All UGA graduate students are welcome to join us Thursday, February 6 at 10:00am for a coffee-hour roundtable with visiting scholar Sarah Handley-Cousins! This is a great opportunity to ask questions about the history of medicine, disability studies, and gender theory, as well as the larger field of American Civil War scholarship and 19th century U.S. history.

Please email Annelle Brunson with any questions!

Want to learn about digital forms available to historians? Interested in bringing digital humanities into history? Ready to reach a broader audience? Join us Thursday, February 6 at 4:00pm in DIGILab to hear from four leading historians who have each explored a different facet of digital history.

Please contact Cassia Roth or Annelle Brunson with any questions!

This event is free and open to the public.

RSVP only to Dr. Berry for history graduate students.

Dr. Hale's visit is sponsored by the Gregory Chair of the Civil War Era.

Dr. Grace Hale is Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She will speak on her paper, "The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with My Mississippi Grandfather and the Intimate History of White Supremacy."

This installment of the Department of History's undergraduate lecture series features Alexandra Velez, a Master's student in history and winner of this year's grad student LTTM competition.

Free admission, free lunch! (Box lunches will be distributed at the end of the talk)

This event , Reservations required - email our Main Office cilla71@uga.edu or call 706 542-2053 to reserve your space.

Please wear a face covering.

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.