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Book Talk - The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond

Join us for a book talk with alum Dr. Marvin Chiles, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University. Chiles will discuss his research and new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (2023, University of Virginia Press). Free and open to the public. Refreshments from Big City Bread. This is an FYO event…


Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond"

Please join us for a history talk by Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond". Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at The Pennsylvania State University and a UGA alum (AB 2001). She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century. Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served.…


Faculty Perspectives: Dr. Akela Reason

Akela Reason, associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, will give a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art.” Her talk will expand on the exhibition through the lens of her expertise in American visual and material culture. Dr. Reason teaches courses in material culture, urban history, museum studies and public history, and she is the director of UGA’s Interdisciplinary Certificate in…


Guest Lecture: Justene Hill Edwards

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia, on “The Failed Promise of Black Economic Freedom in Reconstruction America.”  Edwards' research explores the intersection of African American history, American economic history, and the history of American slavery.  Specifically, she looks at slavery’s influence on the evolution of African American economic life.  Her recently published book, …


Book Reading: Joseph Geha, author of "Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us"

Join attendees for a reading and book signing with University of Georgia Press author Joseph Geha, who wrote Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us. Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio’s Little Syria neighborhood where Geha grew up, the first place he would go to find his mother would be the kitchen. Many of today’s immigrants use Skype to keep in touch with…


Visiting Speaker: Santee Frazier, Cherokee Nation Poet & Educator

Santee Frazier will be reading from his poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009) at Old Fire Hall No. 2 (489 Prince Avenue) Thur March 2 from 5:00-6:30 PM. Free and open to the public. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is the author of the poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009). Offering non-…


History guest lecture: Carbon Technocracy with Dr. Victor Seow

This is a virtual event. Registration is required. Scan the QR code below to register, or go to https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrc-Cqqj0oHtMuU1YX7YtK0dNnuBqO1BMi. Victor Seow (pronounced “meow” with an “s”) is a historian of technology, science, and industry, specializing in modern China and Japan within global contexts and in histories of energy and work. In his research, he sets out to understand how technological artifacts, scientific…


Chris Suh: “Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia”

Join us as Dr. Chris Suh (Assistant Professor, Emory University) presents: “Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia”. Suh's talk will draw from his new book, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, March 2023). A free and public event. Pizza lunch for attendees. Chris Suh is a historian of race, ethnicity, and…


From Confrontation to Détente? Controversies about a planned Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andreas Etges (University of Munich), " From Confrontation to Détente? Controversies about a planned Cold War Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin". Free and open to the public. Berlin was a center of the Cold War, and several museums, sites, and memorials focus on some aspects of the German division or on the Cold War. A new museum telling the international history of the Cold War right at former allied Checkpoint…


Dr. La Shonda Mims (UGA Alum), “A Black Gay Political Force”: Drastic Dykes in Late-Twentieth Century Atlanta

Please join us for a talk by Dr. La Shonda Mims, (PhD, UGA) in which she presents her new book, Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South (UNC Press, 2022). After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities. Both cities also served as home to queer communities who defined themselves in accordance with their…
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