HHSOM and the IAAS invite you all to a Faculty Recital by James Weidman (Piano) with special guests Gregory Broughton, tenor, and Dave D'Angelou, alto sax. 

Tuesday, November 2 | 7:30 PM | Ramsey Hall or virtually: music.uga.edu/live-streaming

Join us for a discussion with AAUW fellowship alumna Patricia Bell-Scott, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.

You are cordially invited. The African Studies Institute presents the 2021 African Studies Fall Lecture on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at 2pm Eastern. The annual lecture will be delivered by Professor AdeOluwa Okunade, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and Visiting Scholar in the UGA African Studies Institute. The topic of the lecture will be "Singing Our Song in a Foreign Land: Emergence and Ascendancy of African Musical Arts in the Diaspora.

The Institute for African American Studies extends warm congratulations to this year’s Black Faculty and Staff Organization Founders’ Award Scholarship winners! Among the list of winners, we want to especially congratulate Jaquarius Raglin (pictured), one of our undergraduate students minoring in AFAM.

The Willson Center for Humanities & Arts invites you to a virtual yoga practice led by IAAS Graduate Certificate Student, Sha'Mira Covington. No experience necessary to participate! 

Register for the Zoom meeting here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Join the Linnentown Mosaic Project in designing a public art piece to honor and celebrate Linnentown, a Black community in Athens that was destroyed by urban renewal in the 1960s to make way for UGA student dormitories. This mosaic is one element of a Walk of Recognition planned by the Athens Justice and Memory Project and to be installed on South Finley Street.

Linnentown Mosaic Design Workshop

Saturday, October 23, 1-3pm

Lay Park Community Center, 297 Hoyt Street, Athens, GA 30601

"Young people, all people, should know that empowerment first comes from within, and that it is important for us to narrate what is within ourselves and this society where Black people and other peoples still do not feel free. That is why Douglass’s Narrative remains important. That is why this One Million Abolitionists project is so vitally important."

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning:

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,

winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction 

Athens, Ga – Town & Gown Players introduces the premier production of Roshaunda Breeden’s production of Athens Vignettes: A Dialogue with the African American Community with show dates October 15-17th and October 22-24th, 2021. The production is directed by Dr.

James Baldwin Review is proud to announce the publication of its seventh volume. James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer‐reviewed critical essays and creative non-fiction on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. Extending discussion of Baldwin’s writing and its impacts beyond academia is one of the core aims of JBR.

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