Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 22-23
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/2026torrancefestival
The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free online annual event where imaginative thinkers and professionals across fields of human endeavor present their visionary projects and innovative ideas to the global general public. This year’s festival theme is CREATIVITY & AI. Thought-provoking perspectives from world-renowned experts who work on this exciting topic will be showcased over this two-day festival.
Book Launch: Andrew Zawacki, These Late Eclipses
Thursday, April 2 from 6 – 9 PM
Founders Memorial Garden, 325 Lumpkin St.
https://engl.franklin.uga.edu/events/content/2026/book-launch-garden-party-andrew-zawacki-these-late-eclipses
Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program as we celebrate Andrew Zawacki’s latest collection, These Late Eclipses. Composed during lockdown from March to September 2020, These Late Eclipses is a bracing yet lyrical record of the dystopia that descended with COVID-19. We welcome you for a reception inside the main house at the Founder’s Memorial Garden starting at 6 PM, followed by a reading in the gardens at 7 PM by Zawacki, Danielle Kotrla, and Samuel Horgan. Andrew Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, and a Distinguished Research Professor with the Creative Writing Program at UGA.
Recital: Water Portraits
Friday, April 3 at 3:30 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music Building room 264
Mateo Wojtczack’s recital will feature the premiere of his composition Water Portraits for ambisonics fixed media. Water Portraits is an immersive audio work that is part of Wojtczack’s dissertation research on embodiment in music composition using field recordings from Minnesota, Washington, and New York. Free and open to the public.
Tapestries of Transmission
March 19-April 3
Lamar Dodd Building C-U-B-E Gallery (2nd Floor)
Closing reception April 3 from 5:30-7 PM
Work by Maddy Underwood | Sounds by Malik Henry
Tapestries of Transmission is an installation of soft sculptures composed of repeating modules. Beginning from a singular geometric form, the modules multiply into columns and sprawling forms that threaten to overtake— or be overtaken.
Embedded light and sound activate the forms from within, forming a transmitted language decipherable only to the modular units. Here, geometry behaves less like a fixed outcome and more like a living organism: shapes shift between organic and columnar, accumulating rigidity or softness.
Supported in part by the Arts Collaborative.
Webinar: Composing Kin: Teaching Neurodivergent History through Community-Engaged Art
Wednesday, March 18 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/composing-kin-teaching-neurodivergent-history-through-community-engaged-art/
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.
Alexis Riley, Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan, presents the first in an ongoing series of webinars on neurodiversity in the arts. Historical sites associated with neurodivergence are often painful, characterized by isolation and exclusion. From institutions to alternative schools, these locales—and the carceral histories they cite—are often obscured in our current landscape, transformed into luxury apartments, shopping districts, and city parks. This obfuscation presents neurodivergence as a contemporary phenomenon, one wholly detached from its broader historical context. How might the arts help us to render that context more perceptible, offering access to neurodivergent pasts while imagining neurodivergent futures?
Composer x Researcher Collaborative Concert
Saturday, February 28 at 4 PM
Warnell Building 2, Room 100
https://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
Land: Richard Arndorfer + Bruno Ubiali and Wezddy Del Toro Orozco
Water: Jared Tubbs + Jon Calabria
Fire: Sydney Passmore + Tommy Cabe, Eileen Joseph, and Aharna Sarkar
Entanglement: Logan Wynns and Akanksha
Murmurations Reimagined: envisioned by Liz Osbourn and performed by the Athens Dance Collective
The Center for Integrative Conservation Research hosts the 2026 Integrative Conservation Conference, a place for collective learning and collaboration, bringing students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their work with each other. With this year’s theme of “Centering Community,” we hope to foster spaces where we can engage with the varied human, more-than-human, and beyond-human communities – communities of people, plants, wildlife, fungi, microbes, and beyond. We also hope to foster dialogue across natural and social sciences, humanities, and the arts, highlighting interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary approaches to conservation and environmental research.
2026 sponsors and collaborators: the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, the UGA Arts Collaborative, Graduate School, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Odum School of Ecology, Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Geography, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the ICON Student Organization.