In coordination with this week's screening of the new documentary film "Bully" at Ciné in Athens, the Public School Risk Institute and the University of Georgia College of Education will present a community panel discussion May 16 from 7-9 p.m. to help raise awareness of the need to make schools safer for all students.

A day-long workshop that will provide K-12 teachers with strategies to better interact with students in diverse school settings will be hosted by the University of Georgia College of Education on May 18 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center at the Georgia Center.

The University of Georgia College of Education will host a workshop on effective teaching methods to reach students from poor and working-class families on May 4 at the UGA-Gwinnett campus. The workshop is targeted to Atlanta metro area educators, counselors and administrators.

The conservation of sites that indigenous peoples hold sacred is taking on an increased urgency as globalization and population growth increase the demand for resources in mountain areas. A three-day conference April 5-7 at the University of Georgia aims to give a global context to the revivals in indigenous advocacy for sustainability that are occurring from Canada to South America and Africa.

Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson will deliver the inaugural University of Georgia Donald L. Hollowell Lecture April 2 at 7 p.m. in the Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, will give an address titled "Affirmative Opportunity in the Barack Obama Era." A reception, which begins at 6 p.m., will precede the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Topics ranging from judicial budget cuts to the sustainability of animal farming will be explored at the University of Georgia School of Law's 7th Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference. Open to the public, this event will kick-off with a reception and keynote address March 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Melting Point in downtown Athens, with the conference taking place the next day, March 3, at the law school.

Deborah Lipstadt, an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar, will discuss the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann during a lecture March 1 at 5 p.m. in room 171 of the University of Georgia's Miller Learning Center.

The School of Social Work is hosting a series of civil rights lectures this spring that will bring leaders and historians of the civil rights movement to the University of Georgia campus. The lectures are part of the course "The Civil Rights Movement and the Practice of Social Work" taught by Obie Clayton Jr., the inaugural Donald L. Hollowell Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies.

Billye Aaron, an advocate for higher education for African-American citizens and the wife of baseball legend Hank Aaron, will be the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast on Jan. 13 at 7:30 a.m. in the Grand Hall of the University of Georgia Tate Student Center.