Join us as we celebrate the release of a new book by Daniel Rood: The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean. (Oxford U Press, May 2017)

Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor, Columbia University, will give a talk on the subject of her new book: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lightfoot secializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her  book focuses on black working class people's everyday forms of freedom in Antigua after emancipation.

Dr. Tore Olsson (UGA alumn) will offer a Professional Development Workshop on entering the job market in academia. 

He will spend a few minutes discussing how to give a job talk, interviewing for positions inside and outside academia, and what to expect. From there, he will open it up to the grad students for a Q&A. 

With so many of us entering the job market soon, this PDW is sure to be informative, pertinent, and instructive.

Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP when requested. 

The history graduate student association is having a booksale. Books of all genres - hardback and paperback, used and new offered at very low prices.

Wednesday and Thursday outdoors, behind LeConte Hall.

HGSA Coffee and Donuts social hour. For graduate students in the history program only.

HGSA Coffee and Donuts social in the conference room. For Graduate History students!

 

HGSA Town Hall. History Grad Students Only.

All you need to know about conferences. Come learn about different types of conferences, how to write a proposal, how to make a panel, etc.

For graduate students in history.

Food will be provided.

Each year the history department holds a graduate student competition in which current graduate students have just a few minutes to explain an interesting historical topic they would like to present as a guest lecturer in our Lunchtime Time Machine series. The audience votes for the best-represented lecture they would most like to hear. This year's winner and guest lecturer is Kate Dahlstrand.

Graduate student speaker series. We will be worksopping a paper. Food will be provided.