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.

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

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.

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!