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Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the department of history’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with classes at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-…
UGA faculty are invited to join us for a book signing, reception, and celebration of Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 (August 2023, Stanford University Press) by Dr. Kalyani Ramnath of the Department of History. "For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and…
How can something that seems out-of-date by definition be vital and valuable today? What are the uses and challenges of premodern history in the present? Join Dr. Julia Burkhardt, Professor of Medieval History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a participant in the UGA-LMU Faculty Research Exchange Program, in exploring this question with a group of premodernist faculty at UGA: Cynthia Camp (English), Asen Kirin (Art History),…
ChatGPT made its début less than a year ago: how are humanists responding to the bot? Join Dr. Julia Burkhardt, Professor of Medieval History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a participant in the UGA-LMU Faculty Research Exchange Program, in exploring this question with a group of UGA faculty who have been thinking deeply about artificial intelligence and education: Elizabeth Davis (English), Jeremy Davis (Philosophy), Katie…
Join us for a research talk by Dr. Sarah Case, “Race, Reform, and Religious Faith: The Life and Tragic Death of Athens’ Juliette Derricotte.”  Sarah Case is a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Editor of The Public Historian. Athens-born Juliette Derricotte was a nationally known early twentieth-century reformer and educator, active in the leadership of the YWCA and Dean of Women at Fisk University in…
Dr. Sarah Case, Editor of The Public Historian, will offer a workshop on writing for a wide array of audiences beyond the academy. This discussion, aimed primarily at scholars with an interest in public-facing history, will focus on how to approach various styles of writing and publishing: scholarly public history articles; reviews; blogs; and op-eds. Questions? Contact Dr. James Brooks James.Brooks@uga.edu  
For history faculty.
For history faculty - department writing plan meeting for WIP program.
Save the date: graduating history majors (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024) are invited to the annual History Department Graduation Reception the afternoon of May 10 (Commencement day). This event is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 2023 – 12:00-1:30 PM, a luncheon will be provided for our guests. The reception will include our annual awards and graduation recognition, with a gift for each graduating senior in attendance.  To RSVP…
Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture, "New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara". Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of Virginia. Her forthcoming book, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation will be released September 2023…

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