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Concert: UGA Symphony Orchestra

GASO takes on Mahler’s ‘prophetic’ Symphony No. 6

The UGA Symphony Orchestra will present Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. Led by Mark Cedel, the orchestra’s second of four spring concerts will bring to life the Austrian composer’s complex symphony.



Tickets: $10 each or $5 with a UGAstudent ID

For more information: http://www.music.uga.edu/news-and-events/ugaso-takes-mahler%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cpersonal-prophetic%E2%80%9D-symphony-no-6

 

 

Exhibition Opening Reception

Join the Dodd Galleries as we celebrate six new exhibitions featuring Post-MFA Fellow in Photography Mo Costello, Fellows in Sculpture Courtney McClellan and Kevin Varney, graduate candidate in Painting + Drawing Ellie Dent, our annual Scientific & Medical Illustration student juried show, and Dodd Professorial Chair Paul Pfeiffer's presentation of three major video works: Desiderata, Fragment of a Crucifixion, and The Pure Products Go Crazy. 

Concert: Hugh Hodgson Wind Ensemble

The Hodgson Wind Ensemble will play its first of three spring concerts. D. Ray McClellan, professor of clarinet at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will join the ensemble as soloist for Henri Rabaud's "Solo de Concours."

$10; $5 with a UGACard

Sponsored by: Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Contact: Clarke Schwabe 706-542-4752

Guest Lecture: Phillip Cary

PhillipCary.jpg"Martin Luther's Gospel," Phillip Cary, a professor of philosophy at Eastern University and scholar in residence at the Templeton Honors College at Eastern.

Cary is one of the most prominent and distinguished scholars of protestant theology in the United States today. He has written extensively on Martin Luther, and attendees would be hard pressed to find another scholar who can do such justice both to Luther's historical situatedness and to his contemporary relevance.

 

Guest Lecture: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa will discuss her creative process and debut novel, "Daughters of the Stone." The novel chronicles the lives of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women on the island and the mainland.

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author and finalist of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers, will discuss her creative process, the importance of stories and her debut novel's representation of five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women and their historical, cultural and magical journeys of survival, resistance and celebration.  

Athens Science Café

UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication advertising professor Tom Reichert will present this month's science discussion entitled, "Sex in Advertising: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Too Afraid to Ask." The event is free and open to the public.

Darl Snyder Lecture: Contesting Constitutional Change and Restoring Democracy in Burkina Faso.

Zéphirin Diabré, opposition leader in the Parliament, former presidential candidate of Burkina Faso, former deputy administrator of the U.N. Development Program and visiting Harvard scholar will be give a lecture titled "Contesting Constitutional Change and Restoring Democracy in Burkina Faso." Hosted by the African Studies Institute.

HERS East Africa panel discussion

Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) is an educational non‐profit organization based in the United States providing leadership and management training for women in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The African Studies Institute presents a panel presentation featuring HERS - East Africa on Friday, February 19 beginning at 12:20 pm in the International Student Life Lounge, 210 Memorial Hall, and lasting into the afternoon. The panel, "Building on Success, Exploring Collaborations in Research, Training, and Global Outreach with HERS-East Africa," is open to the public.

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