[UGA Academic Calendar] || [UGA Master Calendar] || [Dept. Events Archive] || [Add Event] WHEATS 2007 Friday, 10/12/2007 The Georgia Workshop in History of Agriculture and Environment hosted the fourth annual international Workshop in History, Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science. This event brought together a select group of graduate students and faculty to discuss work-in-progress. For more information, visit www.uga.edu/wheats2007. The fifth annual WHEATS will be held in Manhattan, Kansas, at Kansas State University. Southern Salon Sunday, 2/24/2008 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm We'll discuss Matthew Lassiter's The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2007). Location and time TBA to meeting members the week before. Southern Salon Thursday, 10/9/2008 We'll discuss Stephanie Smallwood's Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (2007). Graduate Student Book Sale Tuesday, 10/14/2008 | 9:00am to 4:00pm Books for sale on the steps outside LeConte Hall Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Friday, 10/17/2008 | 12:20pm to 1:10pm Lauren Chambers (English) and Christina Davis (History) will discuss Georgia Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1919-1975. All talks are free and open to the public. 12:20-1:10pm in 250 Student Learning Center. Fall Withdrawal Deadline Thursday, 10/23/2008 Workshop in Early American History and Culture Friday, 10/24/2008 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm John Sensbach (University of Florida) will be on hand to discuss his paper "A Land 'Wholly Laid Waste': Religious Violence and the Transformation of the Early American South. The Workshop will be held in Room 320 in LeConte Hall, the main building for the History Department Click here for more information Fall Break Friday, 10/31/2008 Classes will not be held at UGA due to students' fall break. University offices are open. Please note changes from previous fall semesters: One day for Fall Break; No classes during week of Thanksgiving 2nd History Graduate Student Association Lecture Series / Book Signing, with Dr. Tera W. Hunter Thursday, 11/6/2008 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton University, Hunter will present, "'Until Death or Distance Do You Part': Marriage and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century" Thursday, at 4:00 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. This lecture series is sponsored the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Program, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Department Invited Lecturer Program, History Graduate Student Association, Department of History, Institute for Women's Studies, Southern Historical Association and Institute for African American Studies. Contact: Daleah Goodwin - dgoodwin@uga.edu Workshop in the Cultural History of Capitalism Friday, 11/7/2008 | 3:30pm to 5:00pm Beatrix Hoffman, Professor of History, Northern Illinois University will present "Access and Denial: Toward a History of Health Care Rights Consciousness in the 20th Century U.S." in room 320 LeConte. Click here for more information Meet-and-Greet Luncheon with Dr. Tera Hunter Friday, 11/7/2008 | 11:30am to 1:00pm In the LeConte Hall Conference Room Graduate Workshop w/ Dr. Tera Hunter Friday, 11/7/2008 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm Dr. Hunter will conduct a graduate workshop focused on her award winning book To 'Joy My Freedom': Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War in LeConte Hall Room 323. The lunch and workshop are open to graduate students and faculty. This lecture series is sponsored the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Program, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Department Invited Lecturer Program, History Graduate Student Association, Department of History, Institute for Women's Studies, Southern Historical Association and Institute for African American Studies. Contact: Daleah Goodwin - dgoodwin@uga.edu Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Friday, 11/7/2008 | 12:20pm to 1:10pm Bethany Moreton (Women's Study & History) will discuss Women, Work, and Wal-Mart. All talks are free and open to the public. 12:20-1:10pm in 250 Student Learning Center. Workshop in the History of Agriculture and Environment Friday, 11/14/2008 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm Jim Giesen and Mark Hersey, Mississippi State University, will present research in progress in room 320 Leconte. Mark Hersey's paper is titled "What Dreams Might Die: The Collapse of George Washington Carver's Campaign on Behalf of Impoverished Sharecroppers." Jim Giesen will discuss "Boll Weevil Blues: Myth-Making in Alabama." Both papers are available on the website for download prior to the discussion. Click here for more information History Program Review Interviews Tuesday, 11/18/2008 Conference Room, LeConte Hall. 9:00-10:00 Policy Committee & Personnel Committee 1:00-2:00 Assistant Professors 2:15-3:15 Associate Professors 3:30-4:30 Professors History Program Review Interviews Thursday, 11/20/2008 Conference Room, LeConte Hall. 1:00-2:00 History Staff 2:15-3:15 Graduate Student Association Officers Thanksgiving Holiday Monday, 11/24/2008 Please note changes from previous fall semesters: One day for Fall Break; No classes during week of Thanksgiving. Doctoral Dissertaion Defense: Mary Ella Engel Thursday, 12/4/2008 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm Mary Ella Engel will defend her dissertation entitled, "Praying With One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Late Nineteenth Century Appalachian Georgia." The defense will be held at 3:30pm in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor John Inscoe at jinscoe@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Workshop in the History of Agriculture and Environment Friday, 12/5/2008 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm Jennifer Leigh Smith, Georgia Tech, will present research in progress, "The Soviet Cold War Fur Trade and its Environmental Consequences." Room 320 Leconte. Contact Paul Sutter or Shane Hamilton for further information. Click here for more information Last Day of Classes for Fall Term Tuesday, 12/9/2008 Note: For the Fall Semester 2008, the University will operate a Friday class schedule on Tuesday, Dec. 9. This is done to equalize the class minutes between MWF and TTH classes and to provide an equal number of class meetings for courses which may meet only once per week. History Department Faculty Meeting Wednesday, 12/10/2008 | 12:30pm to 2:00pm Wednesday, Rm. 101. Reading Day Wednesday, 12/10/2008 No mandatory assignments are to be scheduled for completion during reading days -- either for course work or extra-curricular or co-curricular activities. Exceptions for good cause can be made to this policy by the Vice President for Instruction. Click here for more information Final Exams Thursday, 12/11/2008 Click here for more information Holiday Luncheon Friday, 12/12/2008 | 11:30pm to 1:30pm This year the History Department will celebrate the holidays with a pot-luck luncheon for our History faculty, graduate students and staff. It is an exam day but we hope these hours will allow everyone to attend for at least a short while. The festivities will take place in the conference room and the faculty lounge, as needed on Friday. The department will furnish a honey-baked ham. We hope you make plans to attend. Sign-up sheets for side dishes and desserts are in the Faculty mailroom. Graduate Admissions Deadline Monday, 12/15/2008 Deadline for the receipt of all admission materials for applications to the graduate program in history. Ph.D. Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Catherine Holmes Monday, 12/15/2008 | 10:00am to 12:00pm Cat Holmes will take her oral examinations 10am-Noon in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Jim Cobb at cobby@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Southern Salon Tuesday, 12/16/2008 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm We'll discuss Stephen Berry's All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (2004). Location and time TBA to meeting members the week before. Fall Commencement Ceremonies Friday, 12/19/2008 Undergraduate ceremony 9:30 a.m.; featured speaker is Dr. Donald R. Eastman III, president of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., and former UGA vice president for strategic planning. Graduate ceremony 2:30 p.m.; featured speaker is Harriet Mayor Fulbright, president of the J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center. Stegeman Coliseum. Grades Due Monday, 12/22/2008 | 5:00pm The Online Grade Roll System for grade submission by instructors for Fall 2008 will become available on Thursday, December 4, 2008. Grades are due by Monday, 5pm. Southern Salon Thursday, 1/1/2009 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm We'll discuss Alan Gallay's The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (2003). Location and time TBA to meeting members the week before (in January 2009) Faculty Research Colloquium Tuesday, 1/13/2009 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm Professor Tim Cleaveland will present work in progress. Room 320, LeConte Hall. 2009 Founders' Day Lecture Tuesday, 1/27/2009 | 3:00pm This is a special invitation to faculty, staff and students in the History Department on behalf of the Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars. The 2009 Founders' Day Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday at the University Chapel in honor of the 224th anniversary of the adoption of the University of Georgia charter by the Georgia General Assembly. University Professor and Vice President for Instruction Emeritus Tom Dyer'72, '75 will deliver the lecture entitled "Finding the Founders and What They Founded: Reflections on the Origins of the University of Georgia." The student responder to Dr. Dyer's remarks will be Noah Koon, a student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. We open you will attend. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking will be available in the North Campus parking deck off Jackson Street at an hourly rate. Workshop in the History of Agriculture and Environment Friday, 1/30/2009 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm Richard Mizelle, Florida State University, will present research in progress from his work on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Room 320 Leconte. Contact Paul Sutter or Shane Hamilton for further information. Click here for more information Workshop in the History of Agriculture and Environment Tuesday, 2/3/2009 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm Peggy Barlett, Emory University will present "Moving toward a Sustainable Food System on College Campuses." Co-sponsored with the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Organic Agriculture Certificate Program. Location TBA. Click here for more information Faculty Research Colloquium Tuesday, 2/10/2009 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm Professor Ben Ehlers will present work in progress. Room 320, LeConte Hall. Graduate Student Colloquium Monday, 2/16/2009 | 4:00pm Levi Van Sant will be presenting and discussing a paper titled "Searching for the Fundamentals of Ecology: Eugene Odum, Ecosystem Ecology, and Environmental Politics." Rm. 320, LeConte Hall. Southern Salon Tuesday, 2/17/2009 | 4:30pm to 6:30pm Professor Richard J. Gray, who teaches at the University of Essex Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies will be visiting as the Barbara Lester Methvin Visiting Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Georgia. On Tuesday, February 17 he'll give a public lecture: "'Maybe Nothing Ever Happens Once and Is Finished': Some Notes on Recent Southern Writing and Social Change" at 4:30, 148 Miller Learning Center Southern Salon Wednesday, 2/18/2009 | 4:00pm Professor Richard J. Gray will participate in a panel discussion on his new book "A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature" 4:00, 265 Park Hall. Dr. Cobb has graciously made seven copies of his new book, A Web of Words: The Great dialogue of Southern Literature (Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, W.E.B. DuBois and Faulker among others) available for folks to read. Oral Comprehensive Examination Thursday, 2/19/2009 | 8:45am Kathi Nehls will take her oral examinations Thursday in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Oral Comprehensive Examinations are open to all members of the faculty. Please contact the Major Professor Paul Sutter at histcoord@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating. Workshop in Early American History and Culture Friday, 2/27/2009 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm Robert Desrochers (Emory University). LeConte Hall Room 320 Click here for more information UGA presents Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Monday, 3/2/2009 | 7:30pm A four-part series chronicling the history of one of Earth's oldest mountain ranges and its inhabitants will be shown March 2-3 on the University of Georgia Campus. On Monday, March 2, the first half of Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People will be shown in 102 Miller Learning Center. The second half is Wednesday, March 3 in 171 Miller Learning Center. Filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross will be present to introduce and discuss the film. The showing is free and open to the public. The film event is co-sponsored by the EcoFocus Film Festival (a production of the Odum School of Ecology), the history department, the anthropology department and the Institute of Native American Studies. Click here for more information Faculty Research Colloquium Tuesday, 3/3/2009 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm Professor Bill Stueck will present work in progress. Room 320, LeConte Hall. UGA presents Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Wednesday, 3/4/2009 | 7:30pm A four-part series chronicling the history of one of Earth's oldest mountain ranges and its inhabitants will be shown at University of Georgia Campus. Filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross will be present to introduce and discuss the film. The showing is free and open to the public. The Appalachian film series, scheduled for Mon and Tues., had to cancel last nights showing, but will show tonight's at 7:30. Due to damage to the MLC, it will be shown in the Tate Center, Room 137. The film event is co-sponsored by the EcoFocus Film Festival (a production of the Odum School of Ecology), the history department, the anthropology department and the Institute of Native American Studies. Click here for more information Spring break. Monday, 3/9/2009 to 3/13/2009 There will be no classes, but UGA offices will be open from March 9 through March 13. Southern Salon Friday, 3/20/2009 | 7:00pm We'll discuss Leon Fink's The Maya of Morganton (2003). Location and time TBA to meeting members the week before. Workshop in the History of Environment and Agriculture Friday, 3/20/2009 | 4:00pm to 5:30pm Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University, will present "'Restoring the Land, Restoring the People': Arthur Raper and the Unified Farm Program in Greene County, Georgia, 1940-1942" in room 320 Leconte. Contact Paul Sutter or Shane Hamilton for further information. Click here for more information Withdrawal deadline Tuesday, 3/24/2009 Last day for a student to request a withdrawal passing (WP) grade. PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Daleah Goodwin Tuesday, 3/24/2009 | 3:30pm Daleah Goodwin will take her oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Diane Morrow at dbmorrow@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Graduate Student Speaker series Wednesday, 3/25/2009 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm Wednesday. Tom Okie will present an essay titled "The Garden Spot of the Universe': The Commercial Transformation of Southern Horticulture, 1850-1900." Rm. 320 LeConte Hall. Doctoral Dissertation defense: Robert Luckett Tuesday, 3/31/2009 | 9:15am Robert Luckett will defend his dissertation entitled, "Yapping Dogs: Joe T. Patterson and the Limits of Massive Resistance." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Robert Pratt at rapratt@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. MA Thesis Defense: Levi Van Sant Wednesday, 4/1/2009 | 10:00am Levi Van Sant will defend his thesis entitled, "Representing Nature, Reordering Society: Eugene Odum, Ecosystem Ecology, and Environmental Politics." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Paul Sutter at histcoord@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Workshop in Early American History and Culture Friday, 4/3/2009 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm Greg O'Brien (UNC-Greensboro) will be on hand to discuss his paper "The Great Choctaw-Chickasaw Peace and the War that Made It Possible." LeConte Hall Room 320. A reception will be held after the seminar and all who are interested are encouraged to attend a dinner with Greg at one of our fine local restaurants. We try to get an estimate of dinner attendees. To RSVP please contact gweahc@uga.edu. Click here for more information Faculty Research Colloquium Tuesday, 4/7/2009 | 12:30pm to 1:30pm Professor Oscar Chamosa will present work in progress. Room 320, LeConte Hall. Doctoral Dissertation defense: Barton Myers Wednesday, 4/8/2009 | 2:30pm Barton Myers will defend his dissertation entitled, "'Rebels Against a Rebellion': Southern Unionists in Secession, War and Remembrance." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor John Inscoe at jinscoe@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. History talk: Charles Bittner Thursday, 4/9/2009 | 5:00pm This Thursday Nation correspondent Charles Bittner will speak with graduate students about the U.S. prison system in the contemporary period. Leconte Hall, Rm. 321. Pizza and drinks, so please do rsvp to voekel@uga.edu so we know how much to order! Graduate School Student Appreciation Open House Thursday, 4/9/2009 | 12:00pm to 5:00pm April 8-9. Sponsored by the Graduate School. To celebrate National Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week (Apr. 6-10), the Graduate School is hosting a two-day open house to honor all UGA graduate and professional students. Graduate students are invited to enjoy refreshments, meet other graduate students, learn about Graduate School services and enter their names for a chance to win door prizes. Graduate School, 320 E. Clayton St., Suite 400. Contact: 706-542-2953, jmilton@uga.edu PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Joshua Haynes Wednesday, 4/15/2009 | 2:45pm to 4:45pm Joshua Haynes will take his oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Clausio Saunt at csaunt@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Reacting to the Past Conference Friday, 4/17/2009 to 4/19/2009 Interested faculty and administrators are invited to register for a regional "Reacting to the Past" Conference hosted by the University of Georgia (Athens, GA). At the conference, faculty and administrators will learn about "Reacting to the Past" by participating in intensive two-day workshops on a particular game (see "featured games" below). In addition to game sessions, we will have discussions of a more general character on student motivation, teaching, liberal arts education, and the problems and possibilities of the "Reacting" pedagogy. Participants are encouraged to attend all game and plenary sessions. Click here for more information Honors Day Wednesday, 4/22/2009 | 1:25pm to 4:25pm For Honors Day date, time, and location, please see the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Academic Events Calendar. Typically, undergraduate classes scheduled for sixth, seventh and eighth periods (1:25-4:25 p.m.) will be dismissed so students and faculty can attend. History Lecture and book signing: Paul D. Escott Thursday, 4/23/2009 | 5:00pm Wake Forest historian Paul D. Escott will give a lecture on "Lincoln as Icon: Thinking about Myth and Reality in our History." He will also sign copies of his new book: "What Are We To Do With the Negro?: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America." Lecture is Thursday in MLC Room 348. Workshop in Early American History and Culture Friday, 4/24/2009 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm Lucy Murphy (Ohio State University). LeConte Hall Room 320 Click here for more information PhD Oral Comprehensive Exams: Lesley-Anne Reed Monday, 4/27/2009 | 11:30am to 1:30pm Lesley-Anne Reed will take her oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Paul Sutter at histcoord@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. History Dept. Annual awards/reception Wednesday, 4/29/2009 | 5:00pm to 7:00pm Wednesday. History department graduate students, faculty, instructors, retirees, staff and award nominees are invited to attend our annual awards reception and dinner. Demosthenian Hall, North campus. It is very important that you RSVP to Sheree Dendy at sdendy@uga.edu and let us know how many in your family will attend. Workshop in the Cultural History of Capitalism Thursday, 4/30/2009 | 5:00pm to 6:30pm Mexicanist Michael Snodgrass will lead a discussion of his work on the bracero program in Leconte Hall, room 320. His paper is posted on the following website: Click here for more information PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Jennifer Malto Thursday, 4/30/2009 | 9:00am to 12:00pm Jennifer Malto will take her oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Jake Short at jshort@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Monday class schedule in effect Thursday, 4/30/2009 Last day of spring classes. *Note: For the Spring Semester 2009, the University will operate a Monday class schedule on Thursday, April 30. This is done to equalize the class minutes between MWF and TTH classes and to provide an equal number of class meetings for courses which may meet only once per week. PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Zac Smith Friday, 5/1/2009 | 10:00am to 12:00pm Zac Smith will take his oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor John Morrow at jmorrow@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Reading day, no classes. Friday, 5/1/2009 No mandatory assignments are to be scheduled for completion during reading days -- either for course work or extra-curricular or co-curricular activities. Exceptions for good cause can be made to this policy by the Vice President for Instruction. Final Exams Monday, 5/4/2009 to 5/8/2009 Monday through Friday. Southern Salon Thursday, 5/7/2009 | 7:00pm We'll discuss Allan Gallay's The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. Location and time TBA to meeting members the week before. Georgia Workshop in Early American History and Culture Friday, 5/8/2009 | 3:30pm to 5:30pm Jim Gigantino will be on hand to discuss his paper "Creating Freedom North of Mason-Dixon: New Jersey's Era of Abolition." Rm. 320, LeConte Hall. A reception will be held after the seminar and all who are interested are encouraged to attend a dinner with Jim at a local restaurant. We try to get an estimate of attendees for dinner. To RSVP please contact gweahc@uga.edu. Spring Commencement Saturday, 5/9/2009 Undergraduate Ceremony at 9:30 am in Sanford Stadium Graduate Ceremony at 2:30 pm in Stegeman Coliseum Grades due Monday, 5/11/2009 | 7:00pm PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: Michele Lansdown Monday, 5/11/2009 | 10:00am to 12:00pm Michele Lansdown will take her oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Kathleen Clark at katclark@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Maymester classes begin Tuesday, 5/12/2009 to 5/18/2009 Classes for Maymester begin Tuesday. Drop is May 12 - 15. Add is May 12 - 18 Memorial Day Holiday Monday, 5/25/2009 Last day of class for Maymester. Tuesday, 6/2/2009 Maymester Final Exams Wednesday, 6/3/2009 Summer Session I And Thru Session Classes begin Friday, 6/5/2009 Click here for more information Maymester grades due Friday, 6/5/2009 MA Thesis Defense: Nikolas Frye Wednesday, 6/10/2009 | 4:00pm Nikolas Frye will defend his thesis entitled, "Applying for Cherokee Citizenship: Constructing Nation, Race, and Identity, 1900-1906." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Claudio Saunt at csaunt@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Main Libraries Dedication of the F.N. Boney Collection Friday, 6/12/2009 | 2:00pm The University of Georgia Libraries invites current and retired members of the History Department to the dedication of the F. N. Boney Collection, which will find a permanent homes in the Reading Room of the Miller Learning Center. MLC Reading Room, 3rd floor. Refreshments will be served following the dedication. Parking will be available at the Tate Center Parking Deck. Parking validation will be provided. F.N. Boney, Ph.D. University of Virginia, taught American History at the University of Georgia for twenty-eight years. He published nine books and contributed large sections to three others and authored over a hundred articles and over a hundred book reviews. He specialized in Southern history with emphasis on Georgia and Virginia and wrote and lectured extensively on the University of Georgia. PhD Dissertation Defense: Steven Nash Thursday, 6/25/2009 | 1:00pm Steven Nash will defend his dissertation entitled, "The Extremest Condition of Humanity: Emancipation, Conflict, and Progress in Western North Carolina, 1865-1880." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor John Inscoe at jinscoe@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Short Session I classes end Wednesday, 7/1/2009 Short Session I Final Exams Thursday, 7/2/2009 Holiday: 4th of July Friday, 7/3/2009 No classes. Offices will be closed. Short Session II classes begin Monday, 7/6/2009 Click here for more information MA Thesis Defense: Jessica Fowler Thursday, 7/9/2009 | 1:00pm Jessica Fowler will defend her thesis entitled, "Illuminating Heretics: Alumbrados and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Cuenca." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Benjamin Ehlers at behlers@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. PhD Dissertation Defense: Min Song Friday, 7/10/2009 | 2:10pm to 5:10p Min Song will defend her dissertation entitled, "Economic Normalization: Sino-American Trade Relations From 1969 to 1980." The defense will be held in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. Members of the university community are invited to attend. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor William Stueck at wstueck@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating. Thru Session classes end Wednesday, 7/29/2009 Short Session II classes end Thursday, 7/30/2009 Short Session II Final Exams Friday, 7/31/2009 Final Exams for Thru Session July 30-31. Friday, 7/31/2009 Thursday and Friday. Summer commencement Saturday, 8/1/2009 Fall International Student Orientation August 3 - 7 Friday, 8/7/2009 | 12:00pm New international students and international transfer students attending classes during the fall semester 2009 should plan to attend the international student orientation sponsored by International Student Life. Immigration information, social security numbers, banking, housing, utilities as well as non-resident tax information are among the topics that will be discussed. The Fall International Orientation dates are from August 3 - August 7. Registration and check-in will begin from 10:00 a.m.-5 p.m. on August 3 at the International Student Life Office located in 210 Memorial Hall. For more information, contact 706/542-5867. Click here for more information UGA Graduate School Orientation and Information Fair Wednesday, 8/12/2009 | 9:00am to 11:30am Attendance is required for all new graduate students in History. Location: Athens Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas Street, Athens, GA 30601 Click here for more information Graduate Student Association welcome party Wednesday, 8/12/2009 | 11:30am to 2:00pm Miller Student Learning Center. NEW Graduate Student Meeting Wednesday, 8/12/2009 | 2:00pm to 3:30pm Rm. 102 LeConte Hall. The meeting is required for all new graduate students in the History program. Orientation for GraduateTeaching and Laboratory Assistants Thursday, 8/13/2009 | 8:30am to 12:30pm Location: Rm. 101, Miller Learning Center. All new graduate teaching and laboratory assistants who will have instructional responsibilities during 2009-2010 are required to attend the Orientation for Graduate Teaching and Laboratory Assistants. This includes laboratory and teaching assistants as well as other graduate classifications who will be serving as instructors. In addition, returning GTAs and GLAs are welcome to attend the sessions of interest to them. If you have specific questions regarding the orienation please contact Paul Quick in the Center for Teaching and Learning at (706)542-0534. The orientation program is available from the homepage of the Center for Teaching and Learning website. Click here for more information Fall Semester 2009 classes begin Monday, 8/17/2009 Drop/Add for Fall semester Friday, 8/21/2009 Drop August 17 - 20. Add August 17 - 21. Holiday: Labor Day Monday, 9/7/2009 No classes. UGA offices closed. Roundtable Discussion: American Values and our Current Recession Tuesday, 9/15/2009 | 4:00pm Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Panelists: Shane Hamilton, history; Andy Herod, geography; Doris Kadish, (LACSI and Romance languages; Bill Lastrapes, economics; and Amy Ross, geography. 4:00 p.m. 480 Tate Student Center. Contact: 706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture: 'The Integration of UGA--Stories Untold' Wednesday, 9/16/2009 | 12:15pm to 1:15pm Sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies, African Studies Institute, African American Cultural Center. Speaker: Robert Pratt, history. African American Cultural Center, 4th floor, Memorial Hall. Contact: fsgiles@uga.edu Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture Friday, 9/18/2009 | 11:00am Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Richard Ford will deliver the Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture in the Chapel on the University of Georgia campus. The event is open and free to the public. Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day, Ford also won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for that same book, the first to receive both awards simultaneously. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction and the 1995 Rea Award for the Short Story. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ford taught at Williams, Princeton, Harvard, and Northwestern. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Granta, Le Monde and The New Yorker among other magazines and journals. The Ferdinand Phinizy Lectureship was established and endowed by Phinizy Calhoun, UGA class of 1900, as a memorial to his grandfather, Ferdinand Phinizy, who was a graduate of the UGA class of 1838. Contact: 706-542-2474, cobby@uga.edu. An African-Andalucian Freedman Friday, 9/25/2009 | 3:30pm to 4:30pm Elizabeth Wright will present "Liberty via Latinity: the Epic Stratagems of Joannes Latinus, an African-Andalucian Freedman Negotiating an Age of Mass Enslavement" on Friday, 3:30 - 4:30 in 350K Gilbert Hall. Click here for more information APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture: 'The 369th Regiment--The Heroic Harlem Hellfighters' Wednesday, 10/7/2009 | 12:15pm to 1:15pm Sponsored by Institute for African American Studies, African Studies Institute, African American Cultural Center. Speaker: John Morrow, Jr., history. African American Cultural Center, Fourth Floor Memorial Hall. Contact: fsgiles@uga.edu Midterm Thursday, 10/8/2009 Virtual Book signing: Barton Myers Saturday, 10/17/2009 | 12:00pm CST Join us on Saturday when the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. welcomes UGA history alumnus Barton Myers to talk about his new book, Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty and Guerilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community 1861-1865. Sponsored by Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. Click here for more information History Graduate Student Book Sale! Wednesday, 10/21/2009 to 10/22/2009 | 9:00am to 3:30pm All kinds of books at low, low prices. Fiction and non-fiction. All genres. Proceeds benefit our graduate students in History. The sale will take place on the plaza behind LeConte Hall on North Campus, from the morning thru afternoon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Withdrawal Deadline Thursday, 10/22/2009 History Department Fall reception Friday, 10/23/2009 | 5:00pm to 7:00pm For History Dept. Faculty, staff, and graduate students: the History Department will sponsor a Fall Reception on Friday at the home of Michael Kwass and Laura Mason. Please RSVP to Sheree Dendy at sdendy@uga.edu so that we may know how many to plan for. We look forward to seeing you there. History Graduate Student Colloquium Monday, 10/26/2009 | 12:30pm to 1:10pm Student Speaker Series: Drew Swanson will be presenting the topic of 19th century agricultural reform and the limitations created by bright tobacco in the Piedmont of Virginia and North Carolina. Please contact Hannah Waits at hwaits@uga.edu if you have any questions. Fall Break Friday, 10/30/2009 No classes. Furlough Day. In implementation of the Board of Regents furlough policy, the University of Georgia has established October 30 as one of the six furlough days to be taken by UGA employees unless they are otherwise designated. Only essential campus services will be operating today. Click here for more information Women's Studies Graduate Student Association Tuesday, 11/3/2009 | 6:30pm History graduate students: if you are interested in pursuing a graduate certificate in WMST, consider gender integral to your research, or just like WMST, please join us! About us: The Women's Studies Graduate Student Association aims to confer distinction for high achievement in scholarship and activism in conjunction with the program of Women s Studies, to promote support for and enhance community among Women s Studies graduate students, to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas among those students and scholars who are seriously pursing knowledge in these areas, and to promote the study of women, gender and society, both locally and globally. Questions? Contact Daleah Goodwin dgoodwin@uga.edu Symposium: Beyond the Movement: Global and Contemporary Freedom Struggles Saturday, 11/7/2009 to 11/9/2009 The Institute for African American Studies is hosting a symposium November 7-9, 2009 (Beyond the Movement: Global and Contemporary Freedom Struggles). Noted speakers are: Dr. Peniel Joseph, Hadjii and a few of our faculty members Dr. Reginald McKnight and Dr. Chana Kai Lee from the History Department. A program of the Institute for African American Studies with additional sponsorship provided by: Willson Center for Humanities and Arts; Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; President's Office; History Department; Department of Lifelong Learning; Creative Writing Center; Dr. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Regents Professor of English, College of Education, School of Social Work, Office for Institutional Diversity. Click here for more information "Beyond the Movement: Global and Contemporary Freedom Struggles" Saturday, 11/7/2009 to 11/9/2009 The three-day conference, which is open free to the public, is sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies at UGA, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The symposium honors the accomplishments of Georgia's civil rights activists and considers the global and national legacies of the Movement since its early years in the 50s and 60s. Click here for more information Furlough Day Tuesday, 11/10/2009 | 12:00pm In implementation of the Board of Regents furlough policy, the University of Georgia has designated November 25 as one of the six furlough days to be taken by UGA employees unless they are otherwise designated. Only essential campus services will be operating today. Click here for more information "Goldwater at 100" Conference, Arizona State University Thursday, 11/12/2009 to 11/13/2009 UGA History Lecturer Brian Drake paper will present his paper entitled "Extremism in the Defense of Nature is No Vice: Barry Goldwater and Federal Environmentalism." Sponsored by the Arizona Historical Foundation. Click here for more information Phi Alpha Theta Movie Night & Meeting Tuesday, 11/17/2009 | 6:00pm We will be showing "The Hound of the Baskervilles," and Dr. Willis will be speaking. There will be free pizza! Everybody try to make it so we can discuss our plans for next semester. PhD Oral Comprehensive Examinations: La Shonda Mims Wednesday, 11/18/2009 | 10:30am to 12:30pm La Shonda Mims will take her oral examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the Major Professor Jim Cobb at cobby@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.