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Faculty Book Talk: Cassia Roth's "A Miscarriage of Justice"

Join us in celebrating the release of Dr. Cassia Roth's forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, (Stanford U Press, January 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cassia Roth is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of…


Capitalist Souths, a Graduate Student Conference

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…


History Film Series: Harakiri

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi). When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal…


History Film Series: The Land

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening The Land (1970, dir. Youssef Chahine). A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local…


History Film Series: A Matter of Life and Death

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). A British wartime aviator who cheats death…


Maximizing Productivity, a writing retreat for history grad students & faculty

History graduate students and faculty are invited to join us for an informal summer writing retreat series.  Whether you are working on writing a thesis, article, book, grant, or application, all are welcome to join us in a space dedicated to writing productivity. Mondays this summer, 10 AM - 5 pm.


eHistory conversation - "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation"

The Willson Center's eHistory Research Cluster, the department of history, and the Institute of Native American Studies present a conversation on "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation" at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 in Room 250 of the Miller Learning Center. Topics will include mapping Cherokee homesteads in the nineteenth century, Removal Period archaeology, and Cherokee language and culture…


Dr. Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance"

Join us for a talk by Dr. Ryan Moran (University of Utah). Moran will discuss his research and book "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance".   Monday, May 5 8:00PM ET (Tuesday, May 6 9:00AM JST) on ZOOM   To register for this Zoom event, go to https://zoom.us/meeting/register/biJ9qeVNQE6np1pwR1djWw.    Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, the Department of…


"Maximizing Productivity", Graduate Student/ Faculty Writing Retreat June 2-6th

History graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in a week-long writing retreat. We'll be on campus, with additional access via Zoom (Zoom logon details are on the RSVP form). This writing event is for graduate students from 1st year to ABD, and all history faculty. Whether you are writing a grant, fellowship application, journal article, essay, seminar paper, thesis, or book, this group is for you. Agenda: Monday June 2, 12:00…


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