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Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Civil Rights Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Food Chains Film Screening (Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative)

Join the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative for a screening of Food Chains. This exposé documents the human cost of food by focusing on the lives of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of Florida farmworkers, that battle the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program.

After the screening, a panel of discussants will talk about their research and lives as it relates to this important film. Discussants include:

Global Capitalism and Global South Graduate Student Conference

The study of Capitalism has seen resurgence in academia. New ways of looking at old questions have challenged the established narrative between capital and social relationships. The University of Georgia Graduate Student Conference on Global Capitalism and the Global South will enable graduate students to explore Capitalism as a category of historical analysis. The conference is scheduled for May 15th & 16th in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center and is open to the public.

Opening Reception: Global Capitalism and the Global South Graduate Student Conference

The Global Capitalism Initiative and the UGA History Department will be holding our opening reception for the Global Capitalism and Global South Graduate Student Conference in the North Tower of the MLC on May 14th at 6pm. A.D. Carson, a PhD student in RCID at Clemson University, will perform his spoken word poem See The Stripes. Weaver D's will cater the reception dinner. If you would like to attend the opening reception, please send a request to capitalism@uga.edu for an invitation.

Visiting lecturer Peter Wood: “Did you ever hear ‘bout de Andersonville prison in Georgia?”

 A fresh sesquicentennial look at a familiar Civil War topic--Peter Wood (Professor Emeritus, Duke U) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It has been described as one of the most influential books on southern U.S. history of the past 50 years.

The university community is invited to attend.

Sponsored by the Department of History.

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