History at Work presents: Simon Taylor (Staff UX Researcher at YouTube) 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. Read more about History at Work presents: Simon Taylor (Staff UX Researcher at YouTube)
Graduate Student PDW: Peer Review Panel 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. Read more about Graduate Student PDW: Peer Review Panel
HIST/GLOB/LACS3770 students present: Pandemic! Infectious Disease in Global History 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. Read more about HIST/GLOB/LACS3770 students present: Pandemic! Infectious Disease in Global History
History major Katie Beard at the UGA Oxford program... 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. Read more about History major Katie Beard at the UGA Oxford program...
The 2022 Gregory Lecture presents Dr. Jim Downs (Gettysburg College) 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. Read more about The 2022 Gregory Lecture presents Dr. Jim Downs (Gettysburg College)
Georgia Premiere, "Behind the Strings; The Shanghai Quartet Documentary Film" UGA hosts a showing of this new film plus a moderated audience Q&A with the producer Michael Peroff (UGA graduate 1967) and quartet members TBD (both joining via video conference). FREE and open to the public. The film showcases the lives of the members of this globally successful chamber-music quartet, their rise to the top and the price they pay to stay there. And it reveals why China keeps inviting them back to perform their once forbidden music. Read more about Georgia Premiere, "Behind the Strings; The Shanghai Quartet Documentary Film"
Graduate Student Book Sale, Nov 2-3 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. Read more about Graduate Student Book Sale, Nov 2-3
Shennette Garrett-Scott: "All the Other Devils This Side of Hades: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks" 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. Read more about Shennette Garrett-Scott: "All the Other Devils This Side of Hades: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks"
A team of UGA researchers is creating a “Noah’s Ark” of forgotten Southern apples 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. Read more about A team of UGA researchers is creating a “Noah’s Ark” of forgotten Southern apples
Behind the Headlines Q&A (pt. 2): Mass Protest in Iran 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. Read more about Behind the Headlines Q&A (pt. 2): Mass Protest in Iran