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(CANCELLED) Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

(CANCELLED) Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, March 20th at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1730-1800” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade de Sao Paulo. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, February 21st at 3:30pm to discuss the paper “Stuck Pigs and Burned Canes: Crime after Emancipation in the British Empire” with its author, Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Globalization, Labour, and Humanities (University of Toronto). This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 31st at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper: “Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South”, with its author, Bryant Barnes, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 6th at 3:30 pm to discuss a paper by Jordan Pickett, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Georgia: "Water and Society in the Roman and Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (1-800 CE)". This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, November 8th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Unsettling the Steppe: The Limits of Agricultural Expansion in Inner Mongolia, 1890-1930” with its author, Sakura Christmas, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, September 6th at 3:30 in 320 LeConte to discuss the paper “Community Action: Social Change Through Participatory Research” with its author, Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in…


Faculty Book Talk: Michael Winship's "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America"

Join us in celebrating the release of Michael Winship's latest book, Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. (Yale U Press.) "a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.--" Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England’s church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Diane Batts Morrow and the intriguing question, what do you mean black Catholic nuns taught in 1830s Baltimore?.  Professor Morrow teaches courses on African American history, and she is the author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860. Free admission, free pizza. This special edition of the…


"Below Baldwin" Documentary film screening

On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers discovered human remains on the site. DNA tests revealed what many local historians already knew to be true: these were the remains of former slaves. This discovery and the events that followed have forced the often-forgotten histories of slavery and segregation to rise to the surface, both at the University of Georgia and in Athens…


Lunch and Learn: Immigration Policy

Join UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for a lunch and learn series focused on developing a better understanding of Congress. Civic Knowledge, Civic Power invites guest speakers to give brief talks on topics connected to the history and function of this branch of government, followed by informal discussion. Dr. Jamie Monogan, UGA Department of Political Science, will discuss the politics of U.S. immigration policy. Pizza will be available.
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