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UGA hosts a screening and discussion of In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters, a new, thirty-five minute documentary about America’s first published Black poet. Produced by Askew Pictures, the film illuminates a largely overlooked chapter of Wheatley Peters’ story: her marriage to John Peters and the radical choices she made in pursuit of autonomy, dignity, and love. With special guest and commentator, writer and director Leslie Askew, an award…
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History faculty - join your colleagues at The Globe on Thursday. This is first in our series of casual get-togethers to build community, catch up, and relax. Partners welcome! Brought to you by the department special events committee.  
“If Those Things Could Talk: Indigenous Material Culture and the Languages of Diplomacy in Early America” Historians have long understood that objects, such as wampum belts, occupied a central place in diplomatic proceedings among Indigenous groups and with European colonizers. A panoply of meaningful material items—from trade goods to honorific gifts, identity markers, and mnemonic devices-- traveled long distances and crossed cultural and…
For history faculty...  Questions? contact: Susan Mattern smattern@uga.edu.
Join us for the 2027 presentation of the Dr. John H. Morrow and Dr. Diane B. Morrow Lectureship Series: Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones (Emory University) will present a lecture on her book and research. Details to be announced Free and open to the public. Dr. (Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones joined the Candler faculty in May of 2025 as assistant professor of theology and Africana studies. Adkins-Jones came to Candler from Boston College, where she served…
History faculty meeting.
History faculty meeting.
History faculty meeting.
History faculty meeting.