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History Guest Lecture: Grace Hale (U Virginia)

Dr. Grace Hale is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She will speak on her paper, "The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with My Mississippi Grandfather and the Intimate History of White Supremacy." The “lyncher in the family” is a metaphor for just how close most white Americans are to the practice of white supremacy.  Despite our desire to see vigilante violence as a relic of the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Who Murdered All These Kids?

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate lecture series features Alexandra Velez, a Master's student in history and winner of this year's grad student LTTM competition. Free admission, free lunch! (Box lunches will be distributed at the end of the talk) This event , Reservations required - email our Main Office cilla71@uga.edu or call 706 542-2053 to reserve your space. Please wear a face covering.


Patricia Matthew: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture"

UGA's Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Franklin College Office of Inclusion & Diversity Leadership present: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University. A reception in the Robert West Library, Park Hall 261 will follow Matthew's talk. The…


Lecture: Dr. Oumelbanine Zhiri

Join the Willson/ Mellon Early Modern Studies group for a lecture by Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor of French at the University of California San Diego. She has published on French and Arabic literature, Mediterranean culture, as well as European and Arabic travel literature and geography. Worldmaking, or global imagining, is a feature of early modern culture, best symbolized by the globes that became an important and…


Guest Lecture: Teaching Latinx Atlanta History

Iliana (Yami) Rodriquez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Latinx history, migration, culture, and labor within the southern United States. This academic year she is a predoctoral fellow at Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where she is completing her dissertation, "Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016."  


Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA)

The 10th annual Gregory Lecture, delivered by Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, will be October 22, 2020 and will kickoff the "Historicizing the Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History" conference. This is a free and public event. Lecture topic and details to be announced.


As It Lies: A Natural History of Untruth

Guest lecture featuring Henry M. Cowles, sponsored by the Departments of History and Philosophy and the Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series in Philosophy Fund. Henry Cowles (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan) is a historian of modern science and medicine. His research and teaching focus on the sciences of mind and brain, evolutionary theory, and the experimental ideal in the United States and Great Britain. His book, The…


Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism

If, as postcolonial criticism has shown, Crusoe's experience is part of the longue durée of race and empire in the West, it must be considered in relation to earlier Iberian as well as subsequent Dutch, French, and English imperial projects. In this light, Crusoe’s absence from his Brazilian plantation is as significant as his presence on the island, and reinserts his narrative into broader contexts of inter-imperial…


Lunch & Learn: Money Apocalypse

Join the Russell Library for a lunch and learn held in conjunction with the exhibit Now and Then: 1979. Sean Vanatta, a "triple dawg" and visiting assistant professor of history in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, will present on the Volcker Shock and the end of financial stability.  The Volker Shock, a policy experiment undertaken in October 1979, was the most important financial event…


Lecture: Dr. Hilary Green, The Hallowed Grounds Project

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Hilary Green entitled, "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama." Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Program Director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the  University of Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, her M.A. in…
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