It's Halloween! Stop by for Halloween treats in our study lounge.

We know - there are a lot of great history events this week and next! Stop by the studnet lounge and fortify yourself with some cookies prior to our two afternoon events today.

History graduate students will have a coffee hour with the visiting Franklin-Liverpool short-term research fellow Richard Smith.

 All history graduate students are invited to attend.

 Coffee and pastries will be served.

Please join the Latin American Studies Institute and the Department of History on Thursday, November 16, at 3:30 p.m. for the following talk, by Henrique Carneiro, Brazil's leading historian of food, drink, and drugs, on the historical roots of the modern prohibition of certain substances.

While media around the country provided frequent and vivid accounts of rising Nazi brutality in Europe, Americans focused inward in the 1930–40s. Step back in time with Museum experts to explore headlines, reactions, and artifacts from that time period in Georgia, including news articles unearthed by volunteer citizen historians. Panelists also will discuss actions taken within local communities, including demonstrations, letters to the editor, and petitions calling for action.

Grad Student Writing Group led by Dr. Hoffer. This month's topic is "topics, topics, topics." 

3:30-5pm: presentation by Dr. Hahamovitch and Dr. Jones

5pm-6pm: Review of pre-circulated application letters and CVs by Dr. Hahamovitch and Dr. Román. (This part of the event is for History graduate students only.)

Who’s invited: all graduate students, though the event is geared towards those on or nearing the job market.

What’s required of those participating in 5pm review: Draft application letters and CVs should be submitted to Dr. H by noon on Sunday Oct. 22.

Please join us for this semester’s Franklin-Liverpool graduate lecture by Richard Smith:"Opposing Pinochet in 1980s - the Vergara Toledo family and the story behind the 'Day of the Young Combatant' in Chile”. 

Richard Smith is a Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellow. His week-long research stay at UGA is sponsored by the Franklin-Liverpool Graduate Research Fellowship program and Franklin College, and the History Department.

Professor Diane Batts Morrow spoke earlier this week at Mount Saint Mary College on the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African American Roman Catholic sisterhood and their resilience and religious devotion throughout the Civil War. You can read the entire article from the Mount Saint Mary College news web site.

This roundtable discussion of interpretations and misinterpretations of Luther's 95 Theses in the five centuries since 1517 features Jonathan Strom (Emory University), Alex Sager (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Jodie Lyon (Religious Studies), Pastor Gregory Michael (Christus Victor Lutheran Church), and Pastor Nathan Hilkert (Holy Cross Lutheran Church). 

This event is sponsored by the Transnational European Studies program, the History Department, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.

The university community is invited. Light refreshments will be served.