"Cervantes and his Mediterranean Contexts: A Roundtable on Religious Identity and Cultural Encounters" with Dr. Claire Gilbert, Saint Louis University; Dr. Ben Ehlers, UGA Department of History; plus Dr. Elizabeth R. Wright and the members of Spanish 8010 (Baroque Character).

The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida November 2-5, 2016. With daily panel sessions at the humane hours of 9:30a and 2:30p, "The Southern" is an intellectually vibrant and convivial conference that provides plenty of time for mentorship, networking with colleagues, meeting with friends, and seeing the historical sites.

Book presentation and reception with Dr. Jennifer Palmer (UGA, Department of History), who will discuss her book Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). See the symposium website for details.

Sponsored by: Department of History, the Office of the President, the Program in World History and Cultures at Georgia State University, and The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory University.

Keynote address by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University, Department of History), part of the graduate symposium “Research and Evidence: Cities in the Global South.” For details, see the symposium web site.

Sponsored by: Department of History, the Office of the President, the Program in World History and Cultures at Georgia State University, and The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory University

A graduate conference sponsored by the Georgia Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative. Includes four panels showcasing original research by UGA, Emory, and Georgia State graduate students in history. Features a keynote address by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University), 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm, and a book talk by Dr. Jennifer Palmer (UGA) 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in Rm. 137.  Program available here.

Doyle will convene a small graduate seminar the following morning after Thursday's Gregory lecture at the Chapel. He will be joined by  eminent ​women's historian​, Professor Marjorie Spruill, whose new book is Divided We Stand: Women’s Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics.

History graduate students should RSVP to history@uga.edu.

 

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate lecture series features Ph.D. candidate James Owen, whose research uses musicology as a lens to understand Moravian missions in the New World, and their interactions with Indians, slaves, and runaway slave communities. Believe it or not, brewing plays a surprising role in that history, too. 

Free admission, free pizza.

Please join us on Sunday when University of Georgia professor Scott Nesbit and HIPR teaching assistant Audrey Thomas discuss the discoveries made by their "Public History and Technology" class that explored the role of slavery in the early years at the University of Georgia.

James C. Cobb presents “From Truman to Trump: The South and America since World War II” as part of this fall’s Amicus Curiae Lecture Series on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. Please see the complete article of the event at the Huntington News website.

Elizabeth McRae, an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University, has been chosen to hold the university’s Creighton Sossomon Professorship in History for the next three years. McRae is a WCU alumna who received her master’s degree in history at the university in 1996. She also holds a master’s degree in secondary social science education from Marymount University in Virginia and a doctorate in American history from the University of Georgia.