Tag: Institute for African American Studies
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UGA Libraries names nine faculty as 2025 Special Collections Fellows
The program is designed to help instructors create active learning courses with UGA Libraries.
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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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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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Soprano Angela Brown visits Feb. 20-24 as Delta Chair
Brown’s week in residence will include a master class with students in the Hugh Hodgson…
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Professor says cultural context is important for patient care
R. Baxter Miller, professor of English in the Institute for African American Studies in the…
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UGA celebrates Women’s History Month
This year’s virtual keynote address will be presented by Stephanie Y. Evans on March 29.
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Signature Lectures to bring thought leaders to campus
UGA’s spring 2022 lectures touch on a wide variety of current topics.
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Ten UGA faculty members named 2021-2022 Women’s Leadership Fellows
The new cohort includes representatives from nine schools and colleges.
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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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Students get up close to rights, justice history
Geography class travels to Montgomery to visit museum, memorial.
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Carolyn Medine
Carolyn Medine, professor of religion and African American studies in the Franklin College of Arts…
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Tickets for Alice Walker’s Oct. 15 talk at Morton Theatre available Sept. 28
Tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in…
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UGA alumna, civil rights attorney to present lecture ‘I Am Trayvon Martin’
The University of Georgia Institute for African American Studies will present “I Am Trayvon Martin:…
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Lesley Feracho
Lesley Feracho, an associate professor in the department of Romance languages and associate director of…
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Kecia Thomas
Kecia Thomas, a professor of psychology and African American studies and an associate dean in…
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Noted author and drama critic Hilton Als to speak at UGA
Hilton Als, staff writer and drama critic at The New Yorker, will read from his…
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Diane Marie Amann
Diane Marie Amann, who holds the Woodruff Chair in International Law at UGA, wants her…
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Donna Alvermann
Donna Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Omer Clyde and Elizabeth…
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Harvard social scientist David R. Williams to speak at UGA March 18
David R. Williams, internationally recognized as a leading social scientist focused on social influences on…
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UGA professor receives American Academy of Religion teaching award
Carolyn Medine, a University of Georgia professor in the department of religion and the Institute…
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African American studies director to speak on legacy of slavery voyage
Valerie Babb, director of the Institute for African American Studies, will give a lecture titled…
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Barbara McCaskill
McCaskill conducts archival research about 19th- and early 20th-century African American writers and has developed…
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Lauren Anderson
A UGA geography of human rights class prompted Lauren Anderson to critically consider U.S. foreign…
