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Fall 2023 Graduate Student Commencement

Graduate student commencement. Information: https://commencement.uga.edu/graduate/


Retirement party for Cilla Cartwright

History faculty, graduate students and staff are invited to a retirement party for Cilla Cartwright Thursday after the faculty meeting, in our 2nd floor conference room, to commemorate Cilla's many years of service with UGA.


Phinizy Lecture: Colson Whitehead

Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the department of history’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with classes at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-…


Faculty New Book Release and Reception: Kalyani Ramnath

UGA faculty are invited to join us for a book signing, reception, and celebration of Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 (August 2023, Stanford University Press) by Dr. Kalyani Ramnath of the Department of History. "For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Premodern History in the Twenty-First Century

How can something that seems out-of-date by definition be vital and valuable today? What are the uses and challenges of premodern history in the present? Join Dr. Julia Burkhardt, Professor of Medieval History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a participant in the UGA-LMU Faculty Research Exchange Program, in exploring this question with a group of premodernist faculty at UGA: Cynthia Camp (English), Asen Kirin (Art History),…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Humanities Pedagogy and AI in German and American Classrooms

ChatGPT made its début less than a year ago: how are humanists responding to the bot? Join Dr. Julia Burkhardt, Professor of Medieval History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a participant in the UGA-LMU Faculty Research Exchange Program, in exploring this question with a group of UGA faculty who have been thinking deeply about artificial intelligence and education: Elizabeth Davis (English), Jeremy Davis (Philosophy), Katie…


Dr. Sarah Case: Race, Reform, and Religious Faith: The Life and Tragic Death of Athens’ Juliette Derricotte

Join us for a research talk by Dr. Sarah Case, “Race, Reform, and Religious Faith: The Life and Tragic Death of Athens’ Juliette Derricotte.”  Sarah Case is a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Editor of The Public Historian. Athens-born Juliette Derricotte was a nationally known early twentieth-century reformer and educator, active in the leadership of the YWCA and Dean of Women at Fisk University in…


Faculty/Grad Workshop: “Writing and Publishing Strategies to reach Our Varied Publics”

Dr. Sarah Case, Editor of The Public Historian, will offer a workshop on writing for a wide array of audiences beyond the academy. This discussion, aimed primarily at scholars with an interest in public-facing history, will focus on how to approach various styles of writing and publishing: scholarly public history articles; reviews; blogs; and op-eds. Questions? Contact Dr. James Brooks James.Brooks@uga.edu  


History Faculty Meeting

For history faculty. 


(WIP) History Faculty Meeting

For history faculty - department writing plan meeting for WIP program.
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