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Join us for a talk with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Iowa), "In the Years Before Roe: Abortion in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands." 4-5pm – publishing Q&A with graduate students ONLY* 5-6pm – research talk and Q&A* *The Zoom link is the same for both sessions; please only join for the session you are interested in below: To register for this event, please scan the QR code below or click on the link, https://zoom.us/meeting/…
Can History Save the Georgia Coast? Join us as a coterie of UGA history majors presents the results of their senior seminar research into the environmental histories of the Georgia coast. Their aim is not only to explore coastal history per se, but to look for a “usable past” as we face the future. What environmental challenges have plagued the coast in the past, and how did people deal with them? Did they deal with them successfully? Who…
Posted from UGA Columns April 2022 2022 Charter Lecture Series John Drake and Claudio Saunt 2021-2022 Regents' Professors Two leading scholars at the University of Georgia will discuss their individual research programs and their collaboration at the intersection of history and infectious disease during the 2022 Charter Lecture. John Drake, Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and founding director of the Center for the…
A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 Russian-British documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no…
A virtual panel discussion provided by the University of Georgia School of Law and the greater University of Georgia community will be held on Thursday, March 17, 12:00 p.m. EST.  Register here.  For questions, please contact Sarah Quinn. The conversation will be moderated by Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, Dean and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.  This discussion brings together the…
Join us as Dr. Lance Greene discusses is research and new book - "In his book Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (U Alabama Press, March, 2022), Lance Greene explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Although few Cherokees in the region participated in…
Join us as Dr. Timothy Yang discusses his research and new book, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021). Yang was recently awarded a prize for the best book in business history by The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference. A free and public event. Timothy Yang teaches courses on the history of East Asia, Japan, science and medicine, capitalism, and memory. His…
Join us as Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson discusses his book, Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World (Basic Books, 2022). Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia. A free and public event.
Panel: Kudzu and the Boll Weevil in Modern Georgia The Russell Library is hosting a panel featuring Drs. James C. Giesen, associate professor of history and Grisham Master Teacher, Mississippi State University, and Derek Alderman, professor of geography, University of Tennessee. Discussion will include the social, cultural, and economic impact of notorious pests such as the boll weevil and kudzu in modern Georgia. Dr. Brian Drake, senior…
Panel: “Understanding the War in Ukraine: Cultural and Historical Perspectives” Panelists: Victoria Hasko (Language and Literacy Education), Yuliia Kabina (Fulbright Researcher, National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine), Joseph Kellner (History), Alexandra Shapiro (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Moderator: Charles Byrd (Germanic & Slavic Studies) Sponsored by: Office of Global Engagement, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies…

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