POSTPONED.  Ben Gillespie, UGA alum (BA, BS '09).  "Archives Fever: Preserving History in Motion." For students and alumni in the humanities-all majors are welcome! Gillespie is a historian in Archives and American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. He graduated from UGA in 2009 with degrees in Physics and English.

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by UGA Libraries and the History Department.

Watch history come alive, and see the past unfold! This film series is designed to provoke curiosity and get you wondering about how the historian’s craft can leap out of books and onto the silver screen. Join us for a short introduction, and the screening of historically significant films each month.

Each month, the History Department presents a different film, accompanied by an introduction about the film and its historical context, from one of our faculty.

Devin Jerome will take his oral comprehensive examinations in room 201 LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr.Cindy Hahamovitch. All members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.

The History Film series presents: Tokyo Story (1953, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

 136 mins. Rated NR. Drama.  Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

Starring Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, and So Yamamura.

FREE and open to the public.

Refreshments.

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Ladri di biciclette (1948)

89 mins | Rated NR | Drama

Directed by Vittorio De Sica | Starring Lianella Carell, Lambertp Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Vittorio Antonucci, Gino Saltamerenda.

FREE and open to the public.

Refreshments.

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Join us as we watch Bicycle Thieves and learn a little Italian history along the way. With special guest speaker Dr. Steve Soper.

In this talk, Dr. DeLisa D. Hawkes (University of Tennessee) will discuss how the under-examined writer Olivia Ward Bush-Banks reflects on Black and Indigenous solidarities in her early twentieth-century literary works and the value of teaching-in-place to thinking about the intersections between African American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Free and open to the public.

Phi Alpha Theta monthly meeting. We decided to lighten things up for our last fall meeting - we're having a roast! Join us to see who we put in the spotlight.

Details forthcoming.

Phi Alpha Theta, also known as History Club, is an Honors Society that hosts meetings about various historical topics meant to provide a fun and engaging community for history students and all who love learning about the past. It (usually) meets the last Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM.

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society & History Book Club Movie Night: The Witch, a New England Folk Tale. 

With an introduction by Dr. Michael Winship - who teaches spooky stuff like the real history of the Salem Witch Trials and other dire moments in history.

Join the history group for a spooky movie and our monthly meetup. We'll have pizza for attendees, as our meetups are more about the treats than tricks.