Workshop/Seminar

A one-day symposium on Children, Youth, and War will be held at the University of Georgia on March 19, 2018.  Hosted by James Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University, and Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, the symposium will provide an intense exploration of all aspects—on both the home front and the battlefront—of the experiences of children in times of war in all eras and throughout the world.  Interdisciplinary (although historically based) approaches are welcome.  “War” will be defined broadly to include irregular and undecla

Faculty and graduate students only. This Friday's paper is by James Wall, a doctoral candidate in history: “The Man Who Owns the Land Owns You”: New Communities, Incorporated and the End of the Rural War on Poverty."

History of Capitalism reading group: This special edition of our group will host a group discussion to which the university community is invited.

What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality? 

Find out at the History Book Club, History of Capitalism Edition

Our first meeting of the semester will be Friday, February 16 at The Globe. Come to read and discuss the theory and history of capitalism from a critical perspective.

We will be reading three essays on the relationship between race, class and capital.

• “Black Particularity Reconsidered,” Adolph Reed, Jr.

• “Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?,” Frank B Wilderson III  

• “Whiteness, Racism and Identity,” Barbara J. Fields

In honor of Black History Month, the History Department is hosting two book clubs. The second book club will focus on Martha Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Not yet published, students who sign up for this seminar will receive a free copy of a manuscript draft of Jones’s work and will get an in-depth look of how history books are researched, written, and published.

Moderator: Kate Dahlstrand.

Graduate student speaker series. We will be worksopping a paper. Food will be provided.

We will be workshopping a paper. Food will be provided.

Have you ever visited an exhibit and felt you only heard the first part of a truly great story?

Faculty and graduate students only. "Agro-ecology of the Early State”

Faculty and graduate students only. "Backwater: Making Space for Slavery in the Red River Valley"