ICE Announcements 9.11.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. ICE Conversation: Georgia Prison Beekeepers (9/12)
2. Reading: Selah Saterstrom (9/11)
3. Geoff Knorr Events (9/13-14)
4. Performance: Jean Martin-Williams (9/13)
5. Screening: Athens Rising (9/13)
6. Opportunity: CURO Information Sessions
7. Opportunity: Willson Center Call for Proposals (deadline 9/27)
8. Opportunity: Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (deadline 10/10)
9. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
10. Integrative Conservation Conference (9/20-23)
11. a2ru National Conference (11/1-3)
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1. ICE Conversation: Georgia Prison Beekeepers
Wednesday, September 12 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
How can individuals in prisons mimic honeybee behavior and work together for a common goal? Idea Lab Mini Grant recipient and MFA student Cristina Echezarreta will share progress from a collaboration of a students, faculty, and staff in Art and Entomology with the Georgia Prison Beekeeping program to explore prisoners' relationship to nature through the arts.
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2. Reading: Selah Saterstrom
Tuesday, September 11 at 7 PM
Cine
Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Meat and Spirit Plan, The Pink Institution, and most recently Slab, which was also produced as an award winning play, performed by Square Product Theatre. Her book of essays on Divinatory Poetics, Ideal Suggestions, was published by Essay Press in the fall of 2016. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional performance series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
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3. Geoff Knorr Events
Thursday, September 13 at 4 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Dancz Center
Technical Seminar: "From Composition to Final Mastered Recording"
Thursday, September 13 at 6 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Hall
Lecture: "Tradition Meets Implementation: Exploring the Music of the World in Sid Meier's Civilization VI"
Friday, September 14 at 3:35 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Dancz Center
Composition Seminar: "Composing for Video Games vs other Linear Media"
Geoff Knorr is an award-winning composer of music for media and the concert hall. He has worked as a composer, orchestrator, sound designer, and mixing engineer on many video game titles, including Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, Civilization VI, Civilization: Beyond Earth -- Rising Tide, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Civilization V, among others. His recent work on the Civilization series has garnered numerous industry nominations and awards. Notably, the soundtrack for Civilization: Beyond Earth won the 2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award. His concert music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Wheaton College Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Knorr also teaches an introductory course in sound and music for video games at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Knorr is a graduate of the Peabody Institute, having received a BM and MM in Music Composition and BM in Recording Arts and Sciences. While at Peabody, he studied with composers Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Hersch. He currently resides in Towson, MD. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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4. Performance: Jean Martin-Williams
UGA Faculty Artist Series
Thursday, September 13 at 7:30 PM
Ramsey Hall
$12 for adults and $6 for students and children
This season's Faculty Artist Series begins with Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Horn Dr. Jean Martin-Williams, who is also an Associate Dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Joining Dr. Martin-Williams on stage for the first time in a solo recital will be faculty pianist Damon Denton.
The program will spotlight works originally written for the horn, plus a transcription from a vocal work. Even though the pieces represent music from four different countries, all of the works have a singing quality to them.
To open the recital, Dr. Martin-Williams wanted to feature horn colleague Dr. James Naigus. They will be performing one of Dr. Naigus' own compositions, entitled "Journey's Call," which is aptly named as Dr. Naigus is a brand-new member of the faculty at the Hodgson School. Dr. Martin-Williams also wanted to highlight some works by women composers, so she discovered two that would fit with her program. One piece by Nyquist is traditional, while a piece by Mourey is rather unusual.
In addition to these pieces, she and Denton will be playing a beautiful piece by French composer Jean-Michel Damase. "Damon and I have particularly enjoyed learning this piece together, due to all of the different tone colors possible from this impressionistic music," Dr. Martin-Williams says. The influence of Damase's father, who was a harpist, can be heard in his writing. The evening will end with "Songs of Travel" by Robert Louis Stevenson, which is set to music by the British composer Vaughn-Williams.
Tickets to the concert are $12 for adults and $6 for students and children. They can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu, by calling 706-542-4400, or at the PAC box office. Those unable to attend can watch the concert live on the Hodgson School's website: music.uga.edu/live-streaming.
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5. Screening: Athens Rising
Thursday, September 13 at 7 PM
Trio Gallery
Tickets: $6
https://www.facebook.com/events/668328480210621/
Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project is the first full-length documentary in an ongoing series from local filmmaker James Preston that celebrates the creative class in the Classic City. Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of AthFest. View trailer:
https://vimeo.com/271659752
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6. CURO Information Sessions
http://curo.uga.edu/index.html
As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
CURO information sessions introduce UGA undergraduates to the CURO program, opportunities for self-selected research experiences, and strategies for contacting faculty research mentors. For students new to undergraduate research, these information sessions are the best way to learn about what CURO has to offer.
Information Session attendance is by RSVP only. Email [log in to unmask] to reserve a seat. Include your name, year, major(s), and, if possible, your research interest areas. Only 20 seats are available for each session.
All sessions will be held in Moore College Room 116
Wednesday, September 12
11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Tuesday, September 25
12:30-1:20 p.m.
Monday, October 8
2:30-3:20 p.m.
Tuesday, October 23
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, November 7
1:25-2:15 p.m.
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7. Opportunity: Willson Center Call for Proposals
Deadline: September 27
https://willson.uga.edu/call-for-proposals-mellon-grant-funded-research-on-coastal-studies-and-global-studies-of-the-american-south/
Following the award of a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Willson Center invites proposals from faculty involved in publicly engaged humanities work. The previous call for letters of interest identified two areas of excellence:
"Coastal Studies"
"Global Studies of the American South"
Faculty are now invited to apply for smaller projects to be funded within one of these two areas. Each has a total budget of $35,000 per year for three years and faculty may apply for amounts above $1,000.
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8. Opportunity: Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
Deadline: October 10
http://www.guthman.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech's 2019 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event aimed at identifying the world's next generation of musical instruments and unveiling the best new ideas in musicality, design, engineering, and impact. The Guthman Competition will take place March 8-9, 2019 at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center for the Arts, in Atlanta, Georgia. Approximately twenty semi-finalists will be invited to demonstrate, discuss, and perform with their instruments as they compete for $10,000 in cash prizes.
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9. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Public Impact Grant
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty and students. The award provides support of up to $10,000. Faculty may apply for the Public Impact Grant in partnership with graduate students. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants are encouraged to consider other external and internal sources of funds. Award is for the following academic year.
Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Individual Faculty or interdisciplinary groups may nominate Visiting Fellows who contribute to intellectual life on campus by engaging with current research in a public context. Fellows are funded for five-day ($5,000) programs. The amount of the award includes honorarium and travel expenses. Award is for the following academic year.
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10. Integrative Conservation Conference
September 20-23
University of Georgia
http://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
The inaugural Integrative Conservation Conference at the University of Georgia will bring together academics, practitioners, researchers, resource managers, and students to address current and emerging conservation challenges. By bridging diverse perspectives across disciplines and sectors, we will explore challenges and benefits of synthesizing methods, frameworks, and conceptual approaches within social and ecological sciences.
Topics will include key issues associated with simultaneously preserving ecosystem integrity while addressing human needs and increasing adaptive capacity in a constantly changing world. By embracing the complexity inherent in human-environmental systems, the Integrative Conservation Conference will create space for the process of constructive engagement across disciplines and between research and practice, resulting in new insight for conservation.
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11. a2ru National Conference
November 1-3
University of Georgia
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
Call for a2ru Conference Volunteers
Students who are interested in volunteering during the conference should contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask] All student volunteers who satisfy volunteer requirements will have free access to conference events.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, 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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