The History at Work series and Professional Development Workshop present a career talk with Simon Taylor.

Taylor is a staff UX Researcher at YouTube. He was formerly at Twitter, and prior to entering industry, Simon Taylor was Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where his work focused on the history of medicine and science. He is also the author/curator of UX Research Resources for Beginners: https://bit.ly/3oUmGDz.

The graduate student professional development workshop series presents a peer review panel with Dr. Timothy Yang, Dr. Susan Mattern, and doctoral student Bryant Barnes.

3:00 - 4:30 PM.

Further details TBA.

A Professional Development Workshop event.

Please join us! Students will be presenting their final projects – public health campaigns for different pandemics in history – in Dr. Cassia Roth's HIST/GLOB/LACS3770 course: Pandemic! Infectious Disease in Global History on Tuesday, November 29 and Thursday December 1 from 2:20-3:35pm in the Special Collections Library  Auditorium 271.

Katie Beard, a history and international affairs double major, was recently featured in a wonderful article about the UGA at Oxford Study Away Program in Oxford, U.K.  https://stories.uga.edu/uga-oxford-study-abroad. The article gives a very realistic view of the Oxford program experience for students.

Join us for the 2022 Gregory Distinguished Lecture "The Troubled Origins of Epidemiology: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine", featuring Professor Jim Downs, Gettysburg College.

Please note - book sale dates are now Nov 2 -3rd.

Books of all kinds at low, low prices. Proceeds benefit the HGSA, a History Graduate Student Association.

Rain cancels.

Please join us Thursday; Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott from Texas A & M will present a history lecture, "All the Other Devils This Side of Hades: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks."

Garrett-Scott's research focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century race, gender, and capitalism. Her first book, Banking on Freedom, is the first history of U.S. banking and finance that centers on African American women.

Free and open to the public.

A Black History Month Special Event.

The Heritage Apple Orchard is home to 140 heirloom varieties, grown from wood cuttings snipped from trees found in niche orchards, rural backyards, and other sources across the Southeast.

In a two-part mini-series, experts from UGA's history faculty will provide context and answer questions on the crises of the day: first Dr. Joseph Kellner on the war in Ukraine, then Dr. Kevin Jones on the major, ongoing protests in Iran.

This is a free and public event.

Refreshments will be served.