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Book Talk: Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women

Robin M. Morris is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College. She researches gender and the political realignment of Georgia after World War II. Her work has appeared in Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women's part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Morris examines how the growth of…


Dirty History Book Talk:The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, Jo Guldi

Join us March 17. Jo Guldi, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University, will be giving a talk about her new book, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press, 2022). This free and public event is presented by the Dirty History Workshop and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the UGA Humanities Festival. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…


LTTM: How did bananas bring Southeast Asia to the brink of collapse during WWII?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kalyani Ramnath. Professor Ramnath joined the history faculty this year, so now you can look forward to her courses on the history modern South Asia, legal history, and law and empire. In addition to her PhD in history, Ramnath holds a B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the National Law School of India University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the…


LTTM: How did women get abortions before Roe v. Wade?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Cassia Roth, Associate Professor in History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, and Director of Graduate Studies. Roth's book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020), examines reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in…


LTTM: Why did the Nazis murder Capitaine Charles N’Tchoréré?

The Lunchtime Time Machine popular undergraduates series welcomes Dr. Timothy Cleaveland for this month's talk. Cleaveland specializes in the history of Islamic West Africa, and has done research in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, France and Illinois. He is particularly interested in the history of slavery, race and gender in West Africa, as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Saharan and North African elite…


LTTM: Graduate Student Winning History Talk

Our popular undergraduate lecture series returns. The day's speaker is doctoral student Whitney Priest, the winning lecturer from the graduate student Lunchtime Time Machine competition. Priest's presentation follows the research to answer - How did college students invent the dating game? Free admission. Free Pizza. An FYO event. LTTM_Jan24-2023-Priest_0.pdf


LTTM: Graduate Student Competition

Please join us as graduate students from the history department compete for the chance to participate in the Lunchtime Time Machine Lecture Series. This is a special edition of the lunchtime series.  Attendees will be given a ballot and vote on who gives the best SHORT (5-10”)pitch for their lecture. After all the presentations have been given and the votes have been counted, a winner will be named at the end of the hour and that lucky…


LTTM: Why are there no American Indians in the story of Athens?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. James Brooks. Brooks is the recipient of numerous national awards for scholarly excellence. His 2002 "Triple-Crown" winning (Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes) Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of intercultural violence…


LTTM: What happened in Athens in the LAST great pandemic?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology. Free admission, and free pizza! This is an FYO event.


Gender and History Workshop: Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo (U Iowa)

Join us for a talk with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Iowa), "In the Years Before Roe: Abortion in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands." 4-5pm – publishing Q&A with graduate students ONLY* 5-6pm – research talk and Q&A* *The Zoom link is the same for both sessions; please only join for the session you are interested in below: To register for this event, please scan the QR code below or click on the link, https://zoom.us/meeting/…
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