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Columns::April 22, 2002

UGA Guide

Southern nature

The ancient Greeks thought earth, air, fire and water were the basic elements out of which all things were made. We now know

that matter and existence are a bit more complicated, but these elements remain important features of the poetics of nature and will be the subject of a literary and musical investigation at the university.
Some of the South’s best nature writers and musicians will read and perform in a live radio broadcast from the Chapel scheduled for April 25 at 8 p.m. The program, entitled “Earth, Air, Fire and Water,” will be aired live throughout the state over the Georgia Public Radio network. Six nature writers--Janisse Ray, Jim Kilgo, Chris Camuto, Jan Deblieu, William Belleville and Franklin Burroughs--will read from their work, and will be joined in their exploration of the natural world by multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett (the Randall Bramblett Band) and pianist Chuck Leavell (the Allman Brothers Band). The public is invited to attend or listen live on the radio.
The writers reading from their work are led by Ray, whose Ecology of a Cracker Childhood was recently selected by the Georgia Center for the Book as the book all Georgians should read this year.
The other writers in the program are equally distinguished.
Deblieu’s most recent book, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth and the Land, won the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.
Kilgo is author of the widely acclaimed Deep Enough for Ivorybills and Inheritance of Horses.
Belleville, writer, filmmaker and Discovery Channel host, is author of a natural and cultural history entitled River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida’s St. John’s River.
Camuto is the author of Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains, an engaging reflection on the 1992 reintroduction of the red wolf to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Burroughs has written eloquently about returning to his native South Carolina in The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country.
Bramblett and Leavell will give the elements of nature a musical treatment, as well as provide incidental music for the program. Bramblett began his musical career in Athens in the ’70s and rose to national prominence in the band Sea Level, later embarking on a successful solo career with stints as a sideman for Steve Winwood.
A fellow bandmate of Bramblett’s from Sea Level, Leavell was pianist for the Rolling Stones before joining the Allman Brothers Band. He owns a tree plantation in Jones County and is the author of Forever Green, a book that addresses the need for sustainable forestry in the Southeast and elsewhere.
The program is sponsored by UGA’s Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, Georgia Sea Grant and WUGA-FM and is offered in conjunction with Southern Nature, a three-day gathering of nature writers that includes a day-long workshop on nature writing on April 27 at the State Botanical Garden.
On Friday, April 26, also in the Chapel, nature-writer Rick Bass will appear at 8 p.m. Bass is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, The Book of Yaak, The Lost Grizzlies, and Fiber. The stories in Bass’s first short-story collection, The Watch, won the 1988 PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his novel Where the Sea Used to Be won the James Jones Fellowship Award.
The radio performance on April 25 is free but tickets are required. They are available from WUGA by calling 542-9842. Due to the requirements of a live broadcast, the audience must be seated by 7:30 p.m. The broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. and can be heard in Athens on WUGA-FM 91.7 and 97.9 and throughout the state on the Georgia Public Radio network.

Ongoing
Art exhibitions.
Wisdom through the Ages: The Paintings and Poetry of Arbon Lane. Through April 26. Second floor and ground floor of Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by College of Education. 542-5889.

Sharing Ideas and Dreams: Women on Paper. Through May 2. Conservatory, State Botanical Garden; open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday. 542-1244.

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition. Through May 5 • Portraits in the Age of Rembrandt. Through April 30. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Metal Menagerie. Through June 30. Ecology building grounds. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Paintings by Chris Mars. Through May 3. Tate Student Center Art Gallery, open 8 a.m.-midnight daily. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.

Exhibit.
Legends of the Deadball Era: Vintage Baseball Cards from the Richard B. Russell Collection. Through Nov. 22. Russell Library. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-8079.

University Theatre.
The Living Newspaper: 1935/2001 Editions. $10 ($8 students). April 22-24 at 8 p.m. Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building. Sponsored by drama department. 542-2838.
The Federal Theater Project, funded by the U.S. government, produced theater in the form of Living Newspapers in the 1930s, dramatizing current news events. The popularity of such programming continues today, with thousands of viewers tuning in to re-enactment shows on television. This University Theatre production juxtaposes excerpts from a Living Newspaper produced in 1935 with a contemporary Living Newspaper focusing on significant events of 2001. The production will be broadcast live over the Internet, offering an interactive experience both in the theater and online.

Monday, April 22
Bike to Work Day.
Join a bike pool and ride to work in a large group. Sponsored by Alternative Transportation Committee. See bikeathens.com for more information. sborrett@mail.rx.uga.edu.

Earth Day: Environmental and Community Activities Fair.
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Herty Field. Sponsored by Students for Environmental Awareness. ugasea@hotmail.com.
Activities include free vegetarian food, free bicycle repairs, field-day events, and examples of alternative transportation.

Week of Soul Film and Discussion.
Imitation of Life. 3, 6 and 9 p.m. Tate Student Center Theater. Sponsored by University Union. 542-3981.

Lecture.
“Dominican Republic-United States Relations in the Political, Economic and Social Context of the 21st Century.” Roberto B. Saladin-Selin, ambassador from the Dominican Republic. 3:30 p.m. Room K-L, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by International Public Service and Outreach. 542-7887.
Saladin-Selin is an economist and lawyer who traces his origins to the Middle East. He has a long record of government service, including serving as the Dominican Republic’s minister of finance, governor of the central bank, and president of his country’s monetary board.

Lecture.
Margaret Walsh Rossiter. 4 p.m. Ecology lecture hall. Sponsored by UGA chapter, Association for Women in Science.
Rossiter is professor of the history of science and of science and technology at Cornell University. She won the Berkshire Prize in 1983 for her study Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. A MacArthur Fellow since 1989, she is finishing the second volume of her study of women scientists.

SPIA Dean Candidate Public Dessert-Reception.
For Thomas P. Lauth, UGA. 5:15-6:15 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Academic Affairs.

Satellite Lecture.
“Accountability for Results: Mapping Information for the Design, Management and Measurement of Change.” Al Gore, former vice president. 8-10 p.m. Room Q, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by School of Social Work. 542-5424.

Tuesday, April 23
Week of Soul Kickoff.
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tate Student Center Plaza. Sponsored by University Union. 542-3981.

Issues in Governance and Development Lecture.
“The Course of Globalization: China’s Attitude Toward Democratization and International Relations.” Xianxing Tang, Fudan University, Shanghai. “The Development of Chinese Administrative Law after Entrance into the WTO.” Aiping Cai, Shanghai Administration Institute, Shanghai. Noon-1:15 p.m. 143 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Institute of Government. 542-0278.

Open forum for faculty on promotion and tenure.
Karen Holbrook and Peter Shedd. 2-3:30 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Academic Affairs. 542-6777.

E.S. Luttrell Lecture.
“People, Poverty and Pathology.” Jesse Dubin, CIMMYT. 4 p.m. 2401 Miller Plant Sciences Building. Sponsored by department of plant pathology. 542-1239.

Film.
New motion picture from the People’s Republic of China. 7:05-9:05 p.m. Seventh-floor screening room, main library. Sponsored by East Asian Film Club. eafc_uga@hotmail.com.

Guest Artist Concert.
United States Air Force Band. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.
One of the most traveled musical organizations in the world, the United States Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants have represented the nation as “America’s Band” in 55 countries on five continents during 12 international goodwill tours.
Tickets are free and may be picked up at the box office in the Performing Arts Center.

Wednesday, April 24
Try Transit Day.
Try riding the bus to work: 25 cents a ride today. Sponsored by Alternative Transportation Committee. See athenstransit.com for more information. sborrett@mail.rx.uga.edu.

Genetics Seminar.
“Gene Regulation and Function in Pluripotent Stem Cells and in the Germ Cell Lineage.” Hans Scholer, University of Pennsylvania. 11:10 a.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-1441.

Engineering Seminar.
“Biomass, Bioenergy and Biobased Products in the USA.” Helena Chum, DOE National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colo. 12:20 p.m. Driftmier Auditorium. Sponsored by biological and agricultural engineering department. 542-0866.

VP for Instruction Candidate: Open Forum.
3-4 p.m. 138 Tate Student Center.

Softball.
Double-header vs. Kentucky. 4 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Workshop.
“Topiary for Children.” Carol Turner. $12 ($10 members); for children 8 and older. 4-6 p.m. State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Open Studio: Life Drawing.
$3. Live models; no instruction; participants must provide their own supplies. 5:30 p.m. Forio Classroom, Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

ArtBeat.
Janice Simon, art history. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Baseball.
vs. Georgia Tech. 6:30 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Thursday, April 25
Carpool Day.
Test out a carpool for a day. Sponsored by Alternative Transportation Committee. Register for a carpool (requires an Arches account) on www.parking.uga.edu/carpooling.html. sborrett@mail.rx.uga.edu.

Southern Garden Heritage Conference.
Through April 26. Speakers include Charles Birnbaum, National Park Service; William Noble, the Garden Conservancy; Kristy White, Old Sturbridge Village; Suzanne Turner, LSU; and Jim Cothran, Robert and Co. State Botanical Garden. Co-sponsored by School of Environmental Design. 542-6156.

CHA Poetry Reading.
James Longenbach, University of Rochester. 2 p.m. 261 Park Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

VP for Instruction Candidate: Open Forum.
2-3 p.m. 414 Memorial Hall.

University Council meeting.
3:30 p.m. Law auditorium.

Softball.
vs. Kentucky. 4 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

CHA Lecture.
“The Perfect Uselessness of Poetry.” James Longenbach. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Longenbach is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Both a poet and a scholar, Longenbach is author of Threshold, a book of poetry; Modern Poetry After Modernism; Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things; Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism, which was named a Best Book of 1989 by the Irish Times; and Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past.
He is editor, with A. Walton Litz and Lea Baechler, of the 11-volume Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals (1992). His poems have been published in The Yale Review, Salmagundi, Nation, New Republic, Paris Review, and many other poetry magazines. He held the position of Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the 1999 Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and received a Special Mention Pushcart Prize in 1996.

Day of Soul Concert.
Ludacris and 112. $20 ($10 students). 7 p.m. Legion Field. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.

UGA Wind Symphony Concert.
Dwight Satterwhite and John Culvahouse, conductors. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Georgia Brass Concert.
8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Radio: readings and music.
“Southern Nature.” 7:30-9:30 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. 542-5141. See story above.

Friday, April 26
Workshop.
“Beginning Botanical Watercolor Illustration.” Dorset Trapnell. $24 ($22 members). 9 a.m.-4 p.m. State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Robert A. Mulliken Lecture.
“Robert Mulliken and Quantum Monte Carlo.” William A. Lester, University of California, Berkeley. 11:15 a.m. 400 chemistry building. Sponsored by Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry. 542-0364.

Campus Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Sponsored by International Student Life. 542-5867.

Terry Tunes.
Kevin Hyde Trio. Noon-1 p.m. Herty Field. Sponsored by College of Business. 542-3210.

Women’s Studies Open Meeting.
12:20 p.m. 137 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-2846.

Friday Tours.
2 and 4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Natural History, natural history building. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Natural History. 542-1663.
Tours last approximately one hour and are free and open to the public. Visitors see the bird, fish, insect, mammal and zooarchaeology collections and get a glimpse of the work that goes on at the museum. The tour group size is limited, so groups larger than eight should call in advance. Tours are not recommended for children under the age of five.

Concert.
Olga Kern, piano. $21-$25 (students half-price). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. (Music Series II.) Sponsored by Performing Arts Center. 542-4400.
Pianist Olga Kern was the winner of the most recent Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the first female gold medalist since 1969.
The Van Cliburn Competition is named for American pianist Van Cliburn, whose sensational victory at the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow (1958) heralded a new confidence in the quality of American music making. The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Ft. Worth, Texas, and has been repeated every four years since.
By winning the Van Cliburn gold medal in June of 2001, Russia’s Olga Kern was also awarded two years of international concert engagements and career management as well as a compact disc recording of her award-winning Van Cliburn Competition performances. In this concert she will be performing works by Schumann, Messiaen, Barber, Chopin, Wagner and Liszt.
A pre-concert lecture will be given by Martha Thomas, piano faculty member in the School of Music. The lecture begins 45 minutes prior to the concert and is free and open to the public.

Lecture.
“An Evening of Nature with Rick Bass.” 8-9:30 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. 542-5141. See story above.

Dawgs after Dark.
10 p.m.-2 a.m. Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.

Black Theatrical Ensemble.
The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown. $8 ($5 students); at 542-8074. Through April 28. 7:30 p.m. Morton Theatre, downtown. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

Saturday, April 27
Art exhibition.
From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet from the Pompidou. Through July 7. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Equestrian Schooling Show.
8 a.m. Cloverhill Farm, Ambler Road (off Jefferson River Road), Athens. Sponsored by UGA equestrian team. 583-8304.

Workshop.
“Southern Nature: The Writer’s Workshop.” 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. State Botanical Garden. Sponsored by Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. 542-5141; eecp@uga.edu.

Softball.
Double-header vs. Elon. 1 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Indonesian and Filipino Nite.
Dance, music and food provided by the Indonesian and Filipino student organizations. 7-10 p.m. Georgia Hall A, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by International Students Organization. isoathens@yahoo.com.

Monday, April 29
Last day of classes.

Memorial Service.
In memory of UGA students, faculty and staff who have died during the past year. 7 p.m. Chapel. 542-3564.

Benefit Concert.
Georgia Guitar Quartet. Free with canned goods donation. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center. 542-4400.
The Performing Arts Center is sponsoring this benefit concert for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. Admission is free with a donation of canned goods.
“This is the third benefit concert we have produced for the Food Bank, and we are grateful to the talented young men of the Georgia Guitar Quartet for assisting us in helping this worthy cause,” says Performing Arts Director Timothy A. Bartholow.
Formed in 1996, the Georgia Guitar Quartet is based in Athens and has established itself as a leader in the realm of guitar ensembles.
The members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet are Kyle Dawkins, Brian Smith, Phil Snyder and Jason Solomon, all of whom are graduates of UGA.

Coming up
Final exams.
May 1-3, 6-7.

Veterinary Medicine Commencement.
May 4, 10:30 a.m. Hodgson Hall.

Georgia Children’s Chorus Concert.
May 9, $10. 7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.

Undergraduate Commencement.
May 11, 9:30 a.m. Sanford Stadium.

Graduate Commencement.
May 11, 2:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

Mother’s Day Concert.
Classic City Band. May 12, 3 p.m. Conservatory. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

May term classes begin.
May 15.

Law School Commencement.
May 18, 10 a.m. North Campus Quad.