ICE Announcements 1.24.12
http://ice.uga.edu
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*ICE-Sponsored*
1. The Food Project (1/24)
2. ICE-Vision: Don't Look Now (1/26)
*Events and Opportunities*
1. Lecture: Liz Cohen (1/24)
2. Lecture: Emily Sahakian (1/25)
3. Reception: Welcome Nicholas Allen (1/25)
4. Lecture: Barbara Ladd (1/26)
5. Film: Night Catches Us (1/26)
6. Film: The Flowers of St. Francis (1/26)
7. Lecture: Misha Cahnmann-Taylor (1/27)
8. Jewelry & Metalwork Open House (1/27)
9. Opportunity: Grad. Student Interdisciplinary Conf. (deadline 2/10)
10. Cine Screenings and Events
For more listings visit http://iceannouncements.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration
Twitter: http://twitter.com/iceuga
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*ICE-Sponsored*
1. Collaboration Opportunity: The Food Project Info Session
Tuesday, January 24 at 4:30 PM
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160
Rachel Parish will be coming over from London, UK to begin developing a new play in Athens from
January 23 through February 6. Over the two weeks, we will be exploring FOOD - why we love it,
how we make it, where it comes from, and many other questions about our contemporary
relationship to this basic part of our lives. We will look at classic stories as well as gathering real
life stories to use as source material for making this new performance piece.
This is just the start of the project. During the two weeks we will be collecting stories, exploring
soundscapes, cooking, eating, and researching our relationship to food. Over the next year, this
will develop into a full-scale show. Get involved now to help shape the direction of the entire piece!
Between the 3rd and the 6th of February, we will arrange two presentations of our work in
progress to invited public audiences, once in Athens, and once in Milledgeville. We will also
organize a creative salon dinner to share ideas as they develop (for further explanation and
testimonials from London visit: firehousecreativeproductions.com/forge/forge/fireside.html )
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced
research in the arts at UGA.
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2. ICE-Vision: Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Thursday, January 26 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE's informal weekly series, selecting a variety of
world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.
"... Nicolas Roeg's hallucinatory 1973 Daphne du Maurier adaptation - the story of a couple, played
by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, who decamp to a spooky Venice after the death by
drowning of their daughter. We can speculate on the roots of its popularity: that it satisfies the
genre and arthouse crowds; that it uses framing, sound, editing and camera movement to unreel a
transfixing tale and flesh out excruciatingly authentic characters; that it dares to coax out the
ghosts lurking in every watery passageway in Venice, Europe's most ornate and singular city; that it
contains arguably the greatest sex scene on film. Or, we can just accept it as a movie whose every
glorious frame is bursting with meaning, emotion and mystery, and which stands as the crowning
achievement of one of Britain's true iconoclasts and masters of cinema." -Time Out London
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*Events and Opportunities*
1. Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist: Liz Cohen
Lecture: Tuesday, January 24 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151
Liz Cohen was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department of
Cranbrook Academy of Art in July of 2008. She received her MFA degree in Photography from the
California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts and a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Cohen is a
photographer and performance artist, whose multi-media work is exhibited both nationally and
internationally. She is best known for her recent subversive project, "Bodywork," in which she
transformed an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino. She has
won numerous awards and grants including: a Studio Residency from The MacDowell Colony in
2001; a Studio Fellowship in 2002 from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; a
Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant in 2005; an Artist's Project Grant from the Arizona
Commission for the Arts in 2007; and a 2008 Traveling Scholars' Award from the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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2. Apero Brown Bag Lecture
Wednesday, January 25 at 12:15 PM
Memorial Hall, Room 407
Emily Sahakian, theatre and film studies, will lecture on the topic of "Maryse Conde, Dramatist."
Emily Sahakian's research explores how theatre dramatizes and revises the cultural memory of
slavery and how narratives of trauma are translated through intercultural performances, specifically
productions of French Caribbean women's plays at Ubu Repertory Theater of New York. Her
broader research interests include Francophone post-colonialism, the performance of universalism
and difference, oral historiographies, and black diaspora literacy. Her writing has appeared in
Theatre Survey and The Drama Review, and she has presented papers at ASTR, ATHE, IFTR, MATC,
ACLA, and other conferences. Dr. Sahakian is also a community-based theatre artist who has
worked to cultivate cross-cultural understanding and empower youth in the U.S., Martinique,
France, and Morocco.
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3. Willson Center Reception
Wednesday, January 25 at 5 PM
Georgia Center, Pecan Tree Galleria
Reception for For Nicholas Allen, new Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Hosted by Jane Willson.
A scholar of Irish literature and culture, Allen has published five books. He is the author of
Modernism, Ireland and Civil War and George Russell and the New Ireland. He is the editor of The
Letters and Papers of Ernie O'Malley, 1924-1957 with Cormac O'Malley; That Island Never Found:
Essays and Poems for Terence Brown with Eve Patten; The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics by
Gerald Dawe; and Cities of Belfast with Aaron Kelly. Allen also has published more than 30 articles
and reviews.
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4. Lecture by Barbara Ladd
Thursday, January 26 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall, Room 265
Barbara Ladd, Professor of English at Emory University, will give a talk on "The Global, the
Grotesque, and the Local: Migration and Memory in Southern Writing." Ladd is the author of
Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (1996) and
Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and
Eudora Welty (2007) as well as a number of essays and articles, including an assessment of the
field of Southern Studies appearing in the 2005 volume of PMLA. Her talk here will focus on the
work of Cormac McCarthy in the context of her current book-in-progress, "Different Memories,
Alternative Histories in Southern Literature." A reception will follow the talk in the Department
Library.
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5. African Diaspora Film Festival
Thursday, January 26 at 7 PM
Zell B. Miller Learning Center Room 248
"Night Catches Us" (Tanya Hamilton, 2010), a first time director's exploration of complex political
and emotional forces that are set in motion in 1976, when a young man returns to the race-torn
Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement. Nominated
for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Films Thursday through Feb. 9.
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6. Kress Film Series: "The Flowers of St. Francis"
Thursday, January 26 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) depicts several distinct vignettes from the life and work of St.
Francis. Directed by Roberto Rossellini, the neo-realistic film offers touching and comic moments
and exposes the true and humble spirit of the order. Recently remastered by The Criterion
Collection, this long unavailable film features black-and-white cinematography by Otello Martelli.
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7. Lecture: "Shifting Discourses of Linguistic 'Otherness' Toward Inclusive Notions of Human
Movement"
Friday, January 27
Aderhold Hall, G23
"Shifting Discourses of Linguistic 'Otherness' Toward Inclusive Notions of Human Movement,"
Misha Cahnmann-Taylor and Stephanie Baker, department of language and literacy education will
lecture.
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8. The Jewelry/Metals and Sculpture department would like to invite you the the Thomas Street Art
Complex on Friday, January 27 from 7-10 PM.
Lamar Dodd School of Art professor Alex Murawski will open the evening with his fabulous blues
band the Screwtops. 2 more bands bands are on the line up including jewelry's very own Chelsea
Ray and sculpture grad Ernesto Gomez.
Come build-a-brooch and get your photograph taken with it on. See student jewelry work. First
Year MFA sculpture closing exhibition.
We hope to see you this Friday to celebrate our new studio!
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9. Opportunity: 12th Annual Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference
Deadline: Friday, February 10
The University of Georgia Graduate Student Association (GSA) is proud to host the 12th Annual
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference at the Student Tate Center in Athens, GA, Friday,
March 23, 2012. The theme for this year's conference is "Crossing Boundaries: Collaborative
Research." The focus of the conference is to bring together diverse avenues of graduate research
that pushes the envelope and provides a platform for students to discuss their research topics. In
order to achieve this goal, we invite graduate students to submit abstracts for presentations, panel
discussions, or poster displays. Please choose a selection from the three options that would best
present your area of research. Abstracts may be based on original research, methodological or
conceptual pieces and will be peer reviewed for the following: relevance to the theme, clarity in
purpose of study, methods used, clarity in conclusions/ findings and the significance of the study,
within the respective disciplines.
To submit abstracts for presentations, panel discussions, or poster display sessions, please go to
http://www.ugagsa.org and complete your online submission.
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10. Cine Screenings and Events
http://www.athenscine.com
m o v i e s
CARNAGE - THRU JAN 26
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - THRU JAN 26
CINEKIDS FAMILY MATINEES:
THE MUPPETS - JAN 20-27
e v e n t s
C L A S S I C F I L M N O I R S E R I E S :
KISS ME DEADLY - WED JAN 25/ GUEST SPEAKER CHRIS SIEVING
- DOUBLE INDEMNITY - WED FEB 1 w/ GUEST SPEAKER ANTJE ASCHIED
VOX POETRY READING - MON JAN 23
B A D M O V I E N I T E :
THE SUPER NINJA - TUE JAN 24
c o m i n g - s o o n
CLASSIC FILM NOIR SERIES - JAN / FEB
YOUNG ADULT - JAN 27 - FEB 2
LE HAVRE - JAN 27 - FEB 2
SHAME - FEBRUARY
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS - FEB
INTO THE ABYSS - FEBRUARY
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - FEB
A DANGEROUS METHOD - TBA
THE DESCENDANTS - TBA
THE ROOM - MONTHLY LATE SHOW
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