ICE Announcements 2.1.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Food (2/10)
2. Lecture: Nikki Giovanni (2/2)
3. Arts Chat: Frank Wildhorn (2/2)
4. Georgia Summit of Theatre Visionaries (2/3)
5. Community Conversation: Creature Comforts and Sierra Nevada (2/3)
6. Virtual Discussion: Emma Amos: Color Odyssey (2/4)
7. An Education in Georgia: Then and Now (2/4)
8. DIGI Workshops: Text Analysis (begins 2/4)
9. Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/15)
10. Opportunity: Ground Works CFP (deadline 2/26)
11. Opportunity: Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival (deadline 3/1)
12. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis (deadline 3/1)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Food
Wednesday, February 10 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApfuutpzgtH9SMYsX2n1VMClOzZqbtPJTd
How do the arts intersect with local and global issues of food production, access, and waste? Join Ideas for Creative Exploration Graduate Research Assistant Elizabeth Boyce to see examples of projects and to learn more about the UGA Foodshed initiative. Free and open to the public via Zoom registration.
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2. 21st Annual Mary Frances Early Lecture: Nikki Giovanni
Tuesday, February 2 at 3 PM
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHT_0cS0u_tL9cZbTXu6BHw
Each year, an invited speaker delivers a lecture that honors the quiet determination and dignity with which Mary Frances Early pursued her efforts to ensure that the state's flagship university became an institution of higher learning for all people of Georgia. The annual lecture demonstrates the progress that has been made while also recognizing that work still remains in order to fully realize Ms. Early's vision. This year's lecture is a 60th anniversary of desegregation event.
This year, Nikki Giovanni, Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author, will deliver the lecture. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. When Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the 1960s, she immediately took her place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. She remains today one of the commanding voices gracing Americas political and poetic landscape.
Throughout her career, Giovanni has written words that last. Her distinctive style presents the truth, committing passion to the fight for social justice. Her autobiography, Gemini, was a finalist for the National Book Award; Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea were all honored with NAACP Image Awards. Her childrens picture book, Rosa, about civil rights legend Rosa Parks, became a Caldecott Honors Book and a New York Times bestseller. Her Racism 101 is part of college curricula, offering a bold and compelling portrait of Americans on all sides of the race issue.
Giovanni is the recipient of a NAACP Image Award, Langston Hughes Medal for poetry and the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award. She has been named woman of the year by Mademoiselle, The Ladies Home Journal, and Ebony. Oprah has called her one of the twenty-five living legends.
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3. Arts Chat: Frank Wildhorn
Tuesday, February 2 at 3 PM
https://pac.uga.edu/event/arts-chat-frank-wildhorn/
Multi-Grammy and Tony Award nominated composer and producer Frank Wildhorn's works span the worlds of popular, theatrical, and classical music. In 1999, he became the first American composer in 22 years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Civil War. Frank's additional credits include Dracula, Victor/Victoria, Wonderland, and Bonnie & Clyde on Broadway as well as a robust career as a songwriter, including Whitney Houston's hit song, "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" In this conversation with Jeffrey Martin, director of UGA Presents, Frank discusses his past projects, recent success in the Asian musical theatre market, and hopes for the future.
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4. Georgia Summit of Theatre Visionaries
https://www.ugatheatre.com/gatheatresummit
Julie Taymor -- February 3
George Tsypin -- March 24
Paul Tazewell -- TBD
In collaboration, Kennesaw State University, the University of Georgia, Emory University, and Walton High School will host a series of guest live presentations by top-notch theatre visionaries on Zoom Webinar during the Spring semester of 2021. The guests include Julie Taymor, Robert Wilson, George Tsypin, and Paul Tazewell. The goal of this collaboration project is to bring the insights of the theatre visionaries into classrooms. 500 participants comprised of students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to share these once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
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5. Community Conversation: Creature Comforts and Sierra Nevada
Wednesday, February 3 at 4 PM
https://getcurious.com/events/conversations-on-diversity-community-and-sustainability-sierra-nevada-creature-comforts-virtual-event/
"Diversity, Community, and Sustainability: Sierra Nevada, Creature Comforts and the Commitment to Do Good, Better" will bring together representatives from two craft brewing companies - Chico, CA's venerable Sierra Nevada and the relatively young Creature Comforts from Athens - for a conversation about the art of integrating business with communities - local, global, and social - in positive ways. This live, virtual discussion is in conjunction with three separate, prerecorded conversations on "Diversity," Community," and "Sustainability," which will be available here soon for viewing before or after the event.
The event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the Creature Comforts and Sierra Nevada brewing companies, the Office of Sustainability, the College of Public Health, and the Terry College of Business, as part of the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series.
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6. Virtual Discussion: Emma Amos: Color Odyssey
Thursday, February 4 at 4 PM
https://georgiamuseum.org/event/virtual-discussion-emma-amos-color-odyssey/
Join Curator Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, in a Zoom conversation with scholars, artists and curators in conjunction with the exhibition "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey." Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937 - 2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large. This survey exhibition will include approximately 60 works from the beginnings of her career to the end of it, reflecting her experiences as a painter, printmaker, and weaver. Her large-scale canvases often incorporate African fabrics and semiautobiographical content, which are drawn from her personal odyssey as an artist, her interest in icons in art and world history and her sometimes tenuous engagement with these themes as a woman of color.
Participants are:
Laurel Garber, Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Diane Edison, professor of drawing and painting, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA
Phoebe Wolfskill, associate professor, departments of American studies and African American and African Diaspora studies, Indiana University
This event is presented in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series.
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7. Kick-off Event: An Education in Georgia: Then and Now
Thursday, February 4 at 4 PM
https://ugapress.org/kick-off-event-an-education-in-georgia-then-and-now/
To kick off the campus-wide reading event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at the University of Georgia, UGA alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault will participate in a conversation with longtime New Yorker columnist and author Calvin Trillin to discuss his book An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia (UGA Press). The conversation will be moderated by Valerie Boyd, Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence, associate professor, Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, UGA. Registration is required to attend.
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8. DIGI Workshops: Text Analysis
https://digi.uga.edu
This series of workshops will show participants their options to analyze text at scale. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary. Each session will include a different topic. Attend an intro session then choose the others that best fit individual research agendas. Instructor: Katie Kuiper, Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics. Contact [log in to unmask] for Zoom link.
Sessions are held on Thursdays at 4 PM:
Feb. 4: Intro to text analysis resources at UGA and beyond
Feb. 11: Intro to text analysis with Jupyter notebooks and python
Feb. 18: Intro to R for text analysis
Feb. 25: Advanced R for text analysis
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9. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Opportunities
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Willson Center Department Invited Artist or Lecturer Program
Deadline: Monday, February 15
The Willson Center Department-Invited Artist or Lecturer program for academic year 2020-21 provides for a $200 matching award to support a virtual presentation. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis and considered at the first of each month. Applications and additional details are available at the Willson Center website.
Willson Center Research Seminar
Deadline: Monday, February 15
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 for the following academic year.
Willson Center Faculty Research Grant
Deadline: Monday, February 15
The goal of the Junior and Senior Faculty Research Grants in Humanities and Arts Program is to support and encourage the development of a strong program of research or scholarship by faculty in the humanities and arts. Grants are considered "seed money" for research, in that they should lead to the growth and development of continuing research programs. The Faculty Research Grant (FRG) program is funded by the Office of Research through the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
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10. Ground Works Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, February 26
https://groundworks.io/proposals/2/home_show
"Vibrant Ecologies of Research"
In this special issue of Ground Works, we welcome submissions that focus on deepening our understanding of the institutional, social, and epistemological systems that effectively weave arts-based inquiry into the scholarly fabric of research. Vibrant ecologies of research call attention to the complex and nuanced articulations of how institutions, research groups, and organizations come together and what elements allow them to thrive. Thinking ecologically provides a systematic view while also attending to the material agencies, institutional architectures, and human interrelationships that nurture, foment, and/or cultivate deep disciplinary integration.
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11. Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival
Deadline: March 1
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble (BTE) is organizing a film festival dedicated to showcasing the filmmaking talent of minority students, to be held April 10. We are specifically looking to highlight diversity with regards to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities (acquired or developmental), and/or religion. While film crews are encouraged to be diverse and center minority experiences and visions, any and all students are welcome to be part of a production in any capacity. BTE will maintain a filmmakers' network to form crews and bring all involved filmmakers access to panels, Q&A and advice sessions with professional filmmakers. The festival is competitive and awards will be given for various categories.
Guidelines:
Films must be a minimum of 2 minutes and maximum 20 minutes long.
Animated and live action films are welcome, and we will accept films made in pre-Covid times.
It is strongly encouraged that the cast and/or crew reflect diversity and inclusion.
Films or Vimeo/youtube links with passwords should be sent to [log in to unmask]
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12. Three Minute Thesis
Deadline: March 1
https://grad.uga.edu/index.php/3mt/
Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition open to master's and doctoral students in all fields. Competitors explain their research to a non-specialist audience for a chance to win cash prizes. The competition will be held entirely virtually this year. Students must present on the research that will culminate in either their master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. Prizes:
Winner: $1,000
Runner-up: $750
People's Choice: $500
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