The Office of Inclusion & Belonging (OIB) cordially invites you to participate in our fourth annual Fall Dinner with 12 Strangers series. This unique event, designed to foster connection and community, promises an evening of shared stories, delightful conversations and a sense of belonging. Event Details: Dates: Sept. 26 and Nov. 7 Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Blackbridge Hall By partaking in this series, you contribute to the development of a vibrant and inclusive community...
The Office of Inclusion & Belonging (OIB) cordially invites you to participate in our fourth annual Fall Dinner with 12 Strangers series. This unique event, designed to foster connection and community, promises an evening of shared stories, delightful conversations, and a sense of belonging. Event Details: Dates: Sept. 26 and Nov. 7 Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Blackbridge Hall By partaking in this series, you contribute to the development of a vibrant and inclusive community...
In 2015, Republican Ben Carson kicked off his campaign for the U.S. presidency with a concert at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in Detroit. Selected of God, a local choir famous for their appearance in a Chrysler Super Bowl commercial, delivered a powerful gospel rendition of Eminem's "Lose Yourself." Fast forward to just a day before the 2020 election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden released an ad titled "One Opportunity," also featuring Eminem's iconic track. In August...
The principles of separation of powers, as well as checks and balances embedded in our Constitution have been challenged in a variety of ways over the years, and most recently in the Supreme Court decision, Trump v. the United States. How do we manage the power between our three branches and ensure there are checks and balances among them? Join us for this timely and important conversation. This is a community event as part of Georgia College & State University's Constitution Week...
Amaki’s art captures the lives of African women of the Diaspora through media from everyday life (photography, quilts, buttons, boxes and household items). Her work redefines the lives of past and present African American heroines and heroes and contrasts their depiction in the mainstream media. She has published a number of articles including “Art: The Paul Jones Collection in Art” and Everyday Life: The Paul Jones Collection, an exhibition catalog by the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art,...
Amaki’s art captures the lives of African women of the Diaspora through media from everyday life (photography, quilts, buttons, boxes and household items). Her work redefines the lives of past and present African American heroines and heroes and contrasts their depiction in the mainstream media. She has published a number of articles including “Art: The Paul Jones Collection in Art” and Everyday Life: The Paul Jones Collection, an exhibition catalog by the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art,...
Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of Zeno’s Eternity, from Paul Dry Books. He has also published three books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry (Story Line), Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry and also from Paul Dry Books, Dailiness: Essays on Poetry. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets’ Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. He...
Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in history from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...
Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, is the former Fuller Matthai professor of Gender and Women's Studies, She is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an outstanding book on human rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (both published by The New Press), as well as of Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit...
Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, teaches modern and contemporary southern literature, transatlantic modernism, contemporary multicultural writing and ecocriticism. She's the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU) and co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU), Remediating...
