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Doctor Ed Pavlic is slighltly smiling with a gray beard and black shirt. His eyebrows are thick and dark and his head is shaved. His background is grey brick.

Doctor Ed Pavlic is slighltly smiling with a gray beard and black shirt. His eyebrows are thick and dark and his head is shaved. His background is grey brick.
Dr. Ed Pavlić’s Essay: "Anita Baker Introduced Us and Patrice Rushen Did the Rest" included in The Best American Essays 2024

New writing by Dr. Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing, has appeared recently in The Best American series for 2024.    An excerpt from a memoir-in-progress titled “At the Mercy of the Light: A Memoir in Colors and Shades,” Pavlić’s essay, “Anita Baker Introduced Us and Patrice Rushen Did the Rest” recounts the abrupt occurrence of best friendship. How is it really, that…
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SECSOR Panel March 2021

SECSOR Panel March 2021
Black Lives Matter in the Time of COVID: Fall 2020 Course Recap

In Fall 2020, with generous support from the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Institute for African American Studies offered a Special Topics course for upper level undergraduates and graduate certificate students focused on “Black Lives Matter in the Time of COVID.” Taught by IAAS Director, Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine, this course explored ongoing Black Lives Matter movements and their history. The reading list included: Stamped…
Defiance Project Award Logo

Defiance Project Award Logo
Conversation: Morton Theatre Corporation Defiance Project Awards

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, IAAS Director Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine moderated a conversation among four of the Morton Theatre Corporation Defiance Project Award winners: visual artists Noraa James and Broderick Flanigan; musical artist Kxng Blanco; and filmmaker Booker T. Mattison, assistant professor of entertainment and media studies in the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.  The event was presented by the…
A photograph of the program for A Conversation About Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials which shows enslaved African American workers sitting by the UGA arches.

A photograph of the program for A Conversation About Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials which shows enslaved African American workers sitting by the UGA arches.
Slavery @ UGA: Baldwin Hall Remains

"Some have been afraid to engage in the type of conversation we are about to have today because the many issues surrounding it are difficult, and because some constituents might be offended. But the past never cooperates by staying in the past. Eventually it always reaches out to us and asks, 'What have you learned?' " I spoke these words on March 25, 2017 at a community gathering, and I use the word "community" here in its broadest sense.…
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Slavery, University of Georgia, Baldwin Hall, burial remains
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