Shakespeare in Ireland: 1616/1916/2016.

This afternoon symposium celebrates the richness of Irish literature informed by Shakespeare and the often political role that Shakespeare has played in Ireland. It features director Tom Magill, Shakespeare scholar Nicholas Grene and a staged reading of Lady Augusta Gregory's plays by Fran Teague's students.

"Effects of Climate Change on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Latest Findings and Why It Matters to Outside the Arctic," Thomas Mote, Distinguished Research Professor and Chair of the UGA Department of Geography.

Brown Bag Bioinformatics lunch tutorials are informal gatherings that bring people together to learn, share and discuss bioinformatics. This session: "Trimming and Quality Assessment of Illumina Data with Geneious," Travis Glenn, Environmental Health Science.

For more information, visit: http://qbcg.uga.edu/bbb-tutorials/

One of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music's large wind bands, the UGA Wind Symphony will perform the finest standard and new repertoire for wind bands as part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival.

Coinciding with UGA’s 2016 Spotlight on the Arts celebration, the Creative Writing Program is hosting a reading featuring one current Ph.D. student and one faculty member. Doctoral candidate Gabrielle Fuente’s first novel, The Sleeping World, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. Faculty member Magdalena Zurawski’s poetry collection Companion Animal was awarded the 2016 Norma Farber First Book Award by the Poetry Society of America.

Kim Mawhinney, Head of Art, Ulster Museum, Belfast, examines the challenges and consequences of using art to engage the public with the legacy of Northern Ireland’s recent past.  Art of the Troubles, 2014, and Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony, 2015, were two landmark exhibitions demonstrating the Ulster Museum’s ongoing commitment to helping the public explore, understand and respond to the 30-year period of Northern Ireland’s history known as the Troubles.

Come learn about Small Satellites, specifically CubeSats, and how they are pushing the limits of space based technology. Jasper Wolfe and UGA Alumni Roger Hunter from NASA Ames Research Center will give a review of the NASA Nodes CubeSat mission -- objectives, requirements, and lessons learned. The purpose of Nodes is to demonstrate autonomous command and control of a CubeSat "swarm", routing of commands to a CubeSat from the ground via another CubeSat, and sharing of science data collection among operational Cubesats.

For the second year, the UGA Libraries encourage Georgians to read at least one book by each inductee before the Nov. 7 ceremony.

The Class of 2016 and their recommended reading selections are: Brainard Cheney, Lightwood; Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, The Making of a Southerner; Bill Shipp, Murder at Broad River Bridge; James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room; and Roy Bount Jr., Now, Where Were We?  

"Where I’m Coming From," Roy Blount Jr., author. Georgia Writers Hall of Fame event. Part of the Signature Lecture series. Sponsored by the UGA Libraries.

For centuries, Vienna stood as the cultural epicenter of Europe, a rich melting pot of music, art, and literature, and a city that always seemed to have one foot firmly planted in tradition, with the other looking steadfast into the future. This program traces the evolution of musical expression in the "city of dreams" through the works of three of its greatest vioices...Mozart, Schoenberg, and Brahms. The program includes Mozart's String Quintet in C Minor, Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), and Brahms's String Sextet No. 1.