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History guest lecture (Science & Tech)

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk by a guest speaker. All majors are welcome.


Katherine Mooney (Florida State): "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" 

Join us for a public lecture by Dr. Katherine Mooney (Florida State University). Dr. Mooney will give a presentation about her recent book Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey (2023), then host a workshop with grads that afternoon. Pizza will be served... Questions? Contact Alexander Bowen  A presentation of the History Graduate Student Association.


History guest lecture

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk on Thursday by a guest speaker. All majors are welcome.


History guest lecture

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk on Tuesday by a guest speaker. All majors are welcome.


History guest lecture

The university community is invited to join us for a history talk on Tuesday by a guest speaker. All majors are welcome.


“Leadership Lessons: Women, Activism, and the Black Freedom Struggle” with Dr. Kenja McCray

Join us for a guest lecture with Dr. Kenja McCray. Kenja McCray is a humanities faculty member at Clayton State University, where she teaches history. Dr. McCray has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Georgia State University and a B.A. from Spelman College. Her research focuses on the 20th century United States, African Americans, Africa and the…


Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Bryant Simon (Temple University)

Please join us for the Gregory Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Bryant Simon, entitled, "Disappearing Acts: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality." Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and 2020 recipient of Temple's  Great Teacher Award. He is the author of four books, three co-edited collections, and numerous essays and commentary in the Washington Post,  New Republic, the Root.com,  Christian Science Monitor…


Visions of the Past Film: Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

The Soviet Union delivered the most experimental generation of filmmakers in cinematic history, innovation necessitated by a revolution that demanded a total rejection of bourgeois morality and convention. Between Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, documentary and narrative filmmaking evolved at a much-quickened pace. With this silent film we return to one of cinema's earliest--certainly its most innovative--artists: Vertov. Man with a…


History Film Series: Sankofa (1993, dir. Haile Gerima), with Robert Pratt

In the Ghanaian Akan language, sankofa means "to go back, look for, and gain wisdom, power and hope." Perhaps the most obscure picture of this rotation, Haile Gerima's Sankofa takes us to Africa, only to return us to our home: the US South. This film forces us to grapple with the excruciating torments of chattel slavery, not from the perspective of a nation having to confront its past but from the perspective of a civilization reeling from the…


History Film Series: Memories of Underdevelopment

The History Film series presents: Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)  1 hr, 37 mins. Rated NR. Drama.   FREE and open to the public. Refreshments. ....... Join us as we watch Memories of Underdevelopment and learn a little history along the way. With an introduction from Dr. Reinaldo Román. Among Cuban films, Memorias de Subdesarrollo is widely considered the greatest. In part, its reputation is due to…
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