UGA's Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Franklin College Office of Inclusion & Diversity Leadership present: "'for dead weight': Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University.

Deborah Thomas, program manager for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) at the Library of Congress, will discuss Chronicling America, an online newspaper collection available through the Library of Congress, and their efforts to digitize and preserve America’s vast newspaper history. She will also share how this collection might be used in support of scholarship and the digital humanities.

Join the Willson/ Mellon Early Modern Studies group for a lecture by Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor of French at the University of California San Diego. She has published on French and Arabic literature, Mediterranean culture, as well as European and Arabic travel literature and geography. Worldmaking, or global imagining, is a feature of early modern culture, best symbolized by the globes that became an important and prestigious production in Europe.

Stop by our table in the hall of LeConte, 2nd floor from 8:30am-1:00pm. We are accepting new memberships applications and fees. (Applications are not accepted without the fee).Epsilon Pi is UGA's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta Inc., the National History Honor Society.

ALL majors are welcome! Stop by to find out about eligibility requirements, and upcoming events, or check them out online at https://phialphatheta.org/membership-requirements/.

The Southern 2019 | November 7-10, 2019 | Louisville, Kentucky

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held at the Galt House Hotel, November 7-10, 2019. Please note that this year’s meeting runs from Thursday through Sunday.

History Graduate student seminar with the Gregory Distinguished lecturer, Dr. Tiya Miles. RSVP list is now full.

Coffee and donuts

.Contact: Dr. Berry.

Iliana (Yami) Rodriquez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Latinx history, migration, culture, and labor within the southern United States. This academic year she is a predoctoral fellow at Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where she is completing her dissertation, "Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016."  

The 10th annual Gregory Lecture, delivered by Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, will be October 22, 2020 and will kickoff the "Historicizing the Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History" conference.

This is a free and public event.

Lecture topic and details to be announced.

Do you have class TR at 12:30, and can’t make our Public History Internship in Dc  Info session at 12:30 Oct 22?  Stop by our table at the MLC today, 10am-2pm. We are right across from Jittery Joe’s.

Elizabeth Goggin, Vice-President of UGA's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Inc. the National History Honor Society, will present a talk on Funding your Study Away program for UGA students. Elizabeth has studied abroad with the support of various national and campus-wide awards and scholarships, and has great tips for other students who wish to do the same.

All majors are welcome!

Pizza will be served.