Understanding the World Through Video Games |
Imagine yourself as a child, wandering the streets of your shattered hometown alone in search of your mother. That’s the premise of Nagasaki Kitty, a video game created by Ivan Allen College game design scholar Ryan Scheiding to encourage people to look at history from a different perspective.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts |
Celebrate National Poetry Month in April with Poetry@Tech; the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; and the Library.
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| Alonso Awarded Fulbright to Conduct Research and Teach in Peru |
Paul Alonso, an associate professor in the School of Modern Languages, has studied how political humorists use media platforms to push social boundaries. A Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award will take Alonso to Peru, where he will conduct new research and teach at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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| Rogers Receives Fulbright Specialist Award |
Professor Juan Rogers in the School of Public Policy has received a Fulbright Specialist Award to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. His project aims to benefit participants, institutions, and communities in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities.
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| 30 Years Later, Story of Freaknik Gets Told |
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Atlanta Declaration on SDG Education and Research |
The Atlanta Global Studies Center is asking students, staff, faculty, and alumni of all Atlanta-area colleges and universities to sign the Atlanta Declaration on SDG Education and Research and post a comment that identifies you by your role (student, faculty, etc.) and university.
The declaration calls on our colleges and universities to advance implementation of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through teaching and innovation. Learn more about the declaration.
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Show your GRAD-itude During Graduate Student Appreciation Week |
Graduate Student Appreciation Week takes place every year from April 1 to 5. We invite all grad coordinators and faculty to share a brief message of "GRAD-tiude" for our graduate students. Please complete this brief form to submit your message thanking a grad student or showing your appreciation for graduate students.
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Regents’ Professor Lisa Yaszek’s reflections on female and feminist authors in the midcentury science fiction community are featured in El Periódico de España to mark the publication of Retrofuturismos, the second volume in the Spanish translation of her edited feminist science fiction anthology, The Future is Female!.
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Professor Dina Khapaeva (Modern Languages) recently gave a keynote at Ancient Kings — Contemporary Politics: Medievalism in Central and Eastern Europe. The conference, held in Prague, is organized by the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.
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Associate Professor Kate Pride Brown (History and Sociology) gave a virtual talk entitled “Culture Connection: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Russia” at the American Center in Moscow.
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Professor Stéphanie Boulard (Modern Languages) presented her research on image analysis through literature and visual arts in a talk entitled “Thinking the Image with Pascal Quignard / Penser l’image avec Pascal Quignard” at the 20th & 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium.
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Lisa Yaszek, Literature, Media, and Communication
CGTN Europe via YouTube
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Hans Klein, Public Policy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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By Richard Utz, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Inside Higher Ed
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Marilyn A. Brown, Public Policy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Hans Klein, Public Policy
Urbanize Atlanta
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Milton Mueller, Public Policy
Deutsche Welle
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Ryan Anthony, Public Policy
SaportaReport
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Victoria Chang, Literature, Media, and Communication
The Slowdown podcast
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Thursday, March 28 from 11 a.m. to noon
Online via MS Teams
Join Provost McLaughlin, Dean Nelson Baker, and others to hear details about the proposed Lifetime Learning college. The purpose of this virtual town hall is to answer questions academic faculty may have about the proposed Lifetime Learning college prior to the upcoming vote at the April meeting of the Academic Faculty Senate.
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Thursday, April 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts Lobby • 349 Ferst Dr. NW • Atlanta, GA 30332
Please RSVP no later than Wednesday, April 3.
Please join us to celebrate Kaye Husbands Fealing's leadership and service to Georgia Tech and offer well wishes on her appointment as the assistant director of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Please direct inquiries regarding this event and requests for acknowledgements or presentations to Kimberley Cartier, executive assistant to the dean, at kcartier6@gatech.edu.
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| Friday, March 29 through Sunday, April 7
John Lewis Student Center, Atlantic and Cypress Theaters
The Global Media Festival is the School of Modern Languages’ annual film and discussion series. All screenings are free and open to the public.
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| | Poetry@Tech Then and Now
Thursday, April 4
6 — 8 p.m.
Imperial Ballroom at The Biltmore Ballrooms, 817 W Peachtree St. NW #208
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