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LTTM: Graduate Student Competition

Please join us as graduate students from the history department compete for the chance to participate in the Lunchtime Time Machine Lecture Series. This is a special edition of the lunchtime series.  Attendees will be given a ballot and vote on who gives the best SHORT (5-10”)pitch for their lecture. After all the presentations have been given and the votes have been counted, a winner will be named at the end of the hour and that lucky…


LTTM: Why are there no American Indians in the story of Athens?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. James Brooks. Brooks is the recipient of numerous national awards for scholarly excellence. His 2002 "Triple-Crown" winning (Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes) Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of intercultural violence…


LTTM: What happened in Athens in the LAST great pandemic?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology. Free admission, and free pizza! This is an FYO event.


Gender and History Workshop: Meg Weeks (Harvard)

Join us for a talk with Meg Weeks (Harvard), "'When will we be the ones to decide?' The Fight to Decriminalize Abortion During Brazil's Democratic Transition." To register for this event, please scan the QR code below or click on the link,  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdeGpqj4rHd0X1h8w40k_7phWvpivZMZ0. “Globalizing Roe: The History and Politics of Abortion Beyond the U.S.” is co-sponsored by the Gender & History Series in…


UGA’s John Drake and Claudio Saunt to deliver 2022 Charter Lecture

Posted from UGA Columns April 2022 2022 Charter Lecture Series John Drake and Claudio Saunt 2021-2022 Regents' Professors Two leading scholars at the University of Georgia will discuss their individual research programs and their collaboration at the intersection of history and infectious disease during the 2022 Charter Lecture. John Drake, Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and founding director of the Center for the…


Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina

Join us as Dr. Lance Greene discusses is research and new book - "In his book Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (U Alabama Press, March, 2022), Lance Greene explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Although few Cherokees in the region participated in…


Andrew Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism In China and India

Dr. Andrew Liu (Assistant Professor, History, Villanova University) presents a talk on his book, Tea War: A History of Capitalism In China and India. Presented via Zoom - scan the QR code on the flyer or select the following link to register - https://zoom.us/j/95831727275?pwd=Qk1wdXcvajQ3VHNHclZKb0Myc01IUT09. Andrew B. Liu is an assistant professor of history at Villanova University near Philadelphia. His interests include modern China,…


Maren Ehlers: Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese 'Northern Frontier'

Dr. Maren Ehlers (Associate Professor, History, UNC-Charlotte), presents: "Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese 'Northern Frontier,' 1855-1869.”  Presented via Zoom - registration required. Please  go to the link https://zoom.us/j/91746748777 to register. Ehlers is the author of Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.…


Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the War on the Union

Join us as alum David K. Thomson (Ph.D. '16) discusses his research and new book, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (University of North Carolina Press, April, 2022). Dr. Thomson is an Assistant Professor of history at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. His forthcoming book, Bonds of War, explores Union bond markets during the American Civil War. This is a free and public event.


A Georgian in Greece: Exploring the Life of John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923)

Join us via Zoom for this special presentation. Professor John W. I. Lee of UC Santa Barbara will discuss his new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford University Press 2022), with a particular focus on Gilbert’s community, educational, and scholarly connections in Georgia. John Wesley Gilbert, today recognized as the first professionally trained archaeologist of African American descent, was born…
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