College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Alumn, Jeff Kelly, named officer of the year

The Fan

The Georgia Southern University Theatre Presents: The Fan by Carlo Goldoni; Directed by Lisa Abbott

Black Box Theatre in the Center for Art and Theatre
June 17, 18, 19 @ 7:30 PM
Admission is free. Tickets may be reserved by calling 912-478-5379

Song of Roland

The Georgia Southern University Puppet Theatre Presents: Song of Roland an epic medieval poem adapted into puppets by Michael Tarver and Anastasia James

Georgia Southern Puppet Theatre, College Plaza
May 1st & 2nd @ 7:30 PM
Admission is free. Tickets must be reserved due to limited seating. Call 912-478-5379

Not suitable for small children due to violence!

Portfolio Reveal

Graphic Design portfolio reveal on exhibit April 27 through May 1, 2009 at the Center for Art and Theatre.

Reception on Friday, May 1 at 5:00 PM

Foy Ribbon Cutting

A ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly-renovated Foy Building will be held this Friday, April 24, at 2 PM. The $7,853,000 renovation and extension of the Foy Fine Arts Building, now named the Foy Building, has added 3,599 square feet. The reinvented Foy Building opened its doors this semester and is now the home of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) Advisement Center, Dean’s Suite & Conference room and the Music Department. The Carol A. Carter Recital Hall has been transformed into a 287-seat, state-of-the-art recital hall for student and other musical performances. The ribbon cutting will take place on the Pedestrium side of Foy.
Guided tours and refreshments will be offered immediately after the ribbon cutting.

GSU-NOW at Rhodes

*GSU-NOW Vice President and Secretary, Reuben Hayslett and Emily Haymans, along with Vagina Monologues cast members Kadia Scott and Molly Scott, presented a panel for the ACS Women and Gender Studies Conference this March at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Their presentation focused on how GSU-NOW's organization plans and executes the highly successful charity benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues in a rural Southern environment. Hayslett, Haymans, Scott and Scott networked with other Women and Gender Studies programs across the country and had the amazing opportunity to hear Angela Davis deliver a speech about feminism in the twenty-first century.

(Faculty Advisors: Dr. Lisa A Costello and Dr. Lori E. Amy)*

Free Food or Free Speech?
Georgia Southern Student Media to Host First Amendment Free Food Festival

Georgia Southern Student Media will host the First Amendment Free Food Festival (FAFFF) on April 23, 2009 from 11 AM to 2 PM outside the Williams Center on the university's campus. The FAFFF will demonstrate to faculty, staff, students and community what it is like to give up their First Amendment Rights of religion, speech, press, assembly and government petition.The goal is to expand the knowledge of the campus community about the First Amendment and to make people aware of their rights, said Keith Warburg, Student Media executive editor.
The First Amendment guarantees five freedoms -- freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and the right to redress the government for grievances. At the event attendees can choose to enter the fenced off courtyard, a no freedom zone, but only after signing away their First Amendment rights. Once their rights have been signed away attendees are welcome to the free food. Attendees can stay as long as they like, but must follow the instruction of the goon squad once they enter the zone. These enforcers will make sure that no one inside the zone is using any of their first amendment rights. Those not complying with the rules will be asked to leave. In addition to the goon squad, there will be staged performance pieces designed to demonstrate what happens when First Amendment rights are taken away. The FAFFF is sponsored by Georgia Southern's Office of Student Activities, Student Government Association (SGA), the Communication Arts Department, the Theatre and Performance Program, the Multicultural Student Center and GSU Mens Rugby. The free food will be provided by 23 area restaurants and businesses.

Writing Competition Now Accepting Submissions

Submissions are now being accepted for the first annual Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards, cosponsored by the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and NCTE.
Cash prizes of up to $10,000 will be awarded to national winners.
HIGH SCHOOL DEADLINE: MAY 10.
COLLEGE DEADLINE: MAY 15
Please visit http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/412?x-t=sites_eos.view for more information

Model United Nations Delegation Outstanding Win

Georgia Southern University's National Model United Nations delegation returned from the National Model UN Conference having won a "double outstanding" recognition. This means that GSU was selected as an outstanding delegation and was also recognized for its outstanding position paper contributions. This is the second year in a row that Georgia Southern has garnered outstanding distinction in the delegation category and the seventh time in eight years that it has been recognized for its outstanding contribution in position paper writing. Of the more than 250 schools present and over 3,000 students, only one other school, besides Georgia Southern, was awarded a double outstanding.

2008-2009 Georgia Southern National Model United Nations Delegation
Balleck, Barry (Director); Carter, Darion; Christopher, Sara; Collins, Morgan; Davis, Tim; Emery, Jessie; Garner, Casey; Gemmel, Amy; Harrison, Kathryn; Heim, Jenna; Lomas, Nick (Head Delegate); McGuire, James; Shull, Julia; Soler, Beatrice; Stewart, Matt; Thompson, Tyler; Taylor, Katelyn; Trivedi, Rikesh; Matfess, Hilary; Waldron, Laurne (Asst. Advisor); Zimmerman, Alix

The Music Department of Georgia Southern University is proud to present their first annual musical theater review: Sail Your Ship on April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall in the newly renovated Foy Building.
Taking scenes and songs from over twenty of your favorite musicals including My Fair Lady, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Jekyll and Hyde, and Les Misérables.
Performed and directed by four graduate and undergraduate students of the Music Department with accompaniment provided by Dr. Richard Mercier, Sail Your Ship highlights the highs and lows of friendships, relationships, and everything in between. It promises to be a night of romance, laughter and is appropriate for any audience!
Come join us for this free and fun occasion!

Georgia Southern's Center for Irish Studies presents an Evening with Harry O'Donoghue at Locos Grill and Pub here in Statesboro. O'Donoghue is scheduled to perform at 7 and 9 PM on Monday, March 2 and at 9 PM on Tuesday, March 3. Come out and enjoy traditional Irish folk music, Irish themed specialty menu items from Loco's Grill and Pub and free giveaways. No Cover.

O'Donoghue has performed, by invitation, with The Savannah Symphony and has shared the bill with such international recording artists as Mary Black, Andy M. Stewart, Cathie Ryan, The Fureys, Natalie Mac Master, Danny Doyle, The Wolfe Tones, The Shannon Castle Singers, Tommy Makem and others. He performs throughout the U.S and Ireland in a variety of settings from concerts to festivals, clubs, private events, conventions and singer/songwriter showcases.

For more information and to make reservations please call 912-681-2002. Loco's is located off the corner of Fair Rd. and the HWY 301 Bypass.

C.K. Williams, a major figure in contemporary American poetry, will be on campus next week. He will be reading from his poetry at the PAC, 7:30 pm, Thursday, February 19.

C.K. Williams' career spans forty years, from his first book, Lies, (1969) to his most recent, Collected Poems (2006). In between, his book The Singing won the National Book Award for 2003; Repair was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Flesh and Blood received the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award.

He is an extraordinary poet, known particularly for writing poems with very long, sweeping lines and meditative rhythms, and he is often compared to Whitman in that respect. His subjects are wide-ranging, from outraged social protest to delicate love lyrics and from gritty, urban settings to quiet pastorals.

Recently he was awarded the Twentieth Annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an honor given to an American poet in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Please join the Women's and Gender Studies Program for a gala launch of GSU NOW's 5th Annual Production of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. As part of a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, the performance raises thousands of dollars annually for violence prevention programs in Bulloch County.

This year's V-Day performance is Thursday, Feb, 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Art Center.

Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (UNAMIR)

The Department of Writing and Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Office of the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Campus Life Enrichment Committee are pleased to announce a keynote speech by Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009. The event, entitled 'Dallaire's Story of Courage and Conviction' will take place in the Performing Arts Center at 7.00 PM .

Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, is best known for his role as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Subsequent to his return from Africa and retirement from the military, Dallaire has continued to play an important role in shaping policy as a fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. General Dallaire has also served as a Canadian Senator since 1995 and in 1996, he was appointed to the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. General Dallaire exemplifies both social responsibility and the human aspects of leadership in today's society, and played an instrumental role in attempting to alleviate the suffering of the Rwandan people during the 1994 genocide.

Please address any questions to Steff Frigo sfrigo@georgiasouthern.edu, Department of Writing and Linguistics, or at (912) 478-5248.

The Miscellany wants your submissions for a special Spring 2009 issue!

We are dedicating this issue to the memories of Professors Peter Christopher, David Starnes, and Peter Smith.
Please submit your poetry, non-fiction, fiction, paintings, drawings, doodles, graffiti, musical compositions, original monologues, haikus, sculptures, photography and “anything else under the creative sun!”
The theme for the Miscellany this spring is: Se souvenir (To remember) However, it will not be held against you if your work does not fall into the above category.
For submissions packets, e-mail: Anna Giles agiles12@georgiasouthern.edu, Editor-in-Chief or pick one up in the Newton Building’s office, the CAT office, or Williams Center, RM 2013.

*Deadline is February 13, 2009 by 4 p.m.*

ADELINA NICHOLLS
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
7:00 PM
IT Bldg. Rm. 1004

Ms. Nicholls, Executive Director of Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) and has extensive experience working with Latinos in Georgia on issues ranging from basic human rights, legal status, and treatment of Hispanics (including, but not limited to immigrants) across the state. Ms. Nicholls will be speaking on the current anti-immigrant climate in Georgia and its connection to the treatment of Latinos, federal immigration enforcement, and legislation at the state level.

The event is sponsored by the Center for International Studies' North American Mobility Project in cooperation with the Commitee for Tolerance and Collaborating Communities.

Please encourage your students to attend.

For more information, contact Dr. Debra Sabia at: dsabia@georgiasouthern.edu

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is sponsoring a Kuna artist, Wago, who will display and sell his artwork November 17 - 20 in the atrium of the Carroll Building.

Steve Hale, associate professor, travels regularly to Panama to visit the Native American Kuna community of Chumical to continue a building project of 10 homes. The artwork sale is to promote the construction of another house in Chumical.
For more information, contact Steve Hale at steve_hale@georgiasouthern.edu.

    The Georgia Southern Opera Theater is proud to present their fall scenes program: Opera 101: Divas, Dragons, and Death on November 13 and 14 at 7:30 PM at the Averitt Center for the Arts.

    Conceived by Dr. Arikka Gregory, the program highlights some of the greatest moments in opera history. Dr. Gregory produced a comedic script to keep us laughing and to keep the action moving from scene to scene. She remarks, “I am exceptionally proud of this production. The students are so talented and this show really demonstrates their best efforts. I cannot imagine anyone coming to this show and not having a good time.”

    Performed by the students of Georgia Southern Opera under the guidance of Kyle Hancock, the program moves through the transition of opera throughout the centuries with selections from Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, and many more great composers. Opera 101: Divas, Dragons and Death promises to be a night filled with laughter, and because it’s opera, an occasional tear.

    Admission is free for Georgia Southern Students and $5 for the general public. For more information on Opera 101: Divas, Dragons and Death, please contact the Averitt Center for the Arts at (912) 212-ARTS (2787).

CLASS and The Center for Undergraduate Research

Thursday, November, 6, 2008
Center for Art and Theatre
7:00 - 9:00 PM

The Georgia Southern University Jazz Band will be performing a concert on Sunday, October 5 in the Performing Arts Center. The Jazz Band, under the direction of Dr. Bill Schmid, will be performing pieces originally played by such bands as those led by Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich and Chuck Mangione.

The concert is at 3:00 PM on Sunday and is free and open to all. Please come and enjoy an afternoon of jazz -- a truly American art form.

Migration, a ceramics sculpture exhibition by Georgia Southern University Professor of Ceramics, Jane Pleak, will be on display in the Legends Gallery at Averitt Center for the Arts. The exhibition opening is part of downtown Statesboro’s First Friday celebration from 5 – 7 PM on October 3, 2008, will remain on display until November 2, 2008.

Pleak is inspired by the migration and transition of nature. In her ceramic sculptures, she transforms these transitory moments into frozen moments… capturing time. The exploration of this stopping point where bird figures stop and converse takes place on the top of ceramic bowls. ‘What do they talk about, Where are the headed,’ questions Pleak. Each form offers Pleak’s view on this migration as birds fly through her creative life and stop for a moment to do all the things we do – discuss the life in all of its absurd wonder.

The Averitt Center for the Arts is located at 33 East Main Street, Statesboro, GA 30458. Hours are Monday – Friday from 10 AM – 7 PM and Saturday from 10 AM – 4 PM. For more information on the Averitt Center for the Arts, please visit www.averittcenterforthearts.org.

An American Tapestry

Sunday, September, 28, 2008
Georgia Southern University's Performng Arts Center
3:00 PM

The Georgia Southern University opera department is proud to present their 5th annual Night of Opera on September 26, 2008 at 7:30 in the Averitt Center for the Arts in downtown Statesboro.
With performances by Georgia Southern Faculty and Alumni, the program highlights some of the greatest moments in operettas “which means you still have the pretty singing of opera, but no one has to die,” remarks Dr. Arikka Gregory, director of Georgia Southern Opera. With selections from operettas by Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sigmund Romberg, and Victor Herbert, Night of Opera is guaranteed to be an evening filled with laughter and love.
The night also brings an old friend back to Statesboro’s stage with the return of Dr. Tamara Watson-Harper. Watson-Harper was the director of GSO from 2002-2006. “I think it is indicative of the quality of our program and its students that we have alumni and prior faculty return to perform,” says Gregory.
The performance ranges from large choruses to solo songs. Four scenes will be in a foreign language, but translations will be provided for the listener.
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. For more information on the 5th Annual Night of Opera, please contact the Averitt Center for the Arts at (912) 212-ARTS (2787).

Artworks by sixteen Master of Fine Arts candidates in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art graduate program at Georgia Southern University will be on exhibit in the Center for Art & Theatre from September 22 to October 16, 2008. The MFA Biennial Exhibition features artworks in drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry and small metals. An opening reception will take place on September 26, 2008, from 7 – 9 pm in the Center for Art & Theatre; all are invited to attend.
The Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) is recognized as the terminal or highest degree for studio art and design professions. The MFA degree prepares students for professional careers as practicing artists and designers; for positions as studio art professors in higher education; or for work in other arts-related fields requiring advanced study in the studio arts.
“Our MFA students comprise a diverse community of talented artists, who work with a dynamic faculty that both nurture them as developing artists, giving them creative license, while challenging their accomplishments to create works of art recognized and highly regarded in contemporary art. Georgia Southern University’s MFA graduates are highly respected in the profession, and successful in their careers,” states Patricia Carter, Chair of the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art.
MFA students will speak about their work during the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art Wednesday Night Artists’ Talks from 5:00 – 7:00 PM:

October 1, 2008
Kenneth Dent, Painting
Duke Oursler, Sculpture

October 8, 2008
Sarah Davis, Ceramics
Heidi Van Leuven, Painting
Michelle Parker, Small Metals/Sculpture

October 15, 2008
Olu Amoda, Sculpture
Patricia Quilichini, Photography

Gallery Programming is supported by Student Activity Fees, all events are free and open to the public. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Georgia Southern University will honor reasonable requests for accommodations. The Center for Art & Theatre is open Monday through Friday from 9 - 5 and by appointment. Docent tours are welcome and available upon request by calling (912) GSU-ARTS.
For more information on this exhibition and other gallery programming provided by the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, visit http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/art/.

Location: Room 1004, Center for Art and Theatre
Georgia Southern University
When: Thursday, September 25, 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Phone: (912)478-0739
Join us for drinks and snacks and to celebrate our major, hear out stories, ask questions and find out more...

Andre Dubus III is the award-winning author of House of Sand and Fog. Published in twenty-five countries and now a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, the novel was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was an Oprah Book Club Selection, and was a #1 New York Times bestseller among other awards.
He will be reading in part from his new novel, Garden of Last Days.
Andre has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, The Pushcart Prize and other awards for his essays, short stories, and novels. He has taught at Harvard, Tufts, The University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Emerson College.

Nessmith Lane Assembly Hall
7:30 p.m. Monday, October 6th
Book signing to follow
Free and open to the public

Patrick Novotny as featured speaker presenting his book “This Georgia Rising.”

Friday, September 26, 2008
Location: Hotel & Restaurant Management Dining Room
Time: Noon
Reservations: $20.00 per person, call the Henderson Library Dean’s Office, 478-5115, between 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Menu:Spinach Salad w/Marinated Shiitakes & Red Onions, Roasted Quail & Charbroiled Minute Steak w/Blue Cheese Butter, Lyonnaise Potatoes, Peas, Carrots & Pearl Onions w/Tarragon, Fresh Banana Fritters w/ Vanilla Ice Cream.

Opening Reception:
Legends Gallery, Averitt Center for the Arts
September, 12 2008 5 - 7 PM

Message: " The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. "
George Bernard Shaw

The Georgia Southern Writing Project invites you to Write Night on Tuesday, February 10, in the Daily Grind coffee shop. We'll meet at 7:00 to free-write to a topic for about 20 minutes then have a read-around for those who feel inspired to share. Write Night is free and open to the Georgia Southern and Statesboro communities.

Hope to see you on Tuesday!

If you have questions, please contact: Bob Marsh: rmarsh@ega.edu

Write Night is sponsored by the Georgia Southern Writing Project. For more information about GSWP, look here: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/%7Ewritenow/