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Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alma Igra, a PhD candidate in European History at Columbia University, will discuss her paper, "NEM vs. Calorie: Vienna’s post WWI humanitarian aid between British and American Nutritional Standards." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email Danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Alden Young, Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University, will discuss his paper, "Making Sudan County: The Economizing Logic of the State." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Mac Marquis, PhD Candidate in History from the College of William & Mary, will discuss his paper, "Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Southern Agrarian Bombing Campaign, 1906-1935." Participants should have read the paper. For a copy, email danrood@uga.edu. https://dirty-history.org/


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why was communism so popular in Iraq?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kevin Jones. Professor Jones teaches courses on the history of the medieval and modern Middle East, and his research interests include the subjects of nationalism, anti-colonialism, and poetry. He is writing a book entitled The Poetics of Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in Iraq, 1914-1963. Free admission, free pizza.  


The Cruel Optimism of the Digital Panorama: Atlantic Humanism and Its Pacific Other

Why Walden pond might appear more virtual and a Pacific island more augmented can be better understood by returning to the archives of two print-age Pacific expeditions by James Cook and George Macartney. Both men ostensibly failed in their imperial tasks, and yet the printed journals and engravings of the expeditions, including the French wallpaper that Reihana draws upon, became fundamental to new conceptions of nature and empire in the late…


CFP: “Children, Youth, and War Symposium,” at the University of Georgia

A one-day symposium on Children, Youth, and War will be held at the University of Georgia on March 19, 2018.  Hosted by James Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University, and Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, the symposium will provide an intense exploration of all aspects—on both the home front and the battlefront—of the experiences of children in times of war in all eras and…


Julian Zelizer lecture: Politics in the Age of Partisan Warfare

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare? Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in "Ethics in the Age of Partisan Warfare." The lecture will explore past debates over ethics reform, as well as the push for new oversight and enforcement amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct. A light reception will follow the program. The event is co-…


Discussion: Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China

Benjamin Zawacki, a Bangkok-based human rights researcher and advocate, will present his recently-published book on Thailand's evolving foreign relations and their geo-political implications in Southeast Asia.  After many post-World War II years as a key strategic ally of the United States, Thailand has begun a sharp pivot toward China.  Consistent with US policy drift since the turn of the century and Thailand deepening…


Spring 2018 Graduate Student Commencement

For information: https://commencement.uga.edu/


Michael L. Thurmond Lecture Series Presents: Derrick P. Alridge

The Michael L. Thurmond Lecture Series, in celebration of Black History, presents guest lecturer Derrick P. Alridge, from the University of Virginia. Alridge is the author of the book The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Dubois, and member of UVA's "Commission on Slavery." He is also the founder and director of Teachers in the Movement. Special Honorees include: former Athens Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin, and Chief Magistrate Patricia Barron.…
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