UTC students present the films they made about the Holocaust while in Germany and Poland on a study tour led by Dr. John Swanson. Friday, April 21, 5:00 PM.
The History Club is hosting a historical walking tour of Martin Luther King Boulevard with Chattanooga Organized for Action’s Michael Gilliland on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Mr. Gilliland will lead the tour and share with us the rich history of our city. Come out to learn more about how MLK has grown and changed over the years!
The UTC History Club will be screening Peace Unveiled in celebration of Women’s History Month and in collaboration with the UTC Multicultural Center on March 9, 2017. Join us to celebrate three Afghan women who fought against insurmountable odds to protect the rights of women throughout Afghanistan.
The UTC History Club will be screening “Mississippi: Is This America?” in celebration of Black History Month in collaboration with the UTC Multicultural Center and the UTC Film Club on Thursday, February 9, at 6:00pm. The documentary sheds light on the stories of the men, women, and youth who fought for justice and freedom in 1960s Mississippi.
How do women in Israeli and Palestinian conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements’ strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit will discuss her research on those questions, which were the subject of her book “Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right” (Princeton University Press, 2015).
How do women in Israeli and Palestinian conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements’ strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit will discuss her research on those questions, which were the subject of her book “Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right” (Princeton University Press, 2015).
On October 5, the UTC History Club and Euphrates Chapter held a roundtable with UTC’s history faculty on “The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election.” The History Department’s regional experts broke down the foreign policy positions of the presidential candidates for an audience of UTC students, professors, and community members.