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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.


History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VI

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 at capitalism.uga.edu.


Food Chains (documentary film) at CINÉ

The UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the UGA History Department present this special one-night only screening of FOOD CHAINS: THE REVOLUTION IN AMERICA'S FIELDS, a powerful and shocking expose about what feeds our country, from the producers of FOOD INC and FAST FOOD NATION. This powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America’s fields will inspire you to demand your…


Research Funding Strategies for Graduate Students and Postdocs in the Humanities and Arts

The Willson Center and the Graduate School will host a panel discussion on funding strategies for graduate students and postdocs in the humanities and arts. Panelists will discuss both internal and external research funding strategies. Panelists include Chad Howe (Romance Languages), Mathew C. Hulbert (Ph.D. candidate, History), Scott Nesbit (CED, Digital Humanities), Chloe Wigston Smith (English), and Elizabeth Wright (Romance Languages). Cathy…


Hephzibah High School Visitation Day

Welcome Hephzibah High School students! Led by UGA History alumn Jonathan Martindale, students make their annual visit to the History Department for an overview of UGA programs and majors, and the college environment.
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