum impact on the UGA community through a master listserv, calendar of events, forums for discussion and special events.
Recycling opportunities can be found across campus. Paper bins and bottle/can bins are located in each of the 380 buildings on the main campus and in several outside areas on the campus. The university recycles about 1,000 tons of mixed paper, cardboard, bottles and cans each year.
