Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Samuel McGuire Samuel McGuire will defend his dissertation entitled, "East Tennessee's Grand Army: Union Veterans Confront Race, Reconciliation, and Civil War Memory, 1884-1913" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. 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. Read more about Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Samuel McGuire
Jennifer Palmer receives Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Professor of History Jennifer Palmer is one of three University of Georgia faculty members to receive this year's Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university's highest early career teaching honor. The 2015 Russell Award winners are: • Peter Jutras, an associate professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences' Hugh Hodgson School of Music. • Andrew Owsiak, an assistant professor of international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs. Read more about Jennifer Palmer receives Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Let's All Go to the Movies: The Patriot Come join in the fun of going to the movies for FREE! The Warfare within History Workshop and the UGA History Department present The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, and the Revolutionary War! Free Pizza, Free Movie, Freedom! Read more about Let's All Go to the Movies: The Patriot
Henry Cowles — The Gilded Age of Mind and Brain Henry Cowles is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. He writes and teaches the history of the human sciences and scientific medicine in the modern United States. His current book project is a history of American attempts to locate the cultural authority of the scientific method in the functional anatomy of the human brain, and this lecture will explore how today’s commonplace assumptions about cognition and discovery — how we think we think — were part of the emergence of scientific psychology in the nineteenth century. Read more about Henry Cowles — The Gilded Age of Mind and Brain
History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VII For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full schedule, please visit our website. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VII
History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VI For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full schedule, please visit our website at capitalism.uga.edu. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part VI
History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part V For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full reading schedule, please visit our website at capitalism.uga.edu. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part V
Workshop with Sarah Milov, "Tobacco Leaf as Fig Leaf" The Global Capitalism Initative will be workshopping a paper by Dr. Sarah Milov from the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, titled "Tobacco Leaf as Fig Leaf: The Tobacco Growers' Information Committee" on Thursday, March 26th at 12:30 in rm 320 of LeConte Hall. The paper will be precirculated and lunch will be provided. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please email a request for the paper to capitalism@uga.edu. We hope to see many of you there! Read more about Workshop with Sarah Milov, "Tobacco Leaf as Fig Leaf"
History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part III For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full reading schedule, please visit our website. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part III
History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part II For the 2015 Spring Semester, we will be reading Karl Marx's major contribution to political and economic theory, Das Kapital, Vol. I. At our brown bag lunch meetings, we will explore the book chronologically. Students, Faculty and the public are encouraged to attend. For the full reading schedule, please visit our website at capitalism.uga.edu. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group: Das Kapital, Part II