Cindy Hahamovitch, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, The University of Georgia was on the radio yesterday at WBUR.org commenting on companies that use foreign guest workers.

Arizona Company Facing Shortage Of Foreign Guest Workers Forced to Change Course 04:13

Georgia's local Epsilon Pi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Inc., the National History Honor Society is having a general meeting Tuesday Oct. 23. Please join us if you are a current member or are interested in joining the student organization activities!

A panel discussion of the agreement to end the fighting of World War I. Featuring John Morrow, Jr. (Chair); Alex Nordlund (History); Whitney Priest (History); and Adam Parkes (English).

Light refreshments to follow. This is a free, public event.

Sponsored by the History Department and the Transnational European Studies Program.

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is planning to host its first ever College-based study away fair. Join us to find out about the many Study Abroad and U.S. based programs such as UGA at Oxford, the Summer Public History Internship program, UGA at Cortona, and many more!

12-3 PM

Cassia Roth has a new article recently published at the Art Newspaper.com. Roth was recently at Brazil’s Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro in July for archival research and writes of the museum fire's impact and what the loss means to our historical record.

The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC) has selected the M.A. Thesis, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man':  Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia," written by UGA history alumnus Laura E. Nelson (MA history 2018),  to receive the 2018 Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records.

Scott Reynolds Nelson will talk about using Word files and digital folders to manage document workflow for large research projects. Topics will include the flow-documents, place-keepers, and writing-diaries that help a writer maintain focus. He will also discuss using machine-learning tools to improve scholarly serendipity. Sites and applications discussed (but not endorsed) will include FineReaderOnline, Tesseract, Zotero, Google Scholar, Amazon, Academia.edu, and Mendeley.

Doctoral student Terrell Orr's review of the recent book Hog Wild by journalist Lynn Waltz was published this week on the Virginia Pilot. You can check it out online here at https://pilotonline.com/entertainment/books/article_fa1cbcdc-b208-11e8-a8e2-c36a02fabbc7.html. Sep 21, 2018 Updated Sep 22, 2018

The Romance Language Colloquium Series present Dr. Cassia Roth: "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth, and Pain in Nineteenth Century Brazil." Dr. Roth is Assistant Professor in History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.