This year’s Somers Lecture at Georgia State University will be presented by Corey Robin, who writes on the history of conservatism. He will speak on the topic: “What Clarence Thomas Sees in Capitalism.” This is scheduled for Friday April 8, 3.30 pm, in the History Department, 25 Park Place, room 2150. Click here for flier.

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammed Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith has been released to the press and has received glowing reviews.

Diversity Week began as Disability and Diversity Awareness Days in 1999 and transformed into Disability and Diversity Awareness Week in 2000. These activities were co-sponsored by the Office of Student Diversity Programs and the Office of Disability Services. These events were designed to promote heightened awareness, acceptance, and understanding of persons with diverse backgrounds and persons with disabilities within the Georgia Tech Community. Diversity Week debuted in 2008 with the theme, “Latitude Adjustment,” and the Office has been using this theme every year. Stephen Covey writes, “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are or, as we are conditioned to see it.” Sometimes we have to move to different place to see the world as it really is. One major goal of the Office of Student Diversity Programs is the prepare students to live, learn and work in a global world. Each year the Office sponsors and co-sponsors several workshops, programs and trainings to prepare our students to be global citizens and global leaders.

“Can China Lead? Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, and Education in the 21st Century”
Presented by Dr. William C. Kirby, Harvard University

Time: 4-5:30 pm., Thursday, February 25, 2016

Venue: Gordy Room at the William C. Wardlaw Jr. Center on Georgia Tech Campus (located at the corner of North Avenue and Techwood Drive)

The program is free and open to the public. Paid visitors parking is available on North Ave. or at the Student Center (Ferst Drive).
Map: http://www.map.gatech.edu/pdf/Campus-Map.pdf;

In celebration of Black History Month, the African American Student Union is holding a celebratory lecture addressing "The Criminal Justice System, #BlackLivesMatter, and College Student Activism Today".
When: Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Where: Georgia Tech Student Center Ballroom
Benjamin Lloyd Crump, Esquire

The popularity of the social media hashtag #BlackLivesMatter can be traced to 2012, when George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin, a verdict many viewed as an example of the country’s divisive social inequity. The impact of #BlackLivesMatter was felt again last fall, when institutions for higher education received public demands from their students aimed at addressing culture and climate on college campuses and renewing a conversation about the ways society is falling short in its pledge of “liberty and justice for all.”

Benjamin Crump, partner of Parks & Crump Law Firm and known for his cases with civil rights implications, was representing Martin’s family at the start of this national social movement. More recently, he has served as an advocate for the families of Michael Brown.

To view Mr. Crump's full bio, click HERE.

Speaker Amin Tomeh will be giving a lecture on Islamic Contributions to Science and Technology. This lecture is open to other students on a first-come first-served basis.

Join the School of History and Sociology for a talk on Monday, November 23 in the Old CE Building 104.  Dr. Van Vleck joins us from Yale University to speak on "Corporate Globalism in the American Century: The Privatized Infrastructure of Modernization and Development, 1930s-1970s."

Dr. Deven Desai (Georgia Tech, Scheller) will present his talk on “The New Steam: On Digitization, Decentralization, and Disruption” for the HSOC Fall Speakers Series. Attend his talk at 4PM in the Old Civil Engineering Building, Room 104 on November 9. All are welcome.

The Georgia State University's history department presents Sarah Hamilton, an environmental historian at Auburn who focuses on 20th century Spain. She will present a talk entitled "Rice & Regulations: Regional Identity and Transnational Policy in a Spanish Landscape." 

Dr. Madina Goldberg (Agnes Scott College) will present his talk on “Nation, Islam, and Theater: Muslim Cultural Reform on the Eve of the Russian Revolution” for the HSOC Fall Speakers Series. Attend his talk at 4PM in the Old Civil Engineering Building, Room 104. All are welcome.

On Wednesday October 14, Dr. David A. Kirby from the University of Manchester will join HSOC for a presentation on "Indecent Science: Religion, Science, and Movie Censorship, 1930-1968." The talk will be from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in Room 102 in the Steven C. Hall Building. All are welcome!

Talks@Tech: A Conversation with President Bud Peterson

We are thrilled to host President Bud Peterson, the 11th President of Georgia Tech. At this event, students will be given the opportunity to ask the President any questions they have, directly and in-person!

Some questions that have been raised in the past include:
How is Georgia Tech addressing the "ratio"?
What are we doing to improve the availability of parking space?
In what ways are professors held accountable for students' progress in the classroom?

Our President is excited to speak about issues currently facing our campus, and having an open dialogue about how we can improve our community. Check out the Facebook page for more info!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1486125941715377/

Hosted by Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society

Join us as we talk trash with Edward Humes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of this year's Project One common reading, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. Humes will be discussing America's addiction to garbage and how we can continue our goal at Tech to create a more sustainable campus and community.

When: Thursday, October 1, 2015
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Where: Clough Commons, Room 144

The Breman Museum’s last Bearing Witness of the year will feature an incredible speaker – Penina Bowman. She will speak on Sunday May 3 at 2PM. The event is free and open to the public.
Penina’s wedding dress is displayed in our Holocaust Gallery and is a story that is beloved by many.

Dr. Laura Carpenter from Vanderbilt University will be our HTS Seminar Speaker on Monday, April 6th. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Interim Director of Women's and Gender Studies. Her research investigates how individuals' sexual biographies are shaped by broader cultural and historical changes, such as the sexual "revolution" of the late 1960s-early 1970s, and the invention of "revolutionary" pharmaceuticals.


Dr. Carpenter will be sharing with us research from her newest book project on the historical controversies over male circumcision in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Her talk will undoubtedly spark a lively conversation. I hope you can join us. 

From Method to Medium. Mapping and/as Art 
Professor Yves Abrioux, University of Paris 8 
4:00 - 5:30 Thursday, April 16, 2015 
5th Floor Seminar Room 
Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making 

The exhibition, A Gathering of Continents, devoted to Joan Blaeu’s Atlas major at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making provokes a comparison of historical cartography with the interrogation of space found in recent work by Bruno Latour and William Kentridge. Drawing on cases studies that move from historical cartography to digital media, this presentation challenges cultural practice that still too often separates science and technology from what is commonly regarded as aesthetics. Yves Abrioux is professor of English literature at the University of Paris 8. He has published extensively, in English and in French, on a range of topics and artistic practices (poetry and fiction, visual art, landscape and gardens). His research foregrounds theoretical issues in connection with philosophy and science. He is particularly interested in displacements between media, both traditional and modern, and is currently working on the history and - more specifically - the future of the museum. In 2014, He co-curated Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper at the Robert C. Williams Musuem of Paper Making. Above Illustration: Joan Blaeu, ‘Praefecturae Paranambuca pars borealis’ Atlas major, Vol XI map 18 (The cartouche is a version of a drawing by Frans Post (1612-1680), one of the first artists to paint landscapes of America. 
This seminar is supported by 

The Georgia State University history department’s 2015 Dale Somers Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Philip Stern of Duke University, author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. The title of his lecture is “Empire, Incorporated.” The talk will take place on Friday April 10, at 2 pm in room 2150 of the History Department (25 Park Place). This event is free and open to the public.