Willson Center Hosts Education Writer Paul Tough
It's not a September event, but Paul Tough's visit to the University of Georgia calls for advance notice. The Willson Center brings the renowned author and journalist to UGA Monday, October 1 for a 7 p.m. talk at the Chapel on North Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Tough's lecture will be focused on his new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which will be published this month by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has been an editor of The New York Times Magazine and Harper's, a producer for the public radio program "This American Life," and has written for numerous publications including The New Yorker, Esquire, and GQ. Tough won wide acclaim for his 2008 book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. Tim Johnson, executive director of Whatever It Takes, the Athens education and anti-poverty initiative named for Tough's book and modeled after Canada's successful Harlem Children's Zone project, will introduce the talk.
Find out more in the letter below from Willson Center Director Nicholas Allen and at our new website.
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The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is a constituent of the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Georgia.
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Upcoming Events
Odekherin Amaize of Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE is the featured bass-baritone in Hugh Hodgson School of Music Professor Emeritus Roger Vogel's new musical/narrative performance piece Things Fall Apart, which premieres at 8 p.m. September 6 at the Ramsey Concert Hall. Amaize's visit is sponsored by the Willson Center, as is a lecture the same day by Frank Shovlin, Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. Shovlin's talk, "'Their Friends, the French': Joyce and Jacobitism," takes place at 4 p.m. in Room 248 of the Miller Learning Center.
October Willson events include Ben Reiss's lecture "Wild Things vs. Sleep Nazis: How Children's Bedtime Became a Problem" and "Peering Into the Musical Brain," a lecture by Donald Hodges, both October 4. For more, visit our new website.
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Modernism Seminar
Professor Jed Rasula has organized a Willson Center Research Seminar entitled "Historical Phenomenon of Modernism," featuring guest faculty from UGA and other institutions. Visiting seminar guests include Kevin Dettmar (English, Pomona College) on "The Trial of Oscar Wilde" September 17 and Juliet Koss (Art History, Scripps College) on "Future Perfect Model Soviets" September 24. Seminars meet Mondays at 3:30 in Room 247 of the Miller Learning Center. Learn more about this and other Willson Center Research Seminars here.
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Cinema Roundtable
UGA Film Studies Professor Richard Neupert moderates this semester’s Cinema Roundtable, "Art, Animation, Art, and Careers for UGA Students" September 28. The panel features Mike Hussey, Associate Professor in Theatre and Film Studies, and a panel of former UGA students who now work professionally in the fields of animation and/or digital effects. The panelists will discuss the challenges and rewards of creative careers in animation and cable TV.
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From the Director
Dear colleague,
I hope you are enjoying a rich and productive beginning to the semester. In this newsletter you will find information on upcoming events, Willson Center grants, and opportunities for external funding.
As part of our continuing work to develop research in the humanities and arts at the university, I am pleased to announce a series of upcoming events. These begin with Frank Shovlin’s talk on "Joyce and Jacobitism" on the afternoon of September 6. The same evening sees a performance by Odekhiren Amaize in the Hodgson School of Music.
We know the humanities and arts to be a crucial part of the contemporary creative economy. Richard Neupert is chairing a Cinema Roundtable on “Animation, Art, and Careers for UGA Students” at the Miller Learning Center on September 28. I encourage you to let your students know of this opportunity to see how their degrees can work after college. If you have ideas for similar roundtables in other fields, please let us know.
As part of our engagement with local issues of national significance we have invited Paul Tough to speak on his new book, How Children Succeed, on October 1 in the Chapel. Tough’s talk will be introduced by Tim Johnson of Whatever it Takes, a local nonprofit initiative dedicated to ensuring that every child in Athens, Georgia is on course to graduate from a post-secondary education by July 1, 2020. The event is free and open to the public. Please come along with friends and colleagues.
Stephen Berry will introduce October’s newsletter to outline our ideas and supports for external grant applications. To celebrate the Willson’s involvement in the Spotlight on the Arts festival at UGA, Antje Ascheid will introduce our events for November.
Opportunities for external funding currently include the Guggenheim Fellowships, with a closing date of September 19; the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships,with a closing of October 2; and National Humanities Center Fellowships for 2013-2014, closing October 15. Please be aware that the application for the NHC fellowships mirrors that of the faculty Research Fellowship grant offered by the Willson Center, which has the same application deadline. I would encourage you to use your materials for both. We plan to offer increased support for writing grant proposals for next year. In the meantime please contact us if we can help.
If you have been awarded an honor for your research or been in receipt of a grant from a foundation or philanthropic source please tell us about it. We’d like to share your achievement with the faculty. Please send any information to Julie Dingus at jdingus@uga.edu.
Lastly, I remind you that the closing dates for the majority of our faculty grant programs have moved to October 15. The Willson Center Graduate Award closes on September 4. Please consult willson.uga.edu for further information or email us at wcha@uga.edu.
Yours truly,
Nicholas Allen
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