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Constitution Day at UGA

The American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities is a lecture by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The lecture and moderated question and answer session will be followed by a dessert reception in Candler Hall. In addition, historical…


Friday Class Schedule in Effect* on Tuesday December 3, 2024

Final Instructional Day No tests or quizzes are to be administered on the final instructional day of a course, unless the course has not been assigned a final examination time slot by the University. All labs may administer tests or quizzes on the final instructional day. For purposes of this policy, student presentations to the class in a seminar or graduate course shall not be considered a test or a quiz. *Instruction day that operates on a…


8th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Andrea Wulf on 'The Invention of Nature'

The Gregory Distinguished Lecture series presents New York Times Bestselling author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf. “The Invention of Nature” lecture will be presented in the university Chapel. Wulf’s writing reveals the  life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. See our news section for more details about the…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Terrell Orr, PhD Candidate in History at UGA, will discuss his paper, "Growing Conflict: Phosphate, Labor, and Capital on a Southern Frontier." Participants should come having reading the paper. To receive a copy, email DanRood@UGA.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alma Igra, a PhD candidate in European History at Columbia University, will discuss her paper, "NEM vs. Calorie: Vienna’s post WWI humanitarian aid between British and American Nutritional Standards." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email Danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alden Young, Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University, will discuss his paper, "Making Sudan County: The Economizing Logic of the State." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Mac Marquis, PhD Candidate in History from the College of William & Mary, will discuss his paper, "Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Southern Agrarian Bombing Campaign, 1906-1935." Participants should have read the paper. For a copy, email danrood@uga.edu. https://dirty-history.org/


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why was communism so popular in Iraq?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kevin Jones. Professor Jones teaches courses on the history of the medieval and modern Middle East, and his research interests include the subjects of nationalism, anti-colonialism, and poetry. He is writing a book entitled The Poetics of Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in Iraq, 1914-1963. Free admission, free pizza.  


The Cruel Optimism of the Digital Panorama: Atlantic Humanism and Its Pacific Other

Why Walden pond might appear more virtual and a Pacific island more augmented can be better understood by returning to the archives of two print-age Pacific expeditions by James Cook and George Macartney. Both men ostensibly failed in their imperial tasks, and yet the printed journals and engravings of the expeditions, including the French wallpaper that Reihana draws upon, became fundamental to new conceptions of nature and empire in the late…


CFP: “Children, Youth, and War Symposium,” at the University of Georgia

A one-day symposium on Children, Youth, and War will be held at the University of Georgia on March 19, 2018.  Hosted by James Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University, and Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, the symposium will provide an intense exploration of all aspects—on both the home front and the battlefront—of the experiences of children in times of war in all eras and…
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