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Dirty History: Ashley Roseberry, UGA

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


How Brazil's Biofuel Program Made a Meal of Rural Workers

The Dirty History workshop provides a space for the further development of interdisciplinary, historically-grounded scholarship around issues of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. This month's session features Thomas Rogers, Associate Professor of History at Emory University, whose paper is part of a book project about Proálcool, Brazil's national alcohol-production program. The workshop is open to the public. For a copy of the paper,…


Graduate student seminar with special guests Don Doyle and Marjorie Spruill

Doyle will convene a small graduate seminar the following morning after Thursday's Gregory lecture at the Chapel. He will be joined by  eminent ​women's historian​, Professor Marjorie Spruill, whose new book is Divided We Stand: Women’s Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics. History graduate students should RSVP to history@uga.edu.  


Graduate Student Speaker Series

For graduate students in history. MA student Laura Nelson will present.


Professional Development Workshop (PDW): Writing Edition

We are excited to announce our PDW event for March! If you would like to attend, please RSVP Nicole Gallucci . This month’s PDW focuses on one of the most important (and grueling) aspects of graduate school− writing. In addition to free lunch, you will get the opportunity to hear two incredibly talented writers, Dr. Claudio Saunt and Dr. Jamie Kreiner, talk about everything from process and style to publishing. As always, this event includes…


Phi Alpha Theta's writing workshop with Dr. Steve Soper

Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon Pi (history honor society) will be presenting a writing workshop with Dr. Soper. Students of any major are invited. 12:30-1"30pm. Details to be announced.


The Magna Carta at 800

Join us for a roundtable discussion on the 800th anniversary of this foundational document of democracy, with commentary from experts in medieval constitutional law and in medieval and early modern literature and history from Georgia Regents University and the University of Georgia. Featuring: Dr. Wendy Turner, Georgia Regents University Dr. Sujata Iyengar, English, UGA Dr. Cynthia Camp, English, UGA Dr. Benjamin Ehlers, History, UGA


Food Chains Film Screening (Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative)

Join the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative for a screening of Food Chains. This exposé documents the human cost of food by focusing on the lives of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of Florida farmworkers, that battle the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program. After the screening, a panel of discussants will talk about their research and lives as it relates to this important film.…


Food, Place, and Power Workshop: Heather Paxson

The Workshop in the History and Geography of Food, Place, and Power will host Heather Paxson, who is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Paxson will present her paper "Regulating Microbial Ecologies: Policy and Practice in Artisanal Cheesemaking." Download a copy of the paper at the FPP website. Heather Paxson is interested in how people craft a sense of themselves as moral…


History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VII

For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full schedule, please visit our website.
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