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Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Margaret (Maggie) Neel

Maggie Neel will defend her doctoral dissertation, "PLAYING WITH GHOSTS AND PERFORMING THE PAST IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST" on Friday. The major professor is Dr. Akela Reason. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Maya Brooks

Maya A. Brooks will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Climbing for Higher Ground: Race, Class, and Respectability Among Black Atlantans, 1974-2010" on Friday. The major professor is Dr. James Brooks. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


History at Work: So you want to go to law school...

History at Works goes to Law School - Join us for a panel discussion all about how to get into law school, and applying a history degree to a career in law. With special guests from the University of Georgia School of Law:  Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Jane W. Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law, Shannon Shipley Hinson, Associate Director of Admissions & Director of Dual Degree Programs, Jean Goetz Mangan, Lecturer & Director of…


2025 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture

The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia continues its longstanding annual tradition of hosting special events throughout March to recognize Women’s History Month. These events provide opportunities for the University of Georgia campus and broader community to access the diverse perspectives, rich history, and cultural impact of women.  The 2025 Women’s History Month theme, as determined by the …


Africans in Renaissance Europe: History and Legacy. (A discussion panel)

Join us for a discussion panel on "Africans in Renaissance Europe: History and Legacy."  Free and open to the public. Light refreshments.   With special guests:   Chair: John Morrow, Jr., UGA, History Emeritus    Jareema Hylton, Emory University, English       "Renaissance Rivalry and Race: John Fletcher's England and Spain in the early Caribbean"    Elizabeth Wright, UGA, Romance Languages,…


Book Release: "Hope Never to See It" with author and alum Andrew Fialka

 Join us downtown March 1 for a book release event and signing with UGA alum Dr. Andrew Fialka. Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War (March 2025, UGA Press) by Andrew Fialka is a graphic history that brings to life two emblematic scenes of Civil War violence.  Illustrated by Anderson Carman. Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of occupational and guerrilla…


History guest lecture (Applied history)

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk by a guest speaker. All majors are welcome.


Dirty History: Kathleen A. Brosnan

Featuring Kathleen A. Brosnan, Travis Chair of Modern American History, University of Oklahoma. "Crises: Bugs, Temperance, and Napa Wine, 1880-1920." 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 from all over.…


Dirty History: Pablo Lapegna

Featuring Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Georgia. "Toxic Prosperity: The Ambivalences of Herbicide Exposure in Argentina." 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…


Screening & Conversation: We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Georgia Museum of Art, the UGA Humanities Council, the Department of English, the Department of Romance Languages, and the Department of History, will present a screening of We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, a groundbreaking documentary directed by Fred Kuwornu, as part of the 2025 UGA Humanities Festival and the Willson Center's Global Georgia…
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