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The UGA community is invited to a reception in celebration of the new book Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain (West Virginia University Press, April 2026) by Dr. Danielle Raad, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. Above the Oxbow is a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts. The book sits at the intersection of public history and…
"Teaching and Researching Old (French) Books in a Digital Age", with Dr. Sara Barker, University of Leeds (U.K.). Sara Barker researches Early Modern France, especially late sixteenth and early seventeenth century; history of printing, books and news, particularly international works and translation; material culture of books. She is Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre ChoP) at Leeds, and series editor for…
For History faculty and graduate students -  The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.), staff and faculty on Monday. You are welcome to bring a guest.  It's our last department gathering for spring so please join us in celebrating our graduate students and spring MA and PhD graduates! A catered dinner will be served at 5:00 pm, followed by the…
Join us for a guest lecture by UGA Grady Professor Dr. Benjamin Min Han: Beyond Squid Game: Korean Media and the Netflix Paradigm  Since the launch of Netflix in South Korea in 2016, the global streaming platform has transformed the Korean media industry in terms of financing, content, and production culture. Netflix has also been celebrated as a patron of creativity, further contributing to the diversification of genres and the…
Research talk.
Faculty meeting via zoom. Please check your email for details
Featuring Andrew Ofstehage, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University. "Food is such a chore: Soylent is the Solution". Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over…
Join us Tuesday for a guest lecture with Dr. Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, of The Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. More than half a century after the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people—Vietnamese and American alike—remain missing, unaccounted for, and unmourned. For their families, the war never truly ended. This talk asks a fundamental but rarely confronted question: how did North Vietnam sustain a war of such…
Author and journalist Rick Atkinson will visit UGA and Athens for the Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's annual Humanities Festival and in the Global Georgia public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event is free and open to the public, with no advance registration required. Rick Atkinson is one of the nation’s foremost public historians, the author of eight…
Featuring Narusa Yamato, Stanford University. "Selling 'Milky Gold' for the Empire: Dairy Cows, Cooperative Enterprise, and Settler Colonialism in Interwar Hokkaido." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come…