ICE Announcements 10.21.14
http://ice.uga.edu
*ICE-Sponsored*
1. ICE Conversation: John Michael Boling (10/22)
2. ICE Conversation: Amanda Concha-Holmes (10/23)
3. ICE-Vision: Five Easy Pieces (10/23)
4. Idea Lab Mini Grants + Info Sessions
5. Sustainability + Arts Grant
6. ICE Project Grants
*Events and Opportunities*
1. Amanda Concha-Holmes Events (10/20-10/24)
2. Screening: Who Owns Water? (10/22)
3. Anthropocene Lecture Series: Sonia Altizer (10/23)
4. Reading: Julia Elliott (10/24)
5. Event: Community Dance Day (10/26)
6. Lecture: Eric Foner (10/27)
7. Opportunity: House the Herd Design Competition + Info Sessions
8. Opportunity: Athens Voices Call for Artists (deadline: 11/21)
More events and opportunities: http://iceannouncements.com
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*ICE-Sponsored*
1. ICE Conversation: John Michael Boling
Wednesday, October 22 at 10 AM
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160
UGA alumnus and ICE Fellow John Michael Boling talks about his diverse experiences as a media artist, associate director of Rhizome, and leader of an Internet startup.
Idea Lab is the UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. For more information visit idealab.uga.edu.
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2. ICE Conversation: Amanda Concha-Holmes
Wednesday, October 23 at 4 PM
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160
Amanda Concha-Holmes, Willson Center Visiting Artist, works as a visual and ecological anthropologist to embrace the notion of applied documentary filmmaking. She promotes the use of art, sound, videography and an inclination for anthropological insight to improve collaborative conservation projects that raise awareness of intersections of power dynamics.
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3. ICE-Vision: Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
Thursday, October 23 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
http://www.facebook.com/groups/120740834290/
ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies and English major Dafna Kaufman's selections of great films that may be forgotten by the general public, but can be remembered and cherished through viewings today.
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4. Idea Lab Mini Grant Info Sessions
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160
Tuesday, October 21 from 2-3 PM
Wednesday, October 22 from 2-5 PM
Thursday, October 23 from 2-4 PM
Stop by the ICE Office to ask questions and find out more about the Idea Lab Mini Grants. Idea Lab members will be on hand to discuss potential project ideas, the mentoring aspect of the grants, and any other questions that will help potential applicants prepare for the November 2 deadline.
Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
http://idealab.uga.edu
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects.
Selected projects will be assigned a mentor, receive regular feedback from Idea Lab members, and be featured during the ICE Conversation Series.
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include majors and year of study)
- Name of Lead Applicant (include majors and year of study)
- Project outcomes
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
All UGA students are eligible to apply. Lead Applicant must be a current UGA student. Deadline for grant proposals is midnight on November 2, 2014.
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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5. Sustainability + Arts Grant
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/students/sustainability_grants/
ICE and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a Sustainability + Arts grant in conjunction with the 2014-2015 UGA Campus Sustainability Grants program. One project will be selected to receive up to $5,000. All full-time UGA students in good standing are eligible to apply.
Final proposal deadline: November 11
The UGA Campus Sustainability Grants Program provides competitive funding for student-proposed projects and initiatives designed to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Proposals are accepted from current UGA students and will be selected based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit:
http://sustainability.uga.edu
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6. ICE Project Grants
http://ideasforcreativeexploration.com/grants/
ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative projects with potential for future development. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
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*Events and Opportunities*
1. Visiting Artist: Amanda Concha-Holmes
Monday, October 20 through Friday, October 24
http://willson.uga.edu/event/amanda-concha-holmes-visiting-fellow/
Amanda Concha-Holmes' work as a visual and ecological anthropologist embraces the notion of applied documentary filmmaking to further human understanding of and collaboration in multispecies encounters through evocative ethnography. Specifically, she is developing a conceptual framework for an applied, feminist, postcolonial visual anthropology that is dedicated to reframing methodological techniques. She promotes the use of art, sound, videography and an inclination for anthropological insight to improve collaborative conservation projects that raise awareness of intersections of power dynamics that include race, region, gender, class and others elements of human-ecological relationships that are integral and must be visible in policy-making decisions and interpretations of geographical space.
Amanda Concha-Holmes' 5-day residency at the University of Georgia will take place during the week of October 20th - 24th, 2014. The schedule of main events is listed below:
Monday, Oct. 20 6-8 PM: Film Screening and Guided Discussion, Cine LAB
Tuesday, Oct. 21 6:30-7:30 PM: NMixer (New Media Institute Mixer), 4th floor event area in the Journalism building
Wednesday, Oct. 22 5-6:30 PM: LACSI (Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute) Reception, LACSI building
Thursday, Oct. 23 at 12:30 PM: Lecture: Video Visualization and HumaNature Communities: Multi-Sensory Mapping, Jackson Street Building, Room 112
Thursday, Oct. 23 4-5 PM: ICE Conversation, ICE Office (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160)
Friday, Oct. 24 3:30-4:30 PM: Closing Lecture, "Interspecies Entanglements," Caldwell Hall, room 304
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2. Screening: Who Owns Water?
Wednesday, October 22 at 6:30 PM
Cine
Admission: $7.50
The UGA Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the University of Georgia Press, and Georgia River Network present the Athens premiere of the documentary WHO OWNS WATER, which follows two brothers as they paddle from the headwaters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers in Georgia all the way to the Apalachicola River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. These three rivers are the battleground for the "Water Wars" which have raged since 1989 between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over allocations of water between the three states. Filmmaker David Hanson will be in attendance for a discussion following the film.
The event will also serve as the Athens launch party for the Chattahoochee River Users Guide, by Joe Cook, released in August 2014 by the University of Georgia Press. Avid Bookshop will be selling copies of the UGA Press River Guides and Joe Cook will be present to sign them. Georgia River Network, the Broad River Watershed Association, and Upper Oconee Watershed Network will be on hand to discuss water issues in our region and statewide.
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3. Anthropocene Lecture Series: Sonia Altizer
Thursday, October 23 at 7 PM
Chapel
"Pestilence in the 21st Century: Are Diseases Moving Out of Control?," Sonia Altizer, Odum School of Ecology. Part of the Anthropocene Lecture Series.
As humans change the earth's landscape and climate, they also are changing the stage for organisms that cause disease. During the past half-century, a number of deadly new diseases have affected humans, crops and livestock as well as the natural ecosystems. Recent examples causing concern here in the U.S. include surging cases of the mosquito-bourne Chikungunya virus in the Caribbean; the expanding reach of Lyme disease in the northern U.S.; and white nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease that has killed millions of native bats across North America.
Evidence is growing that human changes to the land and oceans - including urbanization, agriculture, pollution, and climate warming, are affecting the ecology of microbes, their arthropod vectors, and wildlife hosts like never before. Simultaneous with the appearance of new local outbreaks, advances in global trade and travel mean that pathogens can now move faster and farther. This talk will explore the causative links between human activities and the emergence and spread of novel pathogens. It will also examine how knowledge of the links between environmental change and infectious diseases can improve our ability to predict, respond to, and ultimately prevent future disease outbreaks.
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4. Reading: Julia Elliott
Friday, October 24 at 7 PM
The Globe
Acclaimed fiction writer Julia Elliott will present a free, public reading in celebration of the publication of her debut short-story collection "The Wilds," published by Tin House Books. Opening for Elliott will be Atlanta-based poet L.S. McKee. The event is sponsored by "The Georgia Review" and the UGA Creative Writing Program.
A former resident of Athens, Elliott earned a doctorate in English from UGA. Her fiction has appeared in "The Georgia Review" (Summer 2006 and Winter 2012), "Tin House," "Conjunctions," "Fence," "Puerto del Sol," "Mississippi Review," "Best American Fantasy" and other publications. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. Her novel "The New and Improved Romie Futch" will be published by Tin House Books in 2015, and she currently is working on a novel about Hamadryas baboons, a species she has studied as an amateur primatologist.
Elliott teaches English and women's and gender studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she lives with her daughter and her husband, John Dennis. She and Dennis are founding members of Grey Egg, an experimental music collective.
L.S. McKee's work has appeared in "Gulf Coast," "New England Review," "Ninth Letter," "Indiana Review," "The Louisville Review," "BODY," "New South" and elsewhere. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. She teaches at the University of West Georgia.
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5. Event: Community Dance Day
Sunday, October 26 at 1:30 PM
Dance Department
The University of Georgia department of dance presents its 5th annual Community Dance Day celebration, an afternoon of free events aimed at sharing the joy of dance with the university and Athens community. This year's event will be held Sunday, October 26, 2014 in the dance building on UGA's south campus. Community Dance Day 2014 will feature folk and circle dance session classes for children and adults, demos, talks and a closing reception. Concurrent offerings include classes in ballroom dance, ballet, and creative modern dance and hip-hop for youth, as well as exercises in modern technique and fundamental movement awareness, known as Bartenieff fundamentals, for the novice adult.
The event will also feature a class and discussion session with Mary Claire Mixon, dance teacher at Cedar Shoals High School and certified nutrition counselor Michelle Arrington on nutrition and healthy eating habits for teen and college age dancers. An outdoor reception will follow the two blocks of class sessions, beginning at 4:15 PM.
Parking in surface lots adjacent to the dance building is free on the day of the event. Additional paid parking is available in the South Parking Deck. Space for this free event is limited, and pre-registration can be made through http://communitydancedayuga.eventzilla.net. For more information, please visit http://communitydanceday.weebly.com or http://www.dance.uga.edu.
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6. Lecture: Eric Foner
Monday, October 27 at 4 PM
Georgia Museum of Art, M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
This year's annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. One of the nation's preeminent historians, Foner is the author of the seminal Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010), received, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Lincoln Prize. The title of Dr. Foner's lecture is "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad."
The Gregory Distinguished Lecture is part of the Willson Center's Digital Humanities Research Cluster.
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7. Opportunity: House the Herd Design Competition
Information session: Thursday, October 23 at 6:30 PM
Tate Student Center, Room 137
http://housetheherd.com
The Chew Crew (UGA's temporary goatherd) is expanding to Driftmier Woods on south campus! Now, we need interdisciplinary teams of student to design the Chew Crew's new goat-housing structure. For more information, visit HouseTheHerd.com or attend one of our Information & Networking Sessions.
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8. Opportunity: Athens Voices Call for Artists
Deadline: Tuesday, November 21
Athens Voices is an all media juried art exhibition featuring the diverse styles and visions of local artists. This exhibition is open to all visual artists within 30 miles of any "Athens" community in the United States of America. Artworks will be judged on originality, innovation, concept, technique, and craftmanship.
Acceptance will be granted on the basis of digital images. Accepted works will be on display at The Dairy Barn Arts Center from January 16th to March 15th, 2015. The exhibit will tour to the Alabama Center for the Arts in Decatur, AL and the Arthur Butcher Art Gallery at Concord University, Athens, WV throughout 2015.
For more information, visit http://dairybarn.org/ or contact Didi Dunphy at [log in to unmask]
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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 Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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