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History at Work: Law School

The History at Work Speaker Series is dedicated to the ways that you can transform historical thinking into a range of post-college careers. In this session, we talk about one of the best known career moves for history majors — going to law school. Our guests include Logan E. Sawyer III, Associate Professor of Law at UGA (Ph.D. in History and J.D., University of Virginia); Shannon Shipley Hinson, Associate Director of Admissions at the School of…


Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group meeting

For graduate students and faculty only. The Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group will hold its first regular reading session of the semester on Wednesday, September 19. Please contact Lauren Titley (let94308@uga.edu) or Jeffrey Jones (jeffreyjones@uga.edu) for readings. Cali N’ Tito’s (Lumpkin Street)


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Terrell Orr, PhD Candidate in History at UGA, will discuss his paper, "Growing Conflict: Phosphate, Labor, and Capital on a Southern Frontier." Participants should come having reading the paper. To receive a copy, email DanRood@UGA.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alma Igra, a PhD candidate in European History at Columbia University, will discuss her paper, "NEM vs. Calorie: Vienna’s post WWI humanitarian aid between British and American Nutritional Standards." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email Danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alden Young, Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University, will discuss his paper, "Making Sudan County: The Economizing Logic of the State." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Mac Marquis, PhD Candidate in History from the College of William & Mary, will discuss his paper, "Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Southern Agrarian Bombing Campaign, 1906-1935." Participants should have read the paper. For a copy, email danrood@uga.edu. https://dirty-history.org/


CFP: “Children, Youth, and War Symposium,” at the University of Georgia

A one-day symposium on Children, Youth, and War will be held at the University of Georgia on March 19, 2018.  Hosted by James Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University, and Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, the symposium will provide an intense exploration of all aspects—on both the home front and the battlefront—of the experiences of children in times of war in all eras and…


Dirty History Paper Workshop: James Wall

Faculty and graduate students only. This Friday's paper is by James Wall, a doctoral candidate in history: “The Man Who Owns the Land Owns You”: New Communities, Incorporated and the End of the Rural War on Poverty." To provide a space for the further development of interdisciplinary, historically-grounded scholarship around issues of agriculture, environment, and capitalism, the organizers of “Dirty History” invite both faculty and advanced…


History of Capitalism Reading Group: What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality?

History of Capitalism reading group: This special edition of our group will host a group discussion to which the university community is invited. What are the real causes of racial wealth inequality?  Find out at the History Book Club, History of Capitalism Edition Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, UGA will discuss her book The Color of Money: Black Banks and…


History of Capitalism Reading Group

Our first meeting of the semester will be Friday, February 16 at The Globe. Come to read and discuss the theory and history of capitalism from a critical perspective. We will be reading three essays on the relationship between race, class and capital. • “Black Particularity Reconsidered,” Adolph Reed, Jr. • “Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?,” Frank B Wilderson III   • “Whiteness, Racism and Identity,”…
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