Required for history faculty.

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk on Tuesday by a guest speaker.

All majors are welcome.

Join us for a guest lecture with Dr. Kenja McCray. Kenja McCray is a humanities faculty member at Clayton State University, where she teaches history. Dr. McCray has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Georgia State University and a B.A. from Spelman College. Her research focuses on the 20th century United States, African Americans, Africa and the diaspora, transnational histories, women, and leadership.

Please join us for the Gregory Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Bryant Simon, entitled, "Disappearing Acts: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality."

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2025 University of Georgia History Graduate Student Association Conference 

“Intersectional Narratives”

The History Graduate Student Association at the University of Georgia will hold a conference at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, GA, March 21-22, 2025. This is an opportunity for graduate students from around the country to present their work in a friendly environment and receive critical feedback from professors and peers alike.

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2025 University of Georgia History Graduate Student Association Conference 

The Soviet Union delivered the most experimental generation of filmmakers in cinematic history, innovation necessitated by a revolution that demanded a total rejection of bourgeois morality and convention. Between Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, documentary and narrative filmmaking evolved at a much-quickened pace. 

In the Ghanaian Akan language, sankofa means "to go back, look for, and gain wisdom, power and hope." Perhaps the most obscure picture of this rotation, Haile Gerima's Sankofa takes us to Africa, only to return us to our home: the US South. This film forces us to grapple with the excruciating torments of chattel slavery, not from the perspective of a nation having to confront its past but from the perspective of a civilization reeling from the effects of the Maafa, the African Holocaust.