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Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Lawrence Wright, "The Future of Terrorism"

Lawrence Wright will visit the University of Georgia to give the Department of History’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, “The Future of Terrorism.”  Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of six previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, The Terror Years, and one novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes…


Faculty Book Release: Peter Hoffer's "The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution"

Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Hoffer's latest book, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975, (U Chicago Press, 2019). Peter Hoffer is a Distinguished Research Professor at UGA. In 2016, the University Press of Kansas released his Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, The End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review. Later in that year, his co-authored The Federal Courts…


Mary Ellen Curtin: Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin: “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of…


(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, April 3rd, at 3:30 PM to discuss a paper (topic to be announced) with its author, Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

(CANCELLED) Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, March 20th at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1730-1800” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade de Sao Paulo. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, February 21st at 3:30pm to discuss the paper “Stuck Pigs and Burned Canes: Crime after Emancipation in the British Empire” with its author, Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Globalization, Labour, and Humanities (University of Toronto). This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 31st at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper: “Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South”, with its author, Bryant Barnes, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 6th at 3:30 pm to discuss a paper by Jordan Pickett, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Georgia: "Water and Society in the Roman and Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (1-800 CE)". This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, November 8th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Unsettling the Steppe: The Limits of Agricultural Expansion in Inner Mongolia, 1890-1930” with its author, Sakura Christmas, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, September 6th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Community Action: Social Change Through Participatory Research” with its author, Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in…
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