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Register for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Homecoming Tailgate,
Join Dean Anna Stenport on the New College Lawn for Flying Biscuit Cafe, beverages, and pre-game fun!
Invitations were emailed to Franklin College alumni.
Click here to go to the event registration page.
Questions? Contact Haley Avery at havery@uga.edu. Phone (706) 542-2206.
Game: Georgia vs. Missouri,
This month's History Lecture at the Oconee County Library features UGA Ph.D. student Maya Brooks presenting a talk that explores the lives of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson and the ways in which their experiences as Black women in America were both similar and different. Jacobs was born enslaved and her narrative explores her struggle to not only free herself but her children as well. Johnson, best known for her work at…
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Bowdoin College, on his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023).
Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he…
Fall 2024 Final Exams are Dec. 5-6, and Dec. 9-11.
Schedule: https://reg.uga.edu/general-information/calendars/final-exam-schedule/
Final Exam Policy:
A final examination schedule is published each semester by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and a preliminary copy is available on the Office of the Registrar web site. No time and date departures from the examination schedule should occur without prior approval of the dean…
Graduate student commencement. Information: https://commencement.uga.edu/graduate/
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.
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-…
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…
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),…