Past Lectures
As part of Veterans Day observance, MGA presents the inaugural presentation of the Master Lectures and Conversations Series - The Great War at 100, a talk by Dr. Christopher Blake, president of the University.
Please join us in either Macon or Warner Robins for this free, open-to-the-public lecture.
November 6th, 2017
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Museum of Aviation
Eagle Conference Room
Warner Robins
November 13th, 2017
5:30 – 7:00 pm
MGA Macon Campus
Professional Sciences Center Room 237
For more information call 478.929.6712 or email .
About The Lecturer
Dr. Christopher Blake is the President of Middle Georgia State University and author of the newly released book And Half the Seed of Europe: A Genealogy of the Great War 1914-1918 (Mercer University Press, 2017). An Oxford graduate, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of London in Education and Religious Studies. He currently serves as an advisory board member of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission.
Master Lectures And Conversations Series
David Kessler
Monday, May 1, 2017
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Hatcher Conference Center, Macon Campus
Davis Kessler is one of the world's foremost experts on healing and loss. His experience with thousands of people on the edge of life and death has taught him the secrets to living a happy and fulfilled life. He is the author of five bestselling books, including the newly released You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After Breakup, Divorce or Death with Louise Hay. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary ElisabethKübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons.
As a new program in the redesign of Continuing Education at Middle Georgia State University, the Master Lectures and Conversations Series continues to promote public engagement with the great ideas of our times. These lectures, classes, and conversations are brought to the public by MGA and its intellectual partners.
Sarah topol
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Macon Campus, Arts Complex Theater
Middle Georgia State University will host investigative journalist Sarah Topol as part of the Master Lectures and Conversations Series. Sponsored by the Department of Continuing Education, the University Honors Program, and the Department of Media, Culture, and the Arts, this event will take place on the Macon Campus in the Arts Complex Theater from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4th, 2020.
For over a decade, Topol has reported from more than two dozen countries in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and Africa. She has been a Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee, an International Women’s Media Foundation fellow, as well as a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and has been published in the Atlantic, Businessweek, Esquire, Foreign Policy, Fortune, Harper’s, Matter, Newsweek, the New Republic, New York Magazine, Outside, Playboy, Popular Science, Politico, Slate, and Travel + Leisure.
In 2012 Topol won the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism for her coverage of the Civil War in Libya for GQ.
The format will be conversational with Associate Professor of Journalism Andre Nicholson serving as moderator. As a new program in the redesign of Continuing Education at Middle Georgia State University, the Master Lectures and Conversations Series continues to promote public engagement with the great ideas of our times. These lectures, classes, and conversations are brought to the public by MGA and its intellectual partners.
This event is free and open to the public. For questions, please contact Kevin Cantwell at .