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College of Environment and Design


2024 Lecture Series

This year's theme for our lecture series is

Designing the Past: Place, Material, Culture.

 

More details for each lecture will be posted as they are available. Be sure to mark your calendars early and keep an eye on our social media channels for updates!

 


FALL SEMESTER LECTURES


SEPTEMBER 2023

 

Friday, September 15th | 12:00pm | Jackson Street Building 

How to get an article published in a top journal

Panel Discussion with

Dr. Galen Newman,Texas A&M,  Previous Associate Editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research

Dr. John Drake, UGA Odum School of Ecology, Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B and a Senior Editor of Ecology Letters

Dr. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography Department, Previous Editor of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology and of the Geography Compass

Dr. Jeff Hepinstall-Cymerman, UGA Warnell School of Forestry, Associate Editor for Landscape Ecology

Dr. Stephen Ramos, UGA College of Environment + Design, Associate Editor for Planning Perspectives

 


Wednesday, September 27th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Landscape and Memory

Lecture by Sierra Bainbridge, Senior Principal & land MASS Studio Director

MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) Design Group 

 

OCTOBER 2023

 

Wednesday, October 4th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Making Humanity Urban: The Second Urban Revolution

Lecture by Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

 


Wednesday, October 11th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Georgia’s Fallen Giants: Celebrating American Chestnuts through scale, sculpture, and whimsy

Lecture by Cameron Berglund, Lecturer of Landscape Architecture in the College of Environment and Design

 


Thursday, October 12th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Architecture of the last colony

Lecture by Mark McDonald, Retired Director of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

 

NOVEMBER 2023

 

Monday, November 20th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

In Search of Identity: Bulgarian Postwar and Postsocialist Architecture

Lecture by Aneta Vasileva, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the College of Environment and Design

Aneta Vasileva, M.Arch, Ph.D., is an architectural historian, critic and publicist. Aneta specializes in post-WWII architecture, socialist architecture and preservation of architectural heritage. She is a contributor to the EU Programme ATRIUM (Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the XXth Century in Urban Management), a member of A10 New European Architecture Cooperative and a co-founder at WhAT Association, dealing with organization of architectural competitions and architectural criticism.

 

 


SPRING SEMESTER LECTURES


 

FEBRUARY 2024

 

Wednesday, February 21st | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Worlding through Urbanism: Tourist Guidebooks, Urban Projects and the Global City

Lecture by Brent Ryan, Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

 

MARCH 2024

 

Wednesday, March 13th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Insights from the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice

Panel discussion led by Cari Goetcheus

Cultural Landscape Practice Reflections & New Directions
Cari Goetcheus
Professor and Draper Chair of Landscape Architecture 
College of Environment and Design
 
The Legal Framework for Cultural Landscape Conservation
James K. Reap
Professor
College of Environment and Design
 
Cultural Landscape Practice: The Realm of the Sacred and the Profane
Liz Sargent
FASLA, LEED AP
Principal, Liz Sargent HLA

 


Wednesday, March 20th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

FUTURE MEMORIES OF PLACE

Lecture by Kofi Boone, FASLA, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
NC State University College of Design

 


Wednesday, March 27th | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

The Guiding Principles: Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Influence oN Federal Architecture

Lecture by Katie Marages, Assistant Professor, Master of Historic Preservation Program
UGA College of Environment + Design
 
 
ADDITIONAL SPRING LECTURES - CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES!

 

Date TBD | 4:30pm | Jackson Street Building

Mentoring Panel Discussion

 


Recordings

 Past lectures:Review the list here

 

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