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.

Webinar: Creative Labor Issues for Arts Graduates: Navigating the Post-AI Landscape
Wednesday, February 25 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/creative-labor-issues-for-arts-graduates-navigating-the-post-ai-landscape/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.

AI cannot replace human creativity and skills, nor can it serve as a co-creator.

These were foundational convictions of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) when they successfully advocated for the rights of creatives in Hollywood during their latest contract negotiations. Please join us as a2ru presents Jillian Arnold, president of IATSE Local 695, who was a crucial voice providing the evidence to successfully negotiate these tricky terms on behalf of 40,000 creative workers in the United States and 10,000 in Canada. You’ll hear about what’s at stake in these negotiations, and what has been done (and still needs to be done) on behalf of all creators to safeguard their artistry and livelihoods. Join a discussion of what that means for how we educate arts students and prepare them to protect their creativity in the workforce; monitor ethical issues; and create art within and beyond the higher education sector.

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Arts Collaborative Conversation: Sustainability in the Arts
Friday, February 27 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

How can artistic practices and lives become more sustainable? What are some creative ways to engage with Zero Waste UGA? Join artist Gabrielle Gagné for a conversation about materials, processes, and sustainability practice in the arts. Gagne explores materials and bodily limits, focusing on what can be found and reused rather than bought. This conversation will also feature hands-on material samples!

Gabrielle Gagné is a French-Canadian papermaker and MFA student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. They hold an interdisciplinary bachelors degree from Bishop’s University and the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.

Zero Waste UGA is is an interdisciplinary experiential learning initiative to foster a culture of sustainability through waste reduction. For more information, visit:

https://sustainability.uga.edu/campus/zero-waste/zero-waste-uga/

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.