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Philosophy Department Colloquium: Katherine Brading

"How Physics Flew the Philosophers' Nest," Katherine Brading, Duke University.  Co-sponsored with Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Departments of Philosophy, History, Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics, with support from Scott and Heather Kleiner.


Philosophy Colloquium: Michaela McSweeney

"Logic and Metaphysics: One Big Mess," Michaela McSweeney, Boston University.


Philosophy Department Colloquium

Dr. Shannon Spaulding with Oklahoma State University will speak on motivated empathy. Funded by the Kleiner Lecture Series. See web link below for Zoom details. Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf--sqTsuGddjL9sgT2POPztVvvsEHiee


Philosophy Department Colloquium

Sergio Gallegos with the City University of New York will speak about Monstrosity as a Pedagogical Tool: Socrates, Montaigne, & Sor Juana. Funded by the Kleiner Lecure Series and co-sponsored with the UGA Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Reception will follow lecture.


Colloquium: Patricia A. Banks

“Diversity Capital: Race and Corporate Support for the Arts,” Patricia A. Banks, co-editor-in-chief of Poetics and professor of sociology, Mount Holyoke College. This talk is part of a series on the Black image that is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for African American Studies. Information on access to this virtual event, which will be conducted via Zoom, will be available soon.


Philosophy Colloquium: Cameron Buckner

The third colloquium in the philosophy department's Kleiner Lecture Series supported by Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence features Dr. Cameron Buckner of  the University of Houston, who will speak on "Can Deep Neural Networks Model--Or Even Transcend--the Human Faculty of Abstraction?" Over the last five years, deep neural networks have accomplished feats that skeptics thought would remain beyond the reach of artificial…


Philosophy Colloquium: "AI, Your Brain, and the 'Thought Data Economy'"

The next colloquium in the philosophy department's Kleiner Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, features Susan Schneider with Florida Atlantic University and Princeton University. Learn more at https://phil.uga.edu/events/content/2020/susan-schneider-ai-your-brain-thought-data-economy. Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofumqrjMtE9Cug


SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background

We speculate about the imprint of higher spin supermultiplets on cosmological correlators, i.e., the non- Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background. Supersymmetry is used as a guide to introduce the contribution of fermionic higher spin particles, which have been neglected thus far in the literature. We compute the curvature perturbation 3-point function for supersymmetric higher-spin particle exchanges and find the known P(cos) angular…


Uncovering a New Universality at a 1st Order Phase Transition

Prof. David Landau, Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99531486802  


Sociology Colloquium Series

"The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment,” Rory McVeigh, professor of sociology, University of Notre Dame. McVeigh is the director of The Center for the Study of Social Movements and co-editor of American Sociological Review.  His research focuses on identifying structural foundations of social conflict and investigating long-term consequences of social movement mobilization. …


Philosophy Department Colloquium

"Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Mythological Thought," Greg Moss, Chinese University of Hong Kong.


“The Police Man’s Burden: Racialized Masculinities and the Politics of Legitimate Violence”

Department of Sociology Spring 2019 Colloquium Series Featuring Jennifer Carlson, assistant professor of sociology, University of Arizona The talks focus on police attitudes on gun policy, challenging the Weberian assumption that states and state agents monopolize legitimate violence. It suggests an integrated model of policing that explains how masculinity and race intersect in police work not just to produce criminalization but also impunity…


Philosophy Colloquium: "How Long is Now?"

Elon University professor of philosophy and environmental studies Anthony Weston will speak on "How Long is Now?" in 115 Peabody Hall on Wednesday, January 16 as part of the Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series. Weston is a scholar of pedagogy, critical thinking, environmentalism, and social philosophy who teaches and writes on a variety of interdisciplinary themes and subjects, working with biologists, astronomers, Zen…


Philosophy Colloquium

"Am I Responsible for Climate Change," Dale Jamieson, New York University. Reception will follow lecture. Supported in part of the Kleiner Lecture Series and partially funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.


Philosophy Colloquium

"Aristotle's Bifurcation of Reality and Asouzu's 'Ibuanyidanda Ontology': Complementarity Synthesis," Alloys S. Ihuah, Benue State University, Makurdi-Nigeria. Reception will follow lecture.


ICE Conversation: Will Alexander

Will Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist and pianist. His books include Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, and Compression and Purity. Alexander has taught at many colleges and universities, including the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the University of California, and Hofstra University, among others…


Romance Languages Special Guest Colloquium: Antonia Arslan and Siobhan Nash-Marshall

“Post-Truths and People: The Armenian Genocide and its Negation,” Antonia Arslan, author and former professor of Italian modern and contemporary literature at the University of Padova, and Siobhan Nash-Marshall, professor of philosophy and the Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy at Manhattanville College. Sponsored by the Romance Languages Fund Antonia Arslan was a professor of Italian modern and contemporary literature at the…


Colloquium: Iconicity in African Musical Thought and Expression

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-…

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A better grasp on textbook material

In large-enrollment courses, Franklin faculty continue to be instrumental in pioneering access to free, online textbooks to help students save money and to improve teaching: The University System of Georgia (USG) has been a nationwide leader in using free online textbooks, and UGA has been at the forefront of those efforts, helping its students save more than $2.5 million since 2013. The bulk of that effort has come through a partnership with…


Romance Languages Special Guest Colloquium: José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido

"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…


Philosophy Colloquium Event

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/

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Digital Humanities: the power of the computer

Digital humanities at UGA recently received a boost among faculty when it became eligible for the Study in a Second Discipline fellowship from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. The impetus was largely due, McGinn said, to a push by Roxanne Eberle, an associate professor of English in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. McGinn is currently working with Eberle each week on a project analyzing the…

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Docampo receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Congratulations to Distinguished Research Professor of Cellular Biology and Barbara and Sanford Orkin/Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Roberto Docampo, who has been named the University of Georgia's recipient of the 2017 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award: The award, which is administered by provosts at the 14 universities in the SEC, recognizes professors with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship who…

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Focus on the Faculty: Paula Lemons

Associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology Paula Lemons conducts research that aims to improve science education across the nation while helping students at UGA develop independence, teamwork and problem solving skills: When did you come to UGA and what brought you here? In 2007, during a transition in my career, I met Peggy Brickman, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Plant Biology, at a conference. She told me…

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WIP call for proposals

The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program develops courses to provide students with writing opportunities and instruction beyond the First-year Composition experience aimed at improving the nature and quality of the undergraduate academic experience at UGA. This is accomplished in several ways but one of the most important is facuty-driven input on courses and skills most urgently needed. To that end, the WIP has an open call…
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