Maggie Snyder, associate professor of viola, is the featured artist of the October edition of the Hugh Hodgson Faculty Series. Snyder is principal violist of the Chamber Orchestra of New York and is on the artist-faculty of the Brevard Music Festival.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and children. 

For more information, visit: http://music.uga.edu/

The museum’s thrice-annual late-night art party features a live deejay, free refreshments and galleries open until 11 p.m. Music will be provided by DJ Reindeer Games and WesdaRuler. Free admission. #museummix

Film screening and discussion. Film summary: "Yawar Mallku" (Blood of the Condor) is a 1969 film by Jorge Sanjinés. Set in Bolivia, the film tells the story of a Peace Corps-like American agency that is secretly sterilizing indigenous women under the guise of providing health care, provoking an uprising by the targeted population. Based upon information shared with the filmmaker by the indigenous population. Discussant: Khédija Gadhoum specializes in contemporary Latin American literature and culture.

Meet with representatives from highly-respected graduate and professional programs from across the country and overseas, representing areas such as business, law, health and medicine, public policy and many others.

Recommended dress for this event is business casual.

Kofi Agawu, Princeton University Hughes-Rogers Professor of Music, will present a colloquium lecture on “Iconicity in African Musical Thought and Expression.”

The event is hosted by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the African Studies Institute and the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Student Association, and sponsored by the Willson Center.

For more information on the lecture, visit: http://www.franklin.uga.edu/chronicles/posts/iconicity-musicology-colloquium-kofi-agawu

"Identidades múltiples y agencias culturales en la construcción de la biografía de Juan de Espinosa Medrano (¿1629?-1688)," José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido, professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He will offer new critical perspectives for contemplating the life and work of Juan de Espinosa Medrano (circa 1629 - 1688), who rendered the Baroque poetics of Luis de Góngora into a distinctly American literary style and also adapted European dramatic models in the earliest Quechua theater.

Emanuela Bianchi, New York University, will speak. Part of the Kleiner Colloquiumn Series. Reception will follow lecture.

For more information, visit: http://phil.franklin.uga.edu/

"Women of the Garden: Cultivating Land and Community Using a Feminist Framework," Christina Hylton, Educational Theory and Practice.

LCUGA4 is an annual linguistics conference with a strong interdisciplinary focus. The theme this year is "Crossing Boundaries," presentations from students and faculty from UGA, as well as around the U.S. and abroad, that bridge the gap between linguistics and other fields will be presented. Admission to conference talks and plenary events is free for all UGA affiliates. In addition to more than 30 talks over the course of the conference weekend by student and faculty presenters from UGA, around the U.S., and abroad, the event also will feature three plenary speakers: