Tags: Workshop/Seminar

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…

The Center for Asian Studies of the University of Georgia will host early-career scholars (including advanced graduate students) to participate in an in-person one-day interdisciplinary workshop on the theme of “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections.” In recent years, there has been a wealth of scholarship from and about Asia on the movement of people, ideas, commodities, and objects through time and space; the…

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…

Visiting speaker Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Bob Korstad will join us for an oral history workshop in conjunction with Montgomery Wolf's class HIST4755/6755 Oral History Methods and Theory. UGA students from any discipline are invited to attend by registering for this in-person workshop. Please RSVP to Dr. Hahamovitch at cxhaha@uga.edu  if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating. Or, if you are a History graduate student or history…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Graduate students are invited to an informal chat with UGA History alum and associate professor of history at Providence College, Dr. Pat Breen, who will talk about his experience on recent search committees at Providence. Refreshments.