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Willson Center Distinguished Lecture: "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'"

Join us and welcome Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University, who will discuss "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'". Dr. Gluck’s talk analyzes how the practices and norms of public memory have changed in the seventy years since the end of World War II, creating what Professor Gluck calls a “global memory culture.” Her talk explores how changes in the law, the role of witnesses, the…


Constitution Day Lecture

On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello …


Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?

Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South. All majors are welcome. Free admission, free…


(History faculty job talk and teaching discussion)


MSP Lecture Series: Should YOU Get Married on a Plantation?

Join us on Tuesday on You Tube Live as UGA history graduate student Sara Small discusses the question - Should YOU get married on a plantation? The use of plantations as wedding and event venues has been a popular trend for years. Rarely, however, do these venues adequately address their troubled histories – or the lived experiences who enslaved people who once lived there. In this lecture, Ms. Small will discuss the plantation venue industry in…


I've Been Here All the While | Alaina E. Roberts

This is a virtual event. Please join us as Dr. Roberts discusses her recent work. Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud--pqDkuE9TATjJL-TOQrwJyEfHEWhnJ "In I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, historian Alaina E. Roberts tells a riveting story about Indian Territory in the Reconstruction era that illuminates a broader national moment. A descendant of the African Americans, Chickasaws, and white…


Scientists and Pigs: A Conversation with Henry Cowles and Jamie Kreiner

Join Henry Cowles (University of Michigan) and Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) for a conversation about scientists, pigs, and history writing, featuring their books The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey and Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. To sign up for the virtual event, visit the event page over at Avid Bookshop's site.


Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts

For decades traditional crafts have too often been considered as romantic vestiges of a forgotten past. Yet recent trends have begun to identify that there is much we can learn from the so-called "old ways" of doing things. With our own relationship with the planet being brought into sharper focus, perhaps it is time to look again at historic practices of making and doing and examine why some techniques have been so long-lived. What can we now…


Monumental Discussions with Sheffield Hale (B.A. '82)

 Free Join the Atlanta Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association for a conversation with Sheffield Hale (BA history ’82), president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center. Sheffield will lead an educational discussion on historical facts and context around monuments, historic markers, and the meaning behind them. Sign up today to make sure you get to ask your questions! This event will be moderated by Dr. Bennett-Alexander, extensively…


UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film"

Please join the departments of History, Anthropology, and the Institute of Native American Studies to welcome Professor Liza Black of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for a discussion of her new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.  As a UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar, she will discuss a life that moved between Oklahoma and Los Angeles, and her explorations into the working lives of Native actors in Hollywood.…
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