Elizabeth Swanson is the Mandell Family Foundation Senior Term Chair in Literature and Human Rights at Babson College and the author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (2007). An antislavery and social justice entrepreneur, she will speak about the plight of Pervis Payne, an African-American with an intellectual disability who is scheduled for execution in Tennessee in December. This will be a Zoom online lecture: Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m. ET https://gcsu.zoom.us/j/95416309028...
Elizabeth Swanson is the Mandell Family Foundation Senior Term Chair in Literature and Human Rights at Babson College and the author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (2007). An antislavery and social justice entrepreneur, she will speak about the plight of Pervis Payne, an African-American with an intellectual disability who is scheduled for execution in Tennessee in December. This will be a Zoom online lecture. Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m. ET https://gcsu.zoom.us/j/95416309028...
Historian Robert Chase, author of We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoner Rights in Postwar America (2020) and editor of Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Migration Detention, and Resistance (2019), will speak about mass incarceration in America Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 7- 8 p.m. Dr. Chase teaches Post-1945 U.S.; civil rights law and politics; the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Chicano movements; prisons and policing; labor and working class;...
Historian Robert Chase, author of We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoner Rights in Postwar America (2020) and editor of Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Migration Detention, and Resistance (2019), will speak about mass incarceration in America Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 7- 8 p.m. Dr. Chase teaches Post-1945 U.S.; civil rights law and politics; the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Chicano movements; prisons and policing; labor and working class;...
Dr. Stephanie Opperman is working on a cookbook that envelops her love of history and its connection with food—while easing the pangs of isolation during COVID-19. Called “Comfort Food,” the book is filled with 140 foods and beverages from Opperman’s family and friends. Recipes come from the halls of campus and streets of Milledgeville, as well as multiple states and one international site. The only criteria given was submitters had to have cooked the food before and liked...
Name: Josh Miller '14 Age: 28 Major at GC: History Why did you choose Georgia College? I think the location and size of the school are what first led me to Georgia College. I really wanted to go somewhere where I could feel a little more on my own and find my direction. The size was great. There is a sense of community and personalized attention while also being large enough to have plenty of options and things to do. Did you have a favorite professor or class? The history Department...
The first Center for Georgia Studies lecture of the Spring Semester will be held Wednesday, March 4th at 4 pm in A&S Auditorium. Our speaker is Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, an Independent Scholar and the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge 2017). Her lecture is entitled, "Reparations and the Need for a Third American Reconstruction." It is free and open to the public.
