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Lunchtime Time Machine: Why do Americans owe so much student debt? 

Join us as Professor Elizabeth Shermer asks, Why do Americans owe so much student debt?  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (she/her/hers) is the Director of UGA's Applied History Certificate Program and a historian of the 20th and 21st century U.S. broadly interested in political economy, whether in the history of capitalism, labor history, business history, and/or the history off public policy. She has held fellowships and teaching positions…


History Film Series: Harakiri

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi). When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal…


History Film Series: Al-Ard (The Land)

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening The Land (1970, dir. Youssef Chahine). A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local…


History Film Series: A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how the historian's craft can leap off the page and onto the silver screen! Join us for a short lecture, discussion, and screening of history on film.  This month, the History Film Series is screening A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). A British wartime aviator who cheats death…


eHistory conversation - "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation"

The Willson Center's eHistory Research Cluster, the department of history, and the Institute of Native American Studies present a conversation on "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation" at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 in Room 250 of the Miller Learning Center. Topics will include mapping Cherokee homesteads in the nineteenth century, Removal Period archaeology, and Cherokee language and culture…


Dr. Ryan Moran, "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance"

Join us for a talk by Dr. Ryan Moran (University of Utah). Moran will discuss his research and book "Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance".   Monday, May 5 8:00PM ET (Tuesday, May 6 9:00AM JST) on ZOOM   To register for this Zoom event, go to https://zoom.us/meeting/register/biJ9qeVNQE6np1pwR1djWw.    Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, the Department of…


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…
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