Ongoing
| Violinist—and Georgia native—Robert
McDuffie performs here Feb. 8 |
The Performing Arts Center will present
a recital
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Robert McDuffie |
by violinist Robert McDuffie at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8
in Hodgson Hall. Tickets are available at the box office
(5424400) for $17–$22 (half-price for students).
Macon-born McDuffie has appeared as soloist with many
of the world’s major orchestras, including the New
York and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Chicago, San Francisco,
Montreal and Toronto symphonies; the Philadelphia, Cleveland
and Minnesota orchestras; the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra;
the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra; the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen; the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; and the Santa
Cecilia Orchestra of Rome. He is also co-founder and artistic
director of the Rome Chamber Music Festival at Villa Aurelia.
McDuffie has been profiled on numerous television news
and arts programs and in the New York Times and
the Wall Street Journal. His recordings for Telarc
include the violin concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Adams,
Glass, Barber and Rozsa, as well as Viennese favorites.
He plays a Guarneri del Gesù violin known as the
“Landenburg.”
For his Athens engagement, McDuffie will be accompanied
by Christopher Taylor, whom the Washington Post
called “one of the most impressive young pianists
on the horizon today.” They will perform the Violin
Sonata by Robert Beaser; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8
in C minor, Op. 13, Pathétique; Arvo
Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel; and Bartók’s
first and second rhapsodies.
A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior
to the performance; the lecture is free.
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| —Bobby Tyler |
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Art exhibitions.
Enchanting Modern: Ilonka Karasz, 1896–1981. Through
Feb. 8. 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.
Armin Landeck. Through Feb. 8. 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.
The Gift of Sight: Eight Early Paintings by Frank Ruzicka.
Through Feb. 15. 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.
Francis A. Ruzicka (1924–2003), professor emeritus of art
at UGA, was widely respected for his work as a teacher, administrator
and advocate for the arts. He served as president of Parsons School
of Design in New York and associate dean of the College of the Arts
at Ohio State University before chairing the School of Art at UGA
from 1976 until 1989.
Small Cups and Tangible Gems. Through March 5. Broad
Street Gallery, 257 W. Broad St., open weekdays, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sponsored by School of Art. 542-0069.
The exhibition includes the work of ceramicist Annette Gates and
metalsmith Rob Jackson.
Natural Forces. Through Feb. 20. Main gallery, visual
arts building (open 8 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays). Sponsored
by School of Art. 542-1511.
The Art of Lew Twiggs. Through March 28. 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.
Exhibits.
Exploring Garden Transformations: 1900–2000. Through
Feb. 22. Conservatory. Open Tuesday–Saturday, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.;
Sunday 11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Sponsored by State Botanical
Garden. 542-1244.
An Exhibition of Science and Art. Through April 30.
Second floor, Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by College of Education.
jcalkin@coe.uga.edu.
552 Georgians: A Memorial. Through Feb. 28. Tate Student
Center Art Gallery. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.
The exhibit 552 Georgians: A Memorial, created by John
English, is a physical representation of the number of residents
who were lynched in Georgia between 1880 and 1930. Accompanying
the 552 individual hanging nooses is an audio track listing
the names of those residents known to have died by lynching in Georgia.
“While a single noose has long been a symbol of terrorism,
this assemblage of 552 takes on iconic status,” says English.
“Only by acknowledging the grim reality of our collective
history can we continue the process of healing and reconciliation
between the races.”
Monday, February 2
Andrea
Carson Coley Lecture.
“Evolution’s Rainbow.” Joan Roughgarden, Stanford
University. 12:15 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum
of Art. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542 2947.
Roughgarden is an evolutionary ecologist and the author of Evolution’s
Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People.
Her research interests include issues of sexuality in animals and
people.
Tuesday, February 3
Photography Exhibition.
The Landscape of Us. Through Feb. 24. Circle Gallery,
ground floor, Caldwell Hall. Open 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m.,
weekdays. Sponsored by College of Environment and Design. 542-8293.
The Landscape of Us is an exhibit of photographs by Barrie
Collins, opens at the Circle Gallery on Feb. 3 and runs through
Feb. 24. Collins is a keen observer of people and how they
live in their world. His work conveys a deep sensitivity, and a
call to action, to the essential truths that form the “landscape
of us.” The strong images and striking technical aspects of
the photography evoke a strong feeling in the viewer.
IHDD Core Seminar on Disability.
“Social Relationships and Friendships of Individuals with
Disabilities.” Cindy Price, Darlene Coggins and Betsy Wynne.
10 a.m.–noon. River’s Crossing Building, 850 College
Station Rd. Sponsored by Institute on Human Development and
Disability. 542-1290.
Visiting Artist Lecture.
Elizabeth King. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum
of Art. Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1511.
King’s work combines sculpture, film and installation. She
makes objects, sets them in motion with stop-frame film animation
and then presents object and film together to challenge the boundary
between actual and virtual space.
Black History Month Screening.
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel.
(2001, 45 minutes) 7 p.m. 150 Student Learning Center.
Sponsored by Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
583-0212.
Hattie McDaniel is probably best known as the first African American
to win an Academy Award—for her portrayal of “Mammy”
in 1939’s Gone with the Wind. McDaniel’s career
epitomizes the struggles faced by many African-American actors and
shows the value of perseverance. Freda Scott Giles, assistant professor
of drama and a member of the Institute for African-American Studies,
will lead a discussion following the screening.
Opening Reception.
The Landscape of Us. 7 p.m. Circle Gallery, ground
floor, Caldwell Hall. Sponsored by College of Environment and Design.
542-8293.
Sheppard Lecture of the Archaeological
Institute of America.
“The Phoenicians and the Maccabees: Excavations at Tel Kedesh,
Israel.” Andrea Berlin, University of Minnesota. 7:30 p.m.
117 visual arts building. Sponsored by classics department.
542-9264.
In 1997 the universities of Michigan and Minnesota began excavating
Tel Kedesh, thought to be a simple farming town inhabited by Phoenicians,
in an attempt to understand rural Phoenician life during the Hellenistic
period. While sources identified Kedesh as an outpost of the Phoenician
city of Tyre in 66 C.E., when the Jewish Revolt against Rome began,
research on this site, the largest in Israel’s Upper Galilee,
was expected to show basic agrarian life—that is, until a
1999 magnetometric survey led scientists to broaden their search
of one simple house structure. What they discovered was that Kedesh
was home to a large administrative supply depot and international
archive that included a storeroom still stocked with jars of grain,
flasks of oil and nearly 2,000 stamped clay bullae, a currency
bearing the images of Seleucid kings, Greek deities and mythological
figures, and Phoenician officials.
Berlin will offer a presentation on the excavation and discuss how
finding this large complex and its wares, which appear to have been
damaged and hastily abandoned, provides new evidence for political
and social interaction between Jews, Phoenicians and Greeks in second
century B.C.E. Palestine.
Exhibit Opening.
552 Georgians: A Memorial. 7:30 p.m. Tate Student
Center Art Gallery. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.
John English and E.M. Beck, award-winning co-author of A
Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings 1882-1930,
will provide a history of lynchings in Georgia, as well as background
information on the creation of this moving memorial.
Wednesday, February 4
LGBTQ Film Series.
Lilies (Canadian). 12:10 p.m. 135 River’s
Crossing (850 College Station Rd.). Sponsored by adult education
department (in conjunction with EADU 8610). rjhill@coe.uga.edu.
Engineering Seminar.
“Real-Time Multispectral Imaging System for On-Line Detection
of Fecal and Ingesta Contamination on Poultry.” Bosoon Park,
U.S.D.A., Athens. 12:20–1:10 p.m. Driftmier auditorium.
542-0866.
Staff Council Meeting.
2 p.m. 348 Student Learning Center. 542-7222.
Sociology Colloquium.
“Afro-German Personal and Social Identity.” Cassandra
Johnson, U.S. Forestry Service. 3:30–5 p.m. 114A Baldwin
Hall. Sponsored by sociology department. 542-2421.
Men’s Basketball.
vs. Mississippi. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.
Theater.
“An Evening with Langston and Martin.” Felix Justice
and Danny Glover. $15 ($5 students). Tickets: Tate Student Center
cashier’s window (542-8074, open 9 a.m.–4 p.m.).
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.
Felix Justice begins the evening with his moving depiction of civil
rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He then hands the show over
to Danny Glover, known for his work in Lethal Weapon and
Beloved, who captures the feelings and rhythm of legendary
poet Langston Hughes. A question-and-answer session concludes the
program.
Film.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957). 7 p.m. Through Feb. 7.
Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.
Thursday, February 5
Diversity Workshop.
“Talking about Diversity in a Faculty-Staff Setting”
and “Creating an Inclusive Academic Environment.” Two
sessions: 9:30–11:30 a.m. or 1–3 p.m. Rooms
V and W, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Institutional
Diversity. Reserve space: jpitt@uga.edu
or 583-8195.
Faculty and staff from education, journalism and social work will
share information on “best practices,” and workshop
participants will help generate new ideas.
Education Policy Seminar.
“Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965.”
Jacqueline King, Center for Policy Analysis, American Council on
Education. 2 p.m. 101 Meigs Hall. Sponsored by Institute
of Higher Education. 542-0570.
This semester the Institute of Higher Education’s policy seminars
focus on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
The HEA provides the legal basis for the federal government’s
major student aid programs and for other significant federal initiatives
with impact on higher education.
The HEA will expire Sept. 30, 2004, and the 108th Congress
must consider extending, or “reauthorizing,” the HEA
for the eighth time since initial passage of the law in 1965. Reauthorization
has enormous consequences for American higher education.
Jacqueline E. King directs American Council on Education’s
new Center for Policy Analysis, which conducts and commissions research
on federal and national higher education policy issues of interest
to ACE members, policy makers, other higher education associations
and the media. Topics on the Center’s agenda include federal
student financial aid, teacher education, distance learning, equity
in higher education and the college presidency.
King’s particular area of expertise is student financing of
higher education and access to higher education. She is the author
of numerous articles, reports and book chapters on these topics
and is the editor of Financing a College Education: How It Works,
How It’s Changing (Oryx Press, 1999).
Prior to joining ACE in 1996, she was associate director for policy
analysis at the College Board. King holds a doctorate from the University
of Maryland, College Park.
University Council meeting.
3:30 p.m. 102 Student Learning Center. www.reg.uga.edu/uc.nsf/.
Workshop.
“Cooking the Garden: Mexican Style.” $25 (members $23).
6:30–8:30 p.m. State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.
Friday, February 6
Art exhibition.
Faculty Choice: UGA Graphic Design Student Exhibition 2004.
Through Feb. 19. Front foyer gallery of visual arts building
and two floors of Tanner Building (open 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1646.
International Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Sponsored
by International Student Life. 542-5867.
WSP Friday Speaker.
“The History of African Americans in Athens and in Georgia.”
Michael Thurmond, Georgia labor commissioner. 12:20 p.m. 213 Student
Learning Center. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542
2947.
CHA Cinema Roundtable.
Lord of the Rings. Kristin Thompson. 4 p.m. 101 Student
Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Saturday, February 7
Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts Tournament.
“St. Valentine’s Day Classic.” $5 spectators;
$50–$55 competitors. 10 a.m. Clarke Central High School
gym. Sponsored by UGA Karate Club. 543-4447.
Sunday, February 8
Gymnastics.
vs. Oklahoma. 7:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.
Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium.
“Diet, Death and Demography in Drosophila.”
Linda Partridge, University College, London. 7:30 p.m. Ecology
auditorium. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-1417.
Concert.
Robert McDuffie, violin. $17–$22 (half-price students). 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Music Series
I). 542-4400. See story above.
Monday, February 9
Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium.
“Mechanisms of Aging: Public or Private.” Linda Partridge,
University College, London. 11:15 a.m. C127 life sciences
building. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-1417.
Basic Behavioral and Bio-Behavioral
Processes Colloquium.
“Motivations in CBT for Anxiety Disorders.” Brad Schmidt,
Florida State University. 3 p.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored
by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-6100.
Concert.
Mancini at the Movies. $24–$29 (half-price students). 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Showcase Series).
542-4400.
Coming up
2nd Thursday Concert.
Pictures at an Exhibition. Fred Mills and the Georgia Brass. $12
($7 students), at the box office in the Performing Arts Center,
open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays. Feb. 12, 8 p.m.
Hodgson Hall. 542-4400.
Dance Concert.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. $32–$37 (half-price
students). Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Fine Arts Theatre. 542-4400.
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