Previous Events
Virtual Tour: Home Movie Collections
Join the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection for a week-long celebration of Home Movie Day 2020! On Tuesday October 13 at 2 p.m., the Brown Media Archives will host a virtual tour of their home movie collections. Media archivists and audiovisual technicians will discuss and narrate some of their favorite home movies from the archives. They will also talk about the importance of home movies and how Brown Media Archives preserves and provides access to decades of amateur home films.
Panel Talk - COVID-19 Fact-Finding: A Virtual Conversation with The Red & Black
During the pandemic, The Red & Black has shown the power of well-informed, local investigative reporting. Learn how student reporters from The Red & Black have researched and reported on COVID-19, navigating a complex and often politicized information landscape. Also in attendance will be faculty from Journalism and Public Health, who can share their expertise on how to consume and communicate accurate data and information around science and public health.
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Queering the South on Screen: A Conversation with Molly McGehee
Featuring vibrant hostess DeAundra Peek, the American Music Show ran as a public access cable television program in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1981 to 2005.
Virtual Exhibit Tour: Sign of the Times
Historically the American political poster has been sorely neglected as an art form and has played a minor cultural role despite its effectiveness in conveying a political message to millions of voters often through the skillful use of visual communication. Join the Richard B.
Florentine Films Panel Discussion
Part detective, part historian, archival researchers find the audiovisual traces of history that help documentary filmmakers bring history to life. If you're a history buff, you've probably watched documentaries featuring archival photographs and film. But how do the pieces of the puzzle come together to make a documentary? More importantly, where do those puzzle pieces come from? The Walter J.
GIS Workshop 2: Georeferencing Images
Do you have a historical map you’d like to overlay with a modern one? Or an air photo you’d like to match to today’s landscape? We’ll use QGIS to do just that.
2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards
The 2020 Lillian Smith Book Awards ceremony will be held virtually on Sunday September 6, 2020 at 2:00PM as part of the annual AJC Decatur Book Festival, one of the largest independent book festivals in the country. Registration is free and available now through Eventbrite.
GIS Workshop 1: Turn Data into a Map
We’ll use QGIS to combine tables with available geometry to turn make a map.
EndNote for Macs
Citation management tools like EndNote can help you integrate research into your papers, organize your notes on different readings, and create accurate citations. They make your work more efficient, but they also archive your notes so that you can build on your research over the years. The example screens for this session will show the Mac version. While all the features are the same as the PC version, the layout and look will be a bit different.