Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Georgia Association of Historians--Annual Meeting

Greetings Colleagues:
(Thank you Susan McGrath for this notice)

Call for Papers Georgia Association of Historians
Annual Meeting: February 23-25, 2012

Macon, GA (Marriott Macon City Center)
The GAH invites proposals from historians from all areas and subfields .

The Georgia Association of Historians invites proposals for its 2011 Conference to be held in centrally located Macon (dates). The GAH welcomes proposals from all areas and subfields of history, including African, American, Asian, European, and Latin American history, global history, public history, historic preservation, and regional studies, as well as proposals focused on resource or archival management and historical pedagogy. Proposals for full sessions as well as individual papers will be considered. The deadline for proposal submission is October 5, 2011.
Session proposals should be 500 words and include a tentative session title, the names, affiliations, and full contact information of each presenter and the session discussant, and a description of each paper in session.
Individual proposals should be less than 200 words and include a full description of the proposed paper.
Instructions for submitting your proposal:

1) Fill out THIS FORM (http://goo.gl/p9JKK)

2) Send electronic proposal to Jennifer Smith, jlsmith@northgeorgia.edu
Additional information and links can be found at: http://a-s.clayton.edu/gah/
Papers are to be original works of scholarship. Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes, depending on panel size.
Scholars willing to serve as moderators/discussants should fill out THIS FORM (http://goo.gl/fOk7v)

Monday, August 8, 2011

Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation awarded AAHN top prize

Colleagues,

Good News! We have just been informed by the author that Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation, "A Legacy of Care: Hesse and the Alice Frauenverein, 1867-1918," has been awarded the Teresa E. Christy Award (see http://www.aahn.org/awards.html#christy for the description) from the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Kara says that this news is especially extraordinary since "half of the award's previous recipients were from either the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Virginia (where the two main nursing history centers in the country are located)." Smith clarified that her win was "a fairly big deal in my little neck of the discipline." Smith will be officially awarded at the AAHN's annual conference (September 8-11).

Congratulations Dr. Smith! That's a wonderful achievement--no wonder you were, as you said, "speechless" when you got the AAHN award letter.-WS


Thursday, June 16, 2011

Local LGBT StoryCorps Event

You're invited!

In honor of the Atlanta Pride Committee's Stonewall
Week, please join us as we celebrate stories of love
and community from Atlanta's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. Hosted by
John Lemley of WABE's City Café.


StoryCorps Atlanta Out & OutLoud
A CELEBRATION OF STORIES
FROM THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY

Wednesday, June 22, 2011


DOORS OPEN: 6:30 pm
PROGRAM BEGINS: 7:00 pm

The Philip Rush Center
1530 Dekalb Avenue NE, Suite A
Atlanta, GA 30307
(Near the Candler Park MARTA station)
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This event is free and open to the public.
Complimentary refreshments will be served.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Hudson and Mirza Stone Mountain history book

GPC's Southern Academy for Literary Arts & Scholarly Research invites you to the exciting book launch for ATLANTA's STONE MOUNTAIN: A MULTICULTURAL HISTORY (The History Press: Charleston, London) by GPC faculty members—historian Paul Hudson and research librarian and photographer Lora Mirza. It will be held in the Cole Auditorium of GPC's Clarkston Campus on the evening of Wednesday, June 15th, 2011, from 7:30 to 9:00pm.

This beautifully written and visually rich saga of Stone Mountain has been hailed by John Inscoe, editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, as “a major contribution to both Atlanta and Georgia history.” Audience members and lovers of Stone Mountain will experience fascinating stories of the ancient and modern peoples who have shaped the mountain into the cherished treasure and destination that it is today.

This program will feature shared stories of adventures and explorations of Atlanta's "Rock of Ages"—part playground and part mystic mountain—ever timely, yet timeless. Paul and Lora will greet guests and sign copies of this new multicultural history at a reception/book signing immediately following the program.

We hope you will join us in celebrating this major achievement in publishing and historiography by our distinguished colleagues and friends, Paul Hudson and Lora Mirza. There will be a buffet at the book signing, and faculty are welcome to invite groups of students to attend this event.

Best,

Liam Madden, Distinguished Chair
The Southern Academy for Literary Arts & Scholarly Research Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus Office phone: 678-891-3275 Cell phone: 770-883-8811

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Middle East History guest speaker

Dr. Timothy Furnish will be on Dunwoody Campus, Tuesday, April 26 as a guest speaker in Professor Tiarsmith’s Middle East class; the subject will be terrorism.

The discussion will be held in room D1240 from 1:00 - 2:15 PM. Interested individuals are welcome to attend.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Southern Labor Studies Conference April 7-9, 2011

Collegues,

Robert Woodrum, GPC History, Alpharetta Center, presented on a panel at the recent Southern Labor Studies Conference. The panel which Woodrum organized included papers by Chad Pearson, University of Alabama (subject: N.F.Thompson's ideas on labor), and Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida (subject: 1912 Jacksonville Streetcar Strike)

Dr. Woodrum's essay, "'We Are Poor Devils': Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement Along the Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," examined employer efforts to destroy unions along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama in the years following World War I. Shipping companies united behind an “Open Shop” campaign to defeat the International Longshoremen’s Association, which had grown among mainly African American dock workers during the wartime era. The longshoremen established the union along the wharves and piers with protections from the federal government, which at the time saw unions as a way to ensure production and labor peace. After the war, however, federal protections were weakened and, in some cases, removed altogether. In the fall of 1923, the longshoremen went on strike for higher wages, and the companies united behind the “Open Shop” movement and defeated them. In some ways the victory for the shipping companies in Mobile was more complete than it was for the companies in other major Gulf Coast ports, where longshoremen went on strike at about the same time.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Dunwoody-GPC Welcomes the Tuskegee Airmen

In preparing for the upcoming visit to the Dunwoody campus of the Tuskegee Airmen on Wednesday, April 6; the Dunwoody History and Politics Club will view the PBS documentary “The Tuskegee Airmen” on Tuesday, April 5 at 1 PM in B 1602. Hope to see you there.

Friday, March 25, 2011

2011 Appalachian Studies Conference--Richmond, KY

At the 34th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, Professor Will Simson convened "Sources of Public History," a panel that included several important presentations.
  • John Cuthbert and Lori Hostuttler of West Virginia University Library and Archives on the 250,000 plus digital images now available through an online search engine to the public for viewing and personal use; the digital repository now provides a new and significant revenue stream for the Library and Archives.
  • Lori Thompson, Marshall University, on Huntington, WV digitized TV reportage and reporters' scripts for all of WSAZ-TVs broadcasts; the station served as the Tri-state's main television link for local people through the mid-20th century. Thompson has been instrumental in making the station's videos available to locals online.
  • Ross Burger, North Georgia College and State University, discussed the renovation and relocation of an 1830s Dahlanega, Georgia Gold Rush era cabin to University grounds for use as a craftways learning center.
  • Marshall University students Katie McWhorter, and Rebecca Falcon described new, free data analysis application, "Trendalyzer," available through Google; used initially for identifying cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural reasons behind health needs, the application is perfect for combining disparate Appalachian demographic information into more useful data.
Professor Simson also presented at the conference. Drawn from his dissertation research, "Victory Gardens and Munitions from the Old Red Scar: The Chemicals Industry in the (East Tennessee) Ducktown Basin During WWII," Simson discussed the successful rational management schemes of Tennessee Copper Company owner Sam A. Lewisohn and general manager J.N. Houser that provided nationally recognized and awarded war work for thousands.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Summary--recent GAH conference

Hello all,

Several of your colleagues convened panels or presented at the recent Georgia
Association of Historians Conference, Savannah, Georgia, 24-26 February 2011.


Kara Smith, Alpharetta, who presented a paper titled "Motivations for Care:
Princess Alice and the Establishment of a Secular Nursing Association in Hesse"


David Moon, Dunwoody,
"Southern Baptists and Southern Honor: Negotiating Masculinity in
Nineteenth-Century Georgia"

Susan McGrath, Clarkston, chaired a panel titled The Modern South.

Please note that the Georgia Association of Historians 2012 conference will be held in Macon, Georgia. Exact location in that town has yet to be determined. Georgia Association of Historians

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

April 2011 The Southern Labor Studies Conference

MEMORY AND FORGETTING: LABOR HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE -April 7-10, 2011, Sheraton, Atlanta, Georgia

Note: GPC Faculty Member Robert Woodrum (Dunwoody/Alpharetta) will present his paper, "We are poor devils: Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement along the waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," Friday 8 April @ 10:15 AM

Cambridge in America lecture: Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe




Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Master, Sidney Sussex) to
speak at Emory Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:15pm



Andrew Wallace-HadrillProfessor
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
(Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge;
Professor of Roman Studies) will lecture on "Herculaneum: Living with
Catastrophe" in the
Departments of
Art History and Classics
at Emory College in Atlanta.



Herculaneum, which shared the fate of Pompeii in the
eruption of Vesuvius, has been the object of a major conservation campaign
sponsored by Packard Humanities Institute and directed by Dr. Wallace-Hadrill
since 2001. New discoveries made in the course of the project provide dramatic
evidence for major geological activity dating back a century before the
eruption, and to a long drawn-out catastrophe with which the inhabitants lived.




Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Location:Reception Hall,
Michael
C. Carlos Museum


Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Departments of Art History and Classics

Atlanta, GA




Time: 6:15pm




Cost: Free and open to the public.




Contact: Eric Varner,
mailto:evarner@emory.edu




Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill has been Master of Sidney Sussex College
since 2009. Previously Director of the British School at Rome for 14 years, he
has directed projects in both Pompeii and Herculaneum.




Other US appearances by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill:

March 24 -

Northampton, MA


March 28 -

Gainesville, FL


March 29 -

Atlanta, GA


March 31 -

San Antonio, TX


April 1 -

Austin, TX

Friday, March 4, 2011

History Discipline Meeting, 3.1.2011


At our discipline meeting yesterday we discussed the
following topics and decided on a plans of action regarding several.


1. SACS preparation: Current discipline assessment averages by course.
Our goal is to see averages for all instructors at a (C) level. While classes
taught by term-to-term, tenure-track, and tenured faculty reflect acceptable (C)
assessment averages, it’s clear from a review of the assessments that the
unsatisfactory averages across our course array reflect:


a. Academic year 2009-10 as the first one in which ALL history faculty gave
a weight of 5-10% to their course assessments; the previous two years’ numbers
thus drag down averages.


b. Communication and enforcement of adjunct participation in the assessment
process has been wanting; we have no idea how well adjuncts prepare their
students for the assessments.


To address these problems the
history faculty has decided on the following plan of action:

i. Mario Bennekin and David Moon (with assistance) will re-crunch the
numbers and remove the extreme highs and lows from the cache of assessments.
Typically the lowest scores represent instances where students tossed off the
exam; only one student got all 20 questions correct.

ii. History faculty will tweak the prose for questions most often missed by
the students and compose an amended assessment; there has been concern about the
accuracy of a couple questions.

iii. History faculty and adjuncts will get the revised assessment tool by
August 1, 2011 so as to incorporate both a Pretest and the course-end
assessment into their syllabi. Both tests will be the same so as to better
measure student learning.

iv. Professor Simson asked all faculty to contact their mentees and remind
them of the importance of preparing students for the assessment and to weight
the assessment appropriately.

v. The faculty agreed that this last effort will need Department Chair
support for its success
.


2. SACS/GPC hiring and teaching accreditation requirements. Professor
Simson assured faculty that the draft of the hiring credentials forwarded by
Dean Brown were not going to be used to limit current faculty members’ ability
to teach a course, that the credentials were not an invention, but based upon
previous GPC faculty SACS recommendations and state guidelines. Furthermore
there was room in the proposed teaching requirements for chair and VPAA approval
of personal and professional experience.


3. Preparation for Textbook selection for 2012-13 academic year. At
present there are no changes (2011-12 year), but the history faculty agreed to
let Salli Vargis (world) and Robert Alderman (American) continue as the textbook
selection committee chairs for future selection; Marc Zayac and John Farris will
assist Vargis and Alderman, respectively. Selection will take place by poll,
Fall 2011.


4. Tom Graham reviewed his idea for the WWII Veterans Commemorative
symposium
and dance for Fall 2011 term; faculty suggested the event
be mid-term and Tom (has now) agreed on an 11 November (or thereabouts) date.
Simson encouraged all faculty to participate and faculty began brainstorming
about panels, subjects, etc. As a whole, the faculty are excited about this
event.


5. Future events: Faculty decided that the academic year 2011-12 see
GPC put on a Georgia and the World history symposium—more on this to
come.


6. GPC budget effects on term-to-term faculty explained and
discussed.


7. Professional Development: Colleagues discussed recent and future
conference attendance, presentations, articles, and pertinent upcoming
student/faculty events. Simson stated he would request all faculty to forward
such information for him for distribution among colleagues. Simson will renew
use of the History Matters blog at www.gpc.edu/history for such purposes.



-Will

Dunwoody History and Politics Club-March event

Just a reminder: On Wed. March 16th, the History and Politics Club and GPC Hillel will jointly sponsor and lunch n learn discussion of the state of the middle east today compared with the time of Queen Esther (sixth century BCE). Bring your own lunch but Hammantashen will be available for desert!

The event will begin at 11 AM in NB 2100 and should last until 1. Please feel free to come and go as you need to without worry about arriving late or leaving early. The discussion will hopefully be free flowing.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Steve Koplan
GPC Hillel Faculty Advisor