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Dirty History Workshop: Jessie Luna

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Jessie Luna. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and…


Dirty History Workshop: Nathanael Mickelson

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper TBA with its author, Nathanael Mickelson, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…


Book Talk - The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond

Join us for a book talk with alum Dr. Marvin Chiles, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University. Chiles will discuss his research and new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (2023, University of Virginia Press). Free and open to the public. Refreshments from Big City Bread. This is an FYO event…


Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond"

Please join us for a history talk by Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond". Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at The Pennsylvania State University and a UGA alum (AB 2001). She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century. Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served.…


Guest Lecture: Justene Hill Edwards

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia, on “The Failed Promise of Black Economic Freedom in Reconstruction America.”  Edwards' research explores the intersection of African American history, American economic history, and the history of American slavery.  Specifically, she looks at slavery’s influence on the evolution of African American economic life.  Her recently published book, …


Book Reading: Joseph Geha, author of "Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us"

Join attendees for a reading and book signing with University of Georgia Press author Joseph Geha, who wrote Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us. Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio’s Little Syria neighborhood where Geha grew up, the first place he would go to find his mother would be the kitchen. Many of today’s immigrants use Skype to keep in touch with…


Meeting with Visiting Liverpool Historians

Meeting. Contact: Steve Soper for more information


Visiting Speaker: Santee Frazier, Cherokee Nation Poet & Educator

Santee Frazier will be reading from his poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009) at Old Fire Hall No. 2 (489 Prince Avenue) Thur March 2 from 5:00-6:30 PM. Free and open to the public. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is the author of the poetry collections Aurum (2019) and Dark Thirty (2009). Offering non-…


History guest lecture: Carbon Technocracy with Dr. Victor Seow

This is a virtual event. Registration is required. Scan the QR code below to register, or go to https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrc-Cqqj0oHtMuU1YX7YtK0dNnuBqO1BMi. Victor Seow (pronounced “meow” with an “s”) is a historian of technology, science, and industry, specializing in modern China and Japan within global contexts and in histories of energy and work. In his research, he sets out to understand how technological artifacts, scientific…


Chris Suh: “Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia”

Join us as Dr. Chris Suh (Assistant Professor, Emory University) presents: “Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia”. Suh's talk will draw from his new book, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, March 2023). A free and public event. Pizza lunch for attendees. Chris Suh is a historian of race, ethnicity, and…
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