Our February spotlight highlights our annual Black History Month calendar, a month-long schedule open to the UGA community and public.

Each year we add a variety of programming in addition to regularly scheduled events in celebration of Black History Month. In the past, these events have included book clubs, historic tours, lectures, book talks, and more.

Join us for a talk by Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize for Calling for a Blanket Dance.

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Alaina E. Roberts, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation". Building on her first book's examination of Black life in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, Dr. Roberts will discuss her burgeoning examination of what it might look like to delineate and confront the legacies of slavery in these two nations.

2024 UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages Lecture Part 2: Rainy Brake was the first certified teacher in the EBCI New Kituwah Academy Cherokee Immersion Program, and is currently Cherokee Language Instructor at Western Carolina University's Cherokee Language Revitalization Program. Rainy has a BA in English Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Cherokee Language.

In this presentation, Dr. Stephanie Evans (Professor, Georgia State University) will discuss the study of Black women’s narrative histories of health, healing, and wellness. Evans will explore what she calls #HistoricalWellness: Black women’s traditions of simultaneously practicing inner peace and working collectively to resist oppression.

HISTORY @ WORK is a series that explores the many ways to turn your history degree into a post-collegiate career. This installment features Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Dr. Scott Nesbit, and Dr. Kevin Jones, who will provide an overview and advice about the Double Dawgs programs in History and Historic Preservation. For more details about the Double Dawgs program, check out the link https://doubledawgs.uga.edu/ProgramList.

Join us - we'll have pizza for the attendees! 

Open to all majors.

For history faculty - writing intensive plan.