Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA) 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. Read more about Save the Date: 10th Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture (time TBA)
Public History/ Museum Studies Table at the Miller Learning Center Today, 10AM - 2PM! 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. Read more about Public History/ Museum Studies Table at the Miller Learning Center Today, 10AM - 2PM!
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. Read more about Phi Alpha Theta Presents: How to Study Abroad for Free!
UGA at Oxford: Brexit Panel 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: Read more about UGA at Oxford: Brexit Panel
As It Lies: A Natural History of Untruth 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. Read more about As It Lies: A Natural History of Untruth
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 Read more about Historical Profiles of Incarceration
Indigenous Languages Film Series 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. Read more about Indigenous Languages Film Series
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. Read more about Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism
For History Students: Q & A pizza lunch with guest speaker Mary Ellen Curtin 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. Read more about For History Students: Q & A pizza lunch with guest speaker Mary Ellen Curtin
History of Capitalism Reading Group 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. Read more about History of Capitalism Reading Group