Welcome UGA Signature Events

Start your UGA Experience off right

with Welcome UGA events, beginning August 13.

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Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Mary Ellen Curtin:

“Was It Justice? Convict Labor And The Practice Of Punishment In America,” 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 event is co-sponsored by Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of English, Department of History, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Institute for Women's Studies.

University offices are open.

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, April 3rd, at 3:30 PM to discuss a paper (topic to be announced) with its author, Rachel Schurman, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota.

This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.

(CANCELLED)

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, March 20th at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1730-1800” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Research Professor, Department of History, Universidade de Sao Paulo.

This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, February 21st at 3:30pm to discuss the paper “Stuck Pigs and Burned Canes: Crime after Emancipation in the British Empire” with its author, Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Globalization, Labour, and Humanities (University of Toronto).

This is a graduate student and faculty workshop. Please email Dan Rood danrood@uga.edu for a copy of the paper to read in advance.

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, December 31st at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper: “Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South”, with its author, Bryant Barnes, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia.