ICE Announcements 1.10.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Screening and panel discussion "Demain (Tomorrow)" (1/11)
2. Alonzo King Residency (1/15-18)
3. MLK Day Events (1/16)
4. ICE Reading Room: Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots
5. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/16)
6. Opportunity: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Design FLC (1/12)
7. Opportunity: Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS) (deadline 1/18)
8. Opportunity: UGA's Next Top Entrepreneur (deadline 2/1)
9. CURO Opportunities
10. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
---
1. Global Georgia Initiative: Screening and panel discussion "Demain (Tomorrow)"
Wednesday, January 10 at 8 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
https://willson.uga.edu/event/global-georgia-initiative-screening-and-panel-discussion-demain-tomorrow/
$5 or free for Cine Members and Students with valid ID
Cine will host a special one-night only presentation of Demain (Tomorrow), winner of France's 2016 Cesar Award for Best Documentary. The screening will be preceded by a public reception and followed by a panel discussion. The event is sponsored by the Consulat General de France a Atlanta, the UGA French Program, UGA Film Studies, and the Willson Center as part of the 2017 Global Georgia Initiative.
A reception catered by The National and Trader Joe's will begin at 7 p.m. prior to the 8 p.m. screening, which in turn will be followed by a panel discussion with UGA faculty involved in environmental studies: Professors Nik Heynen, Geography, Gene M. Pesti, Poultry Sciences, and Patricia Yager, Marine Science. The panel will be moderated by Richard Neupert, Film Studies.
The film follows a team of young people as they explore the world in search of solutions to the world's most pressing social, economic and environmental issues. According to La Nouvelle Observateur, "Demain is incredibly pertinent because it demonstrates that all the positive, important initiatives covered in this film have a common thread: They privilege the local investment by engaged citizens in small-scale projects that matter for all of us."
The event is part of Cine's Science On Screen series, a grant program sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that creatively pairs film screenings with lively presentations by notable science and technology experts.
The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
---
2. Global Georgia Initiative: Alonzo King Residency
January 15-18
Full schedule: https://willson.uga.edu/event/global-georgia-initiative-alonzo-king-a-life-in-art/
Lecture: Tuesday, January 17 at 11 AM, New Dance Theatre
Performance: Tuesday, January 17 at 8 PM
APERO Conversation: Wednesday, January 18 at 12:20 PM, Tate Room 480
Choreographer Alonzo King and his LINES Ballet company will visit the University of Georgia and Athens for a series of events Jan. 15-18, including a lecture by King for the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center and a performance by the company presented by the UGA Performing Arts Center.
King's Global Georgia talk, "A Life in Art," will be Jan. 17 at 11 a.m. in the New Dance Theatre in the Dance Building. LINES Ballet will perform Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre. A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior to the performance in the Fine Arts Building Balcony Theatre.
King founded the San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet company in 1982 with a mission to create bold new dance innovations that break the mold of what ballet can be. LINES Ballet thrives on collaboration, pairing music from all over the globe with King's unique choreography that digs into the mysteries of movement, bringing honesty and spirituality to the stage.
In addition to its biannual home seasons, the company's international tours have included the Venice Biennale, Montpellier Danse, Maison de la Danse, the Wolfsburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Spoleto Festival and Monaco Dance Forum.
The residency by King and the company will also include master classes for students in the department of dance and a talk in the APERO Lecture Series hosted by the Institute for African American Studies and the African Studies Institute.
Additionally, King and members of the company will take part in a "Day of Dance" in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 16 at the East Athens Educational Dance Center. Details may be found at http://dance.uga.edu.
Tickets for the Fine Arts Theatre performance are $41 to $52 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400 or toll free at 888-289-8497. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student. All other events are free and open to the public.
Sponsors of the performance and residency include South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts, the President's Venture Fund, the Office of the Provost, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the UGA Parents & Families Association, and the Southern Company.
The Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
---
3. MLK Day Events
Monday, January 16
http://aadmovement.org/press-release-athens-inaugural-mlk-day-parade-and-fest/
3 PM Parade downtown
4 PM Block party and performances, Max Canada patio
7 PM Athens in Harmony performance, 40 Watt Club
The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and United Group of Artists (UGA Live) will host the Inaugural MLK Day Parade and Fest in downtown Athens. This event is designed to break racial barriers, stimulate culture and diversity, and celebrate justice and equality.
Following the MLK Day Parade, patrons will gather where the festivities will begin on Washington Street between Hull and Pulaski. There will be live performances, vendors, (Soul, Caribbean, Latin, Asian food), and family activities followed by the return of Athens In Harmony, featuring musical duos Elite tha Showstoppa and Caroline Aiken, Jordan Rhym and Vanessa Briscoe Hay, Squalle and Chris McKay, Repunza and Nathan Sheppard, Marco Hull and Maggie Hunter, Stella and Michael Wegner, Eugene Willis and Bain Mattox, Areana Williams and SJ Ursrey, Celest Ngeve and Reverend Tribble and Monique Osorio and Tre Powell.
Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
---
4. ICE Reading Room: Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots
"Between 1921 and 1929, when he served as the Master of Form at the Bauhaus, Schlemmer revolutionized and renewed dance as performance art. Thereafter, his career fell victim to Nazi cultural politics. He was forced to resign, due to pressure from the Nazis, from his professorship at Berlin's United State School for Fine and Applied Art in 1933 and was publicly labelled a decadent Jew and a Marxist (of which he was neither). Schlemmer's ambition for creating dancing tableaux vivants was to renew the art theories of his time through a combination of Gropius's gesamtkunstwerk thinking and humanist ideas stemming from the Renaissance. This led Schlemmer to create a proto-robotic art by virtue of a relocation of embodied and mechanic consciousness - now commonly known as the post-human condition."
By Joseph Nechvatal
Link to article: hyperallergic.com/347823/oskar-schlemmers-prophetic-dancing-robots/
---
5. Willson Center Grants
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Graduate Research Award
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level.
Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree. Previous graduate student research award recipients are ineligible. Graduate students may be supported in travel to archives, installations and performances, and other sites related to their research projects. Applicants who give a lecture or presentation of their work at another institution during the award of this grant must recognize the Willson Center as a source of support.
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Program
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Applicants are encouraged to involve more than one department; applications may include partnership with relevant departments, centers and institutes other than the Willson Center. A primary criterion is the academic excellence of the nominee and the interdisciplinary impact they will have on the UGA research community in the arts and humanities.
Lectures and locations should be coordinated through the Willson Center. In accepting the award, the faculty sponsor agrees to communicate all relevant information regarding the visitor's activities while at UGA and to credit the Willson Center in all publicity about the visitor.
Research Seminar Program
The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring to campus scholars from other institutions. Award is following academic year.
---
6. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Design
http://ctl.uga.edu/flc/current-flcs
This FLC is focused on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in design fields. Collectively, we will consider how creativity and critique are taught and assessed in higher education learning environments, and how we can systematically study this process. Long-term goals include development of a tool that can be used in interdisciplinary SoTL studies undertaken by members of the FLC and leading to publication(s). The FLC has just begun reading "Assessment in Creative Disciplines" (Chase, Ferguson & Hoey, 2014), purchased with funds provided by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Current members include faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, College of Environment and Design, and College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Faculty from diverse UGA departments who are interested in studying processes of teaching and learning in design-based courses, seminars, and studios are welcome, as membership in this group remains open.
Next meeting January 12: Email [log in to unmask] for more information.
The Center for Teaching and Learning offers UGA faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and advanced graduate students the opportunity for cohort-based instructional development through its Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) program.
A Faculty Learning Community is a specifically structured community of practice that includes the key goals of building community, engaging in scholarly (evidenced-based) teaching, and the development of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Cox & Richlin, 2004). The CTL provides $500 to each FLC to support community activities. FLCs may have as few as five or as many as fifteen participants. Participants meet approximately once every three weeks during the academic year.
---
7. Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS)
Monday, March 20, 2017
Tate Center
Call for submissions deadline January 18, 2017
http://graduatestudents.org/iris
The University of Georgia Graduate-Professional Student Association is pleased to announce the Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS), a regional interdisciplinary research conference presented with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research in addition to private and corporate partners from throughout the country.
The goals of IRIS 2017 are to:
- Expose students and faculty to potential cross-disciplinary collaborators.
- Foster the development of integrative methods, skills and advancements.
- Expose students and faculty mentors to unique funding resources/opportunities.
- Give recognition to outstanding, innovative, impactful research.
- Provide a unique and highly interactive interdisciplinary environment in which to dialogue, learn, and form new connections - personal, professional, and intellectual.
IRIS accepts two types of submissions - (1) individual paper submissions and (2) session submissions. Graduate-level students, faculty, and professionals conducting work or research in STEM-related fields are highly encouraged to submit. Interdisciplinary research and ideas from all fields are welcomed.
Individual Paper Submissions: An individual paper submission is one paper/poster with one or more authors for presentation in a paper, poster, and/or roundtable session.
Session Submissions:A session submission is a fully planned workshop, panel, or symposium, and generally involves multiple presentations and/or participants. One individual ("organizer") submits on behalf of multiple individuals.
Submissions will be peer reviewed and assessed on the following criteria: (a) practical and/or theoretical significance in STEM disciplines; (b) innovation and originality; and (c) clarity of ideas. Guidelines can be found at graduatestudents.org/guidelines and the submission portal can be found at ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cZ6eDzlpY3vriVD.
The deadline for submissions is January 18th, 2017 at 11:59PM. You will be notified of the approval status of your submission on or before February 1st. The Symposium program will be made available on or before February 22nd.
We are pleased to be able to offer early conference registration, with heavily subsidized ticket prices of $30 (standard) and $35 (standard + parking). We encourage you to register before early registration ends on February 22nd.
---
8. UGA's Next Top Entrepreneur
Event Date: April 12th, 2017
Deadline for Applications: February 1
https://www.terry.uga.edu/events/next-top-entrepreneur
The Entrepreneurship Program invites you to take part in UGA's Next Top Entrepreneur hosted each year during Athens' StartUp Week. UGA's Next Top Entrepreneur is open to student startup teams from all over the country. During this live event, teams pitch their existing business or idea in front of an audience and a panel of judges who have experience in the startup and business world. The winning team is awarded $10,000!
Students from any college or university with a solid business idea, concept, and/or existing business who are looking to take it to the next level. At least two team members must be an active undergraduate/masters student (no doctoral students). The startup must have less than $1 million in annual sales. Only 4 members of the team may participate in the competition (no exceptions). Have a registered LLC within the United States. At least two student team members must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
There is no limit on the type of business!
---
9. CURO Opportunities
https://curo.uga.edu/
Research Assistantship
The CURO Research Assistantship provides stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Summer applications are due by March 22. The application can be found at: http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
Summer Fellowship
The 2017 CURO Summer Fellowship provides a $3000 stipend for intensive, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Proposals are due by February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
2017 CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium
CURO invites submissions for its 2017 Symposium to be held on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4, 2017. This Symposium provides undergraduates from all disciplines the opportunity to present original, faculty-mentored research and creative works. Applicants are also encouraged to apply for the Best Paper and UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards.
Symposium online submission closes February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/symposium/
---
10. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
[log in to unmask]
Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
---
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.
facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration
twitter.com/iceuga
For more events and opportunities visit:
art.uga.edu
arts.uga.edu
calendar.uga.edu
dance.uga.edu
drama.uga.edu
english.uga.edu
flagpole.com
georgiamuseum.org
music.uga.edu
pac.uga.edu
willson.uga.edu
|
