UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014

2014

Cover photo of the Willson Center at 1260 S. Lumpkin St. by Jason Thrasher.

Dear friends and colleagues,

Welcome to our annual report for the academic year 2013-14. The past twelve months have continued the University of Georgia’s development of excellence in the humanities and arts. In support of this the Willson Center has thrived as a hub of creative and critical thinking.

Highlights of the past year included our Everyday People film festival for Jim McKay, the director of R.E.M.’s Tourfilm, episodes of “The Wire,” “Breaking Bad,” and “Treme,” and feature films like Our Song and Angel Rodriguez. The festival was the occassion for an impromptu conversation between Jim and Michael Stipe with students at Clarke Central High School, which focused on their long-term shared interest in cinema and art. The Global Georgia Initiative brought a fascinating range of artists, thinkers, and activists to campus including Xialou Guo, whose new novel I Am China has since gained excellent reviews in the international press.

We are proud to support fourteen Willson Center Faculty Research Fellows, whose research ranges from Latin American cinema to South African wines. In addition, the Willson Center supported five research clusters, twenty-two graduate research projects, and brought more than sixty visiting artists and lecturers, seminars, symposia, roundtable discussions, performances, and festivals to the university and to Athens.

This coming year will see the presentation of the first Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, an award that will bring a leading artist and thinker to campus. Keep following us to learn of the announcement when it is made in the fall and take the opportunity to join in the public events that will be arranged to celebrate the Delta Chair’s visit to campus.

We are supported in all these endeavors by our newly formed Board of Friends who share our commitment to innovation in the arts and humanities at the University of Georgia. Our board will meet this year for the first time in our newly renovated home at 1260 S. Lumpkin St., which we will move into in late fall. I look forward to sharing your company there at our official opening when it is announced. I hope you will continue to support us with your goodwill and friendship.

Lastly I would like to thank Antje Ascheid and Stephen Berry for their service and to welcome Dana Bultman and Ben Ehlers to their new roles as Associate Academic Directors. The Willson Center is a partnership among a large community of people who share the belief that excellence in research in the arts and humanities builds a better community and a better university.

I wish you health and happiness for the coming year and look forward to meeting you at one of our events. Please introduce yourself if we haven’t met - it’s an exciting time to join us.

Yours truly,

Nicholas AllenFranklin Professor of EnglishWillson Center Director

Cover photo of the Willson Center at 1260 S. Lumpkin St. by Jason Thrasher.

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The Willson Center thanks Antje Ascheid and Stephen Berry, who concluded their terms as Associate Academic Directors during the 2013-2014 academic year. For 2014-2015, we welcome two new Associate Academic Directors in the areas of International Programs and Public Programs, as well as a Digital Media Fellow in partnership with the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Nicholas Allen DIRECTOR

Franklin Professor of English

Ben EhlersASSOCIATE ACADEMIC

DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMSAssociate Professor of History

Mark Callahan ASSOCIATE ACADEMIC

DIRECTOR FOR INNOVATION IN THE ARTS

Artistic Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)

Lloyd Winstead ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Dana BultmanASSOCIATE ACADEMIC DIRECTOR FOR PUBLIC

PROGRAMS Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of

Romance Languages

WILLSON CENTER ADMINISTRATION

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David DaleyWILLSON CENTER/ GRADY COLLEGE DIGITAL MEDIA

FELLOWEditor-in-Chief, Salon.com

Dave Marr COMMUNICATIONS

SPECIALIST

Christopher Lawton DIGITAL HUMANITIES

FELLOWDirector, Georgia Virtual

History Project

Winnie Smith ADMINISTRATIVE

SPECIALIST

Scott Nesbit DIGITAL HUMANITIES

FELLOWAssistant Professor of Digital

Humanities, College of Environment and Design

Dear Friends,

On September 4, 2014 the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia launched its Campaign for Excellence. The Campaign for Excellence is a structured approach to dedicated fundraising that will enable the Willson Center to continue its mission as a vital core and public face of the best thinking and practice in art, music, literature, languages, philosophy, dance, history, and other areas in the humanities and arts. Doing so is crucial to the university’s global reputation and public impact.

The Campaign for Excellence will build the Willson Center’s endowment and encourage giving to support its programs, enabling it to compete with our national and international peers. The Campaign will work to sustain the Willson Center as a research leader at the University of Georgia, in the community, and on the global stage.

With the launch of the Campaign for Excellence, the newly formed Friends of the Willson Center had its inaugural meeting. The Friends of the Willson Center will support the comprehensive fund development plan, which has set realistic income goals and outlines the strategic steps required to reach these goals over a five-year period. The Friends of the Willson Center are committed to achieving these goals.

I encourage you to learn about all the giving opportunities set forth in the development plan and how you can become an important part of supporting our work. Our progress will be posted at willson.uga.edu, as will news of our many Willson Center events, which we hope you will attend. All of us at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts look forward to meeting you.

Respectfully,

Thomas L. KenyonChair, Friends of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts

BOARD OFFRIENDS

Tom Kenyon, chairCarolyn AbneyMeg AmstutzBob CarsonBetty Jean CraigeBertis DownsJennifer and Greg HolcombAndy HorneVirginia MacagnoniHugh RuppersburgPeter Smith

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2014 – 2015 HIGHLIGHTSSeptember 18-19Willson Center Research Seminar at Cortona, ItalyThe Legacy of Classical Antiquity: Re-visioning the Past

October 17-18International SymposiumRethinking the Parthenon: Color, Materiality and Aestheticswww.rethinkingtheparthenon.com

November 7Willson Center - Grady College Digital Media Fellowship LectureDavid Daley, editor-in-chief, Salon.com

November 8Spotlight • SlingshotOpen-air concert on College Square for UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival featuring an all-star, orchestrated live perfomance of the legendary Big Star’s Third album

November 10Barry McGovern reads Samuel BeckettA performance of Beckett’s prose and poetry by the acclaimed Irish actor

November 15Civil War / Civil Rights forum at Margaret Mitchell House, AtlantaBeen in the Storm So Long: Remembering 1864 and 1964 in 2014

February 2015Global Georgia Initiative speaker seriesFeaturing international thinkers and practitioners in the humanities and arts, including Loung Ung, Paul Seawright, Ann Powers, Randall Borman and John T. Edge

Details on these and more at willson.uga.edu

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Willson Center Research Fellowships, selected by an interdisciplinary UGA committee of distinguished faculty, support humanities and arts scholars in their research. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged, including with the sciences, social sciences and other domains. With support from the Franklin College, the Willson Center funded fourteen Research Fellows for 2013-2014.

SUPPORT FOR FACULTY

RESEARCH

SIMON GATRELL EnglishA Scholarly Edition of Thomas Hardy’s novel Under the Greenwood Tree

KELLY HAPPE Communications Studies,

Women’s StudiesOccupy, the Body, and

the Possibilities for Economic Radicalism

JAMIE KREINER HistoryThe Premodern Pig

PABLO LAPEGNA Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean StudiesThe Dark Side of the Boom: Transgenic Crops, Pesticide Drifts, and Popular (De)Mobilization in Contemporary Argentina

CHANA KAI LEE History, African

American StudiesMedical Racism and

Political Death: The Case of Juliette

Derricotte

CASIE LEGETTE EnglishThe Past Jumps Up: British Radicals and the Remaking of Literary History, 1790-1870

RACHEL GABARA Romance LanguagesReclaiming Realism: From Documentary Film in Africa to African Documentary Film

With the aid of the Willson Fellowship, I was able to have uninterrupted periods of time to work on my book manuscript, and I was also able to attend more symposia and conferences than had I been teaching a full four-course load. In addition to the concrete progress made on an extended research project, the Willson Fellowship helped me to raise my profile in the various fields in which I work.

- Rachel Gabara, co-winner of the Virginia Mary Macagnoni Prize for Innovative Research

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DANIEL ROOD HistoryPlantation Technocrats: Slavery, Science, and Expertise in the Atlantic World, 1830-1860

The Willson Center Research Fellowship, which I was fortunate enough to receive in the fall of 2013, has had a decisive impact on my work. The interpretive framework that I developed during graduate school had been evolving gradually ever since I finished my PhD, but the fellowship allowed me actually to write that conceptual evolution into the chapters of the emerging manuscript. If it were not for the Willson Center, in other words, I would still have a dissertation on my desk, and not the makings of a book.

- Daniel Rood, co-winner of the Virginia Mary Macagnoni Prize for Innovative Research

STEPHEN MIHM HistoryThe Measure of Modernity: Standards and Standardizationin the United States, 1785-1918

NICOLAS MORRISSEY

Lamar Dodd School of Art

The Buddhist Caves at Pitalkhora, Western

India

THOMAS PETERSON Romance LanguagesItalian Representations of America(1935-1965)

CHARLES PLATTER

ClassicsTracking Orestes: Aristophanes and

the Poetic Past

PATRICIA RICHARDS Sociology, Women’s StudiesEpistemological Decolonization and the Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders

SUSAN ROSENBAUM

EnglishImaginary Museums:

Surrealism, American Poetry,

and the Visual Arts in New York,

1920-1970

EMILY SAHAKIAN Theatre and Film Studies, Romance LanguagesDramatic Disconnects: Slavery’s Legacy in French Caribbean Theatre by Women

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The Graduate Research Awards include two deadlines, one in early fall and one in early spring. Both fall and spring awards provide graduate support for the current academic year. The Willson Center awarded fourteen Graduate Research Awards in fall 2013. Eight awards were given in spring 2014, supported by additional funding from the Graduate School.

FALL 2013 DILLON CARROLL PhD Candidate, HistoryJanelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award WinnerMajor Professor: Stephen Berry“The Living Souls, the Bodies Tragedies”: Mental Illness and the American Civil War The Willson Center Graduate Research Award supported my research in Fall of 2013 at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., where I researched the records of the St. Elizabeth Government Hospital for the Insane. Parts of this research were involved in an article which is under review with the academic journal Civil War

History. Additionally, I presented part of this research at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science annual conference at St. Louis in February, 2014. Without the Willson Center’s support, this research would not have been possible.

MICHAEL EDGERTONPhD Candidate, EnglishMajor Professor: Jed Rasula What Most Vividly (A Choral Work) JEFFREY FALLISPhD Candidate, English/Creative WritingMajor Professor: Ed PavlićHard Sand: an H.D. play

MICHAEL FORDPhD Candidate, EnglishMajor Professor: Susan RosenbaumThe Epic and Catastrophe ANGELA HALLMFA Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies/Dramatic MediaMajor Professor: Michael HusseyThe Pregnant Tree (Stage Play)

HONG HONGMFA Candidate, LDSOA/Drawing and PaintingMajor Professor: Margaret MorrisonVessel, a fine art installation

ELIZABETH KLEENEMFA Candidate, LDSOAMajor Professor: Chris Hocking“Artifice Destiny”- Visual Thesis Project JESSICA MACHACEKMFA Candidate, LDSOA/PrintmakingMajor Professor: Melissa HarshmanIN OUT IN VICTORIA NADENMA Candidate, Art HistoryMajor Professor: Janice SimonTheresa Bernstein’s Images of American Women in the City MICHAEL PAPARONEPhD Candidate, Comparative LiteratureMajor Professor: Thomas CerbuThe Rhetoric of Cultural Patrimony KATHERINE ROHRERPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: John C. InscoeThe Religious Self-Definition and Expression of Elite White Women in the Nineteenth-Century South DAN ROSENBERGPhD Candidate, English/Creative WritingMajor Professor: Andrew ZawackiPoetry Exchange Project JAMES WELBORN IIIPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: Stephen BerryDueling Cultures: Southern Honor, Religion, and Manhood in the Civil War Era

SUPPORT FOR GRADUATE RESEARCH10

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JANELLE YOUNGMFA Candidate, LDSOA/PhotographyJanelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Honorable MentionMajor Professor: Michael MarshallHistorical Wet-plate Collodion Research I am very fortunate and grateful to have received a Willson Center Graduate Research Award for my studies in the nineteenth-century photographic process of wet plate collodion. This photographic process alone is expensive to undertake. Because of this grant, not only was I able to learn it from the ground up, but I was able to enhance the current graduate darkroom at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, so that it will be accessible to others in the future. Throughout this year, I also gave short tutorials to graduate and undergraduate students and met with two undergraduate classes, giving an artist lecture and demo. Furthermore, I was fortunate to have a resulting art work selected for a juried exhibition in January, 2014. I want to thank everyone involved with the support from the Willson Center. Opportunities like this are invaluable to current students like myself.

SPRING 2014 ALISHA CROMWELLPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: Allan KulikoffThe Purdah of the Southern Plantation JENNIFER CZUBAMFA Candidate, Theatre & Film StudiesMajor Professor: David SaltzLight Cube One Act Fest EMILY EVERHARTPhD Candidate, ArtMajor Professor: Alisa LuxenbergFriendship in Philadelphia KATHERINE FIALKAPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: Stephen BerryTextual Healing: Female Readers, Self-Writing, and Sensibility in the American South, 1840-1920

CRISTIANE LIRAPhD Candidate, Romance LanguagesJanelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award WinnerMajor Professor: Susan Canty QuinlanThe Representation of Female Guerrillas: Challenging Discourses of Gender and Memory in Literature and Film in Brazil and Argentina through the dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s The opportunity to conduct research in Brazil and Argentina is key to my dissertation. The Willson Center Research Award provided me with funds to travel to those countries during the summer of 2014 to conduct research for three chapters of my study. Inspired by Dilma Rousseff, the first elected female president of Brazil who is considered a terrorist by some and a heroine by others, my research focuses on the character of the female guerrilla in Brazil and Argentina. I analyze their portrayals in literature and film, and I compare and contrast these with testimonies of the period.

ROBERT POISTERPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: John C. Inscoe Smuggling Chaos: Black Market Mayhem and Confederate Defeat MIRIAM BROWN SPIERSPhD Candidate, EnglishMajor Professor: Channette RomeroThe Sovereign Other: Encountering Difference in Native American Science Fiction KURT WINDISCHPhD Candidate, HistoryMajor Professor: Claudio SauntThe Battle of a Thousand Slain

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The Global Georgia Initiative brings world-class thinkers to Georgia. It 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.

GLOBAL GEORGIA

INITIATIVEKARIMA BENNOUNE Professor of Law, University of California–Davis

Karima Bennoune spoke about her new book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism. The book addresses resistance to fundamentalism through accounts of interviews of more than 280 people of Muslim heritage, many of whom have channeled their resistance through various forms of artistic expression. Bennoune conducted the interviews in Algeria, where she was born, and many other countries throughout the world.

Her scholarship examines international law, international human rights, terrorism, counterterrorism, religious extremism, and women’s rights, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and Salon.com.

Bennoune’s appearance was a special presentation of the Global Georgia Initiative for UGA’s annual Spotlight on the Arts festival. It was co-sponsored by the University of Georgia School of Law, the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy, the International Law Students Association, the UGA African Studies Institute, and the Georgia Society of International and Comparative Law.

NATHALIE HANDALPoet, playwright, editor, theatre & film writer/director/producer

Nathalie Handal, who gave a poetry reading at Ciné, is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world.

Her poetry collections include The Neverfield; The Lives of Rain, recipient of the Menada Literary Award; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. Her latest collection, Poet in Andalucía (2012), reverses the journey of the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York.

Handal has read her poetry worldwide, and has been featured on PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and NPR Radio, as well as in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mail & Guardian, The Jordan Times and Il Piccolo.

She has been involved either as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical or film productions worldwide. Most recently her work was produced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre, and Westminster Abbey in London.

13PAUL PRESSLYAuthor, historian, educator

Paul Pressly is director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance, a partnership between the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and the Ossabaw Island Foundation, and author of Georgia and the British Atlantic: Caribbean Roots, 1750-1775 (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Pressly, a former Rhodes Scholar, has won a Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities and is an expert on Savannah’s role in the British Atlantic world. He spoke on “Colonial Georgia: Caribbean Influences and the British Atlantic World.”

Pressly interprets Georgia’s place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British Empire, led the colony into overseas trade.

PETE MCCOMMONSEditor and publisher, Flagpole magazine

Pete McCommons, who spoke on “The Stuff of Journalism: Death, Kudzu, and the Unexamined Life,” is editor and publisher of Flagpole magazine and has been involved in weekly journalism in Athens for most of the last forty years, beginning as co-founder of The Athens Observer in 1974. In 1994, he became publisher of Flagpole, which was founded in 1987. The alternative weekly covers local music and other arts, as well as news and politics, billing itself as “The Colorbearer of Athens, Ga.”

McCommons earned a degree in political science from UGA and studied political philosophy at Columbia University. He then worked in the UGA Institute of Government (now the Carl Vinson Institute of Government), heading the State Government Section.

McCommons writes a weekly column, “Pub Notes,” which he says is “composed of observations on the local political scene, eulogies, occasional attempts at humor and, when nothing else presents itself, reminiscences on growing up in a small Georgia town.”

XIAOLU GUOAuthor, filmmaker

Author and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo participated in a screening and discussion of her film, UFO in Her Eyes, and participated in a lecture and discussion called “Beyond Chinamerica.”

Guo was born in a fishing village in southern China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. She has directed 11 fiction features and documentaries over the past decade. UFO in Her Eyes, based on her 2009 novel of the same name, is a metaphorical satire that chronicles the rapid, surreal transformation of a rural Chinese village in the aftermath of an alleged UFO sighting.

A prolific and internationally renowned author, Guo was included in Granta’s 2013 “Best of Young British Novelists.” She writes in both English and Chinese, and her novels, short stories, film scripts and essays have been translated into more than 20 languages. Her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) was called “funny, childlike, and wise all at once” by the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that her novel Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008) “resembles a Chekhov story in containing, under its brief, chatty surface, an enormous world.” Her new novel, I Am China, was published in the United States by Nan Talese/Doubleday in September, 2014.

EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE FILM, TELEVISION, AND VIDEO WORK OF JIM MCKAYThe Willson Center, in partnership with Whatever It Takes Athens, presented a four-day festival (November 15-18) dedicated to the films, television work, and music videos of Jim McKay, a director, writer, and producer who lived and worked in Athens during the late 1980s and early 1990s. C-Hundred Film Corp., the production company that McKay formed with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe during that time, remains an active partnership to this day.

McKay served on the board of Community Connection and was also involved in historic preservation issues during his time in Athens. He lived in Athens from 1987-1989 and 1991-1993, at which time he moved to New York City to begin work on his first feature film, Girls Town, which was shot in 1995. Girls Town received the

Filmmakers Trophy and a Special Jury Prize for Collaboration at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed a number of other features including Our Song (1999), Everyday People (2004) and Angel Rodriguez (2005).

McKay has directed episodes of numerous television shows, including “The Wire,” “Treme,” “Big Love,” “In Treatment,” “Breaking Bad,” “Rectify,” “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order,” and “Gossip Girl.” He was a Rockefeller Fellow in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004. In 2005, he was a recipient of the Lincoln Center Martin E. Segal Award.

McKay, Stipe, and David Daley, editor-in-chief of Salon.com and the Willson Center/ Grady College Digital Media Fellow, participated in the screenings and post-film Q&A sessions at Ciné. Daley moderated a panel discussion on the UGA campus featuring McKay and university faculty members Antje Ascheid and Nate Kohn. Proceeds from the festival opening went to Whatever It Takes, an initiative of Family Connection/ Communities in Schools, a nonprofit whose mission is to fight poverty in Athens through support for public education and families.

SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTSThe University of Georgia features its arts programs and venues during an annual festival that includes concerts, theater and dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film festivals, discussions on the arts and creativity, and more. The 2013 Spotlight on the Arts festival was held November 7-15.

The Willson Center programmed or supported more than 15 separate events during this year’s festival including the “Everyday People” film festival, featuring the work of director and former Athenian Jim McKay.

The 2014 festival will include Spotlight • Slingshot, a free outdoor concert November 8 on downtown Athens’ College Square. The event, co-presented by the Willson Center and the UGA Terry College Music Business Program, will feature local and international acts including Big Star’s Third, an orchestrated live performance of the legendary album featuring Mike Mills, Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey and original Big Star member Jody Stephens.

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Jim McKay

Michael Stipe talks with David Daleyafter the Tourfilm screening

BAYOU MAHARAJAHThe documentary film Bayou Maharajah explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker. A brilliant pianist, his eccentricities and showmanship belied a life of struggle, prejudice, and isolation. Illustrated with never-before-seen concert footage, rare personal photos and exclusive interviews, the film paints a portrait of this overlooked genius.

The Athens premiere of Bayou Maharajah at Ciné included an audience Q&A session after the screening with director Lily Keber and producer Nate Kohn. Keber is a graduate of UGA, while Kohn is professor of telecommunication arts in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate director of the Peabody Awards.

SEEN /UNSEENThe Georgia Virtual History Project presented “Seen/Unseen,” an exhibition at Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) dedicated to public history and the local past of Athens, Georgia. Co-curated by Hope Hilton of ATHICA and Christopher Lawton, executive director of GVHP and a Willson Center Digital Humanities Fellow, the show included digital media projects by UGA and Athens Academy history students.

The GVHP uses new and interactive technologies to record the history of the state of Georgia and make it available to multiple audiences, from eighth-graders and the general public to college students and academic professionals. It is aligned with the eHistory project of the Willson Center Lab.

HANK LAZER AND ANDREW RAFFO DEWARIdeas for Creative Exploration (ICE) hosted Hank Lazer, Andrew Raffo Dewar, and representatives of Creative Campus, a student-centered arts advocacy organization

at the University of Alabama, for two days of performance and conversation about the role of the arts in a research university. The duo gave a performance of music and poetry in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and took part in the ICE Conversation Series in the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Lazer is associate provost for academic affairs and professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he is Executive Director for Creative Campus and edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Over the past fifteen years, Lazer has collaborated with various jazz musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, and visual artists in seeking new ways to present poetry. Lazer’s seventeenth book of poetry N18 (Complete), a handwritten book, is available from Singing Horse Press.

Andrew Raffo Dewar is a composer, improviser, soprano saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. Since 1995 he has been active in the music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, performing his work internationally. Dewar has studied with masters of contemporary music such as Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, and Bill Dixon, and has also had a long involvement with experimental and traditional Indonesian music. Dewar is assistant professor in New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama.

VIRGINIA MARY MACAGNONI WILLSON CENTER FELLOWS SYMPOSIUMWillson Center Faculty Research Fellowship recipients participated in the first of two Virginia Mary Macagnoni Fellows Symposia, which took place at the Russell Special Collections Libraries Building. The Fall 2013 Symposium coincided with the Spotlight on the Arts festival and included Willson Center Fellows whose research is connected to the fine arts.

The Virginia Mary Macagnoni Prize for Innovative Research was established by Dr. Virginia Macagnoni, professor emeritus in the College of Education, to be awarded annually to the top-ranked recipient of the Willson Center Research Fellowship.

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SEEN/UNSEEN: SAPELONestled between Savannah and the Golden Isles, McIntosh County, Georgia is a remarkable yet underinvestigated location in terms of its rich history. The Georgia Virtual History Project, working closely with community partners on Sapelo Island, at Harris Neck, and in Darien, aims to build that history into something that not only reveals the depth of what is local, but also makes clear how the local there is truly the story of Georgia. This preview, given at Ciné through electronic and in-person presentations, told a small part of that story.

Seen/Unseen: Sapelo is made possible by the support of the Office of the Vice President for Research at UGA and the McIntosh County Historical Society.

FIRST ANNUAL LOCAL ARTS AND CULTURE BUSINESS SUMMITThe First Annual Local Arts and Culture Business Summit, a public forum for local arts and culture business owners to share experiences, best practices, and advocate for the best ways to support local arts entrepreneurs in the future, was sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Willson Center. The thirteen panelists included Rebecca Wood of R. Wood Studio Ceramics, Kristen Bach of Treehouse Kid and Craft, Sanni Baumgärtner of Community boutique, and Janet Geddis of Avid Bookshop.

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Thinc. at UGAThinc. at the University of Georgia promotes entrepreneurship and fosters economic development in the region by providing inspiration and advice to entrepreneurs. Thinc. at UGA brings together entrepreneurship experts from industry and academia with faculty alumni, students and members of the local community in Athens and across the state. The Willson Center presented a series of events for Thinc. at UGA Entrepreneurial week in 2014.

AMY FLURRY – DO-IT-YOURSELF PUBLICITY FOR ENTREPRENEURSAmy Flurry is author of the popular guide to DIY publicity, Recipe for Press, designed to strengthen relationships between entrepreneurs and editors. She spent twenty years as a contributor to publications including InStyle, Conde Nast Traveler, Country Living, Design Sponge, and Lucky. She spoke to entrepreneurs on how to refine messages, engage media, and create relationships with editors and bloggers. The event was sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Willson Center.

In addition to Recipe for Press, Flurry co-founded Paper-Cut-Project, a company that conceives highly crafted installations for clients including Kate Spade, Hermes, Valentino, Cartier and the Victoria & Albert museum. Paper-Cut-Project’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Italian Vogue, Nylon, Selvedge, and Marie Claire Taiwan. Flurry is also creative director of Parlore, a new project management app and marketplace for interior designers.

ROC ENSEMBLE – TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO MUSICIANS AND ARTISTRY TO BUSINESSESROC Ensemble is a group of classically trained musician whose members work as college professors and active freelance musicians, including at the University of Georgia, and have performance credits that include Carnegie Hall, the White House, and Grammy Award-winning recordings. The ensemble performed a concert featuring music by Queen, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Charlie Daniels Band and Mumford & Sons. The event was sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Willson Center.

The ROC Ensemble’s creative director is Connie Frigo, assistant professor of saxophone in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Frigo is an accomplished performer, former Fulbright Scholar, and author of the “Entrepreneurship 101” column in Saxophone Journal. In 2011, she launched Road of Creativity, a business dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship and creativity to musicians.

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ATHENS MUSIC PROJECT

The Athens Music Project (AMP) creates a platform for research, creative development, and shared expertise in, about, and for the diverse musical communities that make the city of Athens a unique location both regionally and nationally.

The AMP presented two major public events during the 2013-2014 academic year. A Night at the Morton: Celebrating Black Traditions in Athens Musical Culture followed Athens’ black musical history from its roots in spirituals and vaudeville performance, to its role in the Civil Rights movement, to its contemporary creative production. The program at the historic Morton Theatre featured readings and interviews of key personalities, as well as performances of both sacred and secular music. The AMP Symposium, held in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Building, featured presentations of academic research on the history of music in Athens, and provided a forum for key participants in the Athens music community to share their observations, insights, and analysis of its past, present, and future.

Directors: SUSAN THOMAS, associate professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Institute for Women’s Studies; JEAN KIDULA, associate professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and African Studies Institute

The Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster (FRC) program supports groups of faculty who are organized

to address large-scale humanities and arts questions in partnership with colleagues from allied departments,

colleges, centers, and institutes. The program is designed to build research capacity in the humanities and arts and increase the profile and competitiveness

of faculty for grants and support. Faculty Research Clusters are funded by the Office of the Vice President

for Research through the University of Georgia Research Foundation, with addtional support from the Office of the

Provost. The Willson Center currently funds FRCs on a three-year, annually renewable cycle.

WILLSON CENTER

RESEARCH CLUSTERS

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A Night at the Morton

A Night at the Morton: Sister Lillie Dowdy

WILLSON CENTER LAB FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIESThe Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) consists of both the Willson Center Lab with associated digital humanities courses and the strengthening of the university’s digital humanities research core. The DHI reinforces the institutional commitment to digital humanities in promoting innovative humanities research and in pursuing external funding.

Directors: STEPHEN BERRY, Amanda and Greg Gregory Professor in the Civil War Era, Department of History; BILL KRETZSCHMAR, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, Department of English; CLAUDIO SAUNT, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, Department of History

IDEAS FOR CREATIVE EXPLORATION (ICE)

ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.

Executive director: DAVID Z. SALTZ, associate professor and head, Department of Theatre and Film Studies

Artistic director: MARK CALLAHAN, senior academic professional, Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Willson Center associate academic director for innovation in the arts

INTERDISCIPLINARY MODERNISM WORKSHOPAs the rise of the “new modernist studies” has demonstrated, modernism is now understood as a truly global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century. The horizons of modernism have expanded across dozens of linguistic and national borders, overturning the old canon of a few dozen major authors writing in English, German and French; artists prominent in half a dozen capitals; and a much broader range of musical activity than was acknowledged during the mid-century hegemony of serial composition. Modernist studies has revitalized scholarship on dance, popular culture, technology and design studies, fashion, gender studies, theatre, architecture, museology and other forms of public display, and much more. At the core of modernist studies, however, are literature, art, music, and film: the subjects with which this cluster is most closely identified.

Outgoing director: JED RASULA, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor, Department of English

Incoming directors: SUSAN ROSENBAUM, associate professor, Department of English; NELL ANDREW, assistant professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art

NEUROIMAGING, MOVIE TRAILERS, AND SPECTATOR COGNITIONOne of the most stunning developments in the human sciences is the ability to map the brain in real time and apply advances in computational modeling to diagram and study the brain’s functions. Recently, the dynamic new field of Neurocinematics brings together the fields of brain science, psychology, computer imaging, and cinema studies to examine how people perceive and process recorded images and sounds. Pilot studies at UGA have shown that fMRI neuroimaging can effectively probe and monitor functional responses of the brain and quantify and illustrate those findings. This Neuroimaging Research Cluster is dedicated to learning more about how humans see colors, perceive editing rhythms, and process music and sound effects, and whether we can calculate a correlation between popular and unpopular visual and audio stimuli.

Directors: TIANMING LIU, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; RICHARD NEUPERT, Wheatley Professor of the Arts and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Theatre and Film Studies; L. STEPHEN MILLER, professor, Department of Psychology

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Athens Music Project Symposium: Barrie Buck

WILLSON CENTERVISITING FELLOWS

Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellows, nominated by UGA faculty, bring distinguished artists, scholars and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Visiting Fellows conduct intensive workshops for faculty and students, and give public presentations of their work. During 2013-2014, the Willson Center supported three visiting fellows.

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VLADIMIR IVANOVHost: Levon Ambartsumian (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Vladimir Ivanov is the Dean of the Orchestral Department at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and serves as the head of the Violin Department. He also holds the honor of being a People’s Artist of Russia. His repertoire includes a few hundred works of solo and chamber music in all genres. He won first prize at the Bach International Competition in Leipzig, Germany in 1972, and gold medals in the Katy Popova International Festival in Pleven, Bulgaria, and the M. Ravel International Music Festival in Bordeaux, France, in 1974 and 1976, respectively.

During his residency in November, Ivanov performed with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra, gave chamber music workshops and also led a violin master class.

DAVID GERINGASHost: David Starkweather (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

David Geringas was the gold medal winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1970. A protégé of Rostropovich, he is now the most sought-after cello teacher in Europe. His many recordings and performances demonstrate beautiful sound and beautifully expressive phrasing. Today, Geringas is one of the most outstanding cellists on the international concert stage.

Geringas performed during his January residency with pianist Ian Fountain as part of the Franklin College Chamber Music Series. He also led a series of master classes in the Hugh Hodsgon School of Music.

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LUIS PIEDRA

Host: Lisa Fusillo (Department of Dance)

Luis Piedra is a professional dancer and choreographer of the Danza Universitaria in Costa Rica, and for four years was the artistic director. Piedra now directs the training and artistic program of the Open Dance Company, where he has nurtured award-winning Costa Rican dancers and choreographers. The company has won national awards and Piedra has won several national choreography awards.

During his January residency, Piedra worked with students, gave workshops and rehearsals, taught classes in dance technique and dance improvisation, created a new choreography, and presented a lecture/demonstration to an audience from the university and the local community. Peidra returned to campus in April, when he conducted final rehearsals for Translucence, presented as part of the annual Spring Dance Concert in the New Dance Theatre.

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RACHEL CLARKEHost: Katie Geha (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Rachel Clarke combines digital and traditional media in drawings, animations and installation works, intertwining themes of nature, culture, and technology. In her show at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, she worked on a series of animations and images that deconstruct common maps. Clarke is professor of electronic art at California State University, Sacramento. Born in England, Clarke studied at Winchester School of Art, UK (BFA) and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (MFA). She has exhibited internationally and throughout the United States.

JENNIFER ORRHost: Willson Center

Jennifer Orr, Irish Research Council Fellow in English at Trinity College Dublin and a lecturer in English poetry at Christ Church, University of Oxford, spoke at the T.R.R. Cobb House on “Ulster’s Romantic Radicals: Presbyterian Poets of the 1790s.” She is in the final stages of completing an Irish Research Council-funded project to be published by Cambridge University Press. This research looks at poetry and other forms of intellectual activity in the north of Ireland during the Romantic period (1790-1820).

RANDALL FABERHost: Peter Jutras (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Dr. Randall Faber, nationally recognized clinician and co-author of the bestselling Piano Adventures series, participated in a Piano Pedagogy Symposium in Ramsey Concert Hall. The free event was open to piano teachers and students from across the Southeast. Sessions presented by Faber included “The ABCs of Artistry,” “Stages of Talent Development” and “Tapping the Creative Core.”

SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN

Hosts: Roxanne Eberle, Chloe Wigston Smith (Department of English)

Srinivas Aravamudan, professor and Dean of Humanities at Duke University, spoke on “East-West Fiction as World Literature: Reconfiguring Hayy ibn Yaqzan.” Aravamudan specializes in eighteenth-century British and French literature and in postcolonial literature and theory. His study, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Duke) was awarded the outstanding first book prize of the Modern Language Association in 2000. He is also the author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language (Princeton) and Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Chicago). The talk was part of the Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, a Willson Center Research Seminar. It was co-sponsored by the Willson Center, Rodney Baine Lecture Fund, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the departments of comparative literature and Romance languages.

The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects.

DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS AND LECTURERS

EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁINHost: Willson Center

Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, associate professor of English, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Letters), and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, gave a reading at Ciné. Chuilleanáin is often cited not only as a major poet in the generation after Kinsella, Montague, and Murphy, but also as the foremost female poet now writing in Ireland and Great Britain. She has won many awards for her books including the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the prestigious O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award by The Irish American Cultural Institute. She was the International winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for The Sun-fish in 2010. She is co-editor of the literary journal, Cyphers.

ERIC FISCHLHost: Margaret Morrison (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Eric Fischl, an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor who is considered one of the most important figurative artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, lectured at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subjects of numerous solo and major group exhibitions, and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modem Art in New York City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Fischl is a fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELLHost: Roy Legette (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Patricia Shehan Campbell, Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, spoke on “Surround Sound: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.” Campbell teaches courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology. She has lectured on the pedagogy of world music and children’s musical culture throughout the United States, in much of Europe and Asia, in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. She began her term as president of The College Music Society in 2013.

PAUL DUCHSCHERER Host: Ron Thomas (College of Environment and Design)

Designer and historic preservationist Paul Duchscherer spoke on “Gardens and Places of the American Arts & Crafts Movement: A Vision for Beech Haven. Duchscherer’s professional activities include lecturing, writing, and teaching about historic design, especially the Arts & Crafts period (1890-1920). He has made frequent appearances on various television programs, including the PBS series “This Old House” and as host on the HGTV series “Curb Appeal.” In collaboration with noted architectural photographer Douglas Keister, Duchscherer has written a number of books on period design, including The Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Home (1995), Inside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Interior (1997), and Outside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Garden (1999). The lecture was co-hosted by the Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission, The Athens-Clarke County Historic Preservation Commission, and the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, in partnership with the Willson Center and the UGA College of Environment and Design.

SERGIO CHEJFECHost: Betina Kaplan (Department of Romance Languages)

Argentine writer Sergio Chejfec gave a bilingual reading and a conversation about his work, as well as a creative writing workshop for faculty, graduate students and advanced Spanish undergraduate students. Chejfec has published more than a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and essays. Three of his novels – My Two Worlds, The Planets, and The Dark – have been published in English translation by Open Letter. He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. His work has also been translated into French, German, and Portuguese. Chejfec teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at New York University.

ED PAVLIĆHost: Willson Center

Ed Pavlić, professor of English and creative writing in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, read from his latest collection of poetry at Ciné. His new volume, Visiting Hours at the Color Line, was published in July 2013 by Milkweed Editions after Pavlić was selected as a winner in the 2012 National Poetry Series. Pavlić’s other published works include But Here Are Small Clear Refractions (Chinua Achebe Center, 2009) and Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (University of Georgia Press, 2008). The reading was sponsored by the Willson Center, the department of English, and the Creative Writing Program.

MIECZYSLAW SZLEZERHost: Levon Ambartsumian (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Mieczyslaw Szlezer, Distinguished Professor of Violin and head of the violin and viola department at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland, performed a concert with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra in the Ramsey Concert Hall. The concert featured two violin concerti with Szlezer and Levon Ambartsumian, Franklin Professor of Violin in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, as soloists. Szlezer has won a number of international violin and chamber music competitions and has performed as a soloist or in chamber music ensembles in 28 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

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ROBERT GORDON Host: Willson Center

Grammy Award-winning writer and director Robert Gordon took part in a screening and conversation about his latest book, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion, at Ciné. The book expands on the documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, which Gordon co-directed with Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom). The Willson Center, in partnership with Ciné and Avid Bookshop, presented a special screening of the film hosted by Gordon and renowned Athens musician Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers. Gordon is the author of six books, including It Came From Memphis, a seminal text on the confluence of Southern music genres that led to the creation of rock and roll.

KEVIN BARRYHost: Willson Center

Author Kevin Barry gave a reading from his latest novel and his short fiction at Ciné. Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane (2011) and two story collections: There are Little Kingdoms (2007) and Dark Lies the Island (2012). He won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for City of Bohane and the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for There Are Little Kingdoms. Barry has also won the European Union Prize for Literature and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He lives in County Sligo, Ireland. Barry’s reading was co-sponsored by the department of English and the British & Irish Studies Program.

PAUL ZANKERHost: Mark Abbe (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Paul Zanker, professor of ancient art history at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, spoke on “The Arch of Constantine: A Monument of the Roman Senate” in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Zanker is internationally renowned as one of the foremost scholars of ancient Greek and Roman art. His monographs include The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (1988), The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1995), Pompeii: Public and Private Life (1998), and Living with Myth: The Imagery of Roman Sarcophagi (2012). A former director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, Zanker has held visiting professorships in Oxford, Princeton, and New York.

ANDREW MCNEILLIEHost: Willson Center

Andrew McNeillie, founding editor of Archipelago magazine and director of Clutag Press, gave a reading of his poetry. His collections include Nevermore (2000); Now, Then (2002); Slower (2006); In Mortal Memory (2010); and Winter Moorings (2014). Winter Moorings revisits the British and Irish archipelago. From a version of “The Seafarer” to an elegiac play “for sounds and voices” retelling the story of an English airman drowned off Aran in World War II, his poems speak of lives and deaths across the reaches of history. McNeillie, a former literature editor at Oxford University Press, is Emeritus Professor of English at Exeter University. His visit was presented in partnership with Emory University.

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DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS AND LECTURERSTUDOR BALINISTEANUHost: Willson Center

Tudor Balinisteanu, research fellow at the University of Suceava, gave a talk on “The Dracula Figure in the Writing of Bram Stoker and Liz Lochhead: A Comparative Analysis in Relation to Romanian Folklore.” He received his PhD from the University of Glasgow, where he also taught in the department of English literature and the Comparative Literature Programme. Balinisteanu’s talk compared representations of vampires in Stoker’s Dracula with their feminist revisions in Lochhead’s play of the same title, and with representations of vampire-like creatures in Romanian folklore traditions.

JENNIFER FAYHost: Christopher Sieving (Department of Theatre & Film Studies)Jennifer Fay, associate professor of film studies and English at Vanderbilt University, where she also directs the Film Studies Program, gave a talk on “Atomic Screen Tests.” The atomic testing films produced by the U.S. Air Force in the 1940s and ’50s strive not only to normalize and visualize a schedule of atomic blasts in the Nevada desert, but also transform the otherworldly violence of bombings into un-sublime, survivable non-events in which various

materials (including human materials) are tested and trained to sustain the bomb even as bombs are improved to create more damage. The films are also screen tests in the cinematic sense that they test the representability of the atomic blast, for which the bomb is less about wielding actual power than the ability to produce the image of power. Fay is the author of Theaters of Occupation and co-author of Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization.

ALBERTO SANDOVAL-SÁNCHEZHost: Betina Kaplan (Department of Romance Languages)Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, professor of Spanish and U.S. Latina/o literature at Mount Holyoke College, is both a cultural critic and a creative writer. He gave a talk on “Feeling Latino/a on Broadway: In the Heights’s Spectacular Claim for Latinidad and Cultural Citizenship.” Sandoval-Sánchez has published widely on U.S. Latina/o theatre, Latin American colonial theatre, and Puerto Rican migration. He is the author of José Can You See?: Latinos On and Off Broadway (1999) and co-editor of a number of books including Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in Latina Theatre (2001).

LOUIS MENANDHost: Carissa DiCindio (Georgia Museum of Art)Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, spoke on “The Many Lessons of Advancing American Art.” Menand’s interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural history, and he is a regular writer for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history for The Metaphysical Club, which also won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. Menand’s talk was co-sponsored with the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, and the Georgia Museum of Art.

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MARILYNN RICHTARIKHost: Willson Center

Marilynn Richtarik teaches courses in 20th-century British, Irish, and world literature at Georgia State University. She spoke on “Queen’s University Belfast on the Eve of Northern Ireland’s Civil Rights Movement.” Her talk focused on the academic, cultural, political, and social milieu at Queen’s University Belfast in the early 1960s, when Stewart Parker, Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Deane were all students there. Richtarik has written extensively on Stewart Parker. She has also written program notes for productions of his plays in London, Dublin, Belfast, and Washington, DC.

LÉNABLOU

Host: Emily Sahakian (Department of Romance Languages)

Lénablou is a choreographer, scholar, and activist known for her innovative promotion of Caribbean performance cultures through her Techni’Ka dance technique. In 2008, Lénablou was honored with the highest National Order decoration in France: the Chevalier de la légion d’honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor). She visited UGA with three of her dancers and two musicians to hold various public events. She gave a lecture in French, which focused on her creative method, and also gave an open master class and dance performances. Her visit was organized in partnership with Georgia State University.

ABDUL JANMOHAMED Host: Peter O’Neill (Department of Comparative Literature)

Abdul R. JanMohamed, August Baldwin Longstreet Chair in English and African American Studies at Emory, spoke on “The Internalization and Reproduction of Violence: Alice Walker’s Third Life of Grange Copeland.” JanMohamed’s research focuses on twentieth-century African American fiction, postcolonial literature (particularly African), and various aspects of critical theory. He is the author of Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa (1983, 1988); The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse, (ed. with David Lloyd, 1990); The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death (2005); and Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste (ed. with Prafulla Kar, 2011).

CHARLES W. MILLSHost: Ed Halper (Department of Philosophy)

Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, spoke on “Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism” as part of the department of philosophy’s Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series. Mills works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. He is author of a number of books including The Racial Contract (1997), winner of the Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in North America. His most recent work is a collection of his Caribbean essays, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010).

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KOKANKO SATA DOUMBIAHost: Jean Kidula (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Kokanko Sata Doumbia performed at Edge Recital Hall in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Doumbia is the only known female to have mastered the kamelen ngoni, or “boy’s harp.” One of Mali’s most prominent Wasulu Songbirds, Kokanko performed original compositions as well as versions of traditional hunters’ songs of the West African Savannah, evoking glimpses of the music that graced the Rice Belt of early eighteenth-century America, from Charleston to New Orleans. The performance was co-sponsored by the Willson Center and the Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership of the UGA Franklin College of Arts & Sciences.

JILL STONERHost: Isabelle Loring Wallace (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Jill Stoner, professor of architecture and chair of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, gave a talk entitled “After Architecture.” Stoner is winner of numerous national and international awards in the area of landscape urbanism, and has held a “Sabbatical-in-Residence” position at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her current research and teaching focuses on the theoretical and pragmatic potentials of urban vacancy. Her talk, based on her recent book Toward a Minor Architecture (2012), proposed a new approach to the contemporary metropolis, drawing from disciplines of fiction, politics, art and critical theory.

MICHAEL P. NELSONHost: Piers Stephens (Department of Philosophy)

Michael P. Nelson, philosopher and environmental ethicist, spoke on “Wolves and Moose, Science and Philosophy: Toward the Invisible Fusion.” Nelson has performed extensive research on the wolves and moose on Isle Royale in Lake Superior, North America, home to the longest continuous study of a predator-prey system in the world. The project deals with isolated wolf and moose communities in a single-predator, single-prey system, including the genetic constitution of the wolves and ethical dimensions of whether or not to introduce new wolves. Nelson is co-editor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (2011). His talk was part of the Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series.

NORA GÁMEZ TORRESHost: Susan Thomas (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)

Nora Gámez Torres gave a talk on ”Music and Politics in Contemporary Cuba.” Torres earned her Ph.D. in sociology from City University London. She also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she obtained a master’s in media and communications, and the University of Havana, where she earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees. In 2011 Torres was a short term visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. Gámez Torres’s current work focuses on the connection between popular music and social and political issues in Cuba.

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LU ANN HOMZAHost: Elizabeth Wright (Department of Romance Languages)

Lu Ann Homza, professor of history and dean for educational policy at the College of William and Mary, spoke on “Law in a Liminal Space: Inquisitors and Witches in Navarre, 1609-1611.” Homza’s research focuses on the religious and cultural history of Spain between 1500-1700. She is the author of The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources (2006) and Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance (2000).

BENJAMIN SCHMIDTHost: Jamie Kreiner (Department of History)

Ben Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and core faculty at the NuLab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, spoke on “Data-Driven Histories: Reinterpreting Nineteenth-Century Data” as part of a graduate student workshop on digital history. Schmidt’s digital humanities research focuses particularly on text mining and massive historical datasets, with work in topic modeling, visualization, and thematic mapping. He maintains a blog, Prochronism, where he discusses the use and misuse of historical language in television and film. His work has been published and reported in the Journal of Digital Humanities, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The lecture was co-sponsored by the department of history, and eHistory at UGA.

ANN PANCAKE Host: Stephen Corey (Georgia Review)

Ann Pancake, fiction writer, essayist, and environmental activist, gave a reading from her work at The Georgia Review’s sixth annual Earth Day program, hosted by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. The Georgia Review has published two of Pancake’s short stories and an essay. Her novel Strange as This Weather Has Been (2007) won the Weatherford Award, and was named one of the top ten fiction books of that year by Kirkus Reviews. Her first book was Given Ground (2000), a collection of short stories and winner of the Bakeless Prize. The event was co-sponsored by the Willson Center and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program.

CAROLYN CURRYHost: Willson Center

Carolyn Curry spoke about her book, Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas,1834–1907 (2014), at the T.R.R Cobb House. Curry has taught at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The University of Kentucky. She is the founder and chair of Women Alone Together, a non-profit foundation created to meet the needs of women who are alone in our culture. The event was co-sponsored by the T.R.R. Cobb House, the Willson Center, and Avid Bookshop.

MICKI DICKOFFHost: Jerry Gale (Child and Family Development)

Filmmaker and social activist Micki Dickoff participated in a screening and panel discussion of the her documentary Neshoba: The Price of Freedom at the Morton Theatre. The screening and panel discussion explored issues of safety, race, freedom, and social justice, designed as a collaborative experience between the local community and the American Family Therapy Academy as part of the AFTA 2014 Annual

Meeting and Open Conference. Dickoff also gave a workshop on “The Making of a Social Justice Filmmaker” at Ciné. The workshop was co-sponsored by Film Athens.

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PUBLIC IMPACT GRANTS

The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus and in the local community of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in a broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction among national and international artists and scholars, UGA faculty and students, and the community.

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CLASSICAL COLOR: ANCIENT POLYCHROMY RESEARCHHost/Organizer: Mark Abbe (Lamar Dodd School of Art)

Formed in 2013, the Ancient Polychromy Network, composed of graduate faculty, is dedicated to advanced multidisciplinary research on color and materiality in ancient Mediterranean art and architecture. The network collaborates with museums and archaeological excavations at the national and international level on research promoting awareness of the original aesthetics of Classical art. Network collaborators include Mark Abbe (APN head; art history, Lamar Dodd School of Art; department of Classics), Tina Salguero (department of chemistry), and Jeff Speakman (Center for Applied Isotope Studies). APN members gave presentations at the Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece; Yale University; the San Antonio Museum of Art; and Georgia Tech.

PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATREHost/Organzier: Lisa Fusillo (Department of Dance)

Pilobolus Dance Theatre, an internationally renowned and award-winning dance company, was in residence working with students, faculty, and the local community during spring semester. The company teaches its group-based creative process to performers and non-dancers alike through popular, unique educational

projects and programs. In addition to giving performances on the UGA campus, Pilobolus company dancers held a master class with students at the East Athens Educational Dance Center. In the class, they empowered the students to create their own works that explored different levels and types of movement that showcased both the individual and the group. Company dancers also taught master classes in the UGA department of dance and the UGA department of theatre and film studies.

PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS IN THE UNITED STATESHost/Organizer: Timothy Gupton (Department of Romance Languages)

The inaugural Portuguese Linguistics in the United States (PLUS) conference took place at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center during November. The three-day international academic conference, hosted by the UGA department of Romance languages and the first of its kind in North America, featured over 40 presentations by leading researchers of Portuguese and Portuguese-based creoles from around the world. Special guests included Ambassador Hermano Ribeiro, Consul General of Brazil in Atlanta, and Deputy Consul Beatriz Barros, who attended the opening ceremony and talk given by the director of the Portuguese Language Museum in São Paulo, Brazil.

WHATEVER IT TAKES – ENGAGING ATHENS CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY Host/Organizer: Janna Dresden (College of Education)

More than 200 pieces of Clarke Middle School (CMS) students’ artwork were showcased at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Open House on November 7, as part of UGA’s weeklong Spotlight on the Arts festival. Approximately 60 CMS students and 20 CMS families attended the event, along with 20 UGA art education students and several faculty and administrators from UGA and Clarke County. CMS student artwork, featuring primarily self-portraits from CMS art classes, was displayed in the art education gallery, along with UGA art education students’ work. Each CMS student who attended received a sketchbook and art pencil. Students and families also had the opportunity to tour the School of Art building and take part in demonstrations such as painting and drawing, science illustration, and printmaking.

RESEARCH SEMINARSThe Willson Center Research Seminar program provides funds for faculty to organize year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. Seminars bring to campus scholars from other institutions. The Willson Center funded six seminars for the 2013-2014 academic year.

FACULTY SEMINAR ON THE BOOKOrganizers: Miriam Jacobson (English), Anne Myers DeVine (Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

This ongoing interdisciplinary seminar explores the nature of the book in all its forms, across time and space. The goals are twofold, to pose fundamental questions - such as: what makes a book a book, how have cultural attitudes toward books and book making changed, and are digital media recuperating or killing print media? - and to investigate and analyze the various media that contribute to the production of books such as ink, e-ink, paper, screen, manuscript, print, pixels, binding, and book arts, as well as the production processes themselves.

THE GEORGIA COLLOQUIUM IN 18TH-AND 19TH-CENTURY LITERATUREOrganizers: Roxanne Eberle (English), Chloe Wigston Smith (English)

The ongoing Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature promotes intellectual inquiry across the disciplines and provides a forum for faculty and graduate students within the department, and from regional and national universities, to present recent work.

GEORGIA WORKSHOP ON CULTURE, POWER AND HISTORYOrganizers: Pablo Lapegna (Sociology and LACSI), David Smilde (Sociology)

This ongoing workshop provides an interdisciplinary discursive space for social scientific research that sees meaning creation (culture) as central to the way humans create social structure; regards structured inequality (power) as a central aspect of the social world; and focuses on concrete actors and structures as they develop through time (history). The workshop provided a space for faculty and graduate students to keep abreast of new research, as well as a low-stakes arena in which they could present new ideas.

HISTORICAL POETICSOrganizers: Tricia Lootens (English), Cody Marrs (English)

The seminar in Historical Poetics presented a symposium featuring talks by Michael Moon, professor of American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University, and Meredith McGill, associate professor of English and the director for the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. The symposium addressed historical approaches to poetry and poetics. Moon gave a talk on the connections between Mormon and Mayan writing, and McGill gave a talk on the transatlantic circuits of nineteenth-century poems.

HISTORY AND GENDER WORKSHOPOrganizers: Jennifer L. Palmer (History), Kathleen Clark (History)This seminar examined the historical scholarship on gender as a central matter for research within the History department —cutting across temporal and geographic boundaries, and drawing together scholars who study topics from ancient Greece to modern-day Mexico. The History and Gender Workshop fostered common interests based on gender and attracted scholars from diverse fields.

WORKSHOP ON THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD, PLACE, AND POWEROrganizers: Shane Hamilton (History), Daniel Rood (History)

The ongoing Georgia Workshop on the History and Geography of Food, Place, and Power serves as a forum in which graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers can present their ideas and arguments

with other scholars already engaged with the integuments of food, place, and power. The workshop brings together UGA faculty and graduate students in a monthly interdisciplinary discussion group. Visitors are invited to share a paper or book chapter in progress.31

Historical Poetics

Workshop on the History of Food, Place, and Power

WILLSON CENTER / GRADY COLLEGE DIGITAL MEDIA FELLOWSHIP LECTUREThe Willson Center / Grady College Digital Media Fellowship is a public collaboration between research and teaching at UGA and innovation in the contemporary economy. It is designed to put faculty and students in conversation with a leading practitioner of journalism in digital media.

DAVID DALEYThe inaugural Willson/ Grady Digital Media Fellow, David Daley, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, spoke on “Journalism’s New Golden Age: Politics, Objectivity, Facebook, and the Future of Media.” Daley was culture editor and executive editor of Salon, an online journal of news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment, before being named editor-in-chief in 2013.

WILLSON CENTER / EECP ODUM LECTUREThe Environmental Ethics Certificate Program (EECP) is a non-degree program offered as an enhancement to an undergraduate or graduate degree. The EECP provides an interdisciplinary forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss social and scientific responsibilities toward the environment.

WES JACKSONWes Jackson, president of The Land Institute, spoke in the UGA Chapel. Jackson established and served as chair of one of the country’s first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found The Land Institute in 1976. He is the author of several books including New Roots for Agriculture, Becoming Native to this Place, Consulting the Genius of the Place, and most recently Nature as Measure.

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WILLSON CENTER CINEMA ROUNDTABLESThe Willson Center Cinema Roundtable meets to discuss topics of film history, criticism and theory. The roundtables are moderated by Richard Neupert, Wheatley Professor of the Arts, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, and film studies coordinator in the department of theatre and film studies.

THE WAY WE WERE IN 1973: FROM MAINSTREAM NOSTALGIA TO NEW HOLLYWOOD, BLAXPLOITATION AND FOREIGN ART CINEMAFor politics and culture, 1973 included such milestones as Roe v. Wade, the return of POWs from the Vietnam War, and President Nixon proclaiming he was not a crook on national television. In the world of cinema, things were just as tumultuous. Hollywood offered up movies set in the past, such as The Way We Were and The Sting, while Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Malick’s Badlands, and Friedkin’s The Exorcist shook up the usual formulas. Within Blaxploitation, women characters burst on the screen in Coffy and Cleopatra Jones, while Jimmy Cliff brought reggae into the mainstream with The Harder They Come. But foreign cinema was also huge in art cinemas that year, with Brando shocking America in Last Tango in Paris, though Truffaut’s Day for Night won the Academy Award, and Bruce Lee helped launch a martial arts craze. Panelists from the department of theatre and film studies included Freda Scott Giles, Christopher Sieving, and Rielle Navitski.

12 YEARS A SLAVE: HISTORY AND SLAVERY ON FILM12 Years a Slave is based on an 1853 memoir in which Solomon Northrup, a free African American born in New York, told the story of his enslavement in Louisiana after being kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Picture and a Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the drama category. The roundtable discussed the challenges of adapting Northrup’s memoir for contemporary movie audiences. The panel included Valerie Babb (English, African American studies), John Inscoe (history), Rielle Navitski (theatre and film studies), and Freda Scott Giles (theatre and film studies, African American studies).

WILLSON CENTER / PEABODY AWARDS TELEVISION ROUNDTABLE The Willson Center / Peabody Awards Television Roundtable meets to discuss topics of television, media and related cultural dynamics.

JOHN F. KENNEDY REMEMBEREDOn November 22, on the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Willson Center / Peabody Awards Television Roundtable included a screening of the 1988 documentary JFK: A Time Remembered (part of the Peabody Awards Collection) and a roundtable discussion with Janice Hume (Journalism), Trey Hood (political science), graduate student Ashton Ellett (history) and Donald Wilkes (Law). The program, part of the Peabody Decades series, paid tribute to President Kennedy and his legacy and examined the impact of his assassination then and now.

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SLINGSHOTThe Slingshot festival, spread over four city blocks and dozens of venues, is a festival of music, electronic art, and technology. Its co-founders and organizers are Eric Marty, an instructor in UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Kai Reidl, a doctoral candidate in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Slingshot is supported by UGA units including the Willson Center, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Athens Music Project, a Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster. Commercial sponsors include Urban Outfitters, MailChimp, and Dos Equis.

The March 2014 festival opened with “Startup Stories,” featuring Michael Heekin, founding board member of WebMD and its first chief operating officer. A “Kick-Off Art Party” was held at the Georgia Museum of Art, featuring installation works by Tristan Perich and Quayola, and simultaneously at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, featuring a video animation piece by Kota Ezawa.

Music events took place at 13 different venues in downtown Athens. The Georgia Theatre featured Grammy Award-winning Malian Tuareg band Tinariwen. Showcases featured record labels New West, Cloud Recordings, and New Granada, as well as “Japan Nite!,” featuring five bands from Japan including headliners Peelander Z. Other performance events included a headlining set by the eclectic singer-songwriter Kishi Bashi, a rare DJ set by singer-songwriter and producer Washed Out, and a comedy showcase featuring Doug Benson and Jonah Ray.

PUBLICPARTNERSThe Public Partners program allows for an exchange of ideas and research between society and the university. The humanities and arts impact and shape culture and the economy in complex ways. Public Partners offer our students and faculty the opportunity to create knowledge and experience learning in contemporary settings that bring diverse communities to the center of research agendas.

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ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVALThe EcoFocus Film Festival was initiated in 2007 by UGA’s Odum School of Ecology. The mission of the festival is to present high-quality films on environmental subjects to inform and inspire audience members. The festival is directed and organized by Sara Beresford.

The 2014 EcoFocus Film Festival featured twenty-five films seen by more than 2,300 audience members over eleven days in March at Ciné and on the UGA campus. Special guests included filmmakers, local experts, and scientists.

Festival highlights included director Scott Elliott’s screening of his film Into the Gyre at Cedar Shoals High School and Pete McBride’s Chasing Water, which was included in the Ripple Effect Film Project, a local short video competition wherein participants were asked to make short videos about water conservation. The EcoKids event featured short films and a feature-length film about waste reduction, as well as educational hands-on activities. Prior to the Athens festival, more than 750 people attended the second Jekyll Island Green Screen, which included a poster session, reception, and screenings of Wings of Life and Into the Gyre. The Athens festival was free to UGA students.

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SLINGSHOT: Tinariwen

EcoFocus: Chasing Water

2013-2014 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTSMARK ABBE, assistant professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, received external grants from Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. ($42,000 for equipment and educational internships), the William C. Devaux Fund of the Classics department ($6,000 for public lectures and symposia), and the North Carolina Museum of Art and San Antonio Museum of Art (combined $2,500 for research funds) to support Classical Color: Ancient Polychromy Research, a Willson Center Public Impact Grant recipient.

DANIEL BARA, professor and director of choral activities in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, led the Hodgson Singers, the music school’s flagship choral ensemble, to both first prize and the Grand Prix Ave Verum at the prestigious International Choral Competition Ave Verum on May 24 in Baden, Austria.

CHANA KAI LEE, associate professor of history and Willson Center Fellow, was recognized by The Root, the premier news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers, for distinction based on her work in women’s history.

STEPHEN MIHM, associate professor of history and Willson Center Fellow, received the Harold F. Williamson Prize, which recognizes a “mid-career scholar who has made significant contributions to the teaching and writing of business history.” Mihm also received $108,000 from the National Science Foundation as part of a continuing grant to study the history of standards and standardization in the U.S., including uniform systems of weights, measures, timekeeping, electrical units, as well as product specifications governing everything from screw threads to paper sizes.

JON SWINDLER, assistant professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, was selected to be one of eleven artists in a national juried exhibition at the Cheltenham (PA) Center for the Arts, The Really Big Print Show.

FAUSTO O. SARMIENTO, professor of geography and director of the UGA Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, was elected chair of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers for 2013-2014.

THE SLINGSHOT FESTIVAL, led by Éric Marty, instructor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Kai Reidl, a doctoral candidate in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, brought in more than $130,000 in external funding to support festival events that connected UGA and the Athens community in an international program of innovative music, art and technology.

SUNKOO YUH, associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, placed second in the 2014 Virginia A. Groot Foundation competition. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation was established in 1988 so that artists working in three dimensions could have the opportunity to devote additional time and resources to the development of their work.

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THE ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVAL, co-sponsored by the Odum School of Ecology and organized by Sara Beresford, brought in more than $40,000 in external funding to present high-quality films on environmental subjects. The festival held programs at Ciné, on the UGA Campus and at a pre-festival event on Jekyll Island. The events engaged filmmakers, UGA faculty and students, local experts, families, local schools and the broader Athens community.

LLOYD WINSTEAD, associate director of the Willson Center, received the 2014 Georgia Author of the Year Award in history from the Georgia Writers Association for When Colleges Sang: The Story of Singing in American College Life (2013, University of Alabama Press).

ELIZABETH WRIGHT, associate professor of Romance languages, and Sarah Spence, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Classics, co-edited, along with Andrew Lemons (University of Utah), The Battle of Lepanto (Harvard University Press, 2014). Multiple grants supported the complex research collaboration over the years, including Faculty Research Grants through the University of Georgia Research Foundation, an NEH grant, a Rockefeller Foundation Residency and support from the Provost’s office.

ANDREW ZAWACKI, associate professor of English, had See About, his translation of Sébastien Smirou’s Beau voir, accepted for publication by La Presse/Fence Books. Zawacki also received a $12,500 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship for the work.

FACULTY ADVISORY BOARDThe Willson Center thanks Antje Ascheid, Stephen Berry, Rebecca Enghauser and Jean Kidula, who completed their terms on our Faculty Advisory Board. For 2014-15, we welcome Ben Ehlers, Rachel Gabara, Martha Thomas, and Imi Hwangbo. In addition to participating in the review of grant applications, the Faculty Advisory Board gives general counsel to the director on Willson Center sponsored programs and on the strategic direction of the Center.

NELL ANDREW Assistant Professor of Art History, Lamar Dodd School of Art

DANA BULTMAN Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages; Willson Center Associate Academic Director for Public Programs

BEN EHLERS Associate Professor of History, Department of History; Willson Center Associate Academic Director for International Programs

RACHEL GABARA Associate Professor of French, Graduate Coordinator, Department of Romance Languages

IMI HWANGBO Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art

RICHARD NEUPERT Wheatley Professor of the Arts and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor; Film Studies Coordinator, Department of Theatre and Film Studies

HUGH RUPPERSBURG, CHAIR University Professor, Department of English; Senior Associate Dean, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

MARTHA THOMAS Professor of Piano, Associate Director of Academic Programs, Hugh Hodgson School of Music

JOURNAL SUPPORTThe Willson Center supports a number of academic journals. Support is reviewed every three years.

Borrowers and Lenders (Desmet & Iyengar - English), through FY17

Verse (Henry - English), through FY16

Ethics and the Environment (Davion - Philosophy), through FY16

Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes

National Endowment for the Arts

INTERNAL AFFILIATES EXTERNAL AFFILIATES

American Councilof Learned Societies

Institute for African

American Studies

Center for Teaching and Learning Institute of

Native American Studies

Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute

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