Author: Dave Marr
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Spotlight on the Arts to kick off with UGA Poetry Festival
The inaugural two-day series will feature five major American poets.
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UGA Humanities Festival returns for its third year
The festival runs from March 11-April 2 and will feature more than 20 public events.
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Longtime ASO music director to visit UGA as Delta Chair
Robert Spano will have two public discussions and conduct a student workshop.
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UGA presents second annual Humanities Festival
The March 11-22 festival highlights richness, diversity of research and practice in the humanities.
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Celebrated author Trethewey to visit UGA as Delta Chair
Pulitzer winner and former U.S. poet laureate to make public appearances.
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Willson Center receives $1M Mellon Foundation grant
It will fund community engagement in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
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UCLA scholar addresses ‘authority of knowledge’ in Signature Lecture
Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor in the department of information studies at UCLA, spoke…
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The role of the humanities in higher education
Nicholas Allen is a leader in the University of Georgia’s efforts to place its humanities…
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Shelter Projects to reflect on pandemic experience
Willson Center offers micro-fellowships in the humanities and arts.
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Pulitzer-winning writer to visit UGA for Phinizy Lecture, Global Georgia
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright will speak on “The Future of Terrorism” as the Ferdinand…
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Musician, UVA scholar meet in ‘DJ Summits’
Composer, percussionist and DJ Val Jeanty will share the stage at Ciné with Ashon Crawley,…
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‘English Patient’ author to visit UGA as Delta Chair
Author Michael Ondaatje’s main public event will be a reading and conversation on Oct. 24…
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Screening of ‘The English Patient’ held in advance of Ondaatje visit
Author Michael Ondaatje is the 2019-2020 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the University…
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Lynnée Denise brings ‘DJ scholarship’ to Athens
Denise will bring her unique brand of scholarship to the UGA and Athens communities with…
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‘We Need New Names’ author to give 2019 Betty Jean Craige Lecture on April 15
Bulawayo’s talk on “The Immigrant Experience in America” is also part of the Global Georgia…
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Global Georgia panel seeks an international perspective
“Moving Statues: A Conversation of the Global South” on April 10 at 6 p.m. is…
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Lecture looks back at reconstruction
McCurry’s talk considered the institutions and legacies of slavery from the point of view of…
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Delta Visiting Chair returns to UGA for presentation
Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha Joye’s deep-sea adventure mixes art and science.
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Historian to visit for Global Georgia series
Columbia University historian Stephanie McCurry will visit the University of Georgia to give the history…
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‘Annihilation’ author to open Global Georgie Initiative
Author Jeff VanderMeer is the first visiting speaker in the 2019 Global Georgia Initiative of…
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Artist Rebecca Rutstein named Delta Visiting Chair
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will welcome Rebecca Rutstein to the University of…
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Arts research consortium to hold conference at UGA
The 2018 national conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities will be…
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Mellon grant will expand Global Georgia Initiative
A $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable the University of Georgia…
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Poet Paul Muldoon set to give reading, music performance April 13
Paul Muldoon, called “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War” by…
