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“God’s Little Daughters” and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

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…


Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize

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…


Alaina E. Roberts: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation"

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…


Black Women's Historical Wellness: Yoga, Tea, and Traditions of Collective Self-Care

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…


Heirloom Southern Apples: Past, Present and Future

March 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm,  https://botgarden.uga.edu/event/heirloom-southern-apples/ Registration required:   Register Online The morning session begins with a presentation by orchardist and author Diane Flynt, founder of Foggy Ridge Cider and author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Next, Dr. Stephen Mihm, Head of the Department of History, and Gareth Crosby, Heritage Garden…


Dirty History Workshop

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “‘Ghana is Hot’: A Cultural History of Feeding the Future in Northern Ghana”. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…


Dirty History Workshop: Arunabh Ghosh

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "ORENCO and Chinese Small Hydropower in the United States”, with Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…


Dirty History Workshop: Helen Curry

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Reading the Green Revolution: Libraries, books, and bibliographies as technologies of agricultural transformation”. With Helen Curry, Melvin Kranzberg Professor, Professor in History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology, Georgia Tech. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance…


Dirty History Workshop: Ben Prostine

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Flying Vials of Bull Semen: Rockefeller Prentice and the Rise of the Artificial Insemination Industry in the US, 1935-70.” With Ben Prostine, Presidential Fellow, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers,…


Dirty History Workshop: Fraser Livingston

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Prison Pines: Convict Labor and the Longleaf Pine.”With Fraser Livingston, Researcher and Writer, George Bird Grinnell Anthology. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…
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