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

voice: 678-891-2587
email: dfree@gpc.edu
AIM: dwfree1967
Web: www.gpc.edu/~dfree
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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

history matters

welcome to history matters, our Georgia Perimeter College history faculty blog.

As you hear of important items that you believe ought go on this blog, please let me know.

My hope is that GPC history faculty will use this blog to keep themselves and their colleagues aware of:

• important exhibitions and historical sites
• new learning resources, both published and online
• conferences
• personal awards and advancements
• history club activities
• possible opportunities for students
• professional opportunities within the USG system
• faculty and committee meetings

Well wishes to you for your Spring Term 2007.
Be well, Will