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.

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."

"Indigenous Feminist Narratives," Andrea Smith, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California Riverside.

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:

The Department of History welcomes newly accepted students for 2020-21 to the graduate program.

By Invitation only. RSVP required.

The Workshop in the History and Geography of Food, Place, and Power will host Heather Paxson, who is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Paxson will present her paper "Regulating Microbial Ecologies: Policy and Practice in Artisanal Cheesemaking." Download a copy of the paper at the FPP website.

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.

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.

 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.

Ashley Allred will defend her thesis entitled, "A Strategy Gone South: The British, the Backcountry, and Violence in Revolutionary South Carolina" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Peter Hoffer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.