Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Join The Georgia Review and Avid Bookshop at the legendary 40 Watt for a literary night you won't want to miss. Best-selling writer and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib reads from his newly released book, There's Always This Year, about basketball, life, and home. Emerging bilingual poet Xinyue Huang reads from her book on love, loss, and persistence. Free and open to the public. Book sale and signing to follow. RSVPs highly suggested. 

Interested in how the Freedom of Information Act and other Open Records laws help shine light on government, or how classified materials become publicly available? Join us for a panel on the Freedom of Information Act where UGA experts will share tips for submitting an open records request, talk about their own experience working with these laws across states/jurisdictions, and more.  

Panelists:

Charles Davis

Join us for a virtual program with Mark Pack, former political pollster and current president of the Liberal Democrats, as he discusses his book Polling UnPacked (2022).

The event is sponsored by the Russell Library, the UGA Press, the Applied Politics Certificate Program, and the Public Affairs Communications Program.

More about the book from the University of Chicago Press:

Join us for a program with Robin Morris, associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College, for a discussion of her new book Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right (2022). Her work has appeared in Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South.

Join the Hargrett Library for the induction of Valerie Boyd into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame on Thursday, September 22nd at 6:00 p.m. in room 285 of the UGA Special Collections Building. Following her induction, a panel of contributors to Boyd's last work, Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic, will hold a discussion followed by a Q&A.

Greg Bluestein is a political reporter and author who covers the governor's office and Georgia politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He writes for the front-page of the AJC, contributes to the Political Insider blog and morning Jolt newsletter, hosts the Politically Georgia podcast and is a frequent guest on local and national TV and radio programs. He's an MSNBC and NBC News contributor and the author of Flipped, a book on Georgia's epic 2020 election. 

Free and open to the public!

The UGA Libraries welcome graduate students to campus with this online introduction to our research resources:

• Databases of particular use in your area of research
• Citation management
• Services available to UGA researchers such as Interlibrary Loan, scanning, technology lending, and more

Let us help you become a time-efficient researcher!

Register to receive link. For more workshops, see our site (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/grad2022)

The UGA Libraries welcome graduate students to campus with this in-person introduction to our research resources:

• Databases of particular use in your area of research
• Citation management
• Services available to UGA researchers such as Interlibrary Loan, scanning, technology lending, and more

Let us help you become a time-efficient researcher!

No registration necessary. For more workshops, see our site (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/grad2022)

Update: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Congressman Kinzinger will be unable to join us in-person for our upcoming Congress Week 2022 conversation. Instead, he will engage in a virtual conversation with attendees present at the Special Collections Libraries. Attendees present will still have the opportunity to hear directly from Congressman Kinzinger on the issues of the day live and to ask him questions. The lunch reception will still be provided following the event. 

Please join the University of Georgia Press and the Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication's Low-residency MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction in celebrating the book launch of High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir by Steve Majors, a book Kirkus Reviews called "A brave reckoning with multiple questions of identity, class, family, race."