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Faculty Book Talk: Cassia Roth's "A Miscarriage of Justice"

Join us in celebrating the release of Dr. Cassia Roth's forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, (Stanford U Press, January 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cassia Roth is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of…


Capitalist Souths, a Graduate Student Conference

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…


MW and Monday Only Class Schedule in Effect ( does NOT include MWF classes)

MW and Monday Only Class Schedule in Effect (Does not include MWF Classes) April 27 Monday


The Open: Jimmie Brown presents "But How Are you Going to Pay for It?"

Join us as we invite Jimmie Brown, PhD Student, to present "'But How Are You Going to Pay for It?': The State Desires, Composition, and Economic Activity of the Reconstruction Era Georgia General Assembly" before his History Department peers. The essay will be circulated in advance of the workshop, and attendees are expected to have read the paper beforehand.   The Open is an open writing workshop for faculty and graduate students of the…


Book Talk: Lesley Gordon on "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the America Civil War"

Join us for a book talk by Lesley J. Gordon,  Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War (2024 Cambridge University Press). Dr. Gordon is the Charles Boal Ewing Chair in Military History at West Point and the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Dr. Gordon received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and specializes in civil war history.  Free and open to the…


UGA Main Libraries: Primary Sources Workshop

Explore the rich world of primary sources in this interactive workshop!  Participants will learn how to discover and analyze original materials—such as letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents—using tools like Adam Matthew’s curated digital collections. Questions: Contact Sheila Devaney sdevaney@uga.edu. Presented by the University of Georgia Libraries and GradUp.


The Workshop in History and Gender Studies presents:“What is Owed to Me”: Reimagining Ideas of Legitimacy and Honor among Black Women in Colonial Mexico

Join us for a talk by Danielle Terrazas Williams, “What is Owed to Me”: Reimagining Ideas of Legitimacy and Honor among Black Women in Colonial Mexico. Danielle Terrazas Williams is associate professor in the School of History at the University of Leeds. She won the Kimberly S. Hanger Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the research and writing of material included in her book, The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and…


Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Event

Deborah Blum, celebrated author of The Poisoner’s Handbook and The Poison Squad, will return to Athens, where her investigative journalism career began, for a discussion about the science and safety of food. The Sept. 23 event, ""What's on the Table? Food Safety in Georgia, the South, and Beyond," with author Deborah Blum and Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, has been designated as a University of Georgia Signature Lecture, and will serve…


Guest speaker: Andreas Etges

Join us for a talk by Andreas Etges, "Destination Berlin: Staging Visits in a Divided City. Kennedy, Khrushchev, King, and Springsteen." Free and open to the public. This is an FYO event. Andreas Etges is senior lecturer in American history at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. The Cold War specialist has curated several historical exhibits on US history and is frequently interviewed by German and international media on US politics,…


Book Release reception: Akela Reason's Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will host a reception honoring the new book release by Akela Reason, associate professor of history and director of the Museum Studies Certificate Program. Her new book is Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York (Yale University Press, 2025). Snacks and light refreshments will be on hand, and the reception is open to all. From the publisher: A rich history of Gilded Age…
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