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Oconee Library History Series: "From Slavery to the Stars: Examining the Lives and Legacies of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson"

This month's History Lecture at the Oconee County Library features UGA Ph.D. student Maya Brooks presenting a talk that explores the lives of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson and the ways in which their experiences as Black women in America were both similar and different.  Jacobs was born enslaved and her narrative explores her struggle to not only free herself but her children as well. Johnson, best known for her work at…


Book talk: "Latin America's Democratic Crusade", with Allen Wells

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Bowdoin College, on his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023). Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he…


Fall 2023 Final Exams

Fall 2023 Final Exams are Dec. 7 - 13.  Schedule: https://reg.uga.edu/general-information/calendars/final-exam-schedule/ Final Exam Policy: A final examination schedule is published each semester by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and a preliminary copy is available on the Office of the Registrar web site. No time and date departures from the examination schedule should occur without prior approval of the dean of the…


UGA Spring 2024 Doctoral Student Commencement

Spring 2024 Commencement will consist of three exercises over two days, with separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies held on Thursday, May 9 and the undergraduate ceremony conducted on Friday, May 10. Due to steady increases in graduate student enrollment, we anticipate this two-day format will be maintained in the future for Spring Commencement.


Fall 2023 Graduate Student Commencement

Graduate student commencement. Information: https://commencement.uga.edu/graduate/


Retirement party for Cilla Cartwright

History faculty, graduate students and staff are invited to a retirement party for Cilla Cartwright Thursday after the faculty meeting, in our 2nd floor conference room, to commemorate Cilla's many years of service with UGA.


Phinizy Lecture: Colson Whitehead

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-…


HUMANITIES@WORK Speaker Series

The HUMANITIES@WORK speaker event will highlight four folks with careers at UGA who started out as humanities majors. This panel will take place on Wednesday, October 11th at 3 p.m. in the Park Hall Auditorium (room 265). This free event is the first in a series that will take place every October. This year's speakers include: Alan Flurry, Director of Communications in the Franklin College at UGA Dr. Mike Merva, Coordinator, Franklin College…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Premodern History in the Twenty-First Century

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),…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Humanities Pedagogy and AI in German and American Classrooms

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…
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