The Lamar Dodd School of Art and Institute for African American students invite students to a seminar and free dinner with photographer, Rahim Fortune who is included currently in the High Museums exhibit A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845. We are lucky to have Rahim here for a few days before  their lecture at the High Mu

From August 21 – 23, 2023, over 200 delegates from around the world gathered in Seoul and Iksan, South Korea, for the Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens where meetings and dialogue centered around the theme, “Shaping our Future Together: Engaged Spirituality in the Era of Crisis.” The ICCGC launched in 2020 and aims to promote global citizenship education in religious communities. Delegates to the 2023 ICCGC included youth group members, government officials, religious practitioners, and scholars, among them Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Professor Dr.

The IAAS would like to congratulate Dr. Sha’Mira Covington on joining the Faculty of The University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor of Fashion in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. In Spring 2023, she graduated from The University of Georgia with her PhD in Polymer, Fiber, and Textile Science with an emphasis in International Merchandising under the direction of Dr. Katalin Medvedev. Also, Dr. Covington earned graduate certificates in African American Studies and Interdisciplinary Teaching.

In honor and celebration of the life, works, and legacy of bell hooks, the Inaugural bell hooks symposium took place at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, from June 16 – 18, 2023. Centering around the broad theme, “Dissident Feminisms,” symposium coordinators asserted that, “While maintaining the connection between a love ethic and critical consciousness, hooks calls on us to cultivate visionary spaces, beloved communities, outlaw cultures, and radical undercommons in which oppositional worldviews are rooted in the experiential.” Institute Director, Dr.

Please join us in celebrating the achievement of undergraduate UGA student Zack Dow for the following publication in The Classic Journal Issue 8.1: “Emancipating Tomes: Literacy, Identity, and Resistance in the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X.” You can read this article here.

Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave, an anthology that solidified Black Women's Studies as a field of inquiry centering the voices, experiences, and intellectual contributions of Black women. The book was co-edited by UGA emeritus professor, Dr. Patricia Bell-Scott.

Dr. Jason Aryeh is leading/directing a UGA study abroad program to Ghana-West Africa in the summer (June 1st - 30th, 2023) for a month.