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Retirement party for Cilla Cartwright

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.


Phinizy Lecture: Colson Whitehead

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-…


HUMANITIES@WORK Speaker Series

The HUMANITIES@WORK speaker event will highlight four folks with careers at UGA who started out as humanities majors. This panel will take place on Wednesday, October 11th at 3 p.m. in the Park Hall Auditorium (room 265). This free event is the first in a series that will take place every October. This year's speakers include: Alan Flurry, Director of Communications in the Franklin College at UGA Dr. Mike Merva, Coordinator, Franklin College…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Premodern History in the Twenty-First Century

How can something that seems out-of-date by definition be vital and valuable today?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),…


Faculty/grad student discussion: Humanities Pedagogy and AI in German and American Classrooms

ChatGPT made its début less than a year ago: how are humanists responding to the bot? 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 UGA faculty who have been thinking deeply about artificial intelligence and education: Elizabeth Davis (English), Jeremy Davis (Philosophy), Katie…


Dr. Sarah Case: Race, Reform, and Religious Faith: The Life and Tragic Death of Athens’ Juliette Derricotte

Join us for a research talk by Dr. Sarah Case, “Race, Reform, and Religious Faith: The Life and Tragic Death of Athens’ Juliette Derricotte.”  Sarah Case is a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Editor of The Public Historian. Athens-born Juliette Derricotte was a nationally known early twentieth-century reformer and educator, active in the leadership of the YWCA and Dean of Women at Fisk University in…


Faculty/Grad Workshop: “Writing and Publishing Strategies to reach Our Varied Publics”

Dr. Sarah Case, Editor of The Public Historian, will offer a workshop on writing for a wide array of audiences beyond the academy. This discussion, aimed primarily at scholars with an interest in public-facing history, will focus on how to approach various styles of writing and publishing: scholarly public history articles; reviews; blogs; and op-eds. Questions? Contact Dr. James Brooks James.Brooks@uga.edu  


Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture: New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara

Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture, "New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara". Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of Virginia. Her forthcoming book, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation will be released September 2023…


Dirty History presents Kris Lane: Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kris Lane, "Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity." A historian of early modern mining, Kris Lane revisits precious metals extraction and circulation in light of new approaches to materialism and environmental degradation. Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. He is author of Pandemic in …


Dirty History Workshop: Kris Lane

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Kris Lane. 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…
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