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Spring Graduate Student Town Hall

The Spring Graduate Student Town Hall has been scheduled for February 13, 2020 at 12:30pm. LeConte, room 101.


PhD Comprehensive Examination: Jared Asser

Jared Asser will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. All members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history to ensure adequate seating.


IWS Speaker Series with Jennifer Palmer: 'She persisted in her revolt': Slavery and Freedom in the French Caribbean

Institute for Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture, featuring Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor, history. Dr. Palmer is a historian of Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic, and teaches courses about Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates.  She is also the coordinator for the History and Gender Workshop. Palmer's first book, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic, follows the…


2020 Michael L. Thurmond Lecture, featuring Dr. Maurice C. Daniels

Please join us for the annual Michael L. Thurmond lecture series. This year’s lecturer is Dr. Maurice C. Daniels, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia School of Social Work. His new book, Ground Crew, examines the fight to end segregation at Georgia State. With very special guest, Ms. Mary Frances Early. UGA’s first African American graduate; the university is renaming the College of Education in her honor. Youth…


Tour of Historic Black Athens (this event is FULL)

Broderick Flanigan, local artist and historian, presents a tour of historic Black Athens. The tour is now full and no additional reservations are being accepted. A celebration of Black History Month event, sponsored by the Department of History.


Free Screening of "Glory", followed by a discussion with Holly Pinheiro

Join us for a film screening of the film Glory, and a discussion afterwards led by Professor Holly Pinheiro. Glory is the story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. With Denzel Washington in an Oscar®-winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), as the runaway slave who embodies the spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts.…


Black History Month Book Club: Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University

Louis Nelson (University of Virginia) will meet with students to discuss Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University (UVA Press, 2019), the volume he co-edited with Maurie McInnis (University of Texas). We have twenty copies of the book to give away free to students who are interested in participating. Please email history@uga.edu to RSVP and to obtain a free copy of the book. Pizza will be provided! A…


"Below Baldwin", a documentary film screening

A documentary film screening. In 2015, graves were discovered during renovations to the University of Georgia’s Baldwin Hall under and nearby the foundation of the building. The documentary Below Baldwin, directed by Joe Lavine and narrated by Broderick Flanigan, tells the story of the discovery of the graves, and the events that followed. Refreshments, 6:30 PM. Join us for a screening of the documentary at 7 PM, followed by a Q & A with…


Join us for a special Reading Group event to discuss "Cigarettes, Inc: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism"

The Capitalism Reading Group in conjunction with the Gender, Race, and Sexuality reading group will be hosting this event.  We will be reading excerpts from Nan Enstad’s 2018 work Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (U Chicago Press).  All newly accepted students are invited to this open house as well as current students and faculty.  Refreshments will be provided and all interested parties will be…


Thavolia Glymph: "The Civil War: The Beauty and Blood of Cotton Come Home"

Join us as Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) presents a public lecture entitled “The Civil War: The Beauty and Blood of Cotton Come Home.” Dr. Thavolia Glymph, professor of history and law, studies the U.S. South with a focus on nineteenth century social history. Glymph is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil…
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