Using watercolors, charcoals, paintbrushes, easels and canvasses—students from Central Georgia will craft impromptu art during Georgia College & State University’s first “Artober Celebration at Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor.”It’ll be a day of “En Plein Air” painting 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. The term refers to artists leaving the confinements of four walls for an open-air experience. Rain or shine, students from Georgia College and other local schools like Mercer University...
Using watercolors, charcoals, paintbrushes, easels and canvasses—students from Central Georgia will craft impromptu art during Georgia College & State University’s first “Artober Celebration at Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor.”It’ll be a day of “En Plein Air” painting 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. The term refers to artists leaving the confinements of four walls for an open-air experience. Rain or shine, students from Georgia College and other local schools like Mercer University...
Dr. Han, assistant professor of the Communication Department, has recently published a paper titled "Ethical Consumption as Fetishism: Unmasking Capitalist Ideologies, Social Distinctions, and the Educational Imperative." This scholarly work is now available in the peer-reviewed publication. The paper can be accessed via https://doi.org/10.1177/10980482241285003.
We will meet to discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s new book, Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. This is a recent publication of an unpublished manuscript that O’Connor left behind, along with notes and ideas she had documented. It takes her thinking about race far beyond what she had done in her short life, and presents the opportunity for tantalizing speculation. (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum;...
Come see this recent major motion picture release on the big screen in Russell Auditorium! Our very own Flannery O'Connor scholar Bruce Gentry will give a brief talk about O'Connor's high school and college days that took place right here in Milledgeville. The film features Maya Hawke in the lead role and adapts some of Flannery O'Connor's stories within a loosely biographical frame. Thanks to the support of the President's office, the Provost's office and GCSU Foundation, this event...
The new podcast, "More Able than Dis..." is an initiative of the Center for Music Education at Georgia College & State University. In it, Dr. Tina Holmes-Davis, associate professor of music and stroke survivor, discusses many facets of disability in music education with guests who have various types of experience with disability in music education, some are teachers or therapists, others are disabled musicians.Find your favorite means of interaction on any of these platforms:Apple...
Please join us for the viewing of "Turtles Can Fly" and discussion with Dr. A. Cockrell-Abdullah. We hope to see you there! Oct. 9 at 5:30 p.m.Kilpatrick, room 125Refreshments will be available during the viewing.
The Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference is a multidisciplinary conference open to undergraduate students from higher education institutions within Georgia. GURC welcomes research and creative activities from all fields. Students with accepted abstracts are expected to attend and present in person at the conference. Abstract due: extended to Oct. 7, 2024 (Monday)Submission portal (click for information) - approximately 150 words (1200 characters)Conference dates: Nov. 8-9, 2024Location:...
The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will host a second symposium in support of its oral history project. Undergraduate students interviewed community members who lived in Milledgeville during the heart of Flannery O’Connor’s writing career (1951-1964) to provide important insights on life in rural Georgia, and they will share these highlights. The project has gathered information regarding experiences with class, gender, race, disability, the Cold War, religious beliefs,...
Guest Lecture on Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. Guest speakers Colleen Warren and Thomas Haddox will discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s book, which creatively reconstructs the manuscript that scholars consider Flannery O’Connor’s third novel in progress. Register online at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2cfcb3d405654dd290945079a13c92e6.
