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History Graduate Student Annual Awards and Dinner

For History faculty and graduate students -  The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at the Founders Memorial Garden on the University of Georgia's North Campus. You are welcome to bring a guest.  It's our last department gathering for spring so please join us in celebrating our graduate students and spring MA and PhD graduates! A catered…


History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) Spring Event

The HGSA is having an annual spring event just for history graduate students with their families! BBQ and tie dye at Memorial Park. Shirts, food, and beverages provided. We'll be at Picnic Shelter 2, between the Pond and playground. 293 Gran Ellen Drive, ACC Transit Bus Route 14 RSVP: Ariana Persico


Film Screening and Discussion: "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer"

A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 Russian-British documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no…


M.A. Thesis Defense: Rolando J. Rodriguez

Rolando Rodriguez will defend his M.A. thesis, "'It tends to set the price of all other things': The Political Economy of Manioc in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Bahia," in conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Cassia Roth. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Stephanie Holterman

Stephanie Holterman will defend her M.A. thesis, "Conquering the Quorum: How Thomas B. Reed Transformed Congressional Procedure in the House of Representatives," in conference with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.


Understanding Ukraine: A virtual panel

A virtual panel discussion provided by the University of Georgia School of Law and the greater University of Georgia community will be held on Thursday, March 17, 12:00 p.m. EST.  Register here.  For questions, please contact Sarah Quinn. The conversation will be moderated by Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, Dean and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.  This discussion brings together the…


Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina

Join us as Dr. Lance Greene discusses is research and new book - "In his book Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (U Alabama Press, March, 2022), Lance Greene explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Although few Cherokees in the region participated in…


Book Talk: Timothy Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan"

Join us as Dr. Timothy Yang discusses his research and new book, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021). Yang was recently awarded a prize for the best book in business history by The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference. A free and public event. Timothy Yang teaches courses on the history of East Asia, Japan, science and medicine, capitalism, and memory. His…


Book Talk: Scott Reynolds Nelson, "Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World"

Join us as Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson discusses his book, Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World (Basic Books, 2022). Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia. A free and public event.


Panel: Kudzu and the Boll Weevil in Modern Georgia

Panel: Kudzu and the Boll Weevil in Modern Georgia The Russell Library is hosting a panel featuring Drs. James C. Giesen, associate professor of history and Grisham Master Teacher, Mississippi State University, and Derek Alderman, professor of geography, University of Tennessee. Discussion will include the social, cultural, and economic impact of notorious pests such as the boll weevil and kudzu in modern Georgia. Dr. Brian Drake, senior…
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