Tags: Workshop/Seminar


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, November 8th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Unsettling the Steppe: The Limits of Agricultural Expansion in Inner Mongolia, 1890-1930” with its author, Sakura Christmas, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, September 6th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Community Action: Social Change Through Participatory Research” with its author, Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in…


The Federal Job Search: Graduate Student Workshop

A substantial number of graduate-level job opportunities are found within the federal government. These research, policy, and administrative fields provide a rich array of career opportunities for graduate students in nearly every discipline. However, many candidates find it challenging to navigate the federal job search process. This workshop will feature UGA alumna Sheila Porter, Deputy Branch Chief at the Centers for Disease Control and…


Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group meeting

For graduate students and faculty only.  The first GRS meeting of this semester will be Wednesday, February 6th @ 6:30pm at the Globe. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend. For the readings, please contact Lauren Titley (let94308@uga.edu) or Jeffrey Jones (jeffrey.jones@uga.edu).


Graduate Student Speaker Series

Join us at The Globe as we workshop James Owen's "'From My Heart, Because of Your Tears':  Hymn-singing and Arawak Language Translation, 1738-1815," which tells the story of a multi-ethnic mission community in Berbice and the translation of Christian hymn-lyrics in the terms of the indigenous cosmology. Come prepared with comments, suggestions, and criticisms. Bar snacks will be provided. RSVP to Lauren Titley let94308@uga.edu. …


History at Work: Journalism

The History at Work Speaker Series invites former history majors, minors, and advocates to discuss how they have transformed historical thinking into post-college careers, and to show current majors how to think about the strengths and possibilities of their own training.  This installment is dedicated to journalism. It features Brad Schrade, a Putlizer-Prize-winning reporter who now works at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He received…


Graduate Student Workshop: Navigating the Job Market in the US and UK

Dr. Christienna Fryar and Dr. Cassia Roth will be giving a presentation about the job market-both in the U.S. and in the U.K. to graduate students in history from 10:30 am - Noon. Dr. Fryar's visit is supported by the Franklin-Liverpool faculty exchange program.


Black History Month Reading Club: Christienna Fryar

In anticipation of Dr. Christienna Fryar's lecture on 26 February (see the event information here), we will be discussing her article "A Narrative of Ann Pratt: Life-Writing, Genre and Bureaucracy in a Postemancipation Scandal," History Workshop Journal 85 (2018): 265-79. Open to the public, free pizza. If you're having trouble accessing the article, which requires a campus connection, contact Dr. Kreiner at jkreiner@uga.edu.


History of Capitalism Reading Group

Come join us at The Globe for libations and spirited discussion of the history of capitalism. We will be reading A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by our very own Dr. Stephen Mihm. This is a just for graduate students event.


Workshop on cognitive history

This workshop explores the field of cognitive history by discussing the problems of nonconscious thinking, mind reading, and cross-cognition between humans and animals. Featuring guest historians Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan) and Henry Cowles (University of Michigan). Grad students and undergrads welcome. Bring a lunch! For the advance reading materials contact Dr. Kreiner at jkreiner@uga.edu
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