Join our visiting speaker Prof. András Kiséry, City College of New York, and UGA Librarian Anne Meyers DeVine for a hands-on activity with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books and materials from UGA's rare books collection.
This event is sponsored by UGA Symposium on the Book, the Willson Center, UGA Department of English, UGA Libraries, and the Head's Fund, Department of English
Eileen Wallace is a Senior Lecturer in Printmaking and Book Arts at the University of Georgia and a former resident artist at Penland School of Craft. She has taught workshops at Penland, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and at other venues across the country. Eileen is a co-director emeritus of the Paper & Book Intensive (PBI) and has been a board member of Hand Papermaking Magazine. She curated the book Masters: Book Arts published by Lark Books in 2011.
András Kiséry is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York (CUNY). He has published on early modern textual and political cultures, including _Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England_ (OUP, 2016), and the volume he co-edited with Allison Deutermann, _Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature_ (Manchester UP, 2013). He is now writing a book about media and remediation in early modern England. An essay taken from this project just came out in the Summer 2024 issue of _Critical Inquiry_.
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.
Dr. Gregg Hecimovich, 2024-2025 Hutchins Family Fellow and Professor of English at Furman University, will describe his extraordinary research journey to document the life and literary accomplishment of Hannah Bond, who escaped enslavement in North Carolina and subsequently wrote, using the pseudonym “Hannah Crafts,” what scholars consider to be one of the earliest novels written by an African American woman.
Join six graduate students from the UGA Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art as they share their creative work at this interdisciplinary symposium. A Q&A session will follow the panel presentations. Light refreshment will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for aqueous work from an award-winning poet and distinguished composer. Peter Van Zandt Lane will give a presentation on his current composition project, Thresholds, a work for orchestra and electronics that incorporates data sonification from the Georgia Coastal Ecologies Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and is supported by a grant from the Georgia Sea Grant Artists Program.
Join The Georgia Review for this free public event. Since 2020, Rebecca Pappas and her collaborators have been developing My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again, a three-volume dancework that unravels the tangled threads of white womanhood and American modern dance.
