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From Confrontation to Détente? Controversies about a planned Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andreas Etges (University of Munich), " From Confrontation to Détente? Controversies about a planned Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin". Free and open to the public. Berlin was a center of the Cold War, and several museums, sites, and memorials focus on some aspects of the German division or on the Cold War. A new museum telling the international history of the Cold War right at former allied Checkpoint…


History Information table: stop by for a cookie, and news on upcoming events!

Stop by our 2nd floor information table, grab a holiday cookie and find out what's happening in the history department this semester. We have a ton of upcoming history lectures, Lunchtime Time Machine talks, and career talks coming soon! All students are welcome.


Documentary Screening, "Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain"

Atlanta History Center Executive Director Sheffield Hale will host a free Athens premiere of the new documentary: Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain. Kristian Weatherspoon, Executive Producer. Following the film, please join Sheffield Hale  and Hope Iglehart, Historic Athens Director of Engagement and African American Heritage, for a community discussion moderated by Kimberly Davis, President of the Historic Athens Board of…


History at Work: Resumes, Cover Letters, and Job Interview Strategies

Join us for our last installment this Spring of History at Work, featuring Brandi Raines from the UGA Career Center, who will talk about how your history can work for you in resumes, cover letters, and job interviews. History at Work is a series that explores the many ways to turn your history degree into a post-collegiate career. All majors are welcome. Refreshments will be served


History at Work: Applying for Government Jobs

Join us for a new History at Work talk! This installment features Brandi Raines from the UGA Career Center, who will talk about you can use your history degree for a range of government jobs. History at Work is a series that explores the many ways to turn your history degree into a post-collegiate career. All majors are welcome. Pizza will be served.


Where Public History and Academia Collide: The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University

The History at Work career talk series and the Museum Studies Certificate program present UGA alumnus Associate Professor Robert Luckett, who will discuss his work with two small African American History museums at Jackson State University in Mississippi. All majors are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Luckett is the Director of the Margaret Walker Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and Director of the COFO Civil Rights…


2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture

The Honorable Verda M. Colvin, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and UGA School of Law alumna, will present the 2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel. Named in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes Sr., the first African American students to attend the University of Georgia, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education. It…


UGA INAS presents Rebecca Nagle

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and Cherokee Nation citizen. Her podcast This Land explores the deep history of Supreme Court cases related to tribal sovereignty in the US. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the American…


History at Work presents: Simon Taylor (Staff UX Researcher at YouTube)

The History at Work series and Professional Development Workshop present a career talk with Simon Taylor. Taylor is a staff UX Researcher at YouTube. He was formerly at Twitter, and prior to entering industry, Simon Taylor was Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where his work focused on the history of medicine and science. He is also the author/curator of UX Research Resources for Beginners: https…


Georgia Premiere, "Behind the Strings; The Shanghai Quartet Documentary Film"

UGA hosts a showing of this new film plus a moderated audience Q&A with the producer Michael Peroff (UGA graduate 1967) and quartet members TBD (both joining via video conference). FREE and open to the public. The film showcases the lives of the members of this globally successful chamber-music quartet, their rise to the top and the price they pay to stay there. And it reveals why China keeps inviting them back to perform their once…
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