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.