Georgia Humanities Symposium The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia will host the second Georgia Humanities Symposium, a national conversation on the public humanities, in the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia. The event is free and open to the public.
The Influence of the Agriculture and Timber Industries in Randolph County and Southwest Georgia The Influence of the Agriculture and Timber Industries in Randolph County and Southwest Georgia is an accompanying program of the traveling Smithsonian exhibition, Crossroads: Change in Rural America, sponsored by the Randolph County community. Held at the Railroad Depot in Shellman, the […]
The 2020 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Celebrating its twentieth year, the 2020 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival includes forty-eight feature films, sixteen short films, three world premieres, five North American premieres, and two U.S. premieres from seventeen countries around the world. Screenings will be presented at venues across metro-Atlanta, including the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, […]
Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 is an interdisciplinary conference open to all scholars, artists, and students that explores the intellectual and creative expression of African people. Through a series of presentations and panel discussions, the conference is designed to inspire the inquiry of Africana cultural production through a digital, historical […]
Sounds from Randolph County Sounds from Randolph County is an accompanying program of the traveling Smithsonian exhibition, Crossroads: Change in Rural America, sponsored by the Cuthbert community. Held in Randolph County's historic courthouse, the event will feature music from the late jazz musician Fletcher Henderson Jr., born and raised in Cuthbert, and the late country […]
Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 Planet Deep South: ATL 2020 is an interdisciplinary conference open to all scholars, artists, and students that explores the intellectual and creative expression of African people. Through a series of presentations and panel discussions, the conference is designed to inspire the inquiry of Africana cultural production through a digital, historical […]
4th Annual Ogeechee International History Film Festival The Ogeechee International History Film Festival is the only open submission, juried, international cinema program of its kind. Now in its fourth year, the annual festival continues to promote and celebrate history presented through motion pictures. The theme of the 4th Annual Ogeechee International History Film Festival is […]
Trailblazing African American Women of Coastal Georgia Melissa Cooper, author of Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination will deliver the keynote lecture for "Trailblazing African American Women of Coastal Georgia." Cooper will address the context from which Geechee women emerged, and three "trailblazers" will be highlighted by additional speakers: […]
Women, Sex, and Violence in Georgia: The 75th Commemoration of the Execution of Lena Mae Baker This one-day symposium will highlight contemporary issues in the age of the "Me Too" movement. Through a series of panel discussions, topics including the law, activism and advocacy, the response of the faith-based community, and student perspectives. The symposium, […]
Bare Essentials Play Reading: "The Sunrise from the Moon" by Hannah Manikowski The first online Bare Essentials play reading, "The Sunrise from the Moon," is written by Hannah Manikowski and presented by Essential Theatre. The play is set in the future and features a young woman who is the only survivor of a failed lunarcolony […]
