The Tomorrow of Violence: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Borderlands You're invited to a day of reflection, remembrance, and understanding at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center to view the new exhibit, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado, and participate in activities throughout the day. Read more about The Tomorrow of Violence: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Borderlands
UGA's chapter of the national history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, is launching an undergraduate history journal! Students are invited: build upon your reading, writing, and editing skills while helping students get published! Scan the QR code on the flyer image to apply. Open to all majors. If you have any questions, email Alyza. Read more about UGA's chapter of the national history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, is launching an undergraduate history journal!
Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Safer than Bread: Cannabis Eradication and the Agricultural Politics of Drug Diplomacy” with its author, April Merleaux, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending can contact Scott Nelson for a copy of the paper: srnelson@uga.edu. Read more about Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students
Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Kira Thurman The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Kira Thurman. 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Thurman will talk about her new book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, (Cornell University Press, 2021). Pre-registration is required. Read more about Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Kira Thurman
Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Robin Mitchell The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Robin Mitchell, with a talk entitled "Vénus Noire". 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Pre-registration is required. A limited number of books by the author and historian will be given at no charge to history graduate students who register for this event. Register here Read more about Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Robin Mitchell
Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Christy Pichichero The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Christy Pichichero, "TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies." 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Pre-registration is required. Register here Read more about Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Christy Pichichero
Constitution Day Lecture On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth. Read more about Constitution Day Lecture
Lunchtime Time Machine: Why Did Fire Ants Invade Georgia? This month's Lunchtime Time Machine features alum Kaylynn Washnock Stooksbury, outreach archivist for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia. Join us for some free history and free pizza. All majors are welcome. This is an FYO event. Read more about Lunchtime Time Machine: Why Did Fire Ants Invade Georgia?
Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy? Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South. All majors are welcome. Free admission, free history, and free pizza! Read more about Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?