ICE Announcements 4.9.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. XR3: Extended Reality Technologies at UGA (4/15)
2. Screening and discussion: Hidden Rivers (4/17)
3. Reading: LeAnne Howe and Magdalena Zurawski (4/9)
4. Screening and Discussion: The U-Turn (4/9)
5. Reading: Charles Bernstein (4/10)
6. Global Georgia Initiative: Moving Statues (4/10)
7. 3MT Competition Finals (4/10)
8. Performance: Young Frankenstein (until 4/14)
9. Performance: Uniform Convergence (4/12)
10. MFA 2019 Exhibition (4/12)
11. Makerspace Event: Gender in Virtual Reality (4/15)
12. Savage Conversations: A Theatrical Reading (4/15-16)
13. Global Georgia Initiative: NoViolet Bulawayo (4/15)
14. Opportunity: Athens Game Jam 2019 (4/12-14)
15. Symposium: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork (4/19)
16. Opportunity: Dance Exchange Summer Institute (scholarship deadline 4/19)
17. Opportunity: Fulbright Program
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1. XR3: Extended Reality Technologies at UGA
Monday, April 15
6:30 - 8 PM Demos
8 PM Discussion
MLC Reading Room (3rd Floor)
How are extended reality (XR) technologies contributing to research at UGA? This hands-on demo session and discussion will provide an overview of activities with participation from faculty and students in the College of Engineering, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Institute of Women's Studies, College of Environment and Design, College of Education, Science Library Makerspace, and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. From 6:30 - 8 visitors can experience virtual and augmented reality projects, followed by a panel discussion with faculty and students. This is a free event and any AR or VR beginner, hobbyist, or expert is encouraged to attend. Hosted by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. Screening and discussion: Hidden Rivers
Wednesday, April 17 at 6:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/66103145
"Hidden Rivers" is a new feature-length film that explores the rivers and streams of the Southern Appalachian region, North America's most biologically rich waters. The film follows the work of conservation biologists and explorers throughout the region and reveals both the beauty and vulnerability of this aquatic life and how many people are finding ways to protect it.
Presented with a light hors d'oeuvre reception catered by The National, gallery viewing of photos from Freshwaters Illustrated, and a panel discussion following the screening with the filmmaker, southeastern aquatic conservation professionals, and local interdisciplinary arts researchers. The event is being held in conjunction with the biennial Georgia Water Resources Conference.
The film was produced and directed by Jeremy Monroe of Freshwaters Illustrated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about aquatic ecosystems through photography, video and film.
"We worked for nearly ten years to make an immersive film that would give audiences a deep dive into the river ecosystems of Southern Appalachia, along with a glimpse of the species and habitat conservation work that is happening throughout the region," said Monroe. "Our hope is that this film will inspire more conversations about river and water conservation in the Southeast, and that river conservation groups will use the film as a way to enlighten and broaden their own communities."
The program will begin in the Cine Lab at 6:30 with a reception and gallery viewing of Freshwaters Illustrated photographs. "Hidden Rivers" will be shown at 7:30, followed by a Q&A session featuring Monroe, southeastern aquatic conservation professionals and local interdisciplinary arts researchers. Confirmed panelists include Bernard Kuhajda, science program manager for the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute; Bud Freeman, director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History; Alex Lamle, aquatic biologist with The Nature Conservancy and Abigail West, a student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and intern with the UGA office of Sustainability.
Support for the event was provided by the Johnson Family Foundation and co-sponsored by the Georgia Water Resources Conference and the University of Georgia's River Basin Center, Office of Sustainability, and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
Tickets are $5 per person and are available at the Cine box office or online at:
http://athenscine.com/movie/hidden-rivers
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3. Reading: LeAnne Howe and Magdalena Zurawski
Tuesday, April 9 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Creative Writing Program is proud to present a reading and book talk with professors LeAnne Howe and Magdalena Zurawski. Both professors will read from their latest works and the reading will be followed by a panel discussion curated by professor Andrew Zawacki. This event is free and open to the public.
Professor Howe's latest work is Savage Conversations, published by Coffee House Press. From Publishers Weekly: "Written in the form of a poetically infused play, Howe's illuminating and challenging work draws its dramatic energy from the hanging of 38 members of the Dakota tribe in Mankato, Minn., on Dec. 26, 1862--the largest mass execution in American history--under the order of Abraham Lincoln. The narrative is set primarily in the Bellevue Place Sanitarium in Batavia, Ill., in 1875 and features three characters: Mary Todd Lincoln, whom her son Robert had institutionalized there earlier that year; Savage Indian, a personification of the executed Dakotas and their tribe; and The Rope, an image of the U.S.'s tools of execution. Basing their interactions on Mary's reported delusions of an Indian spirit who mauls her nightly, Howe choreographs an intimate pas de deux between Mary, who excoriates her husband and family for their neglect, and the Savage Indian, a symbol of national guilt and injustice."
Dr. Zurawski's latest work is The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom, forthcoming from Wave Books. From Wave Books: "Taking readers from suburban carports to wintry Russian novels, from summer tomato gardens to the sublime interiors of presleep thoughts, Magdalena Zurawski's poems anchor the complexities of our interconnected world in the singularity of the human experience. Balancing artistic experimentation with earnest expression, achingly real detail with dazzling prismatic abstraction, humor with frustration, light with dark, she offers a book of great human depth that is to be carried around, opened to anywhere, and encountered."
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4. Screening and Discussion: The U-Turn
Tuesday, April 9 at 7 PM
MLC, Room 213
Chronicling the aftermath of a 2008 immigration raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa -- the largest in U.S. history -- The U-Turn(2016) follows the legal fight of the plant's undocumented workers for U-visas available to victims of crimes, including workplace abuses like sexual harassment and child labor violations. Part intimate portrait, part courtroom drama, the documentary offers fresh perspectives on immigration to the United States, one of the most urgent and polarizing issues of our time. Filmmaker Luis Argueta will introduce the documentary and participate in a Q&A session after the screening. This event is sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and is free and open to the public.
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5. Reading: Charles Bernstein
Wednesday, April 10 at 5 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English Jed Rasula will host poet Charles Bernstein as the 2019 Lanier Speaker. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published five collections of essays -- Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016), Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (Chicago, 2011), My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard, 1992), and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984. His books of poetry include Near/Miss (Chicago, 2018), Recalculating (Chicago, 2013), All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Girly Man (Chicago, 2006), With Strings (Chicago, 2001), and Republics of Reality: 1975 - 1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000). His libretto Shadowtime, for composer Brian Ferneyhough, was published in 2005 by Green Integer; it was performed as part of the 2005 Lincoln Center Festival. Bernstein is the editor of several collections, including: American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press / special issue of boundary, 2009), Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof, 1990), and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978. He is editor of the Electronic Poetry Center and co-director (with Al Flireis) of PennSound.
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6. Global Georgia Initiative: "Moving Statues: A Conversation of the Global South"
Wednesday, April 10 at 6 PM
Georgia Museum of Art, Griffith Auditorium
Christo Doherty is a photographer and video artist who has held solo exhibitions of his work in South Africa and Europe. He is an associate professor and deputy head of the Wits School of Arts of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Doherty will give a presentation based on his recent research and photographs concerned with the removal of statues and monuments from South Africa's apartheid era, followed by a conversation with American scholars whose work has explored related issues in the United States.
Public monuments from the apartheid and colonial era have been focal points for protest in South Africa since the Rhodes Must Fall movement erupted at the University of Cape Town in 2015. The student protests led to the removal of the statue of the arch-colonialist Cecil John Rhodes from his plinth on the UCT campus and sparked protests and removals of monuments across South Africa. Doherty's research project was provoked by the discovery that the memorial to the Irish Volunteer Brigade on a ridge above Johannesburg had disappeared. It had not been vandalized or broken -- several tons of concrete memorial had completely vanished.
One of the more obscure monuments of the apartheid era, the memorial celebrated the volunteers of the Irish Brigade who had joined the struggle of the Afrikaaners against the British Empire in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 - 1902. Why had it been removed? Was the removal connected to the Rhodes Must Fall protests? What had happened to the memorial?
The search for the Irish Brigade memorial was both absurd and quixotic, and led eventually to the remote semi-desert of the Northern Cape. It was a search which raised profound questions about the meaning of public memory in South Africa and the relationship between anti-Imperialist and contemporary decolonial struggles in the global South.
The conversation following Doherty's presentation will include:
Malinda Maynor Lowery, associate professor of history and director, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina
Akela Reason, associate professor and director, Museum Studies Certificate Program, department of history, University of Georgia
Sheffield Hale, president and CEO, Atlanta History Center (moderator)
This event is associated with the Global Georgia Initiative research group in Global Studies of the American South, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
It is presented in partnership with the UGA department of history, the Atlanta History Center, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, and the department of African American studies at Emory University.
The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia combines the best in contemporary thinking and practice in the arts and humanities with related advances in the sciences and other areas. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
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7. 3MT Competition Finals
Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students' capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience. Master's and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance. Reception to follow with light refreshments.
This year's finalists represent five colleges and two institutes:
Jennifer Jenkins: Cellular Biology
Carmen Kraus: Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics
Emily Rayens: Infectious Diseases
Samantha Spellicy: Neuroscience
Cydney Seigerman: Integrative Conservation and Anthropology
Rachel Miller Olsen: Linguistics
Ladonya Jackson: Pharmacy (Clinical and Admin)
Will Fassbender: Language and Literacy Education
Kelsey Briggs: Infectious Diseases
Tong Li: Learning Design and Technology
Alternate: Ankita Roy: Plant Biology
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8. Performance: Young Frankenstein
Fine Arts Theatre
http://www.drama.uga.edu/events/content/2018/young-frankenstein
Wednesday, April 10 at 8 PM
Thursday, April 11 at 8 PM
Friday, April 12 at 8 PM
Saturday, April 13 at 8 PM
Sunday, April 14 at 2:30 PM
Tickets are $16, $12 for students.
From the creators of the smash-hit The Producers comes the frighteningly funny musical Young Frankenstein. When the grandson of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein inherits the family estate, he and his inept lab assistant Igor create an entirely new monster with hilarious consequences. By Mel Brooks and Tomas Meehan. Based on the movie by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. Directed by George Contini & John Terry.
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9. Performance: Uniform Convergence
Friday, April 12 at 4:30 PM
Boyd Room 328
Uniform Convergence is a one-woman play, written and performed by mathematics graduate student Corrine Yap. It juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white male-dominated academic world. The first is of historical Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who was lauded as a pioneer for women in science but only after years of struggle for recognition. Her life's journey is told through music and movement, in both Russian and English. The second is of a fictional Asian-American woman, known only as "Professor", trying to cope with the prejudice she faces in the present. As she teaches an introductory real analysis class, she uses mathematical concepts to draw parallels to the race and gender conflicts she encounters in society today. You can see more about Corrine at her website:
http://www.corrineyap.com/
We will have refreshments at 4:00 PM before the play. No prior prerequisite math knowledge will be needed to enjoy the performance, all are welcome!
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10. MFA 2019 Exhibition
Opens Friday, April 12
Georgia Museum of Art Reception: 6 - 8 PM
Deupree Building (458 E. Clayton St.) Reception: 8 - 10 PM
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the 2019 MFA Exhibition to be held in two venues in Athens, Georgia: the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia and the Deupree Building, located in downtown Athens at 458 E. Clayton Street.
Together, these exhibitions feature the works of 20 MFA students working in a variety media across a diverse array of themes and theoretical frameworks including ecology, migration, surveillance, the inhuman, propaganda, and the body. The exhibition includes objects and ephemera; paintings, prints, and photographs; lens-based work and installations; jewelry, textiles and ceramics; sonic art and relational situations. It is the culmination of three years of intensive study in the fields of art and design.
Participating artists include Justin Barker, Amanda Britton, Dimelza Broche, Shawn Campbell, Catherine Chang, Catherine Clements, Sydney Daniel, Lindy Erkes, Yusheng Fang, Matthew Flores, Sanaz Haghani-Nouri, Yiran Liu, William Major, Kimberly McWhorter, Esther Mech, Guadalupe Navarro, Jennifer Niswonger-Morris, Lauren O'Connor-Korb, Paula Runyon, and Taylor Shaw.
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11. Makerspace Event: Gender in Virtual Reality
Monday, April 15 at 1 PM
Science Library Makerspace
From documenting rural maternal health in Morocco to speculating on an Afrofeminist future, we'll share different ways artists, journalists, and game designers are using Virtual Reality (VR) to share, recreate, and reimagine the lived experience of gendered bodies. At this event, attendees will get to try a selection of VR experiences that center on gender, and, as a group, discuss the implications of using VR as a tool to access the experiences of identities that aren't our own.
Looking for resources on campus to help you explore VR in your academic/artistic field? We'll talk about those too!
This event is free, but registration is required. If you have any questions, please email [log in to unmask]
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12. Savage Conversations: A Theatrical Reading
April 15 & 16 at 7 PM
Fine Arts Buiding, Balcony Theatre (400)
Theatrical reading of UGA professor Leanne Howe's book "Savage Conversations," hosted in coordination with the Department of Theatre & Film Studies, Department of English, and the Creative Writing Program at UGA.
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13. Global Georgia Initiative/Betty Jean Craige Annual Lecture: NoViolet Bulawayo
Monday, April 15 at 4 PM
The Chapel
NoViolet Bulawayo will speak on "The Immigrant Experience in America" at the 2019 Betty Jean Craige Lecture. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe. She earned her MFA from Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, and has also held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford, where she now teaches fiction. Bulawayo's debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian's First Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and won the PEN/Hemingway Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and many other honors. Bulawayo's short story "Hitting Budapest," which became the first chapter of We Need New Names, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, sometimes called the African Booker.
Bulawayo's talk is the department of comparative literature's annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture. Betty Jean Craige is University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and a former director of the Willson Center. The event is presented in partnership with the department of comparative literature, the African Studies Institute, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Institute for Women's Studies.
The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia combines the best in contemporary thinking and practice in the arts and humanities with related advances in the sciences and other areas. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
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14. Athens Game Jam 2019
April 12-14
225 W. Broad St.
http://athensgamejam.com
Athens Game Jam is a free event where participants (including students, alumni, professionals, and hobbyists) form teams to try and make the best video game or board game they can in just 48 hours. For students interest in making game, it's a great chance to learn how to get started, and even meet professional developers. Additionally, there will be up to $500 in prizes, including tickets to the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Gaming Expo right here in Georgia!
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15. Symposium: Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork
Friday, April 19 from 9 AM - 5 PM
Miller Learning Center
https://genderandfieldwork.wordpress.com/
Gender, the Body, & Fieldwork delves into non-binary definitions and narratives of gender and the body within fieldwork through community dialogue storytelling and creative expressions. This event will be a full day of opening up discussion on what is "fieldwork," constructing narratives of body within fieldwork, a plenary lunchtime speaker, mentoring, and collaborative media engagements between artists and researchers. Students are encouraged to lend their knowledge of media and performance to the creative expressions session of the symposium as well as participate in the other sections throughout the day.
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16. Dance Exchange Summer Institute
Scholarship deadline April 19
http://danceexchange.org/projects/institutes/
As part of the Organizing Artists for Change initiative, Dance Exchange institutes embrace process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers. They support reflection and response to important issues and opportunities of our time, and build capacities and connections for artists to ignite inquiry and inspire change in their own communities.
Module 1, July 5-12- Artmaking in Action: Evolving Creative Practices
Module 2, July 14-20- Dancemaking Performance Intensive
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17. Opportunity: Fulbright Program
https://honors.uga.edu/c_s/scholarships/ext/fulbright.html
The 2020-2021 Fulbright competition opens April 1 and the campus deadline is September 3, 2019.
Information sessions:
RESEARCH/STUDY/CREATIVE GRANTS - MASTER'S & PHD STUDENTS:
Monday, April 15, 3:30-4:30pm, 309 Moore College
(featuring Anna Forrester, Fulbright to Turkey, '17-'18)
ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS:
Tuesday, April 23, 3:30-4:30pm, 116 Moore College
(strategies for writing ETA application essays)
For more information, contact Maria de Rocher, the campus U.S. Student Fulbright Program Adviser, 212 Moore College, 706-542-6908, [log in to unmask] If you can't attend an information session but are interested in applying for a Fulbright during the 2020-2021 competition, please be sure to contact Ms. de Rocher this spring or early summer. She will be happy to schedule an individual meeting.
U.S. Student Fulbright Program: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/
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