Previous Events

Students will have a chance to take a break from studying at one of the UGA Libraries at Paws & Relax on Reading Day. The Main Library, Science Library, Miller Learning Center, and Special Collections Library will host therapy dogs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4. The outdoor event will give students a chance to get some comfort from furry friends. Participants at the MLC location will have the opportunity to enjoy a free coffee from Java Joy on the colonnade. Paws & Relax will also be held outside at Ramsey and Aderhold Hall.

   "‘We had not thus trespassed against your consent’: The Blackamoor Poems by Henry Rainold and Henry King (1630s-1650s)."

Have you ever heard a sound that evokes a memory or an emotion? Listened to something that pulls you back to a particular place and time, a memory, a feeling? Sounds are an integral part of our knowing and being in the world, and yet they are often overlooked or flattened into textual representations in traditional research. Sonic inquiry is an interdisciplinary method of research that takes up skills and traditions from geography, anthropology, ethnography, and the arts.

Using StoryMapsJS, Monica Berg will present her historical research into the early years of tourism in Yellowstone National Park. She will take us back to the late nineteenth century, showing us what a typical tourist at this time could find themselves seeing and doing on a trip out West.  

Learn about ORCid, Google Scholar, Researchgate.net, and building your own website!

Over the course of 6 weeks, 8 students have developed unique and engaging tour stops as part of the Special Collections Student Docent Program. Join us at UGA Special Collections to explore the galleries with our newest tour guides! This tour is free and open to the public. Free parking for off-campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck. For more information, contact Jess Brown at jmb18449@uga.edu, 706-542-6367. 

Join the UGA Fashion Design Student Association on Thursday, April 14th at the Special Collections Building for "Prints and Power: a Frankie Welch-inspired Fashion Show." Doors open at 6:00 PM, runway show begins at 7:00 PM. Tickets are required and available for purchase here: https://linktr.ee/fdsauga 

This event is co-sponsored by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 

Update: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Congressman Kinzinger will be unable to join us in-person for our upcoming Congress Week 2022 conversation. Instead, he will engage in a virtual conversation with attendees present at the Special Collections Libraries. Attendees present will still have the opportunity to hear directly from Congressman Kinzinger on the issues of the day live and to ask him questions. The lunch reception will still be provided following the event. 

On Tuesday, April 12th, The Georgia Review will host an evening of poetry, featuring Arthur Sze and Ilya Kaminsky reading with the 2020 and 2021 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize winners, Hannah Perrin King and Mathew Weitman. Open to the public and free of charge, this event will take place in the Ciné Lab from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., with a book signing during intermission at 6:30.

As part of its annual Congress Week celebration, the Russell Library along with co-sponsors the Department of Political Science and the Applied Politics Certificate program are hosting Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower to discuss their new book Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. 

Alexander Bolton is assistant professor of political science at Emory University. Twitter @alexbolton

Sharece Thrower is associate professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Twitter @ShareceThrower