Tags: Graduate

Reading Days: These days have been designated by the University Council to provide time for students to prepare for final examinations. No mandatory assignments are to be scheduled for completion during reading days -- either for course work or extra-curricular or co-curricular activities. Exceptions for good cause can be made to this policy by the Vice President for Instruction. Nothing in this policy limits an instructor from scheduling…
This history graduate student professional development workshop (PDW) presents how to "Plan, Prepare, React" on campus and in classrooms. Our guest speaker is Pete Golden from the UGA Office of Emergency Preparedness. For graduate students in history.  Contact: Whitney Priest.
For graduate students in history: a discussion for Graduate Students on ways to bring Issues of gender and sexuality into the classroom. contact: Derrick Angermeier
Marcia Chatelain presents “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: How Civil Rights and Fast Food Changed America after 1968”. Dr. Chatelain is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University.  
This presentation of the history department's Black History Month book club features Heather Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Heather Thompson (U Michigan) and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton U) author of  #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, featured last week, will be participating in a spotlight event for Black History month Feb 13 (see the history calendar for more details).
This is a history graduate student professional development workshop (PDW): Conflict De-escalation Training with Dr. John Newton from the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Contact: Whitney Priest
Dirty History is an Interdisciplinary Workshop in Agriculture, Environment, and Capitalism for faculty and advanced graduate students (space is limited, please contact us if you would like to attend). Today's speaker Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown U) will present “From Fighting for the Franchise to Fighting for a Franchise: Civil Rights Heroes at the Drive-thru”. Contact: Dan Rood, History Department
Dirty History is an Interdisciplinary Workshop in Agriculture, Environment, and Capitalism for faculty and advanced graduate students (space is limited, please contact us if you would like to attend). Ashley Roseberry (PhD candidate, history) will present “The Color of Yerba Mate: Cultivation, Industrialization, and Nationalism in the Argentine Yerba Mate Industry, 1901-1940”. Contact: Dan Rood, History Department
The graduate program in history will be hosting a two day accepted student open house. Invited guests will visit graduate classes and department programs, meet with faculty and graduate students, and take a campus tour. By invitation only.   Sponsored by the History Department.
UGA's chapter of the NAACP and Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon Pi (UGA's chapter of the National History Honor Society, Inc.) are hosting a panel discussion about how Black History is represented on our campus. From street and building names to historic markers, our surrounding campus landscape may appear to present a white-washed history. However, just beneath the surface is a wealth of black history that extends far beyond Hunter, Holmes, and…