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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.

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.

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. 

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.

 

 

 

 

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