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Dirty History Workshop: Lara Vapnek

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "'The Extra Hazardous Business of Being a Baby': Infant Care and Feeding in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," with its author, Lara Vapnek, Professor, St. John's College. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email…


Gender and History Workshop

Save the date: details forthcoming.


Gender and History Workshop: Meg Weeks (Harvard)

Join us for a talk with Meg Weeks (Harvard), "'When will we be the ones to decide?' The Fight to Decriminalize Abortion During Brazil's Democratic Transition." To register for this event, please scan the QR code below or click on the link,  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdeGpqj4rHd0X1h8w40k_7phWvpivZMZ0. “Globalizing Roe: The History and Politics of Abortion Beyond the U.S.” is co-sponsored by the Gender & History Series in…


Gender and History Workshop: Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo (U Iowa)

Join us for a talk with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Iowa), "In the Years Before Roe: Abortion in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands." 4-5pm – publishing Q&A with graduate students ONLY* 5-6pm – research talk and Q&A* *The Zoom link is the same for both sessions; please only join for the session you are interested in below: To register for this event, please scan the QR code below or click on the link, https://zoom.us/meeting/…


Stemming the Tide: Environmental History and the Future of the Georgia Coast

Can History Save the Georgia Coast? Join us as a coterie of UGA history majors presents the results of their senior seminar research into the environmental histories of the Georgia coast. Their aim is not only to explore coastal history per se, but to look for a “usable past” as we face the future. What environmental challenges have plagued the coast in the past, and how did people deal with them? Did they deal with them successfully? Who…


UGA’s John Drake and Claudio Saunt to deliver 2022 Charter Lecture

Posted from UGA Columns April 2022 2022 Charter Lecture Series John Drake and Claudio Saunt 2021-2022 Regents' Professors Two leading scholars at the University of Georgia will discuss their individual research programs and their collaboration at the intersection of history and infectious disease during the 2022 Charter Lecture. John Drake, Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and founding director of the Center for the…


History Graduate Student Annual Awards and Dinner

For History faculty and graduate students -  The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at the Founders Memorial Garden on the University of Georgia's North Campus. You are welcome to bring a guest.  It's our last department gathering for spring so please join us in celebrating our graduate students and spring MA and PhD graduates! A catered…


Film Screening and Discussion: "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer"

A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 Russian-British documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no…


Faculty Meeting

For history faculty. Date to be confirmed.      


Understanding Ukraine: A virtual panel

A virtual panel discussion provided by the University of Georgia School of Law and the greater University of Georgia community will be held on Thursday, March 17, 12:00 p.m. EST.  Register here.  For questions, please contact Sarah Quinn. The conversation will be moderated by Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, Dean and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.  This discussion brings together the…
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