ICE Announcements 4.17.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. The Georgia Review Earth Day Symposium (4/17-18)
2. In Conversation: 2001 (4/17-18)
3. Lecture: Coleman Hutchison (4/18)
4. Peformance: Hodgson Wind Ensemble (4/19)
5. Torrance Lecture: Didi Dunphy (4/19)
6. Reading: Cathy Park Hong (4/19)
7. Peterson Toscano Events (4/24-25)
8. Lecture: Deanna Kreisel (4/24)
9. Performance: Listening Machines (4/28 ATL)
10. Arts on the River Celebration (4/29)
11. Opportunity: Arts Writers Grant Program (deadline 5/21)
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1. The Georgia Review Earth Day Symposium
April 17 -18
Various locations
The Georgia Review's tenth annual Earth Day program will be held on April 17-18. Events include a keynote address by Lauret Savoy at 7 p.m., April 17, at the Day Chapel at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia; a reading and discussion featuring David Gessner and Drew Lanham at 7 p.m., April 18, in Room 271 of the Russell Building Special Collections Libraries; and a panel featuring all three speakers and moderated by Dorinda Dallmeyer, director of UGA's Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. The panel will be held at 3:30 p.m., April 18, in Room 123 of the Jackson Street Building of the College and Environmental Design.
Lauret Savoy, as a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, explores the stories we tell of the American land's origins--and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land. Her newest book is Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, winner of the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the 2017 ASLE Creative Writing Award. Her essays have appeared in such magazines as The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, ArtForum, and Orion. She is the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke College, a photographer, and a pilot. Winner of Mount Holyoke's Distinguished Teaching Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Savoy has also held fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and Yale University.
The author of books whose topics range from ultimate frisbee to ospreys over Cuba to the Gulf oil spill disaster, David Gessner's latest environmental work is All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West, an informal look at the lives and work of two icons of environmental writing. Gessner is chair of the Creative Writing Department at UNC-Wilmington and editor-in-chief of Ecotone magazine. His essays have appeared widely in such places as The Georgia Review, Orion, outside, and The American Scholar. He is a past recipient of the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay of the year.
Drew Lanham is a professor of wildlife at Clemson University, where he holds an endowed chair as an Alumni Distinguished Professor and was named an Alumni Master Teacher in 2012. His research focuses on songbird ecology, as well as the African-American role in natural-resources conservation. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, published in 2016, a work that presents a land ethic that grows from family history, geography, race, and the natural world.
Receptions will follow the two evening events. These free events are open to the public and are sponsored in part by UGA's Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Willson Center, the UGA Office of Sustainability, and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA.
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2. In Conversation: 2001
April 17 - 18
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
"In Conversation" is a new program at the Dodd Galleries where we pair two people together and ask them to engage in a dialogue. For this round, Dodd Professorial Chair, Paul Pfeiffer, and Dr. Isabelle Wallace, Dodd Associate Professor of Art History, will discuss their mutual love of the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey on Wednesday, April 18 at 1:00 pm in S150. A screening of the movie will take place the evening prior at 7:00 pm.
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3. Lecture: Coleman Hutchison
Wednesday, April 18 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall 265
Title: "Dixie" and the Appropriation of Cultures. Coleman Hutchison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America, the co-author of a guide for students called Writing About American Literature, and the editor of A History of American Civil War Literature. He is currently writing a popular biography of Dixie, which tells the story of how a song gave the South a nickname, and how that nickname has shaped the South's cultural identity. Sponsored by the Department of English, Ballew Lecture Series.
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4. Peformance: Hodgson Wind Ensemble
Thursday, April 19 at 7:30
Hodgson Concert Hall
Tickets: $20 adults/$6 students
Audience members may need to buckle their seat belts as the program begins with a bang. Under the baton of graduate conducting student Bradley Esau, the Hodgson Wind Ensemble will treat everyone to a brass tour-de-force fanfare by Australian composer Katy Abbott entitled Punch!
The mainstay of the program is a suite by Adam Schoenberg entitled Picture Studies, a 21st century approach to Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. "The suite is made up of tuneful, rhythmic, engaging, and beautifully scored responses to art, including Van Gogh, Miro, and Kandinsky," says Johnston Turner. While these pieces are being performed, visual renderings of the artwork will be projected. The combination of the visuals and the music highlights the difference between viewing art in a museum and listening to music in a concert hall, in a museum a viewer can move on to the next piece if one doesn't resonate as much. However, with live music the audience must stay in the same space with the performance.
"What Schoenberg has done is forced me to look deeper into a piece of art that I otherwise wouldn't study. In the process, I have been charmed at the discovery of elements that I didn't see at first glance," says Johnston Turner.
The audience is in for a treat as the Hodgson Wind Ensemble is transformed into a jazz "big band" for Riffs! by composer Jeff Tyzik. The piece is a fun, wild ride which includes a jazz drumming soloist, featuring percussionist Timothy Adams, the Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Music. Throughout the piece, the performers will take everyone on journey of swing styles, and an infectious Afro-Cuban groove.
There may be some surprising encores guaranteed to get your feet tappin'!
Tickets for the concert are $20 for adults and $6 for students and can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu, by phone at 706-542-4400, or in person at the box office. For those unable to attend this event, the concert will be streamed at music.uga.edu/streaming.
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5. Torrance Lecture: Didi Dunphy
Thursday, April 19 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
A former visiting scholar and professor in the contemporary and digital media arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Didi Dunphy works as an independent curator in partnership with regional art museums. She will give the Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development in the College of Education.
In the curatorial field, she manages and designs exhibits for the Gallery at Hotel-Indigo-Athens and the Indigo's GlassCube artist residency and project space. Dunphy currently serves as the program supervisor at the Lyndon House Arts Center, the civic arts campus dedicated to incorporating visual art and arts education with the mission of enriching the community of Athens and beyond.
Dunphy's creative practice lies within the intersection of performative participation and playful collaboration that extends past the studio to Dunphy's teaching, curating, and art directing. Using invitational art activities, available technology, and conceptual rigor, Dunphy develops situations of social learning and community building, all with a smart, witty aesthetic. In this lecture, she will discuss her arts engagement from the design line of recess inspired objects, her time-based art teaching style, and her thoughtful exhibition curation. Refreshments will be served.
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6. Reading: Cathy Park Hong
Thursday, April 19 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Cathy Park Hong's latest poetry collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo'um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney's, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. This event is sponsored in part by Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies Dr. Ed Pavlic and is free and open to the public. Avid Bookshop will be on hand at the event to sell books.
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7. Peterson Toscano Events
April 24-25
Casual Lunch Conversation with Peterson Toscano, a Quirky Queer Quaker
Tuesday, April 24th, 12:30-1:30 PM
The Intersection, Tate II (across from Tate Print and Copy)
After spending 17 years and over $30,000 on three continents attempting to de-gay himself through gay conversion therapy, Peterson Toscano came to his senses and came out a quirky queer Quaker concerned with human rights and comedy. He travels internationally sharing LGBTQ-friendly Bible stories, speaking out about the harm of conversion therapy, and highlighting the important roles LGBTQ people can play on our rapidly changing planet. Join him for a lively discussion over the lunch hour.
Peterson Toscano-Performing Stories: Personal and Political Storytelling
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 5 - 6 PM
Room 352 Fine Arts Building
On stage, in the public sphere, in class, and at work how we tell a story is as important as the stories we tell. Looking at structure, delivery, and style, participants will engage in storytelling techniques reach audiences and move listeners to feel and act.
Dinner Time Discussion: Power, Privilege, and Polar Bears: A lively discussion about race, justice, and climate change
Led by Peterson Toscano and Nethra Rajendran
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:30-8 PM
Location TBD
Join us for open discussion and sharing of unique stories centered around race and justice and how these intersect with modern environmental issues. How are extreme weather events, pollution, policing, and asthma connected? And what does race have to do with it? Join Peterson Toscano and Nethra Rajendran as they share and facilitate this lively discussion. This is a free event open to all students!
Peterson Toscano: Everything is Connected-A Collection of Stories: Most Weird, Many True
Wednesday, April 25 at 7 PM
UGA Chapel
Experience the artful, playful, outrageously funny, and deeply moving storytelling craft of Peterson Toscano. Connecting contemporary issues to his own bizarre personal experiences, literature, science, and even the odd Bible story, Peterson takes his audience on an off-beat mental mind trip. A shapeshifter, he transforms right before your eyes into a whole cast of comic characters who explore the serious worlds of gender, sexuality, privilege, religion, and environmental justice. This event is free and open to all.
Peterson has been featured in the New York Times, People Magazine, the Tyra Banks Show, and NPR Morning Edition. He uses comedy and storytelling to explore LGBTQ issues, faith, privilege, justice and climate. For more visit: http://www.petersontoscano.com
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8. Lecture: Deanna Kreisel
Tuesday, April 24 at 4:45 PM
Park Hall, Rm 265
Title: The Future and its Discontents: Eco-Time in Three Victorian Texts. The question of how (or why, or whether) to commingle queer theory and ecocriticism has become an urgent concern for many theorists writing in the wake of Timothy Morton's 2010 PMLA essay "Queer Ecology." While Greg Garrard, for example, thinks that queer theory needs ecocriticism in order to avoid theoretical bankruptcy and irrelevance, Jordy Rosenberg argues exactly the opposite, warning that certain versions of eco-theory are guilty of promulgating "a primitivist fantasy that hinges on the violent erasure of the social: the conjuring of a realm--an 'ancestral realm'--that exists in the present, but in parallax to historical time." This talk will develop Rosenberg's analysis by taking up the question of eco-queer futurity in three emblematic Victorian texts: Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem "Dover Beach," and Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars" (1879). Each of these works embodies an iteration of queerness that simultaneously challenges the hegemony of reproductive futurism described by theorists Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman and disavows the utopianist collectivity of much recent queer studies scholarship.
This talk will aim to demonstrate how eco-queer readings of these works can illuminate the clashing temporal and spatial scales at work in their deep logic, and thereby draw out their conflicted investment in nascent ideologies of economic and environmental stewardship.
Deanna Kreisel (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia) specializes in Victorian literature and culture. Her first book, Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (Toronto 2012), examines how images of feminized sexuality in the mid-Victorian realist novel reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism. Kreisel is co-founder of Vcologies, an international working group of nineteenth-centuryist scholars interested in ecocriticism and environmental studies. She has published articles in PMLA, Victorian Studies, Representations, and ELH, and is currently at work on a new book on the history of the sustainability concept and utopianism in the nineteenth century.
The Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature is supported by the Willson Center and by the English Department's Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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9. Performance: Listening Machines
Saturday, April 28 at 7 PM
Georgia Tech West Village Room 175
https://gtcmt.gatech.edu/lm
Listening Machines is an annual concert showcasing new music by masters students from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. This year's work focuses on self-made robots and actuators. Featuring a snare drum playing robot painting musical artworks, a synthesizer controlled by a water wheel, a recorder playing robot and many other DIY musical controllers and robots. We invite everyone to come listen and experience the future of music!
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10. Arts on the River Celebration
Sunday, April 29 from Noon - 4 PM
Sandy Creek Park, Lake Chapman Beach
https://www.facebook.com/events/554395851608828/
Join us for a community celebration of visual and performance art to honor the North Oconee River and its right to thrive and be healthy. This event is a one-day art exhibition with dance, spoken word, and music unfolding on the river and its banks. Visitors will kayak in the water and experience the art. Registration for kayaks at 1 PM (limited availability). This project is made possible by the support of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Ideas for Creative Exploration, Watershed UGA, and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. Free and family friendly.
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11. Opportunity: Arts Writers Grant Program
Deadline: May 21, 2018
https://www.artswriters.org/application/guidelines
The Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is for both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories--articles, blogs, books and short-form writing--these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs. The grant also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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