Phi Alpha Theta is holding a member meeting. All members and interested prospective members are invited.Come and hear about what we're doing this year. We'll have snacks!

Dr. Román will have the annual spring meeting and luncheon for all current grad students in the history department. Updates and events on this year's programming and prospective graduate class.

Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon Pi (history honor society) will be presenting a writing workshop with Dr. Soper. Students of any major are invited. 12:30-1"30pm. Details to be announced.

Dr. Mattern will be discussing "Structure and Meaning in the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (New England Journal of Medicine.)" Dr. Mattern teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in World History and in the history of Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law. Her most recent book is The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press 2013). It is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, a cultural icon whose works were the basis of western medicine until the Renaissance.

No classes March 7-11; offices open. Classes resume March 14.

James F. Brooks is professor of history and anthropology at University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Captives and Cousins, which received the Bancroft, Francis Parkman, and Frederick Douglass Prizes. He will give a talk entitled, "Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, History, and Community in the Destruction of Awat’ovi Pueblo" Friday afternoon.

Ralph Tripp will present "The Endgame: Eradicating Polio and Other Vaccine Preventable Diseases" as part of the #Throwback Therapies lecture series.

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, researches and teaches the history of the U.S. in the 19th century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. His recent book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, was winner of the Bancroft Prize and selected as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Beckert’s talk is part of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative, which brings world class thinkers to Georgia.

A lecture will be given by Earl Lewis, the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lewis, a noted social historian, was the former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He is the author and co-editor of seven books.

Sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education. Part of the Signature Lecture Series.

Paul Sutter is an associate professor of history and a faculty affiliate in environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1997, and he was a member of the history department at UGA from 2000-2009. The event is part of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative, which brings world class thinkers to Georgia.