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Where Public History and Academia Collide: The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University

The History at Work career talk series and the Museum Studies Certificate program present UGA alumnus Associate Professor Robert Luckett, who will discuss his work with two small African American History museums at Jackson State University in Mississippi. All majors are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Luckett is the Director of the Margaret Walker Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and Director of the COFO Civil Rights…


2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture

The Honorable Verda M. Colvin, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and UGA School of Law alumna, will present the 2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel. Named in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes Sr., the first African American students to attend the University of Georgia, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education. It…


UGA INAS presents Rebecca Nagle

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and Cherokee Nation citizen. Her podcast This Land explores the deep history of Supreme Court cases related to tribal sovereignty in the US. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the American…


Georgia Premiere, "Behind the Strings; The Shanghai Quartet Documentary Film"

UGA hosts a showing of this new film plus a moderated audience Q&A with the producer Michael Peroff (UGA graduate 1967) and quartet members TBD (both joining via video conference). FREE and open to the public. The film showcases the lives of the members of this globally successful chamber-music quartet, their rise to the top and the price they pay to stay there. And it reveals why China keeps inviting them back to perform their once…


Behind the Headlines Q&A (pt. 1): War in Ukraine

In a two-part mini-series, experts from UGA's history faculty will provide context and answer questions on the crises of the day: first Dr. Joseph Kellner on the war in Ukraine, then Dr. Kevin Jones on the major, ongoing protests in Iran. This is a free and public event. Refreshments will be served.


Book Talk: Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women

Robin M. Morris is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College. She researches gender and the political realignment of Georgia after World War II. Her work has appeared in Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women's part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Morris examines how the growth of…


Dirty History Book Talk:The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, Jo Guldi

Join us March 17. Jo Guldi, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University, will be giving a talk about her new book, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press, 2022). This free and public event is presented by the Dirty History Workshop and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the UGA Humanities Festival. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…


LTTM: How did bananas bring Southeast Asia to the brink of collapse during WWII?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kalyani Ramnath. Professor Ramnath joined the history faculty this year, so now you can look forward to her courses on the history modern South Asia, legal history, and law and empire. In addition to her PhD in history, Ramnath holds a B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the National Law School of India University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the…


LTTM: How did women get abortions before Roe v. Wade?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Cassia Roth, Associate Professor in History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and Director of Graduate Studies. Roth's book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020), examines reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in…


LTTM: Why did the Nazis murder Capitaine Charles N’Tchoréré?

The Lunchtime Time Machine popular undergraduates series welcomes Dr. Timothy Cleaveland for this month's talk. Cleaveland specializes in the history of Islamic West Africa, and has done research in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, France and Illinois. He is particularly interested in the history of slavery, race and gender in West Africa, as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Saharan and North African elite…
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