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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. Her most recent book, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was named Booklist Best…

The UA Department of Gender and Race Studies presents Dr. Ed Pavlic on Adrienne Rich & the Radical Imagination. Author of twelve books, Ed Pavlic is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies. Join this talk for a discussion of his most recent book, Outward: Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes. Email Amber.Lovell@ua.edu for Zoom registration information. 

Join Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine (Director, UGA Institute for African American Studies & Professor of Religion) and Dr. Llewellyn Cornelius (UGA Center for Social Justice) for a talk as part of the One Book Athens series on the topic, "Forms of Black Power in Stamped: From the March on Washington to the Juneteenth National Holiday and beyond." The in-person discussion will be based on Section 5 (1963-today) of the book Stamped, Anti-Racism…

Val Jeanty, who performed and presented at Ciné in a February 2020 DJ Summit, will collaborate with author and artist (and 2021 Windham Campbell Prize recipient) Renee Gladman for an April 20 event in the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series. "Conjurations: Composing at the Intersections of Sound, Line, and Language," a conversation with composer, percussionist and DJ Val Jeanty and author and artist Renee Gladman…

You're invited to join us for the first Biographers Circle event of 2021: an online discussion between Peniel E. Joseph and Ed Pavlic about Dr. Joseph’s recently published book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Please register for the event by clicking on this link. After you register, you will receive another link to watch the event via Zoom.  Peniel…

The Florida Paradox: How Diverse Communities are Transforming the Sunshine State This is an intersectional public program designed to highlight the struggles of civic engagement in Black and Brown communities in Florida during the Global Pandemic. Join us for an invigorating conversation, with leaders on the ground to discuss what's on the horizon in Florida, its national impact, and how a diverse electorate will transform the state. The Samuel…

IAAS Graduate Student, Marques Dexter, presents a virtual talk entitled, "[Black] Masculinity & Implicit Bias." Hegemonic notions of masculinity, both adopted by and perpetuated throughout society, can impede male-identifying individuals' capacity to engage with others successfully. Within the Black community, such notions are exacerbated as masculinity often equates power and acceptance; you either conform and be acknowledged or be…

Avid Bookshop presents Kiese Laymon in conversation with IAAS Faculty Member Ed Pavlić in celebration of the reissue of Laymon's book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. This is a virtual event taking place on Thursday, December 3, 2020, from 7pm - 8pm EST via Zoom.  To attend this event, purchase a ticket (or select a no-cost ticket). You will receive a Zoom link via email one hour before the event begins. …

On Wednesday, October 14th, the Dean Rusk International Law Center will be hosting Dr. Jarpa Dawuni of Howard University. The event will take place from 12:00 – 1:00pm via Zoom, and Dr. Dawuni will be speaking about her international career and advise students on navigating the post-graduation landscape. If you are interested in viewing this talk, please register here by October 9, 2020. Questions? Email: Sarah Quinn squinn@uga.edu 

Composer, percussionist, and DJ Val Jeanty will share the stage at Ciné with Ashon Crawley, associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, on Thursday, Feb. 13. Jeanty will give a musical performance at 6 p.m., followed by a conversation with Crawley at 7 p.m. The event is FREE and open to the public. Ciné is located at 234 W. Hancock Ave. in downtown Athens. The evening…