George H. Nash, Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, will present a lecture entitled “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America.”

Nash is the author of a foundational text on American conservatism and a three-volume biography of Herbert Hoover commissioned by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. His essays have appeared in numerous national publications including the American Spectator, Modern Age, National Review, New York Times Book Review, Policy Review and Wall Street Journal. 

Deborah L. Birx, Ambassador-at-Large and the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy with the U.S. Department of State, will present a lecture entitled “The War Against AIDS, 35 Years and Counting: Are We There Yet?” The lecture is part of the Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard series, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism and the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

Colm Tóibín, Irish author, essayist and journalist, will give the Delta Visiting Chair Lecture entitled “Staying Home, Leaving Home: Ireland and America” March 16, 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. Tóibín has written numerous acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, essays and works of criticism and memoir. His award-winning novel Brooklyn was adapted for an Oscar-nominated 2015 film starring Saoirse Ronan.

Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Rick Ridgeway, Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Patagonia clothing company, will present a lecture entitled “The Elephant in the Room.” Ridgeway is a mountaineer, adventurer, environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman who oversees vanguard environmental and sustainability initiatives. He was part of the 1978 team that included the first Americans to summit K2, the world's second-highest mountain.

Viet Than Nguyen, the Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, will give the Betty Jean Craige Annual Lecture entitled "Nothing Ever Dies: Ethical Memory and Radical Writing in The Sympathizer.”  Nguyen’s The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, while his non-fiction work Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was short-listed for a 2016 National Book Award.

Keith Parker, general manager and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, will speak. Parker was recognized as the Outstanding Public Transportation Manager by the American Public Transportation Association in 2015 and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in 2016.

 

Paula Vogel’s experimental play utilizes a contemporary version of bunraku puppetry in its haunting deconstruction of an “All-American” family’s road trip to their grandparent’s house for Christmas. Runs at 8 p.m. Jan. 31- Feb. 5 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 5. 

"Translating Ecology: From Public Art to Climate Action," Timothy Carter (PhD '06), president of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization that works to build a sustainable and positive global future through leadership networks in higher education. A reception precedes the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecology lobby, hosted by Laurie Fowler, executive director for Public Service and External Affairs at the Odum School of Ecology and director for Policy of the UGA River Basin Center.

This Georgia Law Review Symposium will bring together a diverse set of voices to discuss the state of the law in the intersection of criminal law and policing. The recent news coverage of policing issues and developments in case law make this a relevant time to discuss the questions created by these current events. By dedicating its symposium issue to these topics, the Georgia Law Review hopes to provide a forum for discussion about the current and future state of policing.

LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature at the University of Georgia, in conjunction with the Creative Writing Program, presents a reading by writer and poet Dean Rader. Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, American Indian studies, and popular culture. His newest collection of poems, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. For more on Rader, visit: http://www.deanrader.com/poems.html