Friday, February 27 2026, 3:30 - 5:30pm 201 Conference Room, LeConte Hall Featuring Scott Nelson, University of Georgia. "The Postbellum South's First Migrant Stream: The Political Ecology of the Formerly Enslaved in the Deep South's Black Bottoms". Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism. Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over. Participants should come having read the papers in advance. To receive the papers, zoom links, or be added to the listserv please email srnelson@uga.edu. Sponsored by the University of Georgia Department of History, the B. Phinizy Spalding Professor, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Dirty History graduate student and faculty workshop calendar in green with white text (495.7 KB)
