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Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Europeans ever stop "going Medieval" on each other?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Steve Soper. Professor Soper teaches the second half of the western civ survey and courses on modern Europe, Italy, and microhistory. He is working on a new book about political prisoners in southern Italy on the eve of Italian unification.   Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Elizabeth Heath Lecture: Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age

Baruch College historian Elizabeth Heath will give a lecture entitled: "Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century" From Heath's Baruch College profile: Elizabeth Heath joins Baruch as Assistant Professor of History. An historian of Modern France and the French Empire, her research focuses on colonialism, globalization, and everyday life…


Alice Walker: "Standing in Georgia, Writing to the World"

A native of Eatonton, Walker is the author of seven novels, including "The Color Purple," for which she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Walker has been designated the Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Walker will give a talk and read from her literary works in this keynote Delta Chair event. The event free and open to the public, and seating is general admission. Overflow seating with a live video…


Visit by Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Inaugural Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

Alice Walker, a native of Eatonton, Georgia, will visit the UGA campus Oct. 14 through Oct. 15. Walker is the author of novels, including The Color Purple, Meridian, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, books of poetry and essays, and seminal collections of short stories, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love and Trouble.   She will participate in programs with the campus and local…


Jennifer Moxley Reading

Author and poet Jennifer Moxley will read from her work at Cine. Moxley is the author of six books of poetry, a book of essays, and a memoir. In addition, she has translated three books from the French. Her poems have been included in two Norton Anthologies, Postmodern American Poetry and American Hybrid. Her book The Sense Record(2002) was picked as one of the five best poetry books of the year by both Stride …


Book Signing and Lecture by Prof. Barbara McCaskill

Prof. McCaskill will discuss and read from her book, Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (UGA Press, May 2015). This event takes place in downtown Athens at Cine, 234 West Hancock Avenue, Athens, GA 30601.  Free and open to the public.  Contact bmccaski@uga.edu with any questions.


Franklin faculty honored with Regents awards

Two Franklin College professors along with the First-Year Odyssey program, which if you remember also originated in the Franklin College, were honored with excellence awards from the USG Board of Regents: • William Finlay, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award; • Paula Lemons, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular…

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Beckmann Kazez recognized with Regents' award

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics Sybilla Beckmann Kazez received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents:   The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences professor was chosen for the award that goes to one faculty member annually from research institutions in the university system. Awards also are given to one faculty member from the system's regional and state…


2012 Meigs Professors

  Two of the four University of Georgia faculty named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors for 2012 are in the Franklin College. The Meigs Awards are the university's highest recognition for superior instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The 2012 Meigs Professors are: • Jeffrey Berejikian, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the department of international affairs in the School of Public…
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