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Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Lakes of Sacrifice: Brazilian Ethanol, Development, and Water Pollution” with its author, Jennifer Eaglin, assistant professor of environmental history/sustainability at the Ohio State University. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture For Africa's Agricultural Transformation” with its author, Dr. Rachel Schurman, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Rural Development and Its Discontents: Germany, China, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the Interwar Period” with its author, Shellen Xiao Wu, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not…


Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group

A virtual meeting for the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students.  Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for more information and an invitation link.


History of Capitalism Reading Group Meeting

Our second meeting of the history of capitalism reading group will address the thematic question: What do we do with the concept of modes of production in the historiography of capitalism? To tackle this, we will be reading three short articles by different scholars, addressing different aspects of the theme. David Graeber, "Turning Modes of Production Inside Out Or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery," Critique of Anthropology…


"They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South", with Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss her book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale U Press, 2020). This talk will occur remotely via Zoom.  Click here to make a Zoom reservation Graduate students in history who attend will receive a copy of the book in advance. A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q…


"Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima", with Dr. Tamara Walker

Dr. Tamara Walker will join us to discuss her most recent book, Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Cambridge, 2017). Walker's scholarship focuses on three interrelated thematic areas: the history of slavery and freedom in Latin America; the process of racial formation in the region; and the ways in which gender shaped the experience of enslavement and racialization. This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom, space…


Constitution Day: “The Consistency of James Madison: the Bill of Rights”

The School of Public and International Affairs invites you to our annual Constitution Day lecture in celebration of the day that Constitutional Convention representatives in Philadelphia completed and signed the United States Constitution in 1787.  The centerpiece of these festivities is a virtual lecture open to the public by Professor Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame,…


Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group

This will be the first virtual meeting for 2020-21 of the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students. Check back for updates and future events! Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for an invitation link.


History of Capitalism Reading Group

This will be the first meeting for 2020-21 of the History of Capitalism Reading Group. The readings will be precirculated based on interest to graduate students in the department who would like to attend the Zoom call. Readings will vary temporally and geographically, and will include new works from UGA scholars, first books, historiographical articles and/or works of theoretical significance to what has become a vibrant field of historical…
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