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Gendering the Medieval Mediterranean

Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Associate Professor of History, Emory University Sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Research Cluster of the Mellon Global Georgia Project and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts [Image: Miniature from the illuminated manuscripts of the treatise by Giovanni Boccaccio, “The famous women”. MS Fr. 598, f. 70v, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. France, 15th century.]


The Atlantic Metropolis: Ships and Seafarers in Lope de Vega's El Arenal de Sevilla, lecture by Dr. Carl Wise, College of Charleston

Wise's lecture will be hosted by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Theatre and Film Studies.


Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil

Lecture by Dr. Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. 


Black Radicalism and the Archive: Inventories of Fire

The Department of Romance Languages, the Institute for African American Studies, and The Franklin College Visiting Scholar Program invites you to the Zoom lecture by  Brent Hayes Edwards: “Black Radicalism and the Archive: Inventories of Fire”  Wednesday, March 3, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (on Zoom)  Professor Edwards’ innovative scholarship links together African diasporic histories and literary traditions, drawing on African…


Institute for Women's Studies Lecture

Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor of History, will present a lecture entitled "'She persisted in her revolt': Slavery and Freedom in the French Caribbean" at the IWS Friday Speaker Series Lecture.


Lecture by Julio Premat

Julio Premat (Université Paris 8 - Institute Universitaire de France) will be giving a lecture titled "La Utopía del Pasado en La Literatura Contemporánea" on Tuesday, February 4 at 5:00 pm in Gilbert Hall 115. The lecture will be in Spanish and the discussion will be in Spanish, French and English. Premat comes to UGA as a Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer. There will be coffee and refreshments in Gilbert 115 immediately before…


Willson Center and LACSI Lecture: Deborah Cohn, Indiana University

Deborah Cohn, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington, will give a lecture entitled "Cold War American Studies: Robert Spiller, the U.S. Information Agency, and the American Studies Certificate." Part of her current research project, "Cold War Humanities," Cohn's talk examines the history of an American studies academic certificat developed at the behest of the U.S. Information Agency, which targeted non-…


Italian Studies Lecture: Jane Tylus, Yale University

Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Yale University, will give a lecture entitled "Italy at the Margins of Empire: Pastoral as a Way of Seeing." Tylus's visit to UGA is hosted by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin…


Rebecca Scott, Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan

If your research interests are related to the African Diaspora, litigation by enslaved people, or questions of emerging subjectivities in the Caribbean, or if you are thinking about conducting archival research in relation to your dissertation, please make note of an important upcoming lecture by Professor Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.…


Graduate Student Colloquium: Sarah Lowman and Bethany Bateman

Sarah Lowman, “Román Güemes' Hoy le canto a mi sustento: The Indigenous Kitchen as a Site of Resistance in the Era of Genetically Modified Corn” Bethany Bateman, “Incorporating Oral Narratives as Relevant Data for Linguistic Study”
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