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Capitalist Souths, a Graduate Student Conference

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…


Dirty History: Kathleen A. Brosnan

Featuring Kathleen A. Brosnan, Travis Chair of Modern American History, University of Oklahoma. "Crises: Bugs, Temperance, and Napa Wine, 1880-1920." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over.…


Dirty History: Pablo Lapegna

Featuring Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Georgia. "Toxic Prosperity: The Ambivalences of Herbicide Exposure in Argentina." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors…


Dirty History Workshop: John-Henry Harter

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss John-Henry Harter's research, "Woodworkers as Environmentalists in British Columbia, 1937-1957." Dr. Harter is Lecturer, History and Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email Scott Nelson at…


Dirty History Workshop: Sarah Besky

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss Sarah Baresky's paper, "After the Country: Agrarian Life and the Plantation's Outsides." Dr. Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work Director, South Asia Program at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to…


From Dissertation-to-Book, with Dr. James Welborn

Graduate students are invited to join Dr. James Hill "Trae" Welborn III as he talks about how to take a manuscript from dissertation-to-book. Welborn is the author of 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…


UGA Center for Asian Studies, Early Career Workshop on “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections”

The Center for Asian Studies of the University of Georgia will host early-career scholars (including advanced graduate students) to participate in an in-person one-day interdisciplinary workshop on the theme of “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections.” In recent years, there has been a wealth of scholarship from and about Asia on the movement of people, ideas, commodities, and objects through time and space; the…


Heirloom Southern Apples: Past, Present and Future

March 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm,  https://botgarden.uga.edu/event/heirloom-southern-apples/ Registration required:   Register Online The morning session begins with a presentation by orchardist and author Diane Flynt, founder of Foggy Ridge Cider and author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Next, Dr. Stephen Mihm, Head of the Department of History, and Gareth Crosby, Heritage Garden…


Oral History Workshop (registration required)

Visiting speaker Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Bob Korstad will join us for an oral history workshop in conjunction with Montgomery Wolf's class HIST4755/6755 Oral History Methods and Theory. UGA students from any discipline are invited to attend by registering for this in-person workshop. Please RSVP to Dr. Hahamovitch at cxhaha@uga.edu  if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating. Or, if you are a History graduate student or history…


Dirty History Workshop: Alexander Bowen

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss doctoral student Alex Bowen's paper, "The Fall of the House of Bradford-Eppes: Planter Decline in Postbellum Florida”. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email Scott Nelson at srnelson@uga.edu.  Dirty History is an…
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