Tags: Lecture


Made Visible: Collecting and Curating Black Artists at the Georgia Museum of Art

Join us for a talk with Dr. Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art of the Georgia Museum of Art. Shawnya L. Harris, Ph.D. is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2015. Harris has curated numerous exhibitions including Mary Bendolph: Quilted Memories, Richard Hunt: Synthesis,…


The Linnentown Project, with Hattie Whitehead

Featuring Hattie Whitehead, Co-Chair of the Linnentown Project, with guest Bobby Crook. Hattie Thomas Whitehead is the author of Giving Voice to Linnentown: A Memoir. The Linnentown Project is a community-led initiative to celebrate the history of the historic Athens black neighborhood 'Linnentown' and to educate community stakeholders and decision makers about the legacy and violent impacts of urban renewal on black communities in Athens, GA.…


The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal

Please join Dr. Ethan Blue as he presents his new book The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021).   The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal is a history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirable" immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who traveled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced…


Willson Center Distinguished Lecture: "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'"

Join us and welcome Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University, who will discuss "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'". Dr. Gluck’s talk analyzes how the practices and norms of public memory have changed in the seventy years since the end of World War II, creating what Professor Gluck calls a “global memory culture.” Her talk explores how changes in the law, the role of witnesses, the…


Constitution Day Lecture

On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello …


Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?

Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South. All majors are welcome. Free admission, free…


(History faculty job talk and teaching discussion)


HSUGA 2022 Community Event: "Tell the Whole Story"

May 21, 2022 History of Slavery at the University of Georgia 2022 Community Event “Tell the Whole Story” All day at the Brooklyn Cemetery, 820 Westlake Dr., and Morton Theatre, 195 W. Washington St. Tentative Schedule (Details and updates at https://www.slaveryatuga.org/)     10am-noon: Brooklyn Cemetery     1:00-2:30pm: Archival Readings and Vignettes at the Morton Theatre     4:00-6:00pm: Music and…


MSP Lecture Series: Should YOU Get Married on a Plantation?

Join us on Tuesday on You Tube Live as UGA history graduate student Sara Small discusses the question - Should YOU get married on a plantation? The use of plantations as wedding and event venues has been a popular trend for years. Rarely, however, do these venues adequately address their troubled histories – or the lived experiences who enslaved people who once lived there. In this lecture, Ms. Small will discuss the plantation venue industry in…


I've Been Here All the While | Alaina E. Roberts

This is a virtual event. Please join us as Dr. Roberts discusses her recent work. Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud--pqDkuE9TATjJL-TOQrwJyEfHEWhnJ "In I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, historian Alaina E. Roberts tells a riveting story about Indian Territory in the Reconstruction era that illuminates a broader national moment. A descendant of the African Americans, Chickasaws, and white…
Subscribe to Lecture

Support us

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Click here to learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.