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Faculty Book Talk: Cassia Roth's "A Miscarriage of Justice"

Join us in celebrating the release of Dr. Cassia Roth's forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, (Stanford U Press, January 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cassia Roth is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of…


Capitalist Souths, a Graduate Student Conference

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…


Hands-on Grant Proposal Workshop for Graduate Students

Presented by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts -   The purpose of this session is to workshop grant proposals you plan to submit in 2025 or 2026. Examples include the ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (deadline 29 Oct 25), Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1 Nov 25), and residential fellowships at institutions like the Newberry Library, Huntington Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and John Carter Brown…


Dirty History: Heather Roller (Colgate University)

Featuring Heather Roller, History and Environmental Studies, Colgate University. "Legacy Chemicals: A Half Century of Pesticides in American Farming and Rural Life." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come…


Dirty History: Joseph Lanning and Bram Tucker

Featuring Joseph Lanning, Anthropology, University of Georgia and School for International Training, and Bram Tucker, Anthropology, University of Georgia. "Farming as Gambling: Illusionary Profits and Agricultural Decision-making in the Malawian Green Revolution." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by…


Dirty History: Amna Qayyum

Featuring Amna Qayyum, Assistant Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia. "The Ghost of Comilla: Local Pilots and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The…


Special Screening: The Athens Film Project

Join us for a special showing of the Athens Film Project, a production of the Athens Historical Society.  This screening is sponsored by the history department and The B. Phinizy Spalding Chair in History. The Athens Film Project creates short films on Athens history for use in area schools with funds generously donated by local supporters. Working with local teachers, student consultants,  and hired graduate students in history,…


Save the date: Todd Groce, Georgia Historical Society

Join us for a talk with Todd Groce of the Georgia Historical Society. Details forthcoming.


History Film Series: Harakiri

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi). When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal…


History Film Series: The Land

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening The Land (1970, dir. Youssef Chahine). A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local…
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