Previous Events

Nov 13

Digital Humanities + Data Science Workshop for Faculty

Join data science and humanities computing experts David Beavan (Principal Research Software Engineer, Turing Institute, London) and Kaspar Beelen (Ph.D., Turing Institute and University of London) for a workshop on research software engineering in digital humanities. A brief overview will be provided followed by a hands-on workshop focused on how to use (large) language models for interrogating historical newspaper collections.

10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Main Library , Room 300
Nov 12

Digital Humanities + Research Software Engineering: Workshop for Graduate Students

Join data science and humanities computing experts David Beavan (Principal Research Software Engineer, Turing Institute) and Kaspar Beelen (Ph.D., Turing Institute, University of London) for a workshop on research software engineering in digital humanities. A brief overview will be provided followed by a hands-on workshop focused on how to use (large) language models for interrogating historical newspaper collections.

10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Main Library , Room 300
Nov 12

An Evening of Poetry with Coleman Barks

The internationally renowned poet Coleman Barks, a longtime Ath

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
UGA Chapel
Nov 09

Free The Tapes: Athens Potluck Edition

Free the Tapes, an event highlighting digitized audiovisual materials from members of the community, is back this fall at UGA Special Collections!

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries , 271
Nov 07

Celebrating Jack Davis with Mack Williams

Join the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the UGA Special Collections Libraries for the annual Jack Davis Lecture on Thursday, November 7 at 6:00PM in the auditorium (Room 271) of the UGA Special Collections Building. This year's lecture will feature animator and director Mack Williams, a UGA alum and 2024 Bulldog 100 recipient. A light reception and pop-up exhibition of highlights drawn from the Hargrett Library's Jack Davis Collection will follow the lecture. 

6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries
Oct 28

Monster Mash

Do you want to get in the Halloween spirit? Join the UGA Libraries for our Monster Mash event on October 28th from 1 to 4 PM at the Main Library. There will be a pumpkin painting contest, button making, tricks, treats, and more!

Lets have a graveyard smash and do the monster mash!

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Main Library
Oct 25

Open Access Week Lightning Talks: Library Collections as Data

This series of lightning talks will highlight different collections as data in diverse a

11:00 am
Online
Oct 24

Outdoor Film Screening: The Brain from Planet Arous

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries , Front Lawn of the Special Collections Libraries Building
Oct 24

Python for Text Analytics and Open Science

3:00 pm
Online
Oct 24

Mapping your own data using QGIS and publicly available data

1:00 pm
Online