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Grace Ballor: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market

Join us for a talk by Dr. Grace Ballor Monday afternoon, about her research and forthcoming book: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market. Grace Ballor is a historian interested in the international political economy of contemporary Europe and the intersections of global capitalism and global governance. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Economic History at Bocconi University, and…


Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, with James Welborn (GCSU)

Join us for a talk by Dr. James Hill "Trae" Welborn III about his research and latest book, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5200/. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, reared in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and educated at Clemson University (BA 2005, MA 2007) and the University of Georgia (PhD 2014), Dr. Welborn specializes in American…


Book talk with Dr. Jason De León (UCLA): Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Join us as award-winning author, anthropologist, and MacArthur fellow Dr. Jason De León (The Land of Open Graves) discusses his acclaimed new book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Penguin, 2024). Jason De León is the Director of UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies. Free and open to the public. This event is part of a series presented by Indigenizing…


2025 Graduating History Majors Reception & Annual Awards

2024-25 graduating History majors are invited to the annual History Department Graduation Reception the afternoon of May 9.  The reception will include our annual awards and graduation recognition, with a gift for each graduating senior in attendance. Opening remarks by Franklin College Dean Dr. Anna Stenport. We would like to take a group photo of our prospective graduates following the awards in the auditorium. Students are welcome to…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How modern is surveillance?

Join us as Dr. Steven Soper explores answers to the question - How modern is surveillance? Soper's study of association of life in nineteenth-century Italy, Building a Civil Society, was published last fall by the University of Toronto Press. It won the American Association of Italian Studies 2014 prize for the best book on 18th- or 19th-century Italy, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014 Marraro prize for the best book on the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Joseph Kellner who will explore the intriguing question, Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century? Dr. Kellner teaches Russian and Soviet history His forthcoming book, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse, is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual…


Lunchtime Time Machine with Tracey Johnson: How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program?

Join us for lunch as Dr. Tracey Johnson investigates the query, How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program? In the wake of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion, a Black artist activist group called the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) started a prison arts exchange to help ameliorate the conditions for incarcerated people. This talk will focus on the effectiveness and power of the educational and therapeutic effects…


Graduate Student Appreciation Coffee Hour!

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! Coffee, tea and snacks in the Faculty Lounge.  Stop by and thank your TA for all of the work they do for our UGA community and history! Anyone is welcome. 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM.


Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society) General Meeting

Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon PI, UGA's chapter of the National History Honor Society, is having a general meeting April 10. Whether you are a member or interested in learning more about the chapter, join us at 6pm.


Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

Join us for a presentation by Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan".  Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92427629754 Christopher Craig is currently Professor of Japanese Studies and the Head of the Research and Development Unit of the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies at Tohoku University (Japan). Sponsored by University of Georgia's Center for Asian Studies…
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