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HGSA Conference Keynote Address: Dr. Blair LM Kelley, "Black Folk, The Roots of the Black Working Class"

Join us as Dr. Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D., discusses her research and book, Black Folk, The Roots of the Black Working Class, which was named one of the Smithsonian's Best Books of 2023. Black Folk was awarded a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Grant by the Whiting Foundation, and the 2022-23 John Hope Franklin/NEH Fellowship by National Humanities Center.  Blair LM Kelley is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American…


"What can you do with a history degree?" with UGA alum Stan Deaton (Georgia Historical Society)

Join us for a presentation by UGA history alum Stan Deaton, Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society. Dr. Deaton will give a talk on public history career pathways for graduate and undergraduate students. This is a free event. All majors and prospective students are welcome to attend. Pizza will be served. ................................ Stan Deaton is the Senior Historian and The Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the…


Dr. Todd Little-Siebold, "The Lost Ancestors: Apples, History and DNA"

Join historian turned genetic detective Todd Little-Siebold for a talk on the use of traditional techniques of historical research alongside genomic profiling to historic mysteries about the introduction of European fruit crops to North America.  In Georgia the iconic peach became a central crop for native communities long before Europeans settled. Apples arrived in America apparently as early as the 1530s  Through…


“God’s Little Daughters” and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

Join us for a presentation by Ji Li on Friday: "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China.   Dr. Ji Li is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong and a 2023-24 joint visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Ricci Institute. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Peking University and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the relationship between…


Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize

Join us for a talk by Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize for Calling for a Blanket Dance. Oscar Hokeah is the winner of the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award, a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA, and a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Hokeah has written for Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, World Literature Today, American…


Alaina E. Roberts: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation"

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Alaina E. Roberts, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation". Building on her first book's examination of Black life in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, Dr. Roberts will discuss her burgeoning examination of what it might look like to delineate and confront the legacies of slavery in these two nations. Alaina E. Roberts is an Associate…


Black Women's Historical Wellness: Yoga, Tea, and Traditions of Collective Self-Care

In this presentation, Dr. Stephanie Evans (Professor, Georgia State University) will discuss the study of Black women’s narrative histories of health, healing, and wellness. Evans will explore what she calls #HistoricalWellness: Black women’s traditions of simultaneously practicing inner peace and working collectively to resist oppression. Specifically, she will answer the question, “How have Black women elders managed stress?” By illuminating…


Heirloom Southern Apples: Past, Present and Future

March 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm,  https://botgarden.uga.edu/event/heirloom-southern-apples/ Registration required:   Register Online The morning session begins with a presentation by orchardist and author Diane Flynt, founder of Foggy Ridge Cider and author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. Next, Dr. Stephen Mihm, Head of the Department of History, and Gareth Crosby, Heritage Garden…


Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History”

Join us February 22. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall will be presenting the talk: “Writing a Way Home: A Life in Southern and Women’s History.”  Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and founding director emeritus of UNC’s Southern Oral History Program. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and founding past president of the Labor and…


Faculty Lecture | Akela Reason: “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York”

Associate Professor of History and Director of the UGA Museum Studies Certificate Program Akela Reason will present the lecture “Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York.” Lecture Abstract: As the financial and artistic capital of post-bellum America, New York built some of the most significant monuments to the Civil War. Yet in order to build the city’s monuments, the Republican elite who often spearheaded efforts to…
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