This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern’s most recent book, The Prince of Medicine, is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on a global history of menopause. She teaches courses in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law.

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.

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:

Attendance is required for new graduate students in history. Join the graduate coordinator and graduate student representatives for coffee and new student program information on the first day of classes.

Catherine Taylor is a writer and editor who works on a wide range of nonfiction forms–from documentary and literary journalism to lyric essays, hybrid-genre writing, critical theory, and poetics. She is the author of Apart, a hybrid-genre book of memoir and political history about South Africa (Ugly Duckling Presse) and of Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam) winner of the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award.

Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, co-founders and co-editors of the award-winning, scholarly, multimedia journal Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (B&L) announce an international conference on “Appropriation in an Age of Global Shakespeare” in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of B&L. We have joined forces with the ongoing Symposium on the Book at the University of Georgia, run by Miriam Jacobson and Anne Meyers Devine.

This two-day event of campus programs occurs on Sunday Nov. 8 and Monday Nov. 9.  Vereen Bell, Taylor Branch, Paul Hemphill, and Janisse Ray are the 2015 inductees. The actual induction ceremony, free and open to the public, will be held Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Building.

On Sunday, November 8 the following events will be held leading up to the induction ceremony the following day:

Alice Walker will join Valerie Boyd, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, for a public conversation in this Delta Chair community event. It is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. Tickets will be available through the Morton Theatre box office at a date to be announced.

Parking is available one half-block away in the West Washington Street Parking Deck at 125 W. Washington St.

More details will be released soon.

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 stream will be available nearby. Parking is available in the UGA North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson Street.

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.