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
Behind the Headlines Q&A (pt. 1): War in Ukraine 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. 1): War in Ukraine
UGA's Guggenheim fellows ask - and answer- difficult questions Check out the new article by UGA Research News. "UGA’s Guggenheim fellows ask — and answer — difficult questions" By Stacia Pelletier. Photography By Jason Thrasher. Read more about UGA's Guggenheim fellows ask - and answer- difficult questions
FMD's North Campus Employee of the Month: Barbara Christopher Congratulations to our friend and colleague Barbara Christopher, North Campus Employee of the Month of August for Facilities Management Division, and much loved by history. Thanks for all that you do for us! Read more about FMD's North Campus Employee of the Month: Barbara Christopher
Spring Graduate Student Commencement (M.A. and Ph.D.) Rev. 3/6/2023 - Read more about Spring Graduate Student Commencement (M.A. and Ph.D.)
