Previous Events

DEFIANT LIVES is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can participate.

Join guest speaker Madelyn Shaw, on Thursday, March 3 at 6:00 p.m. for an illustrated talk exploring the myths and realities of 1960s fashion. 
A discussion between Shaw and Ashley Callahan, curator of the new exhibition “Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics” will follow the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press, the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law.

About the Speakers

What do patterned scarves have to do with politics? Find out when you join us for a guided tour of the new exhibit Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics. This event is free and open to the public. Free parking for off-campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck. For more information, contact Jan Hebbard at jhebbard@uga.edu, 706-583-0213.
 

This workshop will show you how to create a basic webmap using the qgis2web plugin, that you can further customize and host using GitHub pages or another web hosting service. Some GIS experience necessary (experience gained through a prior class or workshop).

Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

This workshop offers a more in depth look at the map design options than the previous two workshops in terms of labels, color, adding grid lines, and inset maps. A little experience would be nice (one of the earlier QGIS workshops would be fine) but not strictly necessary.

Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

Do you have data that is based on an area; like by city, county, state, or country? This workshop will help you join your data to the geometry of your areas so you can map them. No experience necessary (not even the previous workshop)

Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

Need to create a map of locations for your poster, paper, or project and all you have are latitude and longitude for each point? This workshop will help you to create a simple map with a good resolution. No experience necessary.  

Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

What do patterned scarves have to do with politics? Find out when you join us for a guided tour of the new exhibit Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics. This event is free and open to the public. Free parking for off-campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck. For more information, contact Jan Hebbard at jhebbard@uga.edu, 706-583-0213.
 

Stephen Black will describe how he came to research lyrics written by Atlanta-area artists, his work creating his own corpus, and share some of his findings. He worked with the DigiLab to complete this project and will be earning the Digital Humanities certificate for undergraduates after culminating his research this semester. 

The UGA Libraries and Willson Center for Humanities DigiLab is hosting a panel discussing the experiences of women in coding. Topics to be discussed relate to gender diversity in computer science and computational methods, including issues with computer coding as a profession, coding as part of research methods, and classroom experiences learning coding. Panel participants are members of R Ladies of Athens and UGA's girls.code.