THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
VOL. 19, NO. 1 A UNIT OF THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH FALL 2005 Ambassador Gertrude Mongella Accepts the 2005 Delta Prize
Ambassador Gertrude I. Mongella receiving today, and in of Tanzania accepted the 2005 Delta gratefulness to the Prize for Global Understanding at an University of Georgia, award ceremony at the Georgia I would like to create a Center for Continuing Education on collaborative endeavor March 1. with your international Ambassador Mongella, elected service program to the first President of the Pan-African enable students and Parliament on March 18, 2004, has faculty to work with me advanced intercultural and inter- on projects that will national understanding on the benefit both women continent of Africa in exercising her and children, primarily responsibilities over many years as a in Tanzania, with the political leader. Before her expectation of event- appointment to the Pan-African ually expanding our Parliament, she served the people of efforts to cover the rest Africa as Member of Parliament in of Africa.” Tanzania, Goodwill Ambassador to The Delta Prize the World Health Organization for Global Under- representing Africa, Leader of the standing, endowed by OAU Election Observer Team to Delta Air Lines and Zimbabwe for the 2002 presidential administered by the election, Member of the Council of University of Georgia, “The Future” at UNESCO, was created by Gary K. President of the NGO Advocacy for Bertsch, Director of Women in Africa, U.N. Assistant the Center for Inter- Gertrude I. Mongella Secretary General and Secretary national Trade and General for the Fourth World Security, and Betty Jean Craige, Ambassador Mongella follows Conference on Women in Beijing in Director of the Center for President Václav Havel (2004), Mrs. 1995. In all of these positions, and in Humanities and Arts, to honor Sadako Ogata (2002), President numerous others, Mongella acquired individuals who successfully promote Mikhail Gorbachev (2001), renown for promoting a better greater understanding among Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2000), understanding of the needs of cultures and nations. Its selection and President and Mrs. Jimmy women and children. process involves a UGA student Carter and The Carter Center Mongella concluded her accept- selection committee, composed (1999). Ambassador Mongella’s ance speech with the following primarily of Foundation Fellows and remarks were published in the annual challenge to the University: “In Ramsey Honors Scholars, and an proceedings of the Delta Prize award appreciation of the Delta Prize I am international Delta Prize Board. ceremony. 2 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS Fall 2005
FROM THE EDITOR
The University of Georgia is the home of the George Foster Peabody Awards, which since 1941, when they were first presented for 1940 radio productions and activities, have become the most prestigious honors bestowed in electronic media. They perpetuate the memory of George Vol. 19 • No. 1 • Fall 2005 Foster Peabody (1852-1938), a banker, philanthropist, and Center for Humanities and Arts benefactor of the University from Columbus, Georgia. 164 Psychology Building The Peabody Awards Program, housed in the Grady Athens, GA 30602-3001 College of Journalism and Mass Communication, is Phone: (706) 542-3966 directed by Horace Newcomb, Lambdin Kay Chair for Fax: (706) 542-2828 the Peabodys in the Department of Telecommunication. e-mail: [email protected] Scholars in the humanities and the arts benefit in many http://www.cha.uga.edu ways from the Peabody Awards. Not only has the Peabody Program brought attention to the University in the cable and broadcast industry, but it has also built on our campus Betty Jean Craige, an enormous collection of outstanding productions in Director radio and television. The Peabody Awards Collection, under the management of Ruta Abolins, director of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, holds more than 45,000 titles, with radio programs dating from 1940 and television from 1948. Housed on the seventh floor of the Main Library, the collection continues A D VISORY BOARD to grow, since every year’s entries are deposited with the Library after the Joel Black selection process is completed. Professor of Comparative Literature All the 45,000 programs, nominated by the electronic media industries José Luis Gómez Martínez as their very best, are available for study by faculty and students at the Distinguished Research Professor of University of Georgia and by scholars coming here from other institutions Romance Languages for that purpose. For researchers and for teachers, these materials provide John Inscoe visual histories of our nation’s culture over the past six decades. Let me just Professor of History mention a few sample items in the collection: Richard Neupert “Man-space-time,” broadcast in 1957 by KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Professor of Theatre and Film Studies depicts the efforts of the United States, including building a gen- Sylvia Pannell eration of young scientists, to beat the Soviet Union to the moon; Professor of Theatre and Film Studies Art Rosenbaum “Frank Lloyd Wright,” broadcast in 1958 by WKY News in Oklahoma Wheatley Professor in the Arts City, features an interview with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright; Fran Teague “Appalachian Spring,” broadcast in 1959 by New York Educational Professor of English Television and Radio Center in New York, records Martha Martha Thomas Graham’s dance composition, “Appalachian Spring,” set to Aaron Professor of Music Copland’s symphonic work; “Martin Luther King, Jr.,” broadcast in 1968 by National Educational Television and Radio Center, follows Martin Luther King, Jr. and A D MINISTRATION the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) around Betty Jean Craige the country as they prepare for the March on Washington. The Director film, which began as a documentary about the 1968 Poor People’s University Professor of Campaign, turned into a tribute to King after his assassination in Comparative Literature April of that year; Lloyd Winstead “Masterclass with Menuhin,” broadcast in 1988 by Canadian Program Coordinator and Assistant to the Director Broadcasting Corporation, presents Yehudi Menuhin’s master class for some of Canada’s gifted violin students and then a performance Julie Dingus by Menuhin and Corey Cerovsek of Bach’s Double Violin Office Manager Concerto at the Guelph Spring Festival; (Continued on page 5) F all 2005 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS 3 ANNOUNCEMENTS Current Competitions: Deadlines Aug. 25, Sept. 8, Oct. 4, and Nov. 17
The Center for Humanities and The CHA Visiting Artist and arts. The program is funded by Arts administers the on-campus Program brings to campus for five the University of Georgia Research nomination process for the days or nine days in the following Foundation and administered by National Endowment for the academic year distinguished artists the Center for Humanities and Humanities Summer Stipend. and performers, nominated by Arts. Deadline: October 4. Deadline: August 25. The two faculty, to conduct workshops for UGARF Senior Faculty individuals selected as UGA faculty and graduate students and Research Grant Program awards nominees then submit their to give public presentations. grants to associate and full proposals to the NEH. Deadline: September 8. professors for research projects in The CHA Junior Faculty The CHA Visiting Scholar the humanities and arts. The Summer Fellowship Program Program brings to campus for five program is funded by the provides grants to junior faculty days or nine days in the following University of Georgia Research (within ten years of their terminal academic year distinguished Foundation and administered by degree) to enable them to attend scholars, nominated by faculty, to the Center for Humanities and summer institutes or formal interact intensively with faculty and Arts. Deadline: October 4. academic programs. Deadline: graduate students and to give The CHA Conference/Exhi- November 17. public lectures. Deadline: bition/Performance Grant Program The CHA Graduate Student September 8. awards grants of up to $7,500 to Research and Performance The CHA Book Subvention faculty for the organization on Grant Program provides $1000 Program supports scholarship in campus of research conferences, grants in the current academic year the humanities and the arts at the exhibitions, and performances in to graduate students in the University of Georgia by providing the following academic year. humanities and the arts for subvention when necessary to Priority may be given to projects expenses related to completion of ensure the publication of excellent for which external funding has been their terminal degree. Deadline: research that brings credit to the solicited. Deadline: November 17. September 8. author and to the University of The Collaborative Instruction Through the CHA Department- Georgia. Deadlines: September 8 Program supports team-taught Invited Lecturer Competition, and January 26. interdisciplinary courses by the Center provides $600 grants in UGARF Junior Faculty providing a grant to the department the current academic year to Research Grant Program awards of one of the collaborators for one subsidize lectures organized by grants to assistant professors for course release time. Deadline: departments. Deadline: September 8. research projects in the humanities November 17. ❖
EXTERNAL GRANTS IN HUMANITIES AND ARTS: 2005–2006
Benjamin Ehlers (History): National Endowment for the Humanities, $3,250 William Eiland (Georgia Museum of Art): Georgia Humanities Council, $5,200 John Inscoe (History, New Georgia Encyclopedia): Non-profit foundations supporting the New Georgia Encyclopedia, $816,500 Susan P. Mattern-Parkes (History): National Institutes of Health, $73,540 Barbara McCaskill (English): National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, $4,000 Lioba Moshi (Comparative Literature Department, African Studies Institute): USDE Fulbright-Hays Group, $80,000 ($240,000 total for 2005-2007) Sarah Spence (Classics): The Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation, $25,000; and Boston University, $40,000 Pamela Voekel (History): National Endowment for the Humanities, $40,000 4 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS Fall 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS 2005-2006 2005-2006 CHA Humanities Grant- Collaborative Faculty Seminars Writing Group Instruction Grants The Center for Humanities Organizes and Arts has awarded $2,000 grants The Center for Humanities for 2005-2006 CHA Faculty Sujata Iyengar (English) will and Arts will support the team- Seminars to the following scholars: organize and chair a “CHA teaching of a course titled Martin Kagel (Germanic and Humanities Grant-Writing Group” “Computer Animation for Slavic Languages), “Eighteenth- for 2005-2006. Its purpose is to Dramatic Media” (DRAM Century Studies” share information and expertise on 5810/7810) by Michael Hussey Allan Kulikoff (History), applying for external grants in the (Theatre and Film Studies) and “Early American History and humanities for both research and Judith Wasserman (Environmental Culture” teaching. The group will have a Design). The course will address David Smilde (Sociology), budget of $2,000 for bringing the principles of kinetics and narra- “Culture and Institutions” scholars and grant administrators tive story-telling in a visual Jace Weaver (Religion, to campus during the academic medium, focusing on computer Institute for Native American year. animation in television, film, and Studies), “Early Transformations of Faculty who would like to join theater from the perspective of the Southeastern Indians” the group or who have suggestions director/animator. Alan Godlas (Religion), for speakers should contact ❖ “Islamic Studies” Iyengar.
TEN CHA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS GRANTED Call for Publication The Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board has granted Information for 2005-2006 CHA Research Fellowships to the following faculty: 2005 Adrian Childs (Music): “Music and Intolerance” Christine Harold (Speech Communication): “Designing Rhetoric: The Center for Human- Meaning and Material Culture” ities and Arts publishes in its Paul Sutter (History), “Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, spring newsletter a list of Disease, Race, and the Panama Canal” books, catalogues, and compact Maria Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (Advertising and Public Relations): disks published by scholars in “Melodrama, Fiction and Reality: The Venezuelan Crisis in a the humanities and the arts for Telenovela” the preceding calendar year. Mario Erasmo (Classics): “Reading Death in Ancient Rome” Faculty are encouraged to send Joseph Hermanowicz (Sociology): “Lives of Learning: Following citation information for Scientists in Their Careers” publications appearing in the Imi Hwangbo (Art): “The ‘Surfacing’ Variations: A Series of Three- Dimensional Drawings” year 2005 to [email protected] by Jean Ngoya Kidula (Music): “Sing and Shine: Gospel Music and Kenyan October 1. Identity” Faculty are also encour- Patricia Richards (Sociology and Women’s Studies): “Redefining the aged to send copies of their Nation: Multiculturalism, Indigenous Rights, and Daily Life in Chile books, catalogues, and CDs to and Argentina” the Center for Humanities and George Selgin (Economics): “Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, Arts for inclusion in its library. The Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821” F all 2005 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS 5 PROGRAMS CHA Cinema Roundtable Focuses on Science Fiction The fall semester CHA Cinema Roundtable, (Theatre and Film Studies) to discuss the year’s major moderated by Richard Neupert (Theatre and Film science fiction films: the War of the Worlds remake, Sky Studies) will address the “War of the Worlds: Science Captain, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the Fiction Films Today.” It will take place at 4:00 pm on final Star Wars. September 23 in 101 Student Learning Center. Telotte is author of A Distant Technology: Science Georgia Tech scholar Jay Telotte (Literature, Fiction Film and the Machine Age (1999) and Replications: Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film (1995). Technology) will join Neupert and Antje Ascheid
Scene from the movie “War of the Worlds”
FROM THE EDITOR (Continued from page 2)
“Egg, the Arts Show,” broadcast in 2001 by PBS, is “Endgame in Ireland,” broadcast in 2001 by BBC2, a weekly series about people making art across explains the development of Ireland’s 1998 the United States. The segment “Working Good Friday peace accords. Actors” records the daily lives of three actors at different stages of their careers. One UGA faculty interested in learning more about the auditions for a role on Broadway; another pre- Peabody Collection, for either research or teaching, pares for his role in the Pulitzer-Prize winning may contact Ruta Abolins, Margie Compton, Linda play Dinner with Friends; and a third recreates Elkins, Mary Miller, or Laura Shedenhelm in the Main Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing for the Library. ❖ theatre; 15 M ONDAY 16 TUESDAY 17 WEDNESDAY 18 THURSDAY 19 FRIDAY
LUNCH-IN-THEORY F The CenterforHumanitiesand Each Wed. @ 12:20
in Room 245 of the Student ALL Learning Center Classes Begin August (unless otherwise noted) 22 23 24 25 26
Science for SEMESTER 2005CAL 29 30 31 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 1 2 Humanists Lecture DAVID SALTZ, Theatre and Film Studies DOROTHY FRAGASZY, Virtual Vaudeville Psychology PETER FREY AND AMY ROSS, Technology and Society in Monkeys: A Public Affairs/Geography Illustrated Lecture on Violence Window on What It Means to be Human in Uganda and the ICC 4:00 PM 148 Student Learning Center 4:00 PM 148 StudentSeptember Learning Center 5 6 7 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 8 9 Labor Day LEARA RHODES, Journalism Holiday The Secret Life of a Playwriter
12 13 14 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 15 16 JOSEPH HERMANOWICZ, Sociology Lives of Learning: Following Scientists in their Careers 19 20 21 22 23 JANISSE RAY, Cinema Roundtable Visiting Lecturer War of the Worlds: Ecology in a Time of War Science Fiction Films Today 4:00 PM 248 Student Learning Center 4:00 PM 101 Student Learning Center
26 27 28 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 29 30 CHA-Peabody CLAUDIO SAUNT, CHERYLL ANNE GLOTFELTY, Conversation History Distinguished Lecturer Race and Removal: How One What is Ecocriticism? LAURIE KAHN-LEAVITT, Native American Family 4:00 PM 150 Student Learning Center Tupperware! Survived the 1830’s 7:00 PM Tate Center Theater HEATHER PRITCHETT, LUNCH-IN-THEORY 3 4 Visiting Lecturer 5 JEAN KIDULA, Music 6 7 Illustrated Lecture on Disney Animation 4:00 PM 265 Park Hall ISMAEL MBISE, Visiting Scholar ISMAEL MBISE,Visiting Scholar Paintings, Carvings and the Can Globalization in Africa Forge a new Imaginative Mind in Tanzania Partnership with the West? October6:00 PM Brumby Hall Rotunda 4:00 PM 148 Student Learning Center 10 11 12 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 13 14 DGAR EAP OF IRDS GEORGE SELGIN, E H B , Distinguished Lecturer LENDAR d Economics Distinguished Lecturer The Private-Enterprise A Traditional Future 4:00 PM 150 Student Learning Center
Beginnings of Modern Coinage Arts
17 18 19 ELIZABETH JELIN 20 21 Visiting Scholar The Place of Memories in Historical Process: Contemporary Experiences in South America 4:00 PM 148 Student Learning Center 24 25 26 27 28 Fall Class Break 31 1 2 3 4 November 7 8 9 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 10 11 ABDALLAH SCHLEIFER BILL KRETZSCHMAR, English Visiting Lecturer Anarchy or Chaos: How Languages Screening of “Control Room” Make and Break the Rules and Post-Screening Discussion CHA Naming Ceremony & Reception 7:00 PM Tate Center Theater 5:00 PM Georgia Center for Continuing Education Environmental Ethics 14 15 16 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 17 18 Lecture PAUL SUTTER, GUS SPETH, History Yale University Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Global Warming and Climate Change: Towards an Environmental History How do we respond? How much time do we have? of the Panama Canal 2:00 PM 171 Student Learning Center 21 22 23 24 25 Thanksgiving Holidays
28 29 30 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 1 2 MIKE HUSSEY, Theatre and Film Studies Digital Animation from UGA to the WDecemberorld 5 6 7 LUNCH-IN-THEORY 8 9 MARIO ERASMO, Classics Playing Dead in Seneca’s Troades Classes End 8 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS Fall 2005 VISITING ARTISTS & SCHOLARS
Every year the Center for Humanities and Arts brings to campus for five-day or nine-day periods eminent scholars and artists from the United States and elsewhere in the world. While on campus they engage in a range of activities, delivering public lectures, speaking to graduate and undergraduate classes, giving workshops and performances, and meeting faculty and students. Those who stay in Brumby Hall also spend an evening with students, introducing students to their field of expertise through scholarly presentations or demonstrations. During fall semester of 2005, the CHA Visiting Scholars are Elizabeth Jelin, hosted by Betina Kaplan (Romance Languages), and Ismael R. Mbise, hosted by Lioba Moshi (Comparative Literature, African Studies Institute).
Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America and Elizabeth Jelin Citizenship and Identity: Women and Social Change in Latin America, and editor of Women and Social Change Elizabeth Jelin and the series Memorias de la Represión. is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Ismael R. Mbise Científicas y Técnicas in Buenos Aires, Ismael R. Mbise is Argentina, and Professor of English Research Director and Literary Studies of the Instituto and Dean of the de Desarrollo Eco- Faculty of Humanities nómico y Social in and Social Sciences at Buenos Aires. She Makumira College, will be on campus Tumaini University in the week of October Arusha, Tanzania. He 17 and will deliver a Elizabeth Jelin will be on campus the CHA Lecture on week of October 3 and Wednesday, October 19, at 4:00 pm in 148 Student will deliver a CHA Learning Center on “The Place of Memories In Lecture on Wednesday, Historical Process: Contemporary Experiences in October 5, at 4:00 pm South America.” in 148 Student Learn- From 1998 to 2002, Jelin was Academic Director of ing Center, titled “Can Ismael R. Mbise the Program on “Collective Memories of Repression,” Globalization in Africa sponsored by the Social Science Research Council in Forge a New Partnership with the West?” New York. The program focused attention on societal Mbise is co-editor of Guardian of the World (2001), memories of repression in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, author of the novel Blood on Our Land (1979, 1982) and Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. She has held numerous co-author of Socialism and Participation (1974). visiting positions, including appointments at the He has held visiting appointments at Howard Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos in Amsterdam, University in Washington, DC, as a Fulbright Senior the Population Research Center at the University of Research Fellow, the University of Toronto, the Texas, St. Antony’s College in Oxford, and the Institute University of Swaziland, Hampton University, Old of Latin American Studies at the University of London. Dominion University, and Cambridge University, and he Jelin is author of Constructing Democracy: Human held a Swedish Institute Award in Stockholm, Sweden. F all 2005 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS 9 LECTURES
CHA Distinguished Lecturers
Center for Humanities and Arts Distinguished and Editor of the American Nature Writing Newsletter; Lecturers for fall 2005 are Cheryll Ann Glotfelty, Executive Council Member of the Western Literature nominated by Peter Hartel (Crop and Soil Sciences, Association; and Advisory Board Member of NEW- Environmental Ethics Certificate Program), and CUE, the Nature and Environmental Writers-College ❖ Edgar Heap of Birds, nominated by Jace Weaver and University Educators. (Religion, Institute of Native American Studies).
Cheryll Ann Glotfelty, Associate Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, will deliver her CHA Lecture, titled “What is Ecocriticism?”, at 4:00 pm on Thursday, September 29, in 150 Student Learning Center. Glotfelty is co-editor, with Harold Fromm, of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (1996), published by the University of Georgia Press, and numerous essays in the fields of ecocriticism, nature writing, and Western writing. Glotfelty has served as Co-Founder, Vice President, President, and Executive Secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Co-Founder and Associate Editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Co-founder, Assistant Editor Edgar Heap of Birds Edgar Heap of Birds, Professor of Art and Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, will deliver his CHA Lecture, titled “A Traditional Future,” at 4:00 pm on Thursday, October 13, in 150 Student Learning Center. Heap of Birds, a Native American visual artist who is an expert in Native American Art, is author of more than fifteen catalogues and art books. His own work has been exhibited at the Academy of Art in Florence, the Fort Worth Museum of Art, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, the Institute of American Art in Santa Fe, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Wadsworth-Atheneum in Hartford. Heap of Birds has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and the 1989 Louis Comfort Tiffany Cheryll Ann Glotfelty Foundation Award in Painting and Sculpture. ❖ 10 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS Fall 2005 LECTURES
Fragaszy Gives CHA Science for Humanists will deliver the 2005 Center for Humanities and Arts- Talk on Capuchin Monkey Problem-Solving Environmental Ethics Certificate Program Lecture on Friday, November 18, at 2:00 pm in 171 Student Dorothy Fragaszy (Psychology) will deliver a CHA Learning Center. It is titled “Global Warming and Science for Humanists Lecture at 4:00 pm on Monday, Climate Change: How do we respond? How much August 29, in 148 Student Learning Center. She will time do we have?” speak on “Technology and Society in Monkeys: A From 1993 to 1999, Speth administered the United Window on What It Means To Be Human.” Nations Development Program, the principal arm of Fragaszy, whose research in the fields of the United Nations for the funding and coordinating comparative psychology and behavioral neuroscience of technical assistance and development. He founded centers on flexible instrumental behavior in primates, the World Resources Institute in 1982 and served as its co-authored the first direct scientific report of routine president until January 1993. He chaired President tool use among a population of wild capuchin Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality and taught monkeys. She and her team observed the monkeys on environmental and constitutional law at Georgetown a biological reserve in northeastern Brazil. University. Fragaszy is co-author of The Complete Capuchin In 2002 Speth received the Blue Planet Prize from (2004) and co-editor of The Biology of Traditions: Models the Asahi Glass Foundation in honor of his and Evidence (2003). contributions to global environmental conservation. She has served as president of the International He has also won awards for his environmental work Primatological Society, and she is currently editor of from the United Nations Environment Program, the the American Journal of Primatology. She is on the National Wildlife Federation, the Environmental Law editorial board of Primates and Developmental Institute, the Keystone Center, and the Natural Psychobiology. ❖ Resource Council of America. Speth is author of Red Sky at Morning: America and James Gustave Speth Gives CHA-EECP the Crisis of the Global Environment and editor of Worlds Annual Lecture Apart: Globalization and the Environment. James Gustave Speth, Dean of the School of The CHA-EECP Lecture honors the late Eugene Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, P. Odum, who supported the series in the Center for Humanities and Arts until his death in 2002. It was established to bring to the University major environmentalist thinkers. ❖
Disney's Heather Pritchett Speaks about Animation UGA alumna Heather Pritchett, who has worked with Walt Disney Feature Animation for more than ten years, will give a CHA illustrated lecture on Disney animation at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 4, in 265 Park Hall. Pritchett is currently the Look Development Lead for the computer-animated film A Day with Wilbur Robinson, scheduled for release in 2006. Pritchett's credits include early work on EPCOT's Circle of Life and Disneyland's Night Magic parade, as well as a number of feature films, such as Hercules, Mulan, and Fantasia 2000. After moving to Disney's James Gustave Speth Burbank Studio in California, Pritchett worked on the F all 2005 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS 11 LECTURES
Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, the late President Zia El Haq of Pakistan, as well as with leading political, cultural and religious personalities throughout the region. He covered every major conflict in the region, all Arab and Islamic summits, the Indo-Pakistani War, the rise and fall of the Palestinian fedayeen, Egypt’s post-war political and economic “Open Door” policies and the oil development boom in Arabia. For more information regarding Schleifer’s week at UGA, please contact Alan Godlas ([email protected]). ❖
Amy Ross and Peter Frey Report on the International Criminal Court in Northern Uganda Amy Ross (Geography) and Peter Frey (Public Affairs) will give a CHA Presentation about the work of the International Criminal Court in violence-torn Heather Pritchett Northern Uganda at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, August 31, in 148 Student Learning Center. Ross and Frey live action films Reign of Fire and 102 Dalmatians, the traveled to Uganda in March, 2005. animated film Home on the Range, and the computer- Ross, who specializes in human rights, democratic generated films Dinosaur and Chicken Little. transitions, and institutions of truth and justice, Her visit to the University of Georgia is hosted by received the 2004 Sandy Beaver Award for Excellence ❖ Mike Hussey (Theatre and Film Studies). in Teaching. Frey is a photographer with the Office of Public Abdallah Schleifer Speaks about Islamic Affairs at the University of Georgia who has done many Media international documentary projects. In February of 2004, he photographed life on the streets of Baghdad. ❖ Abdallah Schleifer, Distinguished Lecturer in Mass Communication and Director of the Adham Center for Television Journalism at American University in Cairo, will screen his documentary Control Room on Monday evening, November 7, at 7:00 pm, in the Tate Center Theater and will join panelists afterwards in a CHA Roundtable Discussion moderated by Alan Godlas (Religion). The documentary chronicles Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the invasion of Iraq. Schleifer, a former NBC bureau chief for the Middle East, is a veteran journalist who has covered the Middle East for American and Arab media for more than 20 years. He served as NBC News radio correspondent and TV producer/reporter in the Middle East from 1970 to 1983 and NBC News Cairo bureau chief from 1974 to 1983. During that time he conducted or produced numerous television interviews with Arab and Islamic heads of state, including Egypt’s President Mubarak, the late President Sadat, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, the late King Hussein of Jordan, the late 12 CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS Fall 2005
You are cordially invited to the Naming Celebration for The Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in the Lower Lobby of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. (Program begins at 5:30 pm)
All members of the University community are invited to the celebration.
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