Seminars


Humanities Texas Webinar on Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters: Part II
Schedule and Curriculum This two-part series will take place over Zoom from 5:00–6:15 p.m. CT on Wednesday, September 20 and 27. Teachers who register will receive information for each webinar. Attending both sessions is encouraged but not required. Content will be aligned with the TEKS. Held in partnership with the Phillis Wheatley Peters Project (Texas Christian University and the University of Georgia), this program is part of a yearlong…

Humanities Texas Webinar on Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters: Part I
Schedule and Curriculum This two-part series will take place over Zoom from 5:00–6:15 p.m. CT on Wednesday, September 20 and 27. Teachers who register will receive information for each webinar. Attending both sessions is encouraged but not required. Content will be aligned with the TEKS. Held in partnership with the Phillis Wheatley Peters Project (Texas Christian University and the University of Georgia), this program is part of a yearlong…

Poetic Legacies: Interpreting New Text From Writers Inspired by Phillis Wheatley Peters
The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters (PWP) programming continues from the Fall Semester with an awesome lineup of poets on Thursday Sept. 7, 4:30 pm eastern time.  Poet/scholars Drea Brown (US) and Alison Clarke (Canada) discuss and read from their Wheatley-inspired writing, moderated by UGA CW director Dr. Aruni Kashyap. Drs. McCaskill and Robbins of the PWP team will assist in navigating the Q&A.  Your questions, comments, and thoughts…

The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies
Launch event for The Genius Of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies, a year-long partnership project by the University of Georgia and Texas Christian University on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the 1773 publication of Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This scholarly roundtable features speakers from TCU and UGA faculty in British Studies, American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and related fields…

Pop-up Literary Magazine Workshop
Interested in submitting your creative work to literary magazine but not sure how? Attend the Pop-up Literary Magazine Submission Workshop. We'll cover: ○ Identifying good markets for your work ○ Readying your manuscript for submission ○ And submission best practices This event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.  Please mask.

Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading
Dr. Nora Benedict, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities in the Department of Romance Languages, will give a Zoom workshop on Tuesday November 9th, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. to discuss her recently published book, Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading (Yale UP 2021). Please email Susan Rosenbaum (srosenb@uga.edu) if you would like to receive a sample of the book beforehand and/or would…

Tribal Homelands in Research and Recruiting at UGA
A presentation by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson to an audience at Seminole State College in Seminole, Oklahoma, and open to our UGA audience as well.  Ervan Garrison’s presentation is titled “Tribal Homelands and Recovering Place through Remote Sensing & Marine Studies,” and Jim Wilson’s presentation is titled “Anompolichi: The Wordmaster and Living Cultural Sites.”  Professor Ervan Garrison is Professor of Anthropology and…

Making the PBS documentary, Searching for Sequoyah, and what Sequoyah means to the world today
University of Oklahoma Professor Joshua Nelson and University of Georgia Professor LeAnne Howe present about how Sequoyah’s life of many journeys inspired their film, Searching for Sequoyah, to be released on PBS stations in early November, as well as their ongoing research.   Presidential Professor Joshua Nelson is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty with Film & Media Studies, Native American Studies, and Women's &…

Professor LeAnne Howe takes part in Famine Pots webinar
Eidson Chair of American Literature LeAnne Howe will participate in a talk about her coedited book Famine Pots: The Choctaw–Irish Gift Exchange, 1847–Present.  The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 1 p.m. This event is being hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland in Austin and the American Conference for Irish Studies. The talk will be moderated by Naomi O’Leary from The Irish Times and will will explore the legacy of…

Shakespeare's Birthday Symposium: Shakespeare's Histories and the Historiography of Race
Join the graduate students of English 8300: Shakespeare's Histories and the Historiography of Race as they present conference-length versions of their final papers for their class at our annual Shakespeare's Birthday celebration.
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