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Dirty History: Andrew Ofstehage (N. Carolina State Univ.)

Featuring Andrew Ofstehage, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University. "Food is such a chore: Soylent is the Solution". Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over…


The Vietnam War: From Total War to the Unfinished Accounting of Human Loss

Join us Tuesday for a guest lecture with Dr. Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, of The Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. More than half a century after the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people—Vietnamese and American alike—remain missing, unaccounted for, and unmourned. For their families, the war never truly ended. This talk asks a fundamental but rarely confronted question: how did North Vietnam sustain a war of such…


Volunteer event: Historic Brooklyn Cemetery

Phi Alpha Theta, the History honor society, invites you to a volunteer event at Brooklyn Cemetery, beginning with a docent’s introduction to one of the first African American cemeteries in Athens. Volunteers will meet at the cemetery (link to directions). We’ll have snacks. All students are welcome! Please sign up using this form. This is a Black History month special event.


Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Rick Atkinson

Author and journalist Rick Atkinson will visit UGA and Athens for the Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's annual Humanities Festival and in the Global Georgia public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event is free and open to the public, with no advance registration required. Rick Atkinson is one of the nation’s foremost public historians, the author of eight…


History Film Series: Sinners (2025)

The History Film Series presents Ryan Cooglers Sinners (2025). Sinners won two Golden Globes for Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson. A blend of horror, history, music and culture, the film is set 1932 in the Mississippi Delta. Starring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil.…


Dirty History: Narusa Yamato (Stanford Univ.)

Featuring Narusa Yamato, Stanford University. "Selling 'Milky Gold' for the Empire: Dairy Cows, Cooperative Enterprise, and Settler Colonialism in Interwar Hokkaido." Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come…


History Film Series

Join us for a screening of Soy Cuba (1964), with an introduction by Dr. Reinaldo Román.  An international co-production between the Soviet Union and Cuba, it is an anthology film mixing political drama and propaganda. Featuring four short stories about the suffering of the Cuban people and their reactions. How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how history can…


History Film Series: The Name of the Rose (1986)

The Name of the Rose (1986, dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud). With an introduction by Dr. Ben Ehlers.  How do historians enjoy movies made in or about the past? Learn how film shapes how we remember historical events and how history can make for great entertainment. Join us as we experience historian's craft beyond the book and on the silver screen! Organized and curated by a doctoral student, this film series brings together great cinema and…


MW and Monday Only Class Schedule in Effect ( does NOT include MWF classes)

MW and Monday Only Class Schedule in Effect (Does not include MWF Classes) April 27 Monday


Inaugural Morrow Lecture in African American and Military History: with Matthew Delmont

Join us for the inaugural presentation of the Dr. John H. Morrow and Dr. Diane B. Morrow Lectureship Series: Matthew Delmont (Dartmouth College) will present a lecture on his recent book and research entitled, "Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad." A UGA Signature Lecture. Free and open to the public. Dr. Matthew Delmont is the Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean of International Studies and…
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