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Phi Alpha Theta and History Club: Board Game Night!

History students and history fans- join us Wednesday for information on Phi Alpha Theta, UGA's chapter of the National History Honor Society, and our History Club.  We're having a history-themed board game night! Pizza for attendees.


Special Screening: The Athens Film Project

Join us for a special showing of the Athens Film Project, a production of the Athens Historical Society.  This screening is sponsored by the history department and The B. Phinizy Spalding Chair in History. The Athens Film Project creates short films on Athens history for use in area schools with funds generously donated by local supporters. Working with local teachers, student consultants,  and hired graduate students in history,…


Phi Alpha Theta and History Club: join us for history trivia!

History students and history fans- join us Wednesday for information on Phi Alpha Theta, UGA's chapter of the National History Honor Society, and our History Club.  Meet the returning members, participate in some fun history trivia, and compete for a candy prize! Pizza for attendees.


Save the date: Todd Groce, Georgia Historical Society

Join us for a talk with Todd Groce of the Georgia Historical Society. Details forthcoming.


Lunchtime Time Machine: What makes a historical object "real"?

Join us as Assistant Professor Danielle Raad asks, What makes a historical object "real"?  Danielle Raad is an Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. She is a public historian, anthropologist, archaeologist, and curator with a focus on how people in the present make meaning from the material culture—art, artifacts, and historic sites—of the past. Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, Prof. Raad held positions as the Curator and…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Who killed Edgar Allan Poe?

Join us as Professor Stephen Berry asks, Who killed Edgar Allan Poe? Stephen Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, health and mortality outcomes in the nineteenth-century American South. He is the author or editor of seven books on America in the mid-19th century, including his most recent, Count the Dead:…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Where does humanity fit into the history of the Universe?

Join us as Associate Professor Timothy Cleaveland asks, Where does humanity fit into the history of the Universe? Timothy Cleaveland specializes in the history of Islamic West Africa, and has done research in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, France and Illinois. He is particularly interested in the history of slavery, race and gender in West Africa, as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Saharan and North…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why do Americans owe so much student debt? 

Join us as Professor Elizabeth Shermer asks, Why do Americans owe so much student debt?  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (she/her/hers) is the Director of UGA's Applied History Certificate Program and a historian of the 20th and 21st century U.S. broadly interested in political economy, whether in the history of capitalism, labor history, business history, and/or the history off public policy. She has held fellowships and teaching positions…


History Film Series: Harakiri

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi). When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal…


History Film Series: Al-Ard (The Land)

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening The Land (1970, dir. Youssef Chahine). A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local…
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