Previous Events

Join the UGA Special Collections Libraries for an opening reception to celebrate a series of new case exhibitions across the galleries curated by UGA undergraduate students. Enjoy food and drink in the exhibition hallway and meet student curators inside the galleries to learn more about their displays.

The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection welcomes Peabody Award winning documentary film producer George King to Athens for a screening of his newest film, “Thumbs Up for Mother Universe- Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley.” The screening is free and open to the general public as well as UGA faculty, students, and staff.

Home Box Office (HBO) is the longest-running subscription television service in the United States. Started in 1972, the network allowed subscribers to watch unedited theatrically released films and live sporting events for a flat rate every month. This exhibit highlights some of the groundbreaking programming created by and aired on HBO over time with items selected from the Peabody Awards Archive. This display was curated by exhibition assistant Madeline Nagy.

Inspired by the exhibition entitled Unequal by Design: Housing in Georgia and America on display in the R. Harold Harrison Gallery, the Russell Library will host an event focusing on the future of housing in Athens. This event is free and open to the public. Free parking for off-campus visitors is available at the Hull Street Deck. 

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Join the Fashion Design Student Association for a night of gothic-inspired fashion at its Spring 2023 fashion show, Blood, Sweat, & Tears.

Stillpoint Literary Magazine will host an outdoor reading on Thursday, April 20th at 2 p.m. in front of the Main Library. This reading will celebrate National Poetry Month.  Anyone featured in recent issues of Stillpoint will be invited to read.

This event is sponsored by the Ruppersburg Stillpoint Literary Endowment, the Georgia Review, and UGA Libraries.

Arduino microcontrollers are simple computers used to build circuits with sensors that interface with a variety of components and output devices. Artists, environmental researchers collecting data like temperature and humidity, and robotics engineers all utilize Arduino. 

“Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum” pairs works together in fresh ways that start new conversations about American history and culture. Explore the exhibition, play Art Cart games in the galleries and create a work of art to take home in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom. Staff from UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library will also share objects from their collection that tell stories about Athens.

Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane Sembene.

As part of its annual Congress Week celebration, the Russell Library and SPIA are hosting Loch K Johnson, Regents Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia,