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Sustainability Summit

Day-long event combining the Center for Integrative Conservation Research's Annual Sustainability Science Symposium with the Office of Sustainability's Semester in Review.

9:00AM – 11:00AM Faculty & Graduate Student Workshops

Options include: ‘Mentoring Interdisciplinary Graduate Students’ and ‘Arts and Sustainability’

Concert: Avi Avital

FREE for UGA students, tickets are required (Student tickets are available 11/7), $36 for non-UGA students

Mandolin player Avi Avital is one of the world’s most exciting and adventurous musicians. He is joined by harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss, who performed at the PAC recently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

FREE for UGA students, tickets are required (Student tickets are available 11/7), $36 for non-UGA students. For more information, visit: http://pac.uga.edu/calendar/2016-2017/pac-recitals-in-ramsey/avi-avital-and-kenneth-weiss.aspx

Thursday Scholarship Series Concert

One of Athens’ grandest holiday traditions returns: the UGA Holiday Concerts. The spirit of the holidays will rise to the rafters when the finest musicians at the School of Music take to the stage each night, singing and playing the music of fellowship, joy and love. Tickets are $25. For more information, visit: http://music.uga.edu/

Lunchtime Time Machine: How do you counterfeit money (in nineteenth-century America)?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Stephen Mihm. Professor Mihm teaches the second half of the U.S. survey and upper-division courses on nineteenth-century America and on the history of American capitalism. He the is author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States and co-author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.

Free admission, free pizza.

Seminar: Untangling Drivers of Biodiversity Across Ecological and Biogeographic Gradients

 

"Untangling Drivers of Biodiversity Across Ecological and Biogeographic Gradients" by Jonathan Myers in the Department of Biology at Washington University. Reception precedes seminar in lobby at 3:30 p.m. Host: Jill Anderson.

For more information, visit: http://www.ecology.uga.edu/

 

Holiday Book Sale

Nov. 29-Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This annual holiday book sale features new and used publications in all genres. If you have books you’d like to donate, please call 706-542-4662.

Concert: The Romeros

More than half a century after walking onto the world stage as the first classical guitar quartet, The Romeros continue to be a veritable institution in the world of classical music, dazzling countless audiences and winning the raves of reviewers worldwide. Known to millions as the “Royal Family of the Guitar,” the quartet now includes second and third generation Romeros. 



Make It An Evening with a tour and free dessert at the Georgia Museum of Art at 6 p.m.

$6 for UGA students, $26-47 for non-UGA students

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