Cortona, Italy Studies Abroad Update: Campus is Safe and Secure After Earthquake

At approximately 3:30 a.m. local time Wednesday, August 24, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit central Italy, causing damage and casualties in areas along the borders between the regions of Umbria, Marche and Lazio. The University of Georgia's International Residential Center in Cortona (Arezzo), located about100 miles northwest of the reported epicenter of the earthquake, was not affected by the incident. All structures and buildings in Cortona have been reported stable and secure.

Chris Hallett to Speak at Dodd

Breathing Bronze, Living Faces:The Making of Portraits at Aphrodisias and Rome, to be the topic of Chris Hallett's lecture on October 5, 2016 at 5:30pm in the Dodd Auditorium S150. Hallett has held a joint-appointment in UC Berkeley's Departments of History of Art and Classics since 2001. He is primarily known as a specialist in Roman sculpture, being the author of The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC­-AD 300 (Oxford 2005).

Rim Road / Rim Road

Using photography and sound, Thalassa Raasch constructs a borderland where the transition between life and death is as unclear as it is quotidian. Inspired by her friendship with gravedigger, Everrad Hall, the exhibition marks a trajectory through an imagined landscape that loops back in on itself, demarcating where death overlaps with joy, humor, and the strangeness of everyday life. 

Joseph Norman's Work on Display in Exhibition: "Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography"

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s saw major gains in the struggle to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans, as well as many other marginalized groups, including Native Americans, homosexuals, and women. This exhibition features major works from the collection by artists including Dan Budnik, Danny Lyon, Roy deCarava, Robert Frank, Gary Winogrand, Marion Post Wolcott, and others. 

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