Author: Dave Marr

Willson Center Global Georgia Initiative talk postponed

Update: Tania León, the scheduled guest of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts for…
Flagpole Publisher Pete McCommons to speak in Global Georgia series Feb. 6

Pete McCommons, editor and publisher of Flagpole magazine, will give a talk on Feb. 6…
Composer Tania León opens 2014 Willson Center Global Georgia Initiative

The Global Georgia Initiative, a program of the Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities…
Documentary screening accompanies Willson/Peabody roundtable

A Willson Center/Peabody Awards Roundtable held on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President…
Film, TV director Jim McKay returns to Athens for festival

Jim McKay is a director, writer and producer who lived and worked in Athens during…
Music documentary by UGA alum to have Athens premiere at arts festival

“Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker,” a new feature documentary that had sold-out…
Georgia Virtual History Project art exhibit draws from Athens’ hidden past

The Georgia Virtual History Project and ATHICA—the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art—will present “Seen/Unseen,” an…
Noteworthy research

In August, the Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts launched its Faculty…
Acclaimed Irish poet to give reading at Ciné

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, an award-winning poet from Dublin, Ireland, will give a reading Oct. 30…
Irish poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin to read at Ciné Oct. 30

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, an award-winning poet from Dublin, Ireland, will give a reading Oct. 30…
Cinema Roundtable will highlight 1973 in American film

“The Way We Were in 1973: From Mainstream Nostalgia to New Hollywood, Blaxploitation and Foreign…
Cinema roundtable to highlight 1973 in American film

“The Way We Were in 1973: From Mainstream Nostalgia to New Hollywood, Blaxploitation, and Foreign…
Filmmaker Jim McKay returns to Athens for UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival

The University of Georgia’s Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will present…
UGA English professor to read from new collection of poetry

Ed Pavlic, professor of English and creative writing in the Franklin College of Arts and…
Creative clusters

The Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts launched its Faculty Research Clusters…
UGA’s Ed Pavlić to read from new book of poetry Sept. 26 at Ciné

Ed Pavlić, a professor of English and creative writing in the University of Georgia Franklin…
Willson Center launches humanities research initiative

The Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts launched its new Faculty Research…
New UGA Faculty Research Clusters to focus on humanities, arts

The University of Georgia’s Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts launched its…
Mandela-era ambassador to South Africa to speak at UGA Chapel

James A. Joseph, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 1995 to 1999, will speak…
NYU cinema studies chair, professor to lecture on Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’

Richard Allen, professor and chair of cinema studies at New York University, will lecture on…
NYU cinema studies chair to lecture on Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ at UGA

Richard Allen, professor and chair of cinema studies at New York University, will lecture on…
Irish poet to open Atlantic research conference

The welcome to the 2013 Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project at UGA will feature a reading…
Irish poet Ciaran Carson to open Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project conference

The welcome reception to the 2013 Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project at the University of Georgia…
Peter Murray, founder of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, to speak at GMOA

Peter Murray, the founding director of one of the world’s foremost venues for the outdoor…