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DeLisa Hawkes, on "Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and Black/Indigenous Solidarities"

In this talk, Dr. DeLisa D. Hawkes (University of Tennessee) will discuss how the under-examined writer Olivia Ward Bush-Banks reflects on Black and Indigenous solidarities in her early twentieth-century literary works and the value of teaching-in-place to thinking about the intersections between African American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Free and open to the…


Amanda Wunder (CUNY): Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV

Please save Thursday, 7 November, 12:45 to 2 pm for what will be a truly illuminating and dynamic lecture: Amanda Wunder of CUNY Graduate Center will be featured as a Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer. Her talk will be based on her new book with Yale University Press, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV. Free and open to the public. We'll have cookies, coffee, and sweet tea for attendees! Presented by…


Grace Ballor: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market

Join us for a talk by Dr. Grace Ballor Monday afternoon, about her research and forthcoming book: Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market. Grace Ballor is a historian interested in the international political economy of contemporary Europe and the intersections of global capitalism and global governance. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Economic History at Bocconi University, and…


Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, with James Welborn (GCSU)

Join us for a talk by Dr. James Hill "Trae" Welborn III about his research and latest book, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era, https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5200/. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, reared in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and educated at Clemson University (BA 2005, MA 2007) and the University of Georgia (PhD 2014), Dr. Welborn specializes in American…


Book talk with Dr. Jason De León (UCLA): Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Join us as award-winning author, anthropologist, and MacArthur fellow Dr. Jason De León (The Land of Open Graves) discusses his acclaimed new book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Penguin, 2024). Jason De León is the Director of UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies. Free and open to the public. This event is part of a series presented by Indigenizing…


Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century

Join us for a talk with author Dr. Robert Cohen, on his new book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century (August 2024, UNC Press). Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated member of NYU’s History Department. His historical scholarship focuses on politics, higher education, and social…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Joseph Kellner who will explore the intriguing question, Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century? Dr. Kellner teaches Russian and Soviet history His forthcoming book, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse, is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did a corncrib, pigsty, and outhouse become an icon of Georgian Patriotism?

Join us as Professor Brooks explores the query - How did a corncrib, pigsty, and outhouse become an icon of Georgian Patriotism? An interdisciplinary scholar of the Indigenous and Colonial past, Professor James Brooks is the Sally and Carl Gable Distinguished Professor of History at UGA. Dr. Brooks embraces an expansive view of the colonial South, and is at work on a book, Picketwire, which reaches from the Irish island of Torraigh in the…


Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

Join us for a presentation by Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan".  Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92427629754 Christopher Craig is currently Professor of Japanese Studies and the Head of the Research and Development Unit of the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies at Tohoku University (Japan). Sponsored by University of Georgia's Center for Asian Studies…


A Virtual Curatorial Tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures

Join us for a virtual curatorial tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures. Red Coral Stories is an ongoing curatorial project by Kendall Lovely (Diné), a doctoral student at University of California-Santa Barbara, to understand Southwest Native art as part of cultural exchanges across time and space. The title for this digital exhibition evokes a Red Ancient Mediterranean, in which adoption and…
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