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Columns::February 24, 2003
Digest
History department sponsors symposium
The Southern Historical Association and UGA’s department of history will sponsor a one-day symposium on racial violence in the South at the Tate Student Center on Feb. 28.
Five historians whose work deals with violence from slavery through Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era will explore the nature of racial attacks-- lynchings, race riots, rape and other violence--and the role of the state in responding to them.
The events are all open free to the public.
Scholars participating include Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland; Sally Hadden, Florida State University; Sheldon Hackney, University of Pennsylvania; Steve Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin; and Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan.
There will be two morning lectures beginning at 10 a.m., and two in the afternoon, beginning at 2 p.m. The day will end with reflections by Hackney, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania and former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Southern Historical Association, whose administrative offices are on the UGA campus, was founded in l934 and is the third largest organization of historians in the United States. Its purpose is to foster interest in and research on the history of the South, and its 5,000 members consist primarily of historians throughout the country and around the world whose interest lies in the history of the South.
For more information, contact John Inscoe at 542-8848 or access the symposium’s Web site at www.uga.edu/history/racesymp.htm.
Tribute celebrates legacy of James Kilgo
The university community is invited to a tribute for the late UGA Professor of English James Kilgo on March 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel. A reception follows in Rusk Hall.
Coleman Barks, Judson Mitcham, Philip Lee Williams, John Lane, Hugh Ruppersburg, John Kilgo, and others will remember the life and work of Kilgo, who died this past December, and celebrate the March 1 release of his new book, Colors of Africa (see Weekly Reader). Open free to the public, the event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the English department.
A second tribute--part of the Camberley Collection’s Spoken Word Series--for Kilgo will be held March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta.
Director of the creative writing department from 1994 to 1996, Kilgo was the author of two works of nonfiction, Deep Enough for Ivory Bills (1988) and Inheritance of Horses (1994), and one novel, Daughter of My People (1998).
Gifts in memory of Kilgo can be made to the Kilgo-Sapelo Fund established in 1999 to continue his tradition of taking creative writing students on retreats to Sapelo Island. Checks should be made payable to the UGA Foundation, marked for the Kilgo fund, and mailed to Franklin College, 300 New College, Athens, GA 30602.
Grant helps equip photojournalism lab
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will equip advanced students with digital cameras, lenses and laptops, providing hands-on experience with the latest technology used by newspapers and publications.
The digital equipment is being purchased with a $40,000 grant from the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies.
“The instant feedback of a digital camera saves time and allows a student to monitor their progress while on assignment,” says Jim Virga, who heads photojournalism instruction at the Grady College. “Digital technology will allow students to learn basic photojournalism concepts at an even faster pace.” |
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