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DESCRIPTION:The History Department presents the annual Otey Scruggs Memoria
 l Lecture.&nbsp\;Jamie Kreiner is professor of history at the University o
 f 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\, WIRE
 D\, the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times and the New Yorker.&nbsp\
 ;We are not alone in our distraction. Even early Christian monks—women and
  men who had emphatically given up nearly everything in order to concentra
 te on God—still found themselves struggling to concentrate. But rather tha
 n 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 co
 mplex world in which their minds couldn't stop moving.
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SUMMARY:Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The History Department presents the annual 
 Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture.&nbsp\;</p><p>Jamie Kreiner is professor of 
 history at the University of Georgia. Her research\, which ranges from pol
 itical elites to pigs\, has received prizes from multiple professional aca
 demic societies as well as coverage in various popular press outlets\, inc
 luding Time\, People\, WIRED\, the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Time
 s and the New Yorker.&nbsp\;</p><p>We are not alone in our distraction. Ev
 en early Christian monks—women and men who had emphatically given up nearl
 y everything in order to concentrate on God—still found themselves struggl
 ing to concentrate. But rather than surrender in desperation\, they devote
 d considerable creative energy to find ways to fight back. This lecture su
 rveys the interlocking strategies that monks developed to deal with distra
 ction\, to come to grips with a complex world in which their minds couldn'
 t stop moving.</p>
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