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The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…
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Join us for a virtual curatorial tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures. Red Coral Stories is an ongoing curatorial project by Kendall Lovely (Diné), a doctoral student at University of California-Santa Barbara, to understand Southwest Native art as part of cultural exchanges across time and space. The title for this digital exhibition evokes a Red Ancient Mediterranean, in which adoption and…
Join us as Dr. Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D., discusses her research and book, Black Folk, The Roots of the Black Working Class, which was named one of the Smithsonian's Best Books of 2023. Black Folk was awarded a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Grant by the Whiting Foundation, and the 2022-23 John Hope Franklin/NEH Fellowship by National Humanities Center.  Blair LM Kelley is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American…
Join us for a presentation by UGA history alum Stan Deaton, Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society. Dr. Deaton will give a talk on public history career pathways for graduate and undergraduate students. This is a free event. All majors and prospective students are welcome to attend. Pizza will be served. ................................ Stan Deaton is the Senior Historian and The Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the…
Join historian turned genetic detective Todd Little-Siebold for a talk on the use of traditional techniques of historical research alongside genomic profiling to historic mysteries about the introduction of European fruit crops to North America.  In Georgia the iconic peach became a central crop for native communities long before Europeans settled. Apples arrived in America apparently as early as the 1530s  Through…
Join us for a presentation by Ji Li on Friday: "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China.   Dr. Ji Li is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong and a 2023-24 joint visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Ricci Institute. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Peking University and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the relationship between…
Join us for a talk by Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize for Calling for a Blanket Dance. Oscar Hokeah is the winner of the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award, a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA, and a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Hokeah has written for Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, World Literature Today, American…
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Alaina E. Roberts, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation". Building on her first book's examination of Black life in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, Dr. Roberts will discuss her burgeoning examination of what it might look like to delineate and confront the legacies of slavery in these two nations. Alaina E. Roberts is an Associate…
In this presentation, Dr. Stephanie Evans (Professor, Georgia State University) will discuss the study of Black women’s narrative histories of health, healing, and wellness. Evans will explore what she calls #HistoricalWellness: Black women’s traditions of simultaneously practicing inner peace and working collectively to resist oppression. Specifically, she will answer the question, “How have Black women elders managed stress?” By illuminating…

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