Saturday, March 23 2024, 8am Sunday, March 24 2024, 8am Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens, GA The History Graduate Student Association at the University of Georgia will hold a conference at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, GA on March 23-24, 2024. This is an opportunity for graduate students from around the country to present their work in a friendly environment and receive critical feedback from professors and peers alike. This year's conference theme is “Old South, New South, No South.” The conference will open on Friday evening with a keynote address given by Professor Blair LM Kelley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kelley is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She is the author, most recently, of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Liveright, 2023). If you have any questions, please email our president, Chris Choe, christianchoe@uga.edu, or professional development chair Andrew Craig, Andrew.craig@uga.edu. Click on the button to register for the conference, or go to https://forms.gle/dfa3Yoz7abdomrQ18. Register .............. The History Graduate Student Association would like to thank our sponsors for their gracious support of the 2024 Conference: •Gable Distinguished Chair in Southern Colonial American History •Willson Center for Humanities and Arts •Institute of African American Studies •Department of History
