The Atlantic World Research Network
Launching the AWRN |
Building on the success of UNCG’s 2004 Atlantic World Conference and the growing international field of Atlantic World Studies, Provost David Perrin and College Dean Tim Johnston announce the new Atlantic World Research Network. This Network will bring together faculty from across campus with interests in how the peoples, cultures, and ecologies of the “Atlantic Rim”—Europe, Africa, and the Americas—have collided and combined to transform a host of worldwide relations: in politics, the imagination, the arts, biology, gender, economics, health and medicine, education, race, religion, and many more.
How will the Network help you?
The Network will organize, promote and fund varied activities and initiatives, including a website and listserv, lectures, lunchtime colloquia, curricular development and publishing projects, grant-writing groups, exhibitions, and international conferences both here and abroad. You will meet other faculty on campus engaged in Atlantic World research, enhance UNCG’s research profile, discover new resources for yourself and your students, and aid in recruiting diverse new faculty.
The Launch Event!
On the evening of March 24, 2008, over 70 faculty members, along with graduate students and staff, representing 20 schools, departments or programs, gathered at the Weatherspoon Museum for the launch meeting of the UNCG Atlantic World Research Network (AWRN). (Click here for the Launch Event slideshow in PDF.) Eight poster or book displays and five speakers represented a wide range of Atlantic World research areas, including German and Russian, English, History, Theatre, Political Science and Environmental Studies—and our display room included “Discovering the Discoverers,” a list of over 150 UNCG faculty who do research or creative work that in some way considers life on, around and across what we might call the Atlantic Rim. We also were pleased to premiere the new AWRN Website (http://www.uncg.edu/eng/awrn/index), which we continue to augment and update as more information becomes available (please see the “AWRN Advisory Board” link for the 12-person leadership group). The brief working session which followed these presentations confirmed the enthusiasm of the group, and brought forth some worthwhile suggestions for the network’s future.
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Provost David H. Perrin |
CAS Dean Timothy D. Johnston |
Christopher Hodgkins
Class of 1952 Professor in English
For the Atlantic World Research Network Advisory Board