EVENTS
Neuro-Humanities Entanglement Conference
Event Date/Time: April 12, 2012, 9:00 am
Location: TSRB Auditorium, ground floor
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series: Ashakara
Event Date/Time: April 5, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, April 5
Ashakara by Gerard Louvin (Togo) is a pharmaceutical research comedy.
Co-curators are Angela Dalle Vacche, Vinicius Navarro, and John Thornton.
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series: Sia, the dream of the Python
Event Date/Time: April 4, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, April 4
Sia, the Dream of the Python by Dani Kouyate (Burkina/Mali)is an example of gender drama.
Co-curators are Angela Dalle Vacche, Vinicius Navarro, and John Thornton.
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series: Borders
Event Date/Time: April 2, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, April 2
Borders by Mostefa Djadam (Senegal) is an example of immigration drama.
Co-curators are Angela Dalle Vacche, Vinicius Navarro, and John Thornton.
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series: Kirikou and the Sorceress
Event Date/Time: March 29, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, March 29
Kirikou and the Sorceress by Michel Ocelot is an example of West African digital animation that is appropriate for children and adults as well.
Co-curators are Angela Dalle Vacche, Vinicius Navarro, and John Thornton.
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series
Event Date/Time: March 28, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, March 28
Screenings by local filmmakers Paul "Bear" Brown ("Extinction") and Derrick F. Allan ("The Boy that Transcended Light")will be followed with a Q&A with the filmmakers. Co-moderators are John Thornton and Vinicius Navarro.
LCC/IVAN ALLEN LOCAL/GLOBAL film series: Local Filmmakers
Event Date/Time: March 26, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Clary Theatre, Student Success Center, March 26
Screenings of films by local filmmakers Donnie Leapheart ("Osiris the Series") and Nikki Simpson ("Breaking up is Hard to do") will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
"Gaming the Humanities" Workshop
Event Date/Time: February 17, 2012, 2:00 pm
Location: Ferst Room, Library, February 17, 2-3:30pm.
In this workshop hosted by The Writing and Communication Program, Dr. Duncan Buell and Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley (University of South Carolina) will share their insights regarding scholarly and pedagogical potential for serious gaming in the humanities, as well as provide an account of the bureaucratic, logistical, and cultural issues they confronted during the course of their interdisciplinary effort. They will propose for discussion a concept of “critical interactive” that seeks to move beyond “gaming” to underscore what’s at stake in presenting humanities-oriented inquiry and assertion via a digital participatory process.
LCC Co-hosts Science Fiction Event
Event Date/Time: February 16, 2012, 6:30 pm
Location: 144 Clough Commons, Thursday, Feb. 16 from 6:30-8:30 pm
LCC and the Science Fiction Collection at Georgia Tech will present "The State of Black Science Fiction 2012." This event features Atlanta-based authors, editors, journalists and game developers talking about issues of race in speculative fiction.
The event, which is free and open to the public, includes a panel discussion, a performance and a book signing.
Service Learning Presentations
Event Date/Time: February 14, 2012, 9:35 am
Location: Library East Commons Performance Space, February 14
The students in Malavika Shetty's 1102 class "Language and Society" will present projects related to their service learning project with Jumpstart , a national organization that works with early childhood literacy.
Students will present electronic versions of their posters, flyers, graphic emails, news articles, social media pages etc. These projects will ultimately be used by Jumpstart in their publicity and marketing efforts.
The presentations will take place on Tuesday, Feb 14 at the Library East Commons performance space in two sessions:
Session 1 from 9:35 to 10:55 am
Session 2 from 12:05 to 1:25 pm
Gloria Betcher to Lecture on Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010)
Event Date/Time: October 11, 2011, 4:00 pm
Location: Ferst Room, Library, October 11, 2011, 4:00 PM
Gloria Betcher, Assistant Director of Graduate Education, Program Coordinator for Technical Communication, and Associate Professor of early British drama and medieval literature at Iowa State will speak on “Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010): The Construction of an Intertextual Hero.”
The lecture which is sponsored by LCC and the Writing and Communication Program will be held in the Ferst Room (Main Library 7th floor).
Vision: I Imagine, I See, I Make
Event Date/Time: May 3, 2011, 5:00 pm
Location: A two-week long salon for Georgia Tech and the surrounding community (various locations)
How is what we engineer and design guided by what we can imagine?
How are our imagination and our understanding inspired by our ability to visualize?
These questions have drawn faculty and students from the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts, Computing, and Architecture at Georgia Tech to organize an exhibition and a conversation around the theme, “Vision: I Imagine, I See, I Make.”
This two week-long salon will demonstrate how student and faculty creativity at Georgia Tech challenges the divide between engineering, science, and the arts. It will be an experimental platform for advancing trans-disciplinary education at Tech; and connecting to like minds in Atlanta, thus redefining the public context of our creative efforts.
Exhibits range from attempts to understand the multiple facets of traffic modeling and management, to exploring the connection between visualization and music; from architectural projects, to virtual game worlds; and from discussions of how innovation is expressed in patents, to discussions of the role of computational models in the making of new forms of ornament.
The exhibition and reception will be hosted in the Hinman Research Building on May 3, 5 p.m-8p.m.
A Special Forum will focus on the potential of trans-disciplinary education--embodied in the exhibits and called for in the Georgia Tech Strategic Plan. The invited participants include James Elkins, Simon Penny, Lars Spuibroek, and Barbara Maria Stafford.
The Special Forum will be held in the College of Architecture Auditorium Renisch-Pierce on May 7, at 5p.m. Following the panel discussion and audience Q & A, there will be a Tour of the Exhibition.
The Closing Panel Discussion--Exploring the Look of Humanistic Technological University of the Future--will be led by Aaron Bobick and will feature other Tech faculty participation. The panel will be May 12 at 5 pm in the College of Architecture Renisch-Pierce Auditorium.
Tim Morton Talk, "Dawn of the Hyperobjects" April 19 at 11
Event Date/Time: April 19, 2011, 11:00 am
Location: Library's Ferst Room (7th Floor)
Morton's talk explores hyperobjects: entities such as radioactive materials and global warming. Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space, subject to temporal distortion, nonlocal, phased and “interobjective.” They appear in the human world as a product of our thinking through the current ecological crisis, which is best thought as the time of hyperobjects. Why? Because this is the moment at which massive nonhuman, nonsentient entities make decisive contact with humans, ending various human concepts such as “world,” “horizon,” Nature and even “environment.”
The existence of hyperobjects poses a number of problems for ecology and philosophy, from theories of self-interest to deep ontological questions. Hyperobjects also challenge artists and other kinds of creators to find ways of meeting them and working with them in their practice.
Morton, Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007), seven other books and over seventy essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He blogs regularly at Ecology Without Nature .
Tedesco to Speak on "Universal Access to Information: Influence of Alternative Media Production on Textbook Usability"
Event Date/Time: February 17, 2011, 11:00 am
Location: Library East Commons, February 17 at 11AM
Joe Tedesco, Outreach and Assistive Technology Manager at the Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), an organization working to improve technology and access for students who have print-related disabilities.
The program is planned by the Brittain Fellows’ Special Events Committee in conjunction with the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.
DM "Ducks Feeding Humans" Project, December 5
Event Date/Time: December 5, 2010, 3:00 pm
Location: Piedmont Park
Michael Nitsche's Project Team will be trying out its "Ducks feeding Humans" project in Piedmont Park on Sunday, December 5 at 3pm near the pond (where the bridge is.
The project consists of the team tracking ducks (and geese) in the pond. Depending on the fowls' behavior (whether they come into a certain area of the water), a large duck-head will dispense candy.
Poetry@Tech "Firsts"
Event Date/Time: December 2, 2010, 6:30 pm
Location: Kress Auditorium at The Robert C. William Paper Museum
For the first time Poetry@ Tech offers science fiction as well as poetry, as the December 2 reading features acclaimed sci-fi writer Kathleen Ann Goonan in addition to poets, Gregory Fraser, and Jillian Weise, a fine poet whose latest book is actually fiction.
The second “first” is that the reading will be at a new venue, the Kress Auditorium at The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, which is located in the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech at 500 Tenth St. Atlanta, GA 30309. For directions or parking information visit Paper Museum .
You can meet the writers at a reception before the reading.
GREGORY FRASER is the author of two poetry collections, STRANGE PIETÁ (Texas Tech, 2003) and ANSWERING THE RUINS (Northwestern, 2009). He is also the co-author, with Chad Davidson, of the workshop textbook WRITING POETRY: CREATIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008) and the composition textbook ANALYZE ANYTHING: A GUIDE TO CRITICAL READING AND WRITING (Continuum, forthcoming in 2011). His poetry has appeared in literary journals including the PARIS REVIEW, the SOUTHERN REVIEW, and PLOUGHSHARES. The recipient of grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser serves as associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of West Georgia.
JILLIAN WEISE is the author of THE AMPUTEE’S GUIDE TO SEX and THE COLONY. Her work has appeared in A PUBLIC SPACE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and TIN HOUSE. Her poem "Incision" was animated and produced by PBS and the Poetry Foundation for POETRY EVERYWHERE. Weise received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Fulbright Program before joining the faculty at Clemson University.
KATHLEEN ANN GOONAN is an award-winning science fiction novelist as well as the author of many poems, short stories and essays. She is presently a Visiting Professor at Georgia Tech. Her web page is Goonan .
The third “first” is that this is the first time Poetry@Tech has partnered with the folks at The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, and they will have the museum open for tours before and after the reading. Come at 6:30 for the reception and check out the museum. The museum in itself is a must-see with its history of paper, papermaking, and all things related, but through mid-December, the museum is featuring a special exhibition: TWINROCKER: FORTY YEARS OF HAND PAPERMAKING which showcases one of the finest collections of fine-art poetry books anywhere. For more on this exhibit, click on: Exhibits .
Like all Poetry@Tech events, this is free and open to the public--no tickets or reservations needed. There will be a book sale and signing following the event.
Mirzoeff to Talk About Visual Culture as Part of LCC's Distinguished Speaker Series (2010-2011)
Event Date/Time: November 9, 2010, 4:30 pm
Location: Library Ferst Room (7th Floor) November 9 at 4:30
In "The Right to Look," Professor Mirzoeff opposes the critical study of visual culture to the notion of “visuality,” the means by which autocracy imagines history. Against the techniques of visuality, whose beginning can be found in plantation slavery, comes the right to look. Mirzoeff’s presentation demonstrates the functioning of these techniques in relation to the strategy of global counterinsurgency that is currently the doctrine of the U.S. military.
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is an art historian whose work has been key to the development of visual cultural studies in the past decade. His books include the widely read An Introduction to Visual Culture , Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture , and the forthcoming The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality .
VarietyTech/Let's Try This! Improv Show
Event Date/Time: October 1, 2010, 8:00 pm
Location: Dean Dull Theatre, Oct 1-2
8 o'clock each evening. Featuring music, dance, and theatre.
Performance Events Feature Students in Leahy and Farley's Class
Event Date/Time: April 22, 2010, 10:30 pm
Location: Dad's Garage, 280 Elizabeth Street, Atlanta, GA
CS4803: CI Computational Improv is a special topics course taught by Bill Leahy (Computer Science) and Third-Year Brittain Felow Kathryn Farley. The class originated in the desire to bring two seemingly unrelated worlds together in a real-world computing experience in a theatrical improvisational setting.
After studying the theory and practices of improv, the nine students in the class came up with concepts for adding computing driven special effects to an improv show and met with improvisers from Dad's Garage. That collaboration identified ideas the group wished to pursue, and the students are implementing those effects.
Students are put in a situation where they must develop a system to make the magic happen and it has to work first time. The group will demonstrate their skills at an actual Dad's Garage improv show on April 22.
Tickets are available at Dad's Garage .
Martin McDonagh's THE PILLOWMAN
Event Date/Time: February 19, 2010, 8:00 pm
Location: DramaTech, February 19-20, 24-27
DramaTech AD invites all adults to an evening of drama but warns that some disturbing imagery is not suitable for children.
With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, The Pillowman is an urgent work of "extraordinary power and stunning theatrical bravura". (London Daily Mail)
Performances (at 8pm):
Feb 19-20, 24-27
Ticket Prices:
Students: $5
Faculty/Staff: $8
General: $10
For reservations, go to DramaTech
Crawford's Class to Present Walden as Pecha Kucha
Event Date/Time: September 11, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Library East Commons, Tuesday September 15 at 11 a.m.
Hugh Crawford’s LCC 3823HP “The Thoreau House Project” will present Thoreau's Walden as Pecha Kucha.
Pecha Kucha follows a simple formula: 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes 40 seconds, so, by dividing the book into 7 sections, the class will dash through Walden . Definitely not the Walden you studied in the 10th grade.
Everyone is invited to re-visit a 19th century American classic re-mediated in a 21st century form.
LCC and Tech's Writing and Communication Program to Host Atlanta Zombie Symposium
Event Date/Time: September 8, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Clary Theatre, 1-3:45 on September 12
The day will feature a number of planned events. Of most significant academic interest is a panel followed by a reception in the Clary Theater from 1:00-3:45 on Saturday, September 12. The panel, "The Zombie Perceived: Religion, Media, and Society," will feature Dr. Dianne Stewart (Dept. of Religion, Emory), Lazslo Xalieri (an independent writer), and Dr. Andrea Wood, Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow. The symposium organizer, Stan Woodard (a local artist), will moderate.
For information on other events see Zombie Flyer .
VarietyTech/Let's Try This! Improv Summer 2009 Show
Event Date/Time: June 5, 2009, 8:00 pm
Location:
Singing, dancing, acting, improv. These are the four ingredients to a spectacle of entertainment. Come and join us as VarietyTech and Let's Try This! perform their own special mix.
Find out more about VarietyTech and Let's Try This!.
Performances:
* Fri Jun 05 2009 at 08:00 PM * Sat Jun 06 2009 at 08:00 PM
Virtual Nineteenth-Century World's Fair
Event Date/Time: April 23, 2009, 8:30 am
Location: Library East Commons
Each group chose one nineteenth-century technology to research for the semester. The final product for each group is a web-page & presentation on the chosen technology, showing not just how that technology works, but also why it was invented, what narratives does that technology tell about the culture/society/political landscape of its time, how or why it is better than other technologies preceding it, etc. (The projects include technologies like the light bulb, alternating current, Pullman Palace Cars, indoor skating rinks.) A web page acts both as a hub to all the group's web projects as well as a place for more information about the assignment details: Virtual Fair . The student projects haven't been uploaded yet, but the axle of the Ferris Wheel links to the project's assignment sheet, and the administration building to the right links to the page detailing student research strategies.
Virtual Nineteenth-Century World's Fair
Event Date/Time: April 20, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Library East Commons, Thursday April 23, 8:30 - 1:30
Each group chose one nineteenth-century technology to research for the semester. The final product for each group is a web-page & presentation on the chosen technology, showing not just how that technology works, but also why it was invented, what narratives does that technology tell about the culture/society/political landscape of its time, how or why it is better than other technologies preceding it, etc. (The projects include technologies like the light bulb, alternating current, Pullman Palace Cars, indoor skating rinks.)
A web page acts both as a hub to all the group's web projects as well as a place for more information about the assignment details: Virtual Fair . The student projects haven't been uploaded yet, but the axle of the Ferris Wheel links to the project's assignment sheet, and the administration building to the right links to the page detailing student research strategies.
VarietyTech / Let's Try This! Fall 2008
Event Date/Time: August 20, 2008, 12:00 am
Location: DramaTech
Singing, dancing, acting, improv. These are the four ingredients to a spectacle of entertainment. Come and join us as VarietyTech and Let's Try This! perform their own special mix.
Performances:Oct 16 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 17 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 18 2008 at 08:00 PM
DramaTech
French and African Film Series: GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE (L'ESQUIVE, Kediche, 2003, 117mn) – DATE MOVIE – Thursday, October 25 - 7pm
Event Date/Time: October 3, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: CLARY THEATER OF THE GEORGIA TECH STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress (Sara Forestier), César Awards (2005) Set in a bleak suburban housing project, Games of Love and Chance follows a group of teenagers, poor and immigrant for the most part. Many are involved in a class production of Marivaux’s 18th-century classic “Les jeux de l’amour et du hasard.” The rehearsals, both in and out of the classroom, are often the stage for their daily interactions. Krimo, whose dad is in prison, leaves his long-time girlfriend to pursue Lydia, a petulant girl who plays the lead role. Although he has no theater experience and the performance is days away, his infatuation leads him to take the part of Arlequin to play opposite Lydia – making a fool of himself in the process. Arguments among the group quickly surface as Krimo’s sudden love interest turns into a source of gossip and tension. “Using non-professional actors who are astonishingly fresh and vigorous, [Abdellatif Kechiche] manages to mesh reality and hope together. “Games of Love and Chance” describes the world as it is and dreams as they should be.” Pierre Murat, Télérama Film at Tech
Drama Tech Production of "What Happened to Mr. Sugarlumpkins," Summer 2008
Event Date/Time: July 16, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: DT Main-stage
June 27, 28, July 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 - 2008
Drama Tech Production of "Urine Town," Spring 2008
Event Date/Time: July 16, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: DT Main-stage
April 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19