UGA Humanities Festival
March 11-April 2

Full schedule:
https://willson.uga.edu/public-humanities/uga-humanities-council/2025-uga-humanities-festival/

The University of Georgia Humanities Festival is an annual series of public events presented by the UGA Humanities Council, showcasing the richness and diversity of research and practice in the humanities at UGA and throughout our extended community. The third annual UGA Humanities Festival features lectures, conversations, performances, social gatherings, and keynote events — including a public reception and celebration of the humanities community at UGA, to which all are warmly invited.

The UGA Humanities Council is supported by the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, with the participation of more than 30 colleges, schools, departments, and units across the university.

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Interdisciplinary Arts Research
Friday, February 21 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

How do universities support interdisciplinary arts research? Join in a public conversation with the Arts Collaborative and guests from the University of Alabama Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) about projects, strategies, and visions for the future.

Rebecca Salzer is a Professor of Dance at the University of Alabama and Director of CARI. Salzer also directs the NEH-funded Dancing Digital project, a national effort to create more equitable, sustainable, and forward-thinking dance resources online. She holds a B.A. in Humanities from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Dance Theatre from the University of California, San Diego.

Shannon McCue is Assistant Director of CARI. Previously she served as Education Director for the Arts & Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa, where she managed all education programs, including the West Alabama Arts Education Collaborative, Poetry Out Loud, and a small grants program. She is a professional violist with degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Lawrence University, and regularly performs with several regional orchestras.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

Claire L. Evans
Wednesday, February 19 at 6 PM
40 Watt Club
285 W. Washington St.
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/claire-l-evans-how-to-chain-trip-making-human-music-with-ai

Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture. She will give a talk titled “How To Chain Trip: Making Human Music with AI” followed by a conversation about creative uses of technology for music and art making with Athens musicians Marcel Sletten and Oliver Domingo of Organically Programmed. Sletten and Organically Programmed will both perform after the conversation.

The event at the legendary 40 Watt Club in downtown Athens is free and open to the public. It is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of its 2024 Global Georgia public events series, and in partnership with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the department of philosophy, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the UGA Arts Collaborative, and the UGA Music Business Program. It is also part of UGA’s Spring Signature Lecture Series.

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The Arts Collaborative will host a2ru webinar live screenings in the Lamar Dodd Building room S360. All events are free and open to the public. See times and topics below for more information and links to the readings.

In conjunction with the publication of Ground Works‘ latest special issue “Creating Knowledge in Common,” a2ru will be hosting a number of online events throughout January and February 2025. Ask-Them-Anything webinars will feature “Creating Knowledge in Common” Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire as well as select contributors to this special collection. Each hour-long webinar highlights projects that cohere around a broad topic. 

Read ahead of time, then ask them anything—about creative placemaking and placekeeping, creating knowledge in common across institutions and communities, using artistic virtual reality models as a shared space for ideas about sustainable land management, promoting traditional culture and better-informed city-planning in Peru, developing a shared vision for a cultural corridor in Boston, collaborating across boundaries, using art and design as mediums for change—whatever sparks your interest in these readings!

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