This year UGA at Oxford celebrates the many UGA faculty who have taught in Oxford and made the program possible all these years. In the spirit of such academic and cross-cultural collaboration, we are gathering our forces to debate how and why:

Guest lecture featuring Henry M. Cowles, sponsored by the Departments of History and Philosophy and the Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series in Philosophy Fund.

On Thursday and Friday, October 3-4, over a dozen scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe will meet in the University of Georgia’s DigiLab (Main Library, 3rd floor) to discuss the technical, archival, and historical dimensions of a proposed database and website of American prison records.  Inspired in part by the relatively recent American phenomenon of “mass incarceration,” in part by the successful creation in the United Kingdom of The Digital Panopticon (www.digitalpanopticon.o

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages with two Latin American films on indigenous languages and cultures with special introductory comments and post-screening Q & A with the films’ directors. 

On Sept. 24, see Los Ojos del Camino in Quechua with English subtitles. Director Rodrigo Otero Heraud will take comments and questions.

If, as postcolonial criticism has shown, Crusoe's experience is part of the longue durée of race and empire in the West, it must be considered in relation to earlier Iberian as well as subsequent Dutch, French, and English imperial projects. In this light, Crusoe’s absence from his Brazilian plantation is as significant as his presence on the island, and reinserts his narrative into broader contexts of inter-imperial rivalry, Atlantic sugar, and a more nuanced history of the novel.

Please join us on Monday September 16 at 5:30PM at the Special Collections Library for the lecture, “Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin, Associate Professor of History at American University. The lecture will explore the history of forced labor as legal punishment for men and women, black and white.

The History of Capitalism Reading Group will have its second meeting of the semester, 3:30 PM at The Globe, walking distance from UGA's North Campus. The event is open to graduate students in any department. We will be reading from Jeremy Zallen's new book American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 from UNC Press. For the help finding the readings or any questions contact terrell.orr@uga.edu.

All graduate students are invited to coffee and pastries with Dr. Todd Shepard, of Johns Hopkins University:

Thursday September 12,  9 AM

The meeting and the talk will be valuable to students interested in colonialism, decolonization, immigration, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and the aftermath of war. 

Dr. Shepard will give a talk at 12:30 called “Affirmative Action and the End of Empires,”room 101 LeConte Hall.

Join us October 10th at 6:30pm at The Globe as we discuss chapter five from Siobhan Somerville's Queering the Color Line. GRS reading meetings are open to everyone, the more the merrier!

For a copy of the reading, please contact Annelle Brunson (annelle.brunson25@uga.edu) or Lauren Titley (let94308@uga.edu).

Somerville, Siobhan B. “Queer to Myself As I Am to You.” In Queering the Color Line, 130–165, 2000.