Dunwoody Politics and History Club

Schedule of Events--Fall 2007

October 2 3:30	Viewing of City of God	C 1100
October 10 2:00	Discussion: Socialized Medicine?	E 0330
October 24 2:00	Discussion: Creation or Evolution?	E 0330
October 30 2:00	Viewing of V for Vendetta	C 1100
November 8 2:00	Viewing of Henry V	C 1100
November 12 2:00	Viewing of Flags of Our Fathers	C 1100
November 14 2:00	Discussion of What Our Policy Should be in Iraq	E 0330

Virtual Smithsonian African Museum

The Chronicle of Higher Education noted today the opening of the Smithsonian's virtual National Museum of African American History and Culture. A "real" museum is scheduled to open in 5 years. Meantime, some resources have been put online.

http://nmaahc.si.edu/

If you click on the link to Exhibitions and Programs near the top of their home page, you will be able to access the virtual exhibits created to date.

This might be a nice resource for many of our courses.
--from Barbara Brown

Interim Dean of Academic Services
Interim Dean of Social Sciences

Middle East Workshop

Dear GPC Faculty,

Registration for the Teaching About the Middle East Workshop V October 19-20, 2007 is now available. Faculty who do not have expertise in this area and first-time participants in the workshops are especially encouraged to attend. The agenda should be of particular interest to Humanities and Fine Arts faculty this year.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

http://www.cas.gsu.edu/dept/mec/outreach/resources.htm

Debra Denzer

Director, Center for International Education

678-891-3232

Middle East History and Culture films

Films useful in teaching history and culture of the Middle East. Suggested by the GPC Center for International Education

Forgetting the Arabs: Europe on the Cusp of the Renaissance. Films for the Humanities & Sciences. http://www.films.com/id/1261/Forgetting_the_Arabs_Europe_on_the_Cusp_of_the_Renaissance.htm

§ From Arabic to Latin: The Assimilation of Arab Knowledge. Films for the Humanities & Sciences. http://www.films.com/id/1260/From_Arabic_to_Latin_The_Assimilation_of_Arab_Knowledge.htm

§ Gaza Strip. Film by James Longley. Arab Film Distribution.

http://www.littleredbutton.com/gaza/

§ The Glories of Islamic Art. Part 1: The Ummayyads and Their Capital Damascus. Landmark Media Incorporated.

http://www.landmarkmedia.com/video.php?video=1090.

§ The Glories of Islamic Art. Part 2: Two Islamic Regimes in Cairo. Landmark Medi Incorporated.

http://www.landmarkmedia.com/video.php?video=1091

§ The Glories of Islamic Art. Part 3: The Ottomans and Their Capital Istanbul. Landmark Media Incorporated.

http://www.landmarkmedia.com/video.php?video=1092

§ Iran: A Cinematographic Re olution. Film by Nader Takmil Homayoun. First Run Icarus Films.
http://www.frif.com/press/ira/ira_pk.pdf

§ The Language of Li e, A Festival of Poets--Love's Confusing Joy. Directed by David Grubin and written by Bill Moyers. David Grubin Productions. http://www.makanalislam.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AWAIR&Product_Code=LCJ-101&Category_Code=RUMI

§ Marcel Khalifé, Voyageur. Music DVD. Nagam Records. http://www.marcelkhalife.com
(FYI this amazing and famous artist will perform in Atlanta on Sunday, November 4.)

§ Morocco, Body and Soul. Lutes and Delights. Film by Izza Genini. First Run/Icarus Films.
http://www.frif.com/cat97/k-o/lute.html

§ Music of the Middle East. Educational Video Network.
https://www.evndirect.com/shopping/product_details.php/id=624

§ Naguib Mahfouz, The Passage of the Century. Film by Francka Mouloudi. First Run Icarus Films.
http://www.frif.com/new2001/nag.html

§ &nb p; Nusrat! Live at Meany, A Concert of Qawwali. Produced by the University of Washington.
http://www.arabfilm.com/item_print.html?itemID=107

§ The Secrets of the Human Body: Islam's Contributions to Medicine. Films for the Humanities & Sciences. http://www.films.com/id/1256/The_Secrets_of_the_Human_Body_Islams_Contributions_to_Medicine.htm

§ We Loved Each Other So Much. Film by Jack Janssen. First Run/Icarus Films.
http://frif.com/new2004/much.html

§ Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt. Film by Michael Goldman. Narrated by Omar Sharif. Arab Film Distribution.
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/148/

Historical Census Browser

Now available in Historia (American History-general sources):

The Historical Census Browser

Maintained online by the University of Virginia Library this excellent source will allow you to:

Examine state and county topics for individual census years 1790-1960.

• examine multiple topics within a census year
• produce tables of data by state or county
• sort data by selected categories
• create ratios between any two data categories

Examine state and county topics over time.

• examine a topic across multiple census years
• produce tables of data by state or county
  
• review: general population, education and literacy, the economy, manufacturing and employment, demographics of race and birth, agricultural information, and investigate the slave population

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Ancient and Medieval History Online

Important Galileo database--subscription provided by Georgia Perimeter College:

Ancient and Medieval History Online by Facts on File:

• biographies
• events and topics
• primary sources
• timelines
• maps and charts
  

AMHO Provides thousands of entries covering prehistory through the 1500s in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, and ancient and medieval Asia.

Editors at Facts on File have created unique Learning Centers to help students and researchers find new ways to explore the vast amont of content in their databases.

To get to the site:

1. Go to www.gpc.edu
2. Quick links--from the page header
3. Libraries--select one
   
4. Go to Galileo
5. Databases A to Z
6. scroll down to Ancient and Medieval History Online
   

History and Politics Club--Dunwoody

Important dates for the History and Politics Club Dunwoody:


Wed. Sept. 12; 2 PM; E 0330; History and Politics Club meeting

Thur. Sept. 13; 3:30 PM; C 1100; Viewing of film "300"

Tues. Sept. 18; 11 AM; C 1100; CONSTITUTION DAY
--speaker, Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Todd Ashley: "Indictment: A Real Constitutional Right?"; refreshments to follow

Wed. Sept. 26; 2PM; E 0330; History and Politics Club meeting.

History and Politics Club - film reminder

The History and Politics Club of Dunwoody invites students and the public generally to view Jesus Camp,

September 11, 2:00, Room C-1100.

Topics discussed: the role of politics in religion and religion in politics.

World History address--GSU

Georgia State University's Program in World History and Cultures is pleased to announce that

DAVID CHRISTIAN, Professor of History at San Diego State University,

--will present its Distinguished World History Lecture for 2007-2008 on the afternoon of Thursday, November 1, 2007.

As usual, SEWHA members and others are invited to attend.

New pages in Historia

Please note the following additions to Historia in the research links sections:

• Middle East History
• Europe--through Byzantium
• balance of Europe and other geographical regions will follow

NOTE: If you know of particularly useful links for student and faculty use please forward them to me and I will add them to Historia. Thank you and be well,

Will Simson, Dunwoody Campus

Movies at GPC Dunwoody

On Dunwoody Campus, sponsored by the History and Politics Club

August 29, 3:30, C 1100, Viewing of Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke (Act II)

September 11, 2:00, C 1100, Viewing of Jesus Camp.


contact Professor Finley if you've any questions: rfinley@gpc.edu

History & Politics Club

JOIN THE SMART CROWD!

• Organizational Meeting of the History and Politics Club Election of Officers Selection of speakers/films for 2007-2008
• Wednesday, August 29
• 2PM Room E 0330

for information contact astone@gpc.edu or rfinley@gpc.edu

SEE YOU THERE!

Middle East History Course

Interested in the Middle East

and Islam?

TAKE THE NEW

MIDDLE EAST HISTORY CLASS

AT GPC!

Fall 2007: M, W 12:30-1:45 (Dunwoody)

HIST 1200

Timothy R. Furnish, Ph.D. in Islamic History

tfurnish@gpc.edu
770-274-5418

Constitution Day

SAVE THE DATE!!!
You are cordially invitee to our Third Annual Constitution Day Observance
Wednesday 19 September 2007
9:30- 10:45 am Clarkston
JCLRC Auditorium and Rotunda w/ reception to follow

• Celebrating the historic and living framework of American Government
• Free Pamphlets on the U.S. Constitution (As long as supplies last.)

Presented by Georgia Perimeter College Clarkston

Business and Social Sciences Department

Student Government Association

Lyceum Committee

American Apartheid at Ebenezer Baptist

You are cordially invited to

A multimedia staged reading of

The play “American Apartheid”

Saturday, August 25, 2:00 p.m.

In the Fellowship Hall of

Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church

407 Auburn Ave., Atlanta

The play will end at 3:15 and a reception will follow

With spiritual music by Dan Moore, Jr., and ensemble

Why you should come see the staged reading of the play

American Apartheid “She would be burnt at the stake if they discovered her!” he muttered.

On the eve of the Atlanta race riot of Sept. 22, 1906, Lola Johnson, who is 1/16 black, “passes” as white at a Jim Crow restaurant in Atlanta’s Five Points. She has a Coca-Cola with a white southern suitor, while her jilted black fiancé looks on in dismay.

American Apartheid, presented by a company of Atlanta professional and community actors, connects America’s Jim Crow era with today’s repressive, violent political movements and states the need to end all forms of apartheid suffered by humanity.

Set during the time of the 1906 Atlanta race riot, American Apartheid tells the story of a volatile love triangle and a struggle for dignity and respect in a hateful, racist society. Lola Johnson, a talented artist who is 1/16 African-American, passes as white. This deceives her new white love interest, celebrity journalist Roy Keough, and distresses her black fiancé, Dr. Musa Copelin. The triangle dramatically unravels during the riot. At the end, young people of today reading the story discuss its relevance to current events, and they see the need for nonviolence, tolerance and cultural diversity.

The play’s message about the universal bond of all humanity represents an essential ethic for the survival of liberty, justice and equality. The violent, intolerant mob mentality that has gripped America and the world will lead only to the destruction of democracy. The authors and cast present this play to affirm that our community will not let America return to the attitudes and methods of the darkest eras of history. It is time we move on to a higher ground. If you agree, please come and support our effort.

Presented in honor of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Exhibit currently on display at the

National Parks Service MLK Historical Site

American Apartheid, written by Wade Marbaugh and Paul Hudson

Directed by Michael Chechopoulos

Adapted from The Law of the White Circle, 1908 novel by Thornwell Jacobs,

(Reprinted 2006 by University of Georgia Press)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information: 770-595-9136

H and P Club Clarkston--Party!

HaP Club, End of the Year Party: Friday, April 27th @1pm, N-2230 Student
Center
Food, Drinks, History & Politics--End of the Year Officer Elections for Fall '07

New Officers for Fall '07! Do you want to be the next Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President or President of History and Politics Club? This Friday, Elections will be held to determine who will be the new HaP Club officers for Fall semester 07. Come vote for your favorite candidate,
or run for office yourself!

Our current officers, Jenifer Hylton, Jean-Francois Koly-Onivogui, Chani
Zwibel and myself, will be leaving GPC this year, so all officer positions
are available for the History and Politics Club. Thanks for all your hard
work this semester.

Great Thanks also goes out to our dedicated Faculty Advisors, Mr. Bob King
and Mr. Marc Zayac. We will miss you.

Thanks to Everybody,
Evan Butler

New Met Gallery--video tour

New Met Greco-Roman Gallery--video tour

Michael Kimmelman tours the Greek and Roman court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is opening after 15 years of renovations.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=fdd83107bcb94942120d8ac1066288e0f10a5d65

NY Times 4.19.07

Zayac wins Governor's Teaching Fellows award

The Center for Teaching and Learning is proud to announce three Georgia
Perimeter College faculty have been selected for the elite Governor's
Teaching Fellows Program.

Congratulations to 2007-2008 Fellow:

Marc Zayac, Social Sciences (History), Clarkston

The Governor's Teaching Fellows Program is designed for faculty members who
teach at public or private colleges or universities in the state of Georgia.
Participants are selected on the basis of their teaching experience and on
their ability to have an impact on their own campus.
--from a note by Debi Moon, GPC

Dunwoody History and Politics Club

Dunwoody student activists will debate the merits of the Impeachment of
President George Walker Bush on

• Thursday, April 26 at 12:30 PM in E 0100 (Dunwoody campus).
  

You are encouraged to attend with your comments,
questions, and diverse viewpoints. Hope to see you there.

Sponsored by the Dunwoody History and Politics Club.

GALEO film showing

On Thursday, April 26 at 11 AM in C 1100 (Dunwoody campus) filmmaker Garrett
DeHart and activist Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO (Georgia Association of Latino
Elected Officials) will preview the documentary "Fighting Senate Bill 529"
and discuss it.

The film and discussion will focus on immigration policies
in Georgia in the 21st century. Hope to see you there. R. Finley

American Apartheid encore presentation

colleagues,



You and your classes are invited to attend the third staged reading of the
play, "American Apartheid":



Wednesday, April 11, 2:00 p.m.

Clarkston Campus, JCLRC auditorium (Room 1100)

The play will end at 3:15 and a reception will follow.

Social Science Colloquium 2007

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you all for the 19th Annual Dr. Francine King Social
Science Colloquium

• March 29, 2007 at Rockdale/Newton Campus
• from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
  

Event: 19th Annual Dr. Francine King Social Science Colloquium
Location:

• Opening Ceremony and Award Presentation in RA 1290 from

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

• Concurrent Sessions in RA 1290, RA 110, RA 1210 from 1:45 -

3:30 p.m.

• Reception in RA 1280 after concurrent sessions

Directions to the campus: Please follow directions and map provided at the
following link, http://www.gpc.edu/Campus_Maps/Rockdale.html

You will be able to get to RA 1290 by going through the double doors
adjacent to the bookstore (on the left). The row of parking spots to the
extreme right close to the bank (no longer in service) are reserved for
faculty/staff. You may park anywhere other than the spots that are reserved
for businesses.

If you have any questions, please call (770) 278-1360 or email the chairs.



Thank you

Mario Benekin
Salli Vargis

Co-Chairs, Social Science Colloquium

Women's History Month--Addresses

The Dunwoody Campus Department of Student Life and Health Wellness are
pleased to announce the following keynote speakers in honor of March:
Women's History Month.

Join us at the following discussions:

Who: Ms. Jane Mashburn, Director of Master of Nursing program at Emory
University
When: Tuesday March 27, 2007 12:30 pm -1:15 pm
Where: B Building B-1440
What: An Interactive Question and Answer about HPV, Cervical Cancer and the
Gardisal Vaccine.

* Light refreshments will be served

Who: Ms. Karen Graham, FOX Five Sports Anchor
When: Wednesday March 28, 2007 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: B Building B-2200
What: A luncheon and discussion featuring Ms. Karen Graham, Fox Five Sports
Anchor


All are welcome and are invited to attend! We hope to see you there!



Heather I. Ricks Scott,M.Ed.
Director of Student Life
Dunwoody Campus
2101 Womack Road
Dunwoody,Georgia 30338
hscot2@gpc.edu

What to do with a history degree?

On Thursday, March 22 at 11 AM in C 1100

The Dunwoody History and Politics
Club sponsors Pamela K. Hecht (former GPC student and wife of Adam Stone,
GPC political science professor) as she discusses

"How to Get Into Law School." You and your students are encouraged to attend.

Dunwoody History and Politics Club-film

On Thursday, March 15 at 2:00 PM in C 1100 (Dunwoody campus),

The Dunwoody History and Politics Club will view Iron Jawed Angels, a movie about the
women's suffrage movement of the 1910s.

The film will be introduced by Dr. Meg Keiley-Listermann, Dunwoody political science professor. You and your students are invited to attend.

The Tournees Festival--French Films

The Lawrenceville French Club is proud to host GPC's first Tournées
festival of French films. The full schedule is below, but I wanted to
draw your attention to the screening of

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)
Tuesday, March 20 at 2:00, B-1500

Before we begin the movie, GPC's own Dr. Mary Reeves will give a lecture that contextualizes this World War I drama.

The screening is free and open to the public, and the film will be shown with English subtitles, so please encourage your students to attend. (Many will recognize the film's star Audrey Tautou
from Amélie and The Da Vinci Code.)

For more information, see the French Club website (http://www.freewebs.com/gpcfrench/fesmain.htm) or send me an
e-mail.
>
> Merci!
Kristina Mormino
mailto:kmormino@gpc.edu

SEWHA Symposium: Reflections on Empire

SEWHA (South East World History Association) members are invited to attend "Reflections on Empire: Depictions of Latin American Colonization through History, Literature and Cinema," a symposium organized by the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies (CLALS)

location: Georgia State University, Atlanta
time: Wednesday, March 21 at the Digital Arts Entertainment Lab at One Park Place and will continue during Thursday until the following evening.

CLALS is collaborating with the Department of History's Program in World History and Cultures by jointly affiliating with their 2007 World History Lecture.

speaker: Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra will be the featured speaker on Thursday, March 22 at 4:30 PM at Troy Moore Hall (9th floor, General Classroom Building).

With 10 scholars and 3 filmmakers presenting over 24 hours, and with the collaboration of so many different departments, this year's symposium promises to be remarkable. Here is the URL with all the panel and screening information as well abstracts and synopsis of all presentations:

http://schiffer.gsu.edu/clals

For maps and other campus information, visit www.gsu.edu

*************************************************
Dr Steve Rapp
Associate Professor of Caucasian, Byzantine, and Eurasian History Director, Program in World History & Cultures Department of History Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 30303 USA srapp@gsu.edu voice 404.463.9207 FAX 404.651.1745

"Ak ver ichxubebt, es aris omis otaxi!"
--Dr. Strangelove

SEWHA 2007 Conference

The Southeast World History Association (SEWHA), a regional affiliate of the World History Association, invites submissions for its Nineteenth Annual Conference, at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia :

12 to 14 October, 2007. The conference organizers welcome proposals that connect world history research and teaching, as well as focused paper topics dealing with world history themes or pedagogical issues.

The deadline for submissions is 1 July, 2007. Proposals are welcome from educators and students of world history at all levels and should not exceed 250 words. Complete panel proposals are especially welcome. Include contact information on the proposal. Submit proposals electronically to willingham@roanoke.edu, or in hard copy to Dr. Rob Willingham, Department of History, Roanoke College, 221 College Lane, Salem, VA 24153. For additional information regarding the conference contact Dr. Michael Hall at hallmich@mail.armstrong.edu or (912) 927.5283.

Lyceum Event: American Apartheid

You are invited to attend and bring your classes to an exciting
Black History Month Lyceum event:

A multimedia staged reading of the play “

• American Apartheid”
• Thursday, Feb. 22, 9:30 a.m.
• Clarkston Campus Jim Cherry Learning Resource Center Auditorium (Room 1100)
• The play will end at 10:45 and a reception will follow.
  

Written by Wade Marbaugh and Paul Hudson, “American Apartheid” is the tale
of a volatile love triangle between a mixed-race woman passing as white, her
black fiancé and her new white love interest. It all unravels during the
Atlanta race riot of 1906. The play connects America’'s Jim Crow era with
today’'s repressive, violent political movements and states the need to end
all forms of apartheid for all humanity.

Tuskegee Airmen: movie

The History and Politics Clubs sponsors a showing of

"The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars"
on Wednesday, February 21 at 12:30 PM in C 1100/Dunwoody campus.

The film (which lasts approximately one hour) will be
discussed by History Professor Mario Bennekin. Hope to see you there!

Georgia Founder's Day

He wanted to reform England’s debtor prisons ….James Edward Oglethorpe

“I know of no man who had a more interesting life.”

--Dr. Samuel Johnson

Learn more about this inspiring humanitarian idealist who founded Georgia on February 12, 1733, for the worthy poor, drew up the town plan for Savannah, and then courageously defended the youngest British colony against the Spanish Empire. In the 18^th Century the remarkable General Oglethorpe insisted that in Georgia there be:

No slaves!

No mistreatment of Native Americans!

No Lawyers!

3rd Annual GPC Georgia Founder’s Day Illustrated Lecture:

“General Oglethorpe and the Founding of Georgia”

By Paul Stephen Hudson, Ph.D.

Department Chair, Business and Social Sciences GPC Clarkston Campus, and member of the James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission who has published extensively for the Georgia Historical Society on General Oglethorpe.

Thursday, February 8, at 9:30 am,

JCLRC Auditorium with reception to follow

Presented by the SGA Lyceum Committee

Business and Social Sciences Department, Clarkston Campus

Social Science Department, Georgia Perimeter College

Clarkston Honors Program Student Association and GPC Honors Program

Black History Month

Please join the Rockdale/Newton Lyceum Committee for two outstanding Black
History Month Events that celebrate the legacy of African American
sororities and the Women's Rights Movement.



Tuesday, February 6 at 12:00 noon and 5:00 PM in RA1290

Movie Viewing: "Black Sorority Project: The Exodus"

"The Exodus" chronicles the life and times of twenty-two women at Howard
University, who as students, changed the course of American history forever.
By defying the barriers of race and sex, they courageously joined the
Women's Suffrage March and formed a new sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, that
grew to become one of the nation's most formidable women's organizations.
The timeless voice of Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU, As The World Turns)
transports you back in time on a photographic journey into the world of
these Howard co-eds in the infancy of their burgeoning group, in the year
1913.



Wednesday, February 7 at 3:00 PM in RA1290

Making a Documentary Film by Derek and Jamar

The owners and operators of Derek and Jamar Productions will be on campus to
share their experiences with the film making process. Topics covered include
how to get your idea on film, funding a movie, screen-writing and promotion.

Movies for History

The Dunwoody History and Politics Club views the following films this week:
Tuesday, February 6 (3:30 PM, C 1100) The Murder of Emmett Till;

Wednesday, February 7 (11 AM, C 1100) Crash----reviewed by Dr. Alicia Simon.

Hope to see you there.

GEORGIA DAY EVENT

Please join us for the Observance of Georgia Day! It celebrates February 12, 1733, when James Edward Oglethorpe first arrived in
Savannah.

Following are details:

• Thursday, February 8 at 9:30 am JCLRC Auditorium
• 3rd Annual Illustrated Lecture on James Edward Oglethorpe (about one hour)
• A reception follows in the JCLRC Rotunda

Newcomers and longtime residents of Georgia can always learn more about the fascinating Oglethorpe, who designed the plan for savannah. He was a prison reformer and wanted:
No Slaves!
No Mistreatment of Native Americans!
No Lawyers!



Presented by the Clarkston: SGA Lyceum Committee
Business and Social Sciences Department
History and Politics Club
Honors Program Student Association

And the GPC:
Social Sciences Department
Honors Program

Let's always keep the Georgia in Georgia Perimeter College!

Yours sincerely,

Paul Stephen Hudson, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Business and Social Sciences Department
GPC Clarkston

WORLD HISTORY LECTURE

THE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY WORLD HISTORY LECTURE FOR 2007
Sponsored by Georgia State University's
Department of History
The Program in World History and Cultures
Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies


PREFIGURATION AND FULFILLMENT: BIBLICAL READINGS OF COLONIZATION IN THE
ATLANTIC WORLD

by

JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA
Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin


Thursday, March 22, 2007
Starting at 4:30pm
Troy Moore Library, 9th floor General Classroom Building
Georgia State University, downtown Atlanta
(for maps, visit www.gsu.edu)

Black History Month

Black History month events at the Clarkston campus are as follows:

ICC Soul Food Club Fair: February 7th 12:30pm-2:00pm in the College Center N-building
Black History Month Movie: "Rosewood" February 7th 10am-7:00pm in the College Center N-building
"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" : February 9th-11th Cole Auditorium F-building
UniverSoul Circus ticket sales: Student sales February 12th and Faculty/Staff February 16th $15 per ticket
AASA Club: Abolish the "N" word Symposium February 21st 11:45am-1:45pm JCLRC auditorium
"American Apartheid" Staged Reading of the Original Play: February 22nd JCLRC auditorium
UniverSoul Circus at Turner Field: February 24th 4:30pm

Please come out and enjoy!!!!!


Patrice A. Wright, Interim Director
Office of Student Life
Georgia Perimeter College
555 North Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021
678-891-3225 (Office)

GAH letter

Dear Members and Friends-

Happy New Year to you all. Many of you have probably been updating your
vitae, so while you have your recent accomplishments freshly in mind,
please pass them on to the GAH Newsletter by replying to this letter. It
will be out in March, but it's not too early to send information.

We will be contacting you soon with more news about the upcoming meeting
April 5-7 at Milledgeville, hosted by Georgia College & State
University. This information is now on our website; as program plans
are set we will post more details there, along with a print-and-mail
registration form.

Speaking of mail, GAH now has a permanent postal address:

Kathryn W. Kemp, G110-E
Georgia Association of Historians
Clayton State University
2000 Clayton State Boulevard
Morrow GA 30260-1250

Finally, Gene Hatfield, who is in charge of "Promotion of History" for
the GAH wants to let you know that Steve Gillon, host of the History
Channel's "History Center" program and one of the authors of The
American Experiment, a textbook that many of us use, will be speaking at
Clayton State University on February 7. A copy of the poster is
attached for your information. Of course, everyone is invited to hear
the talk.

We will send a small poster for the next GAH meeting in about a month.
If you would help publicize our organization and its activities to your
colleagues, it would be very helpful

Enjoy the new semester-and please plan to be with everyone in
Milledgeville in April.

Regards,

Kay

Kathryn W. Kemp

Assistant Professor of History

Clayton State University

G110-E

2000 Clayton State Blvd.

Morrow GA 30260

678-466-4806

http://a-s.clayton.edu/kemp/



Editor, Georgia Association of Historians website:

http://a-s.clayton.edu/gah/

World History Bulletin

The World History Bulletin is still accepting materials for the Spring 2007
issue focusing on Religion and World History, under the guest
editorship of SEWHA's own Joel Tishken.

Authors should send articles, classroom lessons, and/or mini-essays to
Micheal Tarver at either mtarver@atu.edu or bulletin@thewha.org.

The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2007.
Micheal Tarver
WHB Editor
bulletin@thewha.org

March GPC Social Science Colloquim

Dear Social Science Faculty,

It is January 25, hardly a week before the deadline for submissions, and we
have not received any entries for the colloquium to date. Would you please
request/urge your students to submit their papers at the earliest
convenience? We should not have to cancel the colloquium because of lack of
interest, so please give one more last try.

The Social Science Colloquium is scheduled for Thursday, March 29, 2007 from
12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Rockdale/Newton Campus. Please encourage students to
submit papers that they have done for any one of your courses in the past
year. Once you get the papers, please send three clean copies of each
submission, along with three copies of the entry form (see attachment), to
Kim Krinsky (on the Clarkston campus) by Wednesday, January 31, 2007. The
attached fact sheet provides additional details.

Black History Month--play

Staged Reading of play "American Apartheid," by Wade Marbaugh and Paul
Hudson. The story of a love triangle complicated by race during the Atlanta
Race Riot of 1906. Based on a novella by Thornwell Jacobs, "The Law of the
White Circle" (1908), University of Georgia Reprint, 2006

Jim Cherry Learning Resources Center, Clarkston Campus
9:30 am, Thursday, February 22, 2007
Reception follows about 10:45 am

Georgia Day Lecture

Georgia Day: Illustrated Lecture on James Edward Oglethorpe
By Dr. Paul Hudson, Department Chair, Business and Social Sciences,

Clarkston Campus
9:30 am, Thursday, February 8, 2007
Reception follows about 10:45 am

Jim Cherry Learning Resources Center, Clarkston Campus

Holocaust Survivors Visit

As part of the Dunwoody Campus Symposium titled "Never Again: The Holocaust
was Not an Isolated Incident", four Holocaust survivors will be on campus on
Thursday, January 25 at 11am. The locations for the talks and receptions
are: The revised locations for the talks and receptions are:

Room Survivor
E-1420 Henry Friedman-survived slave labor camps, rescued by Raoul
Wallenberg
E-1400 Ben Walker-child survivor of camps
E-0320 Murray Lynn-survived Auschwitz
A-2110 Tosia Schneider-survived ghettos, labor camps

Thank you for your patience with this updated announcement.


Adam P. Stone
Associate Professor of Political Science
Georgia Perimeter College
Dunwoody Campus
2101 Womack Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338

E-mail: astone@gpc.edu
Office Phone: 770-274-5432

Nikki Giovanni lecture

In celebration of Black History Month the Dunwoody Campus Office of Student Life and Student Government Association are pleased to
announce our keynote speaker for Black History Month, world-renowed poet and one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 living legends, Nikki
Giovanni.

Please join us on Thursday, February 1, 2007 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm for a lecture and book signing.

This event will be held in the B Building of the Dunwoody Campus in Room B-2200. A brief reception will follow Ms. Giovanni's
lecture. This event is free, the Georgia Perimeter College community and Atlanta community is invited, and encouraged to attend.

Podcast: Bogle film lecture

On November 10, 2006 the GPC Writers Institute sponsored a lecture by the
award winning African-American film historian and media scholar Donald Bogle discussing the history of African-Americans in the movies. Bogle's books include
"Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams" and "Dorothy Dandridge, A Biography".

In case you missed the lecture, or want to listen again, audio is now
available from The Chattahoochee Review podcast site. You can either listen
directly from the webpage or subscribe to have the lecture, along with all
future Chattahoochee Review and Writers Institute podcasts, delivered to
your computer and MP3 player. Make sure to take a listen to all of the other
great podcasts available too!

Note: Due to the length of Mr. Bogle's talk, the lecture is divided into two
parts. Make sure to listen to both!

http://www.gpc.edu/~gpccr/podcasts.php

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Public Services Librarian
Georgia Perimeter College - Decatur Campus
3251 Panthersville Rd.
Decatur, GA 30034-3897

voice: 678-891-2587
email: dfree@gpc.edu
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Film showing: The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews

To prepare us for the January 23-25, 2007 Dunwoody NEVER AGAIN SYMPOSIUM,
the History and Politics Club of Dunwoody will view

--a Nazi documentary (23 minutes): The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews and a one-hour PBS documentary on the Nuremburg Trials.

Professors Steve Koplan and Rick Robinson will lead
our discussion of the films on

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2007 at 2 PM in C 1100, Dunwoody Campus
Hope to see you there.

March--GPC Social Science Colloquium

Dear Social Science Faculty,

We have not received any entries for the colloquium to date. Would you
please request/urge your students to submit their papers at the earliest
convenience?

The Social Science Colloquium is scheduled for Thursday, March 29, 2007 from
12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Rockdale/Newton Campus. Please encourage students to
submit papers that they have done for any one of your courses in the past
year. Once you get the papers, please send three clean copies of each
submission, along with three copies of the entry form (see attachment), to
Kim Krinsky (on the Clarkston campus) by Wednesday, January 31, 2007. The
attached fact sheet provides additional details.


Thank you

Salli Vargis-- svargis@gpc.edu

Mario Bennekin-- mbenneki@gpc.edu
Co-Chairs, Social Science Colloquium

Dunwoody Symposium schedule

2007 Tentative Dunwoody Symposium Schedule

All scheduled events are in C 1100

Tuesday, January 23

Time	Activity
2:30 PM	Judgment at Nuremburg 178 Minutes Moderators: Paul Gaustad and Don Smith

Wednesday, January 24

Time	Activity
9:30 AM	“Obedience to Authority: Justifying the Unjustifiable” Moderator: Dr. Barbara Brown Dr. Mark Griffin: “Milgram Study” Dr. Tina Stern: “Prison Guard Study” Dr. Larry Peck: “Justifying the Unjustifiable”
11:00 AM	“Post World War II Tribunals: Nuremburg, Tokyo, and Manila” Moderator: Mr. John Farris Dr. Glenn Nomura: “The Science of Death” Mr. Fred Bounds: “The Economics of Death” Dr. Randy Finley: “Nuremburg Trials” Ms. Beverly Lee: “International Law and Genocide” Dr. Thomas Graham: “Tokyo: The Forgotten Trials”
12:30 PM	Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
1:30	Reception for Dr. Lipstadt
2:30	The Killing Fields 142 minutes Moderators: Mr. Mario Bennekin and Mr. Paul Gaustad

Thursday, January 25

9:30 AM	Other Holocausts Moderator: Dr. Jim Engstrom Dr. Tim Furnish: “Slaughter in Armenia During World War I” Mr. Mario Bennekin: “Killing Fields in Cambodia, 1975-1979” Mr. Adam Stone: “Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia: 1990s” Dr. Margaret Keiley-Listermann: “Tribal Warfare in Rwanda: 1990s”
11:00	Reception and talks with Genocide survivors
12:30	Mark Bixler
1:30	Reception for Mark Bixler
2:30	Sometimes in April 140 minutes Moderators: Dr. Margaret Keiley-Listermann and Mr. Paul Gaustad
5:30	Art and Music and Genocide Moderator: Dr. Steve Koplan Professor Greg McLean and Professor Charles Phillips

LAWCHA papers

Conference and paper call:

Labor & Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)

Notice: in association with Southern Labor Studies, LAWCHA is co-sponsoring an innovative conference this May bringing together scholars, activists, and union members from throughout North America.

Titled "Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context," the conference centers on public sector employees, service workers, farm labor, immigration, organizing outside the workplace, environmental justice, and the role of intellectuals in labor struggles.

Now is your last chance to participate! Paper and panel proposals relating to the conference themes are due this Monday, January 15 and may be submitted via email to lawcha@duke.edu. See the attached CFP for more details and send your proposals in now!

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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers


The Labor and Working Class History Association and Southern Labor Studies


present


Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context


May 17, 18, and 19, 2007

at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University



Join us for an innovative dialogue on current issues facing the working class and their allies. This conference will bring together scholars, students, social justice and union activists, policy makers and rank-and-file workers to explore the connections between contemporary challenges facing the working class and their historical context. This gathering aims to enhance personal and organizational ties between those engaged in ongoing workplace and community organizing efforts and students and scholars whose work documents the long history of activism in the United States.


The key thematic areas for the conference will be:
The New Working Class: Public Sector and Service Workers
Farm Labor & Immigration
Organizing Outside the Workplace
Environmental Justice
Intellectuals' Role in Labor Struggles


Five plenary sessions featuring round-table discussions among an academic, an activist, a policy maker and a rank-and-file worker, will each address one of the conference themes. Panels, documentary presentations, and cultural programs will further explore the issues raised in the plenary sessions.


The LAWCHA/Southern Labor Studies Program Committee invites submissions of paper and panel proposals broadly related to the conference theme and plenary topics. The Committee prefers proposals of complete panels, but will accept single paper proposals.


LAWCHA encourages proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, include public historians and activists as well as academics, take creative approaches, and that will speak meaningfully to those both inside and outside the academy.


Proposals for sessions should include: a one-page summary of the session as a whole; a one-page abstract of each paper; a brief curriculum vitae of each participant.


Please be sure to include contact information for each participant including name, title, institution or affiliation (please indicate if
independent), mailing address, contact phone number and e-mail address.


Submissions are due January 15, 2007, and decisions will be announced shortly thereafter.


Please address proposals and papers to:
Max Krochmal, Executive Secretary
Labor and Working Class History Association
Box 90239
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 613-7399
lawcha@duke.edu

GSU World History Lecture 22 March

THE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY WORLD HISTORY LECTURE FOR 2007

Sponsored by Georgia State University's Department of History, its Program in World History and Cultures, and the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies




PREFIGURATION AND FULFILLMENT: BIBLICAL READINGS OF COLONIZATION IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

by

JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA
Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin


Thursday, March 22, 2007
Starting at 4:30pm
Place t.b.a. (Georgia State University's central campus, downtown
Atlanta)



Professor Canizares-Esguerra is the author of the prize-winning How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, 2001). He has also authored Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2006); Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006); and (co-edited with Erik Seeman) The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 (Prentice Hall, 2006).

This lecture is free and open to students, staff, and the public. SEWHA members are invited to attend. For additional information, please contact Dr. Steve Rapp, srapp@gsu.edu, 404-463-9207.

Annual GAH meeting

Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians
April 5-7, 2007
Georgia College and State University
Milledgeville, Georgia
The GAH invites proposals for panels and individual papers for its annual conference to be held April 5-7, 2007, at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia.
The GAH welcomes proposals from all areas and subfields of history including U.S. history, world history, public history, regional studies, and proposals focused on the teaching of history. Proposals should be no longer than one-typewritten page and include the person's mailing address and e-mail address. Proposals for sessions with several papers and discussants will be given priority over individual paper proposals.
All proposals should be submitted by the DEADLINE of January 8, 2007. Send a one-page panel or paper proposal to:

Jamil S. Zainaldin, Program Chair
Georgia Humanities Council
50 Hurt Plaza, S.E.-- Suite 595
Atlanta, GA 30303
jz@georgiahumanities.org

The Dunwoody Symposium

The Dunwoody Symposium takes place on January 23-25, 2007 in C 1100 on the Dunwoody Campus of GPC.

Guest speakers include Dr.
Deborah Lipstadt from Emory University, author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (speaking on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 12:30) and Mr. Mark Bixler of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, author of The Lost Boys of Sudan (speaking on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 12:30).

Films include showings of Judgment at Nuremburg, The Killing Fields, and Sometimes in April.

Panel discussions include "Obedience to Authority: Justifying the Unjustifiable," "Post World War II Tribunals:
Nuremburg, Tokyo, and Manila," "Other Holocausts," and "Genocide as seen in Art and Music."

A schedule of events and times is included below.

We invite you and your students to participate with us in this informative symposium to begin our spring semester 2007.
Tom Graham
Eugenia Abbey
Randy Finley
Co-Chairs

2007 Dunwoody Symposium Schedule
All scheduled events are in C 1100
Tuesday, January 23
TimeActivity
2:30 PMJudgment at Nuremburg
178 Minutes
Moderators: Paul Gaustad and Don Smith

Wednesday, January 24
TimeActivity
9:30 AM"Obedience to Authority: Justifying the Unjustifiable"
Moderator: Dr. Barbara Brown
Dr. Mark Griffin: "Milgram Study"
Dr. Tina Stern: "Prison Guard Study"
Mr. Larry Peck: "Justifying the Unjustifiable"
11:00 AM"Post World War II Tribunals: Nuremburg, Tokyo, and Manila"
Moderator: Mr. John Farris
Dr. Glenn Nomura: "The Science of Death"
Mr. Fred Bounds: "The Economics of Death"
Dr. Randy Finley: "Nuremburg Trials"
Ms. Beverly Lee: "International Law and Genocide"
Dr. Thomas Graham: "Tokyo: The Forgotten Trials"
12:30 PM


Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
1:30Reception for Dr. Lipstadt
2:30The Killing Fields
142 minutes
Moderators: Mr. Mario Bennekin and Mr. Paul Gaustad


Thursday, January 25
9:30 AMOther Holocausts
Moderator: Dr. Jim Engstrom
Dr. Tim Furnish: "Slaughter in Armenia During World War I"
Mr. Mario Bennekin: "Killing Fields in Cambodia, 1975-1979"
Mr. Adam Stone: "Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia: 1990s"
Dr. Margaret Keiley-Listermann: "Tribal Warfare in Rwanda: 1990s"
11:00Reception and talks with Genocide survivors 12:30Mark Bixler 1:30Reception for Mark Bixler 2:30Sometimes in April 140 minutes
Moderators: Dr. Margaret Keiley-Listermann and Mr. Paul Gaustad 5:30Art and Music and Genocide
Moderator: Dr. Steve Koplan
Professor Greg McLean and Professor Charles Phillips