From Being Property to Owning Property This virtual presentation from the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum in Thomasville will provide a brief history of the Stevens Street District in Thomasville, one of the few remaining and intact African American neighborhoods built after the Civil War. Included in this presentation is part of the museum’s story itself—it […]
A Live Reading of Sovereignty Sovereignty, written by playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, examines the intersections of personal and political truths and historic and contemporary struggles through two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, and her colleague Jim Ross, defend the inherent jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation in the United […]
The 10th Annual Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Celebration This year’s special 10th anniversary broadcast of the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame Celebration will honor 44 legends, leaders, truth-seekers, storytellers, photographers, and investigative reporters who made their mark on journalism in Georgia and beyond. The 2020 Hall of Fame honorees include Boyd Lewis, […]
"Small Works Inspired by Poetry" "Small Works Inspired by Poetry" is a small-scale, abstract and figurative exhibition inspired by poems contributed by Clela Reed, Cart Britton, Dana Smith, Pat Adams, and Rebecca Baggett. The poems were written especially to stimulate a visual response. Listen to the poets read their poems while you reflect on the […]
Nothing Is Stable: Diana Al-Hadid artist talk Syrian American artist Diana Al-Hadid will give a talk in conjunction with her exhibition Nothing Is Stable at the Ernest G. Welch Gallery of Georgia State University (GSU). The New York-based artist is acclaimed for her intricate sculptures and wall panels that combine traditional and contemporary materials and […]
An Education in Georgia: Then and Now To kick off a campus-wide reading event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at the University of Georgia, UGA alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault will participate in a conversation with longtime New Yorker columnist and author Calvin Trillin to discuss his book An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton […]
The Six Triple Eight: A Documentary Screening The 6th Cavalry Museum presents a documentary film, The Six Triple Eight, by Lincoln Penny Films, on February 11. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only all-Black female battalion to serve in Europe during World War II. Confronted with racism […]
Lillian Smith: Anti-Racist Ally Panel Discussion Join the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), in partnership with the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia, for a virtual panel discussion of Lillian Smith and a screening of the documentary film Lillian Smith: […]
"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 celebrating undergraduate research in the classroom and in print. Writer and producer Sarah H. Haught will discuss the role of research in writing for prime-time TV. Register […]
"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 conference celebrating undergraduate research in the classroom and in print. Dr. Brandi K. Adams, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss how the diversity of university students […]
