The UTC History Club has lots of exciting events planned for the spring semester. Here are the ones coming up soon.
Dr. Michael Thompson, UC Foundation Associate Professor of History, published his book entitled “Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port” with the University of South Carolina Press in 2015, and has since received outstanding reviews from top scholars in the field.
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.
Over spring break 2016, Department Head John Swanson led a study tour in Vienna and Budapest for the UTC students in his class on “Two Sides of the Iron Curtain: Making Documentary Film.” The students worked in pairs and made short documentary films exploring a series of historical and social issues in Austria and Hungary.
