Previous Events

Georgia on My Mind: Finding Belonging in Music History explores the state’s music history through the genres, places, and performers that have helped to define music in Georgia over time. Curated by graduate student Maggie Neel, the show highlights moments in time with a focus on the intersection of music and community.  The exhibit displays an array of performance costumes, instruments, concert posters, and other ephemera that bring music history to life. 

Toddler Tuesday is a new program at UGA Special Collections full of story time, music, and crafts! Join us for enriching activities designed for children ages 1-4 years old. This program is free and open to the public, including free parking offered to visitors in the Hull Street Deck. Seats are limited; email jmb18449@uga.edu to reserve your spot.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the program. 

Join us for a screening of the HBO documentary King in the Wilderness directed by Peter Kunhardt (True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018), Becoming Warren Buffett (2017), and Living with Lincoln (2015). Pizza lunch provided. RSVP recommended but not required for lunch count.

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Toddler Tuesday is a new program at UGA Special Collections full of story time, music, and crafts! Join us for enriching activities designed for children ages 1-4 years old. This program is free and open to the public, including free parking offered to visitors in the Hull Street Deck. Seats are limited; email jmb18449@uga.edu to reserve your spot.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the program. 

Join the Hargrett Library for the induction of Jericho Brown into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame on Thursday, June 16 at 6:00 p.m. in room 285 of the UGA Special Collections Building. Brown will deliver a poetry reading and participate in a Q&A discussion; a light reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required and available here.

Directed by Questlove and featuring never-before-seen performances by Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Nina Simone, and more, Summer of Soul tells the story of Black history, culture, music, and fashion in the summer of 1969. Enjoy a free screening of Summer of Soul at Ciné on June 11, 2022, at 2:30 PM during the 22nd annual Hot Corner Celebration and Soul Food Feast. Tickets are available the day of the screening at the Ciné box office and are first come, first served.  

Please join us at Ciné, for a reading and reception with W. Ralph Eubanks and Aryn Kyle to mark our seventy-fifth anniversary, celebrate our success with the National Magazine Awards, and honor our interns in the University of Georgia Experiential Learning Program. Come for the readings, stay for the cake, GR memorabilia, book signings, and conversation!

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.