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Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Lawrence Wright, "The Future of Terrorism"

Lawrence Wright will visit the University of Georgia to give the Department of History’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, “The Future of Terrorism.”  Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of six previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, The Terror Years, and one novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes…


Mary Ellen Curtin: Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin: “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of…


Guest Lecture: Rebecca Scott (U Michigan Law School)

Rebecca J. Scott will present a guest lecture at the UGA Law School entitled: "The House on Bitterness Street: Maternity, Slavery, and a Fragile Freedom."  Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. At the Law School, she teaches a course on civil rights and the boundaries of citizenship in historical perspective, as well as a seminar on the law in slavery…


Join us for a talk by Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University

Please join us for the inaugural lecture of the Transnational European History Seminar. Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University will speak on, "Affirmative Action and the End of Empires". Shepard is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France.  This is a free…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Diane Batts Morrow and the intriguing question, what do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?.  Professor Morrow teaches courses on African American history, and she is the author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860. Free admission, free pizza. This special edition of the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why didn't the United States ever go metric?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Stephen Mihm who presents the question, "Why didn't the U.S. ever go metric? Can't make this event? @UGAResearch will Livestream this event Tuesday on Instagram! Professor Mihm teaches courses on the United States in the nineteenth century and the history of capitalism. He is finishing a book on the history of standards and standardization in the United…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Acid tests or activism — which was the better path to change?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Montgomery Wolf. Professor Wolf teaches courses on the history of popular culture, music, and the modern United States. She is completing a manuscript entitled, We Accept You, One of Us? Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974 to 1985. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did the Haitian slave revolt become a revolution?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Professor Palmer teaches courses on the history of Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates. She is the author of Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Were the Brazilian police always violent?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Cassia Roth. Professor Roth teaches courses on the history of Brazil, slavery, and gender. She is finishing a book entitled A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Free admission, free pizza.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why is Spain in danger of distintegrating?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Ben Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Europe, transnational Europe, and Christian-Muslim relations. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. Free admission, free pizza.
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