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Middle East Film Series: Nasser 56

A presentation of the Middle East Film Series. Free and open to the public.


Mary Ellen Curtin: Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin: “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of…


Faculty Book Talk: Michael Winship's "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America"

Join us in celebrating the release of Michael Winship's latest book, Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. (Yale U Press.) "a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.--" Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England’s church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Diane Batts Morrow and the intriguing question, what do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?.  Professor Morrow teaches courses on African American history, and she is the author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860. Free admission, free pizza. This special edition of the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why didn't the United States ever go metric?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Stephen Mihm who presents the question, "Why didn't the U.S. ever go metric? Can't make this event? @UGAResearch will Livestream this event Tuesday on Instagram! Professor Mihm teaches courses on the United States in the nineteenth century and the history of capitalism. He is finishing a book on the history of standards and standardization in the United…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Acid tests or activism — which was the better path to change?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Montgomery Wolf. Professor Wolf teaches courses on the history of popular culture, music, and the modern United States. She is completing a manuscript entitled, We Accept You, One of Us? Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974 to 1985. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did the Haitian slave revolt become a revolution?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Professor Palmer teaches courses on the history of Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates. She is the author of Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Were the Brazilian police always violent?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Cassia Roth. Professor Roth teaches courses on the history of Brazil, slavery, and gender. She is finishing a book entitled A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why is Spain in danger of distintegrating?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Ben Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Europe, transnational Europe, and Christian-Muslim relations. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. Free admission, free pizza.


"Below Baldwin" Documentary film screening

On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers discovered human remains on the site. DNA tests revealed what many local historians already knew to be true: these were the remains of former slaves. This discovery and the events that followed have forced the often-forgotten histories of slavery and segregation to rise to the surface, both at the University of Georgia and in Athens…
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