Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture
Eggers Hall, 220
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The History Department presents the annual Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture.
Jamie Kreiner is professor of history at the University of Georgia. Her research, which ranges from political elites to pigs, has received prizes from multiple professional academic societies as well as coverage in various popular press outlets, including Time, People, WIRED, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the New Yorker.
We are not alone in our distraction. Even early Christian monks—women and men who had emphatically given up nearly everything in order to concentrate on God—still found themselves struggling to concentrate. But rather than surrender in desperation, they devoted considerable creative energy to find ways to fight back. This lecture surveys the interlocking strategies that monks developed to deal with distraction, to come to grips with a complex world in which their minds couldn't stop moving.
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Lectures and Seminars
Region
Campus
Open to
Public
Organizer
MAX-History
Accessibility
Contact Christina Cleason to request accommodations
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.