AFAM Minor, Niyah Brown, launches #NaturalNovember campaign Back in October, second-year student and UGA Housing Resident Assistant, Niyah Brown, hosted an interactive and informative program in Creswell Hall promoting her new #NaturalNovember campaign. Niyah is currently majoring in pharmaceutical studies with a minor in African American Studies, so we reached out for an exclusive interview about #NaturalNovember. Read more below! Read more about AFAM Minor, Niyah Brown, launches #NaturalNovember campaign
UGA Career Center Virtual Diversity & Inclusion Chats The UGA Career Center is excited to share with you details regarding our upcoming VIRTUAL Fall Diversity & Inclusion Recruiting Quick Chats taking place on November 10th from 5-7PM. Students will have the chance to hear from various employers regarding their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as any available jobs and internships. Read more about UGA Career Center Virtual Diversity & Inclusion Chats
IAAS Faculty Recital: James Weidman 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 Read more about IAAS Faculty Recital: James Weidman
AAUW in Conversation with Dr. Patricia Bell-Scott 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. Read more about AAUW in Conversation with Dr. Patricia Bell-Scott
Singing our Song in a Foreign Land: Emergence and Ascendancy of African Musical Arts in the Diaspora 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. Read more about Singing our Song in a Foreign Land: Emergence and Ascendancy of African Musical Arts in the Diaspora
Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s 2021 Founders’ Award Scholarship Winners! 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. Read more about Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s 2021 Founders’ Award Scholarship Winners!
FREE Virtual Yoga with IAAS Graduate Student, Sha'Mira Covington 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. Read more about FREE Virtual Yoga with IAAS Graduate Student, Sha'Mira Covington
Linnentown Mosaic Design Workshop 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 Read more about Linnentown Mosaic Design Workshop
Frederick Douglass Family Initiative | One Million Abolitionists "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 Read more about Frederick Douglass Family Initiative | One Million Abolitionists
Athens Vignettes: A Dialogue with the African American Community 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. Read more about Athens Vignettes: A Dialogue with the African American Community