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Columns::November 11, 2002
Digest
AACC presents one-woman drama
The African American Cultural Center will present Claim the Dream, a one-woman drama written and performed by actress Dianne Oyama Dixon, on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in Georgia Hall at the Tate Student Center.
Dixon is a Stephens College theater and dance graduate and a native of Nashville, Tenn. Her film and television credits include A Piece of the Action, Good Times, The Cradle Will Fall and As the World Turns. Dixon’s stage experience includes performances on both coasts, including the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, Los Angeles Actor’s Theater and the Ebony Theater. She is the author of Ladies, Your Places Please, performed at Nashville’s Circle Theater.
Claim the Dream is an examination of noted black females, such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks.
Two faculty screen new documentaries
One intense month in the life of Woody Guthrie is brought to the screen in Denise Matthews’s Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Administration. The public is invited to view the documentary at the Georgia Museum of Art Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. The event is free of charge.
Matthews, a professor of telecommunication arts at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, describes the work as“a revealing investigation of the father of American folk music--Woody Guthrie’s most prolific moment in his career.”
Following the screening of Roll On Columbia, Jim Virga, photojournalism instructor at the Grady College, will present his documentary Dancing on Mother Earth, which chronicles the life mission of Native American singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah.
“Getting an inside look at what Native Americans face in today’s society was a real learning experience for me,” Virga says. “While I was filming the project, I could actually feel Joanne channeling the spirits of her ancestors.”
Harvard prof will deliver Silbey Lecture
Arthur R. Miller, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver the 95th Sibley Lecture, entitled “The Emerging Law of the Internet.” Sponsored by the School of Law and open free to the public, the lecture will be held Nov. 14 at 3:30 p.m. in the law school’s Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom.
Miller is a national authority on the right of privacy, copyright and court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than 40 books. He has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1971, where he has taught courses on civil procedure, copyright and complex litigation. He also operates an active law practice, with particular focus in the federal appellate courts.
In his public roles, Miller has served as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, a reporter and member of the Judicial Conference of the United States Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, and a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation. He was the host of the weekly television show Miller’s Court for eight years, and he appeared on an award-winning television series on PBS and on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Miller’s lecture focuses on a timely topic, according to law school dean David E. Shipley.
“Internet law is an area that grows more relevant daily,” he says. “Professor Miller is a distinguished authority in a wide variety of fields, and we are privileged to have him for the Sibley Lecture Series.”
Established in 1964, the Sibley Lecture Series--a tribute to the late John A. Sibley, 1911 law school graduate--is designed to attract outstanding legal scholars of national prominence to speak at the UGA School of Law.
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