Guest Lecture: Teaching Latinx Atlanta History

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."  

Phi Alpha Theta Presents: How to Study Abroad for Free!

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.

Historical Profiles of Incarceration

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

Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism

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.