Dirty History: Joseph Lanning and Bram Tucker

Featuring Joseph Lanning, Anthropology, University of Georgia and School for International Training, and Bram Tucker, Anthropology, University of Georgia. "Farming as Gambling: Illusionary Profits and Agricultural Decision-making in the Malawian Green Revolution."

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Dirty History: Amna Qayyum

Featuring Amna Qayyum, Assistant Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia. "The Ghost of Comilla: Local Pilots and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan."

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. Participants should come having read the papers in advance. 

Lunchtime Time Machine: What makes a historical object "real"?

Join us as Assistant Professor Danielle Raad asks, What makes a historical object "real"?

 Danielle Raad is an Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. She is a public historian, anthropologist, archaeologist, and curator with a focus on how people in the present make meaning from the material culture—art, artifacts, and historic sites—of the past.