ICE Announcements Spring Break edition http://ice.uga.edu 1. Exhibition: Exploring Research as Craft (3/17) 2. Reading: Leontia Flynn (3/18) 3. Opportunity: Sustainability Faculty Workshop (deadline 3/15) 4. Opportunity: Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Symposium (deadline 3/17) 5. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition (deadline 3/18) --- 1. Exhibition: Exploring Research as Craft Sunday, March 17 from 2 - 5 PM ATHICA, 675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200 This pop-up exhibition is the culmination of the project "Exploring Research as Craft: A Workshop Series to Promote Cross-Discipline Communication by Examining Processes of Creating to Approach Questions." Refreshments will be served. How does the researcher's hand guide materials in efforts to contribute new understandings about the world around us? How does the artist's practice press into the intuition of scientific research to draw out non-linear truths and trajectories? How does material gain and define meaning through interdisciplinary efforts? "Exploring Research as Craft" collaboratively engages seemingly disparate disciplines through craft, material meaning making, and critical response. Academic siloing and the prioritization of jargon over communication endorse strict and disciplined understandings of science, art, research, and craft. Here, we evince the porous and fluid natures of these concepts. We actively call upon shared language and meaningful encounters to establish links between spaces of differently situated knowledges. As entanglement and productive friction are increasingly recognized as vital tools within collaboration, there is a growing need to develop practices of intentioned engagement. Here, we reveal the visual dialogue that is possible within and among diverse research practices. Individuals from manifold departments at the University of Georgia have brought together their craft to create new media-based languages for personal history-making, speculative organ generation, virtual reality, performance as embodied re-experiencing, and other visually poetic statements for the deconstruction of traditional disciplinary divides. "Exploring Research as Craft" is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration and ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Participants: Yana Bonday - Lamar Dodd School of Art Sydney Daniel - Lamar Dodd School of Art Jennifer Demoss - Integrative Conservation and Anthropology Max Farrell - Warnell School of Ecology Savannah Jenson - Franklin College Department of English Kristen Lear - Integrative Conservation and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Katharine Miele - Lamar Dodd School of Art Megan Prescott - Franklin College Department of Microbiology Micah Taylor - College of Environment and Design Anna Rose Willoughby - Odum School of Ecology --- 2. Reading: Leontia Flynn Monday, March 18 at 7 PM Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave. Leontia Flynn has published four collections of poems. These Days (Jonathan Cape, 2004) won an Eric Gregory Award in manuscript, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and Flynn named as one of twenty “Next Generation” poets by the Poetry Book Society. Her most recent collection, The Radio, was published by Wake Forest University Press in 2018. She is currently writer in residence at the Bloomsbury Hotel, London. --- 3. Sustainable UGA Faculty Development Workshop Deadline: March 15 https://sustainability.uga.edu/academics/faculty/networking/faculty-development-workshops/ Have a great idea for teaching grand challenges? We’ll help you pay for it. Join interdisciplinary faculty for a 1.5 day workshop on teaching sustainability. Now in its 8th year, these workshops have helped over 100 faculty members connect their subject areas with sustainability using active learning pedagogies, place-based & experiential education. Participation includes: - A $500 Faculty development Award - Inspiration, Ideas and exploration of sustainability and UN Global Goals - Information on campus sustainability initiatives and use of campus a laboratory - Exploration of transdisciplinary connections to other faculty and programs - Time to brainstorm and plan - Local lunch, and reception on day two This workshop is open to 20 faculty at all levels who commit to attending the full 1.5 days and revising their syllabus to introduce or enhance sustainability content into new and existing courses. --- 4. Call for Participation: Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Symposium: Creative Expressions Deadline: March 17 http://bit.ly/genderandfieldwork Alden DiCamillo and Rebecca Atkins are co-organizing a creative expressions collaboration as part of the Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork symposium. Through collaborative artist/researcher groups, this session will combine narratives of gender and the body within fieldwork through material and performance explorations from across a plethora of disciplines. We hope to open pathways of visual and media-based engagement for (re)defining gender narratives within fieldwork across disciplines. Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork will be held on April 19 at the University of Georgia. Initiated by Christina Crespo and Sammantha Holder, 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. The website for the event, including registration for all sessions and volunteering, can be found at: https://genderandfieldwork.wordpress.com/ --- 5. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition Deadline: Monday, March 18 http://grad.uga.edu/index.php/current-students/professional-development/3mt/ Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition open to all graduate students, regardless of discipline. It challenges students to present their work in just three minutes, using only one static slide. Competitors are judged on both the content of their presentations and the delivery. Preliminary heats will be held the week of March 25th, and finals will take place at 7:30 pm on April 10th at Cine. Winners receive cash prizes and the chance to represent UGA at the regional competition. Please note: Students must present their own research, and it must be from their current degree program (so, doctoral students must present their dissertation research, not research from a prior master's degree). --- 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. ice.uga.edu facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration For more events and opportunities visit: art.uga.edu arts.uga.edu calendar.uga.edu dance.uga.edu drama.uga.edu english.uga.edu flagpole.com georgiamuseum.org music.uga.edu pac.uga.edu willson.uga.edu