Join Dr. Penny Mills to discuss Wilkie Collins’s detective novel The Moonstone. 5:30​​–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Pick up a copy of The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and discuss it with the group. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Authors Lillah Lawson and Tracy L. Adkins will read “Ghosts of Christmas” themed excerpts from their books and sign them. 12–2 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotsathens.com

Join Dr. Penny Mills to discuss Carl Hiaasen’s novel Double Whammy. 5:30​​–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Authors Brigette A. Herron and Scott Creney discuss and sign copies of their book The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town. 3–​​5 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com

Athens’ longest-running spoken word open mic, with this month’s featured reader being Clifford Brooks. 6 p.m. (sign-ups), 7 p.m. (poetry). FREE! www.facebook.com/athenswordofmouth

Andrew Shearer will celebrate the release of his photo and interview book Everybodies with a panel made up of people who participated. 7:30–9:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com

Author Emily Strasser will read from her memoir Half-Life of a Secret and sign books. 6 p.m. FREE! grady.uga.edu/mfa-writing

Dr. Andrew Walgren will discuss the question “How did the bandleader of the Harlem Hellfighters become the ‘Martin Luther King’ of Jazz?” 12:45 p.m. FREE! history.uga.edu

Join Dr. Penny Mills to discuss James Lee Burke’s novel Dixie City Jam. 5:30​​–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Rachel Silveri will examine the painter Sonia Delaunay’s commercial fashion house, Atelier Simultané, opened in 1924. 5:30 p.m. FREE! art.uga.edu

This month Dr. W. David Bradford will present on the evolution of cannabis policy. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com

Pick up a copy of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and discuss it with the group. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Athens’ longest-running spoken word open mic, with this month’s featured reader being Jerry Rogers. 6 p.m. (sign-ups), 7 p.m. (poetry). FREE! www.facebook.com/athenswordofmouth

Award-winning author Elizabeth Willis will read and discuss her poetry. 6 p.m. FREE! english.uga.edu

This lecture and discussion will be led by Marie Cochran, founder of the Affrilachian Artist Project. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athens-asalh.org

Author Alexander Chee will be presenting “On Productive Ambivalence” with books available for purchase. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com

Prize-winning author Jacquelyn Dowd Hall will present on “A Life in Southern and Women’s History.” 12:45 p.m. FREE! history.uga.edu

Karyn Sandlos will deliver the 2024 Aralee Strange Lecture “Learning from Loss: Pedagogies of Art, Creativity and Change.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org

Poet Michael Dumanis will be in conversation with local author Sabrina Orah Mark about his book Creature. 7 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com

This month Karen Wells, Paul Eubig and Dax Ovid will present on “What Professors Say, What Students Remember, and Why it Matters for Science Communication.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com

Guest Lecturer Rod Davis will be presenting on the naval battles for Guadalcanal. FREE! 2 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/oconee

The Athens Historical Society presents author Michael L. Thurmond in celebration of his book James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia. 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com

Michelle Davis will present on all things related to music business law. 6 p.m. $5 minimum donation. www.hendershotsathens.com

Join Dr. Penny Mills to discuss Robert Traver’s novel Anatomy of a Murder. 5:30​​–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Best-selling Israeli author Noa Yedlin will discuss “Crafting Unconventional Narratives: A Journey in Literature (and Television).” 6 p.m. FREE! willson.uga.edu

Author Shastri Akella will read from his work about a queer coming-of-age story set in 1990s India, The Sea Elephants. 5 p.m. FREE! english.uga.edu

Pick up a copy of Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson and discuss it with the group. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. 6 p.m. FREE! willson.uga.edu

Author Kate Manne will speak about her book Unshrinking, discussing how fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. 7 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com

Spoken word artists and poets are invited to share pieces on physical, mental and emotional health and well-being. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.instagram.com/buvez_athens

Charlotte N. Varnum discusses topics on news, media consumption, bias and how to find important information amid all the noise. 7:30–​​9 p.m. FREE! www.normaltalk.org

Dr. Sandra Boham, president of Salish Kootenai College and an accomplished leader in American Indian higher education, will present. 3 p.m. FREE! libs.uga.edu

The former Athens Poet Laureate will read his sequence of 22 poems called “The Never Ending Sonnets” about musician Bob Dylan to coincide with Dylan’s concert appearances in town. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com

In this presentation, Dr. Frank Gunderson will discuss the making of the film Stories about Mlimani Park Orchestra. 9:30 a.m. FREE! asi.uga.edu

This year’s lecture will be given by J. Michael Kosterlitz, the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in theoretical condensed matter physics. 3:55​​–5:10 p.m. FREE! calendar.uga.edu

Courtney Thorsson will read from and discuss her book The Sisterhood: How A Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture. 5:30 p.m. FREE! willson.uga.edu

In her current book project, Race, Gender, and Memory in Narratives of the Andes, Dr. Autry uses a genealogy of gender-based violence to examine the colonial mechanisms behind the objectification of Indigenous women. 12:40 p.m. FREE! willson.uga.edu

Hattie Thomas Whitehead will discuss and read from her memoir “Giving Voice to Linnentown” with time for a Q&A. 12 p.m. FREE! www.historicathens.com