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History of Capitalism Reading Group

The History of Capitalism Reading Group (for graduate students) will have its first meeting of the semester, 3:30 PM at The Globe, walking distance from UGA's North Campus. We will be reading two essays by cultural theorist Stuart Hall on the relationship between race and capital. For the readings or any questions contact: terrell.orr@uga.edu. The event will be co-hosted with our friends in the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group…


Faculty Book Release: Peter Hoffer's "The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution"

Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Hoffer's latest book, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975, (U Chicago Press, 2019). Peter Hoffer is a Distinguished Research Professor at UGA. In 2016, the University Press of Kansas released his Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, The End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review. Later in that year, his co-authored The Federal Courts…


HGSA Town Hall

HGSA Town Hall. We will discuss all information relevant to history department grad students, including events, deadlines, and procedures. Lunch will be provided. History graduate students only.


Sean Vanatta (UGA History alumni): Graduate Student discussion

Graduate students are invited to speak with Sean Vanatta in an informal discussion about topics such as career paths for historians, and research in capitalism. Vanatta will also be giving a lecture hosted by the UGA Russell Libraries (details forthcoming). Sean Vanatta is a visiting assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he teaches American financial history and the history of economic thought. He received…


Mary Ellen Curtin: Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin: “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, associate professor of history at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.   The event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of…


(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, April 3rd, at 3:30 PM to discuss a paper (topic to be announced) with its author, Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

(CANCELLED) Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, March 20th at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1730-1800” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade de Sao Paulo. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, February 21st at 3:30pm to discuss the paper “Stuck Pigs and Burned Canes: Crime after Emancipation in the British Empire” with its author, Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Globalization, Labour, and Humanities (University of Toronto). This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 31st at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper: “Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South”, with its author, Bryant Barnes, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 6th at 3:30 pm to discuss a paper by Jordan Pickett, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Georgia: "Water and Society in the Roman and Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (1-800 CE)". This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.
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