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“Antonio Rocha: American by Choice” The opening event of the 2021 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival will feature Antonio Rocha, award-winning storyteller and mime, sharing [...]

Mark Morris Dance Group and Silkroad Ensemble’s “Layla and Majnun” Layla and Majnun, an ancient tale of forbidden love, is revered in many Middle Eastern and sub-continental [...]

“Reflections of the Past in Modern Islamic Gardens” D. Fairchild Ruggles, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will give a lecture on Islamic gardens from Spain to India, [...]

Georgia Humanities Grant Application Deadline March 30 (at 11:59pm Eastern) is the deadline for submitting grant proposals to Georgia Humanities for the spring 2021 grant cycle.

Coffee and Islam: A Conversation The Arabic word marqaha describes the euphoric feeling that one experiences when drinking coffee. Join journalist and lecturer in Yale University’s School of [...]

Unknown No Longer! Giving a voice to those who have been kept silenced Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, will give a lecture at the Robert Toombs Historic House Site in [...]

Centering the Native South: A Roundtable on Native Pasts and Futures In this roundtable conversation hosted by the Society of Early Americanists, three scholars of Indigenous histories in the [...]

“The Water Heritage of Mughal Gardens and Landscapes in Kashmir” Compared to early Mughal gardens on the semi-arid plains of South Asia, those of Kashmir had abundant water supplies that [...]

“The Consequences of Reading: Early Modern English Universities, Books, and the Parnassus Plays (1599-1606), ” Plenary 2 This plenary session (the second of two) is part of a [...]

“Start with Something True: How Research Can Be a Springboard for the Imagination in Screenwriting,” Plenary 1 This plenary session(the first of two) is part of a conference [...]