Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium 2024 In Partnership with Georgia College Research Day March 26 and 27, 2024 Co-sponsored by MURACE, The Women’s Center at Georgia College & State University, the Cultural Center at GCSU, the Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies Department, the College of Arts and Sciences and GCSU. For more information contact Dr. Katie Simon at katie.simon@gcsu.edu. Program Schedule: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Georgia College...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
After traveling 24 hours by plane and a motorized rickshaw ride through the twisting streets of Udaipur, India, to their ‘haveli’ (hotel)—a mansion several centuries old—two Georgia College & State University students were exhausted and barely able to keep their eyes open. Although they hadn’t eaten, they said they just wanted to go to bed and sleep. Trudging to their rooms, the students looked out at the stunning city—the “Venice of India”—emerging from the serenity of a lake. All...
Wednesday, Feb. 28 5 p.m. Peabody Auditorium The High Museum of Art's African art collection is disproportionately representative of peoples and cultures of the modern-day nation of Nigeria, presenting the opportunity to position the institution as specialists in Nigerian art. To enrich and further contextualize this area of distinction, the African art department recently launched an initiative focused on collecting and exhibiting 20th century and modernist Nigerian art. Across subfields,...
Wednesday, Feb. 28 5 p.m. Peabody Auditorium The High Museum of Art's African art collection is disproportionately representative of peoples and cultures of the modern-day nation of Nigeria, presenting the opportunity to position the institution as specialists in Nigerian art. To enrich and further contextualize this area of distinction, the African art department recently launched an initiative focused on collecting and exhibiting 20th century and modernist Nigerian art. Across subfields,...
Certified ServSafe® manager Blair Henninger of Suwanee, Georgia, discovered her passion for cooking fine cuisine at age 14. She has been on the culinary career track in high school since that time and traveled on culinary study abroad programs to France in 2022 and Spain in 2023. Henninger discovered the culinary arts when she experienced the world outside of the United States, traveling to Paris and London with her family when she was 14 years old. Ultimately, she aims to pursue...
Georgia College & State University students got a taste of the good life during a study abroad program this summer in the City of Light. Drs. Sunita Manian and James Winchester led 23 Georgia College students on a study abroad program to Paris France May 10 through June 15, 2022. The program called, “GC France: Gender, Culture and the Good Life: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Paris,” encompassed a wide variety of cultures, rich history, sites, food and more. “Paris is one of...
The love of dance runs deep for Dr. Carla Walter. It’s not only the aesthetic value of it she enjoys but how it allows people to express their feelings and emotions and connects them to the world around them. “I have always loved dance,” said Walter. “From the time I was a young child, but also now, I love the spirituality of it.” As the Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar for the Spring 2022 semester, Walter will teach Global Perspectives of Indigenous Dance and Religious Histories...
This year, two philosophy majors will start graduate programs with full-ride scholarships to Penn State and the University of Hawaii. This marks the second time in the last two years that Georgia College philosophy students are rising in the ranks of graduate studies during a time when it is increasingly difficult to gain admission with funding to the top philosophy Ph.D. programs. This year, Penn State had 160 applicants and accepted only six. In the last three years, four Georgia...
